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Mixed Verbal Test

Description: English Vocabulary Test - Collection of questions on English grammar and vocabulary help for Bank PO, GRE, SAT, MAT, TOEFL, MCA, LAW and MBA entrance examinations
Number of Questions: 37
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Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

BEAVER AWAY

  1. To waste away

  2. To sleep for long hours

  3. To work hard

  4. To steal something


Correct Option: C

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

BADGER

  1. To ricochet

  2. To err

  3. To apologize

  4. To pester persistently


Correct Option: D

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

SURREPTITIOUS

  1. To be impatient

  2. Susceptible

  3. Supportive

  4. To act stealthily


Correct Option: D

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

SURROGATE

  1. Surpassable

  2. Substitute

  3. Surfeit

  4. Surveillant


Correct Option: B

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

CAVEAT

  1. Award

  2. Controversy

  3. Warning

  4. Graphic


Correct Option: C

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

SWISH

  1. False

  2. Fashionable

  3. Annulment

  4. Rapid


Correct Option: B

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

SWINGEINE

  1. Dull

  2. Meagre

  3. Disrepute

  4. Proportionate


Correct Option: B

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters. UP-THE CREEK

  1. To get lot of money

  2. In dire difficulties

  3. To be very successful

  4. To achieve one's aim by deceit


Correct Option: B

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

NIP AND TUCK

  1. Close competition

  2. Heavy rain

  3. Fierce attack

  4. Mixture


Correct Option: A

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group of words in capital letters.

COMEUPPANCE

  1. Sudden arrival

  2. Parity

  3. Paradox

  4. Retribution


Correct Option: D

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

SALACIOUS

  1. Decent

  2. Satisfying

  3. Preciptious

  4. Fortifying


Correct Option: A

Directions: Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair in capital letters.

CALLOW : MATURITY

  1. Eager : Anxiety

  2. Incipient : Fruition

  3. Apathetic : Disinterest

  4. Exposure : Weathering


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The relation is that of words having opposite connotations.

Directions: Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair in capital letters.

DAMPEN : ENTHUSIASM

  1. Moisten : Throat

  2. Test : Commitment

  3. Reverse : Direction

  4. Mute : Sound


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The effect of the latter is lessened by the former.

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

TEMERITY

  1. Humourous

  2. Hybrid

  3. Humility

  4. Humiliation


Correct Option: C

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

TEDIUM

  1. Appreciation

  2. Fixation

  3. Neutrability

  4. Liveliness


Correct Option: D

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

SEDULOUS

  1. Lack of emotions

  2. Lack of steady effort

  3. Affluent

  4. Modest


Correct Option: B

Directions: Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair in capital letters.

RUFFLE : COMPOSURE

  1. Flourish : Prosperity

  2. Adjust : Balance

  3. Upset : Equilibrium

  4. Chaff : Wheat


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The relationship is that of the words having opposite connotations.

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

TENDENTIOUS

  1. Impartial

  2. Calm

  3. Supplementary

  4. Super-duper


Correct Option: A

Directions: Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair in capital letters.

LATENT : MANIFESTATION

  1. Dormant : Awakening

  2. Patent : Appearance

  3. Redoubtable : Impress

  4. Aggrieved : Distress


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The relation is that of words having opposite connotations.

Directions: Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair in capital letters.

CELERITY : SNAIL

  1. Indolence : Sloth

  2. Humility : Peacock

  3. Ferocity : Lion

  4. Emulation : Ape


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The former is opposite to the characteristic trait of the latter.

Directions: Select the word or group of words that is farthest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

CAPRICE

  1. Excuse

  2. Steady behaviour

  3. Accusation

  4. Exhortation


Correct Option: B

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) There were gasps of horror (b) from the spectators as (c) the performer fell from the tightrope. (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sentence is correct as it is.

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) She gazed at me (b) in misbelief when (c) I told her the news. (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

We would use 'disbelief' instead of misbelief. She did not believe what she saw and as such, she disbelieved it. There is no misbelief (mistaken belief) here.

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) Acting from inside information (b) the police were able to arrest the gang (c) before the robbery occurred (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

It should be 'acting on inside information' instead of 'acting from inside information'.

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) Amit did not have a girlfriend (b) till he was 21, but now (c) he is making up at the lost time. (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

'To make up the lost time' is an idiom which does not require the use of 'at'.

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) Captain’s language was uncompromising. (b) He told junior officers their work (c) must improve or they would be fired (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It should be 'must be improved'. The work will not improve at its own. Somebody will need to improve it. 

Directions: The sentence below is divided into four parts marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. Select the part having an error. If there is no error, select (d) as your answer.

(a) She wanted to be an actress (b) but her father soon (c) nipped that idea at the bud. (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The correct idiom is 'nip in the bud', not 'nip at the bud'.

