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Verb Usage

Description: Verb Usage
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Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

The house is very old, still it is in good _________.

  1. condition

  2. situation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Situation means location or site. Condition means position or status.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill the gap.

The company has been making losses for several years but now its financial _________ is dire.

  1. situation

  2. condition


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Situation is external. Finacial condition is the appropriate filler.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill the gap.

The map shows the exact _________ of the various historic monuments in the city.

  1. position

  2. situation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Position means location.

Directions: Choose the correct word and fill in the blank.

I think it is very difficult to satisfy the _________ imposed by the committee.

  1. condition

  2. conditions


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Condition means position or status. Conditions mean terms and basic guidelines.

Directions: Choose the correct word and fill in the blank.

The law and order _________ in many parts of the country is far from normal.

  1. situation

  2. condition


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Here we want to say that the prevailing conditions of law and order are not good. 'Situation' is the correct option.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

I think it will be very difficult for India to win the match under the prevailing _________.

  1. condition

  2. conditions


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Condition means position or status. Conditions mean terms.

Directions: Choose the correct word and fill in the blank.

We need a calm and _________ atmosphere to concentrate on our studies.

  1. quite

  2. quiet


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Quiet means peaceful, tranquil, untroubled. Quite entirely, wholly, totally.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

He is _________ clear about his thoughts.

  1. quiet

  2. quite


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Quiet means peaceful, tranquil, untroubled. Quite entirely, wholly, totally.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

What is your _________ in the batting line up?

  1. position

  2. placement


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Position means spot.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

You should be very careful while speaking on this issue. It is a ____ matter.

  1. sensible

  2. sensitive


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sensible means reasonable, rational, prudent, practical. Sensitive means  delicate, sore, raw, painful.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

He is a bit depressed these days. I think he needs the help of a ____.

  1. council

  2. counsel


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Counsel means adviser, barrister; council means chosen group, usually advisory.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

I want you to speak something _________ rather than beating about the bush.

  1. sensible

  2. sensitive


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sensible means reasonable, rational, prudent, practical. Sensitive means  delicate, sore, raw, painful.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

The Governor decided to appoint a three member _______ to advise him on administrative matters.

  1. council

  2. counsel


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Counsel means adviser, barrister; council means chosen group, usually advisory.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

The tendency to _________ the traffic rules is increasing in the new generation.

  1. flout

  2. flaunt


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Flout means mock, scoff at. Flaunt means vaunt, display, parade, show off.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.Although he never said anything against the government, yet we can easily _________ his stand from the statements he made in public.

  1. imply

  2. infer


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Imply means intimate, hint at, suggest. Infer means conclude, deduce, gather, judge, come to the conclusion that, draw the inference that, induce.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

She always _________ her wealthy parties.

  1. flout

  2. flaunts


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Flout means mock, scoff at. Flaunt means vaunt, display, parade, show off.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

He is extremely _________ about what he said to you.

  1. regretful

  2. regrettable


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Regretful means .penitent, remorseful, conscience-stricken, frustrated. Regrettable means  unfortunate, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

The accident occurred due to the failure of the _________.

  1. break

  2. brake


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Brake means check, curb, restraint, deterrent, obstacle, damper, hurdle, discouragement, hindrance, retarding device. Break means racture, rift, split, schism, cleavage, dissevering, riving, breach, rupture, eruption, bursting, failure, collapse.  

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

Please keep your travel document ready when you cross the _____.

  1. boarder

  2. border


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Boarder means guest, paying guest, lodger, roomer. Border means boundary, frontier, outpost, perimeter.  

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

The hotel stuff does not suit me. I am thinking of joining some local family as _________.

  1. boarder

  2. boarding


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Boarder means guest, paying guest, lodger, roomer. Border means boundary, frontier, outpost, perimeter.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

We are living in a small house now. We need a _________ one.

  1. specious

  2. spacious


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Specious means lausible, credible, colorable, beguiling, deceptive, misleading, ostensible, meretricious, sophistical. Spacious means  capacious, roomy, vast.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill the gap.

He is on a senior _________ in the company.

  1. position

  2. situation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Position means status.

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

I don't mind your playing here, but don't _________ the window panes.

  1. break

  2. brake


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

|Solution: Brake means retarding device. Break means collapse.   |

Directions: Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

She needs a new _________ for the party.

  1. suit

  2. suite


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Suit means costume. Suite means sequence, scale, line, set.

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