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Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Plight

  1. Ablaze

  2. Hoarding

  3. Troubles

  4. Ultimate

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Plight means a predicament, a worrying situation.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Heart rending

  1. Heart beats

  2. Sights

  3. Painful

  4. Attraction

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Heart rending is used to describe something that is painful or hurting.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Quadrennial

  1. Annual

  2. Biannual

  3. Four times in a year

  4. Once in four years

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Quadrennial means occuring every four years / once in four years.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Resoluteness

  1. Bankrupt

  2. Revolution

  3. Affectionate

  4. Determination

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

To be resolute in something is to be determined.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Grit

  1. Approval

  2. Courage

  3. Consent

  4. Guilty

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 A person of grit is someone who has an indomitable spirit and is courageous.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Brisk

  1. Slow

  2. Vigorous

  3. Adjoining

  4. Brakes

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Brisk means fast, quick and active. 

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Monotony

  1. Dullness

  2. Freshness

  3. Variation

  4. Monopoly

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

When something becomes monotonous, it means there is no variety in it and becomes boring and dull.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Gaudy

  1. Strict

  2. Annoying

  3. Showy

  4. Eagerly

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Gawdy means flashy or showy.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Recitation

  1. Deafening

  2. Presentation

  3. Hymns

  4. Troublesome

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Recitation is the noun of 'recite', which means to read out something. The answer cannot be 'hymns' as it refers to a song in praise of God.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Accountability

  1. Authority

  2. Honoured

  3. Maintaining accounts

  4. To be answerable

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 Accountability means a state of being answerable to someone.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Dodge

  1. Opportunity

  2. Tunnels

  3. To avoid

  4. Track

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 To dodge something means to deliberately keep away from it, i.e to avoid.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Brag

  1. Digging

  2. Loud

  3. Boast

  4. Ancient

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 To brag means to speak with exaggeration about oneself(boast).

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Stink

  1. Bad shape

  2. Foul smell

  3. Crowded

  4. Sink

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Stink is associated with bad smell. 

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Ecstatic

  1. Educative

  2. Elastic

  3. Perfect

  4. Excited

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 Esctatic means 'super excited'.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Despair

  1. Bliss

  2. Joy

  3. Desolation

  4. Lessens

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Despair is a state of sadness and relief.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Porch

  1. Stray

  2. Pens

  3. Verenda

  4. Block

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Porch is the verenda or the exterior covered area of a house. Its opposite would be 'terrace', an open area on the top of a house.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Devour

  1. Swallow

  2. Wicked

  3. Calves

  4. Drink

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 The meaning of 'devour' is to eat up or swallow hungrily. It is also used in context of senses and mind, e.g he devoured the lecture.

Directions: Select the word/phrase opposite in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Morsel

  1. Chunk

  2. Fragment

  3. Portion

  4. Dump

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 A morsel of food refers to a small mouthfull portion. 

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Asphalt

  1. Bottom

  2. Blacktop

  3. Gambling

  4. Duet

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Asphalt is a brownish black liquid that hardens when it cools down. It is used to blacken and harden roads.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase. Chuck

  1. To resign

  2. To leave

  3. To win

  4. To die

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 'Chuck' has many meanings, one of them is 'to relinquish or resign from'.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Coupe

  1. Defeat

  2. Triumph

  3. Coach

  4. Overthrow

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Coupe refers to a closed carriage usually for 2 passengers. A coach is similar to a coupe.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Growl

  1. Roar

  2. Standstill

  3. Revived

  4. Lodged

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 Growl is a sound associated with anger or hostility. The sound uttered by an animal when it is hostile is also refer to as growl.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Chesterfield

  1. Chaise longue

  2. Land

  3. Cultivation

  4. Challenge

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Chesterfield refers to a mans coat and is also a place in England. Here, the word 'land' is closest in meaning.

Directions: Select the word/phrase opposite in meaning to the given word/phrase. Astray

  1. On course

  2. Search

  3. Devote

  4. Lost

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Astray means to get off a course of action, to be devoted to something would be the opposite.

Directions: Select the word/phrase closest in meaning to the given word/phrase.

Encroachment

  1. Extended

  2. Insolence

  3. Violation

  4. Multiplied

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 To encroach means to tresspass into someone else's property or domain. Violation of a rule is associated when we tresspass.

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