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Questions: 100
Suggested Time: 60 Min
Directions (Q 1-10): Pick out the synonym of the lead word in each case.
1. ANODYNE
1. annihilated 2. soothing 3. eidolon 4. not necessary
2. AMBROSIA
1. poison 2. plentiful 3. scarcity 4. elixir
3. AMULET
1. symbol 2. charm 3. hole 4. none of these
4. ASSUAGE
1. scare 2. allay 3. enhance 4. surrender
5. ACCLIVITY
1. declivity 2. proclivity 3. upwards 4. slanting
6. APHASIA
1. garrulity 2. loquacity 3. reticence 4. remembrance
7. ANNUL
1. encourage 2. commiserate 3. mummify 4. rescind
8. APOTHECARY
1. doctor 2. hunter 3. vagabond 4. pharmacist
9. AU REVOIR
1. welcome 2. appellation 3. good-bye 4. superb
10. APLOMB
1. poise 2. diffidence 3. circuitous 4. tumult
Directions (Q 11-20):Pick out the antonym of the lead word in each case.
11. AMELIORATE
1. enervate 2. deteriorate 3. stultify 4. none of these
12. ASININE
1. brilliant 2. vulpine 3. feline 4. leonine
13. APPARITION
1. real 2. unreal 3. joint 4. enhancement
14. SANGUINE
1. red 2. morose 3. suffering 4. approaching
15. SAGGY
1. taut 2. sagacious 3. delinquent 4. developing
16. SURLY
1. curly 2. amazon 3. bilious 4. pugilist
17. SOPHISTRY
1. polemics 2. urbanity 3. pertinence 4. didactics
18. SOBRIQUET
1. snout 2. cognomen 3. genuine 4. bouquet
19. SUFFRAGE
1. suffering 2. celibacy 3. forestry 4. franchise
20. SATED
1. suave 2. inadept 3. contented 4. ruffled up
Directions (Q 21-25): Pick out the best analogy in each case.
21. ASSORTED: SEBACEOUS
1. firm: supple 2. sultry: azure 3. subaltern: hoi polloi 4. stratified: layered
22. ANACONDA: SERPENTINE
1. ape: simian 2. cat: asinine 3. milk: cutaneous 4. amen: amenine
23. SALACIOUS: SCANDALOUS
1. piquant: bland 2. sylvan: urban 3. sham: veracious 4. sultry: humid
24. SENTENTIOUS: SUMMARY
1. senile: dotage 2. abrasive: praise 3. ablutions: dirt 4. avaricious: truthful
25. AVUNCULAR: UNCLE
1. salubrious: climate 2. annotation: anthology 3. screech: scrub 4. stately: king
Directions (Q 26-30): Pick out the word with incorrect spellings in each case.
26. 1. apotheosize 2. abjure 3. appelate 4. apiary
27. 1. sanctimionious 2. sepulchral 3. spectre 4. Samaritan
28. 1. alveolar 2. apnea 3. autoarchy 4. anarchy
29. 1. silviculture 2. Socratic 3. somnambulism 4. sinuous
30. 1. suffused 2. sandwitched 3. sayonara 4. surmise
Directions (Q 31-40): Mentally unjumble the following words so as to arrange them in the right order and tell which letter comes at the last of the word so formed
31. N I M A N R E S V O I N A D
32. T S I E Y A B R
33. E I M Y T S
34. E C I P S S U O
35. S U O I M S B A E T
36. O A T R I D
37. G A I N R R A
38. S H I U Q U A E M
39. B A R L A E
40. D A M U D E N D
Directions (Q 41-50): Fill in the blanks with suitable choices out of those given after each word.
41. The article written by the philosopher was so ______ that I could not get a thing out of it.
1. avuncular 2. adroit 3. apposite 4. abstruse
42. The language used by you must be easily understandable by all if you wish to reach out to the common man, it must not be ______ .