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1 : Lions usually live in a family parties called 'prides'. S6 : They actack man only when they are wounded or otherwise aroused. P : Wild lions are not normally a menance to man. Q : A pride is commonly made up of a lion, two lionesses and cubs. R : Sometimes pigs and other animals are also killed by them. S : They usually prey on zebras and antelopes.

  1. P - S - R - Q

  2. Q - R - S - P

  3. P - R - S - Q

  4. Q - S - R - P


Correct Option: D

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1 : The first aeroplanes were fragile and clumsy. S6 : In those days people considered flight in an aeroplane to be a miracle P : When they took off they would not fly very high Q : They also broke down frequently R: It was difficult for them to take off S : They flew slowly and only in the vicinity of the airfield

  1. R - P - S - Q

  2. S - Q - R - P

  3. R - Q - S - P

  4. S - P - R - Q


Correct Option: A

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1 : Not long age television was a rarity. S6: Only a few people understand the technology behind it. P: It has become a means of entertainment and information. Q: Yet nowadays there is one in virtually every home. R: But most of us do not know much about how an image appears on the television screen S: We have grown used to it.

  1. P - R - Q - S

  2. Q - S - P - R

  3. P - S- Q - R

  4. Q - R - P - S


Correct Option: B

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: I have know in my own life, in my own experience, people who were hating one another on account of their religious views. S6: We are the inheritors of a great world heritage. P: They try to find out whatever is of value in them. Q: You will find that other religions are studies with sympathy and respect by those who do not adhere to them R: All that has changed today. S: The classics of the whole world form the classics of every human being.

  1. P - S - R - Q

  2. R - Q - P - S

  3. P - Q - R - S

  4. R - S - P - Q


Correct Option: B

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: Nowadays we pay a great deal of attention to pure air, open windows and garden cities. S6: Pasteurised milk is milk which has been treated in this way. P: Another useful discovery of Pasteur's was the process, now called, pasteurization. Q: Pasteur was one of the first to show how necessary all these are if we are to fight against germs and disease. R: Pasteur helped them by showing that by heating win or milk to a temperature of 60 degree Centrigrade, the germs were made harmless. S: Some wine-growers were troubled by a germ which has turned their win sour.

  1. R - S -P - Q

  2. Q- P - S - R

  3. R - P - S - Q

  4. Q- S - P - R


Correct Option: B

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: Javert was a strong, upright and just man. S6: So he took the only way out for him-he killed himself. P: But now his life was turned upside down Q: It was his safe world of rules. R: He would help no one, and he helped no one. S: He did not want favours from a thief.

  1. Q - P -S - R

  2. S - R -Q - P

  3. Q - R -S - P

  4. S - P - Q - R


Correct Option: B

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: Social isolation, overcrowding, the competitiveness of our society and several other factors are responsible for stress. S6: Yet some other get totally depressed and often much worried. P: In England we refer to competition in society as the 'rat-race'. Q: All of us react to that rat-race in different ways. R: But some of us get very much tried and bored every easily. S: The pressures on all of us are very great because speed and competition have become part of everyday life.

  1. R-P-Q-S

  2. S-Q-P-R

  3. R-Q-P-S

  4. S-P-Q-R


Correct Option: D

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: Newspapers are the cheapest medium of information today. S6: Consequently, 50 percent of our population is denied across to information vital for the functionaries of a democracy. P: If you cannot buy a paper, you can go to a public library. Q: And yet newspapers do not reach nearly fifty percent of our population. R: They are also easily available to everybody S: It is because people are illiterate.

  1. R-S-Q-P

  2. Q-P-R-S

  3. R-P-Q-S

  4. Q-S-R-P


Correct Option: C

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: Scientist have found that any train running on wheels cannot go faster than 300 kilometers an hour. S6: Japanese engineers are, therefore, planning another kind of train, a magnetic train without, wheels, which would also float above the ground. P: One way of building such trains has already been tried out Q: If we want trains which can go still faster we must build them without wheels. R: But it would not be possible to run them on the Tokaido line because in same tunnels there would not be enough air to support them S: Here, the whole train floats above the ground on top of a cushion of air created by powerful fans.

  1. Q-P-S-R

  2. S-R-Q-P

  3. Q-R-S-P

  4. S-P-Q-R


Correct Option: A

Directions: The following question consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. They are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are to find the correct sequence of the four sentences.S1: It is true that a few women have opportunities to work outside the home. S6: If women stop doing this work there would be havoc in the public life. P: Women do much work all the time within the house. Q: This work could be termed as socially productive labour. R: It consists of cooking, washing, cleaning, fetching fuel and water etc. S: This work is crucial to the survival of society.

  1. P-Q-R-S

  2. R-S-P-Q

  3. P-S-R-Q

  4. R-Q-P-S


Correct Option: C
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