1. stultified 2. stilted 3. supplicate 4. surly
43. Nobody expected him to win, yet he scraped through, it must have been some ______ on his part.
1. artifice 2. arroyo 3. attenuation 4. avarice
44. Her ______ manners in the face of difficulty impressed me most of all.
1. sacrilegious 2. sangfroid 3. supernumerary 4. surrogate
45. Such legal ______ is pretty common, in when the truth is shown as the utmost wrong and vice-versa.
1. skepticism 2. surreptitiousness 3. skullduggery 4. acme
46. He was a teetotaller and strictly believed in observing _____
1. sanguinary 2. sentry 3. sobriety 4. succulence
47. The child looked very ______ and its innocent pranks endeared it to everyone in the house.
1. seraphic 2. sedulous 3. specious 4. staunch
48. Indira Gandhi was the most ______ speaker I had ever heard until I came to know Atal Behari Vajpayee.
1. artless 2. arcane 3. articulate 4. accoutred
49. Such an ______ meeting I never expected to take place.
1. adventitious 2. audacious 3. serene 4. supernal
50. It does not look ______ if you do not go there on such a solemn occasion.
1. sabbatical 2. salubrious 3. senile 4. seemly
Directions (Q 51-60): Pick out the synonym of the lead word in each case.
51. ARTLESS
1. lacking art 2. boring 3. dexterous 4. innocent
52. SUPERNAL
1. superb 2. eternal 3. chimerical 4. trash
53. SUBTERFUGE
1. underground 2. legerdemain 3. joining 4. separation
54. SABBATICAL
1. clergy-related 2. study leave 3. ecumenical 4. narrow
55. ADMONISH
1. admire 2. take back 3. reprimand 4. encourage
56. ADVERT
1. insinuate 2. eulogize 3. scold 4. lucky
57. SUPERCILIOUS
1. haughty 2. modest 3. truthful 4. voracious
58. ACRID
1. aromatic 2. pungent 3. sonorous 4. pulchritudinous
59. SCOURGE
1. nemesis 2. secure 3. suffering 4. suffrage
60. ANNIHILATE
1. destroy 2. wither 3. tolerate 4. exterminate
Directions (Q 61-70): Pick out the antonym of the lead word in each case.
61. SYBARITE
1. ascetic 2. conceited 3. chilling 4. sultry
62. SURMOUNT
1. overcome 2. surrender 3. get off 4. remonstrate
63. ACCENTUATE
1. extenuate 2. attenuate 3. supplicate 4. slanting
64. SQUEAMISH
1. cordial 2. juxtaposed 3. quixotic 4. queasy
65. ABSTEMIOUS
1. parsimonious 2. abstinent 3. Epicurean 4. Samaritan
66. SMUG
1. contented 2. discontented 3. cool 4. hot
67. AGNOSTIC
1. atheist 2. touching 3. unsure 4. sure
68. ARRAIGN
1. answer 2. exonerate 3. covet 4. demit
69. SALUBRIOUS
1. salutary 2. negative 3. stratified 4. wayward
70. SPORADIC
1. intermittent 2. weekly 3. continuous 4. contumacious
Directions (Q 71-75): Pick out the best analogy in each case.
71. SOPHOMORE: ADEPT
1. sophisticated: clumsy 2. intern: veteran 3. apiary: aviary 4. inane: pertinent
72. SUBLIMINAL: ABSTRUSE
1. encomium: eclectic 2. recondite: reconnaissance 3. subconscious: arcane 4. none of these
73. SERENDIPITY: DESCRY
1. meticulous: plan 2. surrogate: suborn 3. deviancy: delinquency 4. veracity: plenty
74. SANGFROID: SURLY
1. abrogate: renounce 2. rescind: repeal 3. aromatic: acrid 4. adventitious s: lucky
75. SIMILE: SULLIED
1. halcyon: veracious 2. appellation: title 3. sensual: sensuous 4. subjugate: vanquish
Directions (Q 76-90): Pick out the word with incorrect spellings in each case.
76. 1. adumberate 2. adduce 3. adulterate 4. adjudicator
77. 1. ancillary 2. anecedote 3. anguine 4. annuity
78. 1. annotate 2. annul 3. anneel 4. anoint
79. 1. squall 2. sputter 3. squailid 4. stallion
80. 1. suasion 2. subrogation 3. sucide 4. suite
81. 1. somersault 2. superfluous 3. supererogation 4. sovereignity
82. 1. syanagogue 2. synergism 3. strut 4. stubble
83. 1. stodgy 2. statueseque 3. stentorian 4. stereochiometry
84. 1. splurge 2. spitoon 3. spondylitis 4. spontaneity
85. 1. splutter 2. sepulchral 3. sphygmomanometre 4. spermatozoa
86. 1. adversary 2. aetiology 3. aeronautics 4. affronted
87. 1. assiduous 2. agnomen 3. anaemia 4. aservate
88. 1. animadevrt 2. anomaly 3. animous 4. antediluvian
89. 1. antithetical 2. anthropomorphism 3. antilope 4. antenatal
90. 1. aperception 2. apostasy 3. apprentice 4. apposition
Directions (Q 91-95): Mentally unjumble the following words so as to arrange them in the right order and tell which letter comes at the last of the word so formed
91. P O R O S A P
92. P A P S R I E
93. C I D A S M P S O
94. X I H P S N
95. T E I P S
Directions (Q 96-100): Fill in the blanks with suitable choices out of those given after each word.
96. His ______ tastes often led to his being dubbed as a maverick.
1. sovereign 2. sartorial 3. sobriquet 4. soporific
97. However sacred a person, may be, but he must not be ________
1. sanctimonious 2. slithering 3. sickly 4. skittish
98. He was very scared of his father and therefore tried to ________ himself.
1. sire 2. soliloquize 3. shrug 4. skulk
99. The achievements made in the field of science during the last century were ________ indeed, not a fraction of this progress had been made in the 19 centuries preceding it.
1. Seminal 2. Semitic 3. Simian 4. seething
100. Most of the stories regarding the miracles performed by various religious prophets are ________ , there is no historical evidence to support them.
1. apocalyptic 2. antediluvian 3. apocryphal 4. aphasic
1. 2, 2. 4, 3. 4, 4. 2, 5. 3
6. 3, 7. 4, 8. 4, 9. 3, 10. 1
11. 2, 12. 1, 13. 1, 14. 2, 15. 1
16. 3, 17. 1, 18. 2, 19. 4, 20. 3
21. 2, 22. 1, 23. 4, 24. 1, 25. 4
26. 3, 27. 1, 28. 3, 29. 4, 30. 2
31. N (word is animadversion), 32. E (word is sybarite), 33. E (word is stymie), 34. S (word is specious), 35. S (word is biomass)
36. T (word is adroit), 37. N (word is arraign), 38. S (word is quais), 39. E (word is arable), 40. M (word is addendum)
41. 4, 42. 2, 43. 1, 44. 2, 45. 3
46. 3, 47. 1, 48. 3, 49. 1, 50. 4
51. 4, 52. 1, 53. 2, 54. 2, 55. 3
56. 1, 57. 1, 58. 2, 59. 3, 60. 4
61. 1, 62. 2, 63. 2, 64. 4, 65. 3
66. 2, 67. 4, 68. 1, 69. 2, 70. 3
71. 2, 72. 3, 73. 1, 74. 3, 75. 1
76. 1, 77. 2, 78. 3, 79. 3, 80. 3
81. 4, 82. 1, 83. 2, 84. 2, 85. 3
86. 1, 87. 4, 88. 3, 89. 3, 90. 1
91. APROPOS, 92. APPRISE, 93. SPASMODIC, 94. SPHINX, 95. SPITE
96. 2, 97. 1, 98. 3, 99. 1, 100. 3
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