1.

Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Jibe

a) Mock
b) Praise
c) Disagree
d) Ignore

2. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Astute

a) Obtuse
b) Crafty
c) Imbecible
d) Naïve

3. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Rummage

a. To search fanatically
b. To run after
c. To feel confused
d. To comfort

4. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Rarefy

a) Muddle
b) Corrupt
c) Attenuate
d) Beef up
5. Select the word that is spelt incorrectly

a) Privilege
b) Lightning
c) Expresso
d) Apartment

6. Select the word that is spelt incorrectly

a) Misappropriate
b) Kneel
c) Remunerate
d) Rhythem

7. Select the word that is spelt incorrectly

a) Committee
b) Benign
c) Maintenance
d) Abberration

8. Select the word that is spelt incorrectly

a) Atheist
b) Consensus
c) Dalmation
d) Weird

9. Choose the sentence that is grammatically and syntactically correct.

a) The kids enjoyed during the holidays

b) The kids enjoyed themselves at holidays
c) The kids enjoyed themselves during the holidays
d) The kids enjoyed in the holidays

10. The land was ___(1)____ peopled.

a) roughly
 b) densely
c) deeply
d) totally

11. While life was hard and spare it was also, he ____(2)___, joyful and thrilling.

a) records
b) plans
c) wants
d) fears

12. The meadows _____(3)______ with the sounds of children playing and frolicking.

a) shimmered
b) teemed
c) resounded
d) ached

13. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Gravitas

a) Dignity
b) Sanctity
c) Vanity
d) Profanity

14. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Jeopardize

a) Fructify
b) Secure
c) Pressurize
d) Endure
15. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Ludicrous

a) Serious
b) Ambiguous
c) Absurd
d) Rational

16. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Munificent

a) Popular
b) Magnificent
c) Generous
d) Reticent

17. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Ostracize

a) Welcome
b) Banish
c) Accept
d) Proclaim

18. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Acrimonious

a) Churlish
b) Congenial
c) Impervious
d) Indulgent

19. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Deliquesce
a) Fuse
b) Thaw
c) Coagulate
 d) Gutter

20. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Consecrate

a) Abolish
b) Sanctify
c) Desecrate
d) Concentrate

21. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Blasphemous

a) Sanctimonious
b) Sacrilegious
c) Commendable
d) Fabulous

22. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Parsimonious

a) Miserly
b) Depressed
c) Flamboyant
d) Ridiculous

23. Please get me some stamps, and post these letters while you’re ______ it.

a) for
b) after
c) through
d) about
24. In spite of her grief, she bore _______ bravely throughout the ceremony.

a) in
b) up
c) on
d) off

25. Choose the word which is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the word.

Compunction

a) Remorse
b) Greed
c) Shamelessness
d) Mandatory

26. Choose the word which is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the word.

Condone
a) Condemn
b) Forgive
c) Bypass
d) Free

27. Choose the word which is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the word.

Delirious

a) Sane
b) Maniac
c) Dippy
d) Intelligent

28. Mr. Smith asked ______ John.

a) After
b) Upon
c) Over
d) Through
29. Are your parents ______ for the party?
a) Through
b) Abroad
c) In
d) Against

30. He was doubtless driven to despair, eventually becoming a ________ operator.

a) Naïve
b) Simple
c) Evil
d) Hardened

31. Handing down the death sentence is a crime and resorting to the means of hanging makes
it even more ________.

a) Pleasureable
b) Fearsome
c) Horrendous
d) Menacing

32. Those days, a watering hole was rare and tipplers even ________.
a) Infrequent
b) Unusual
c) Rarer
d) Farther

33. There is a large ________ of nearly one thousand staff including the management.
a) Workforce
b) Quantity
c) Number
d) Public

34. The festival facilitates an interesting ________ between three elements: the script, the
director and the performers.
a) Influencing
b) Interaction
 c) Examination
d) Affilation

35. Rising air temperatures____ the physical nature of our oceans.

a) transform
b) induce
c) modify
d) affect

36. Manpower development is then taken up to provide labour force, of appropriate skills
and quality to different sectors so that there is rapid socio- economic development and
there is no mismatch between skills required and skills available.
a) comfortable
b) suitable
c) common
d) adequate

37. Sliders travel along a thin film of water located on the ___of the glacier.

a) crystal
b) pole
c) support
d) bottom

38. Sentence improvement:

The police break-up the trunk and found the looted jewellery.

a) broke opened
b) broke open
c) break opened
d) no improvement
39. The advertisement offered a reward for information relating to the activities of the
terrorists.

a) relative to the
b) as related to the
c) which relate to
d) no improvement

40. He travelled by bus but would have travelled by train to save time.

a) must have travelled

b) should be travelling
c) should have travelled
d) no improvement

41. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Strafe

a) to punish
b) to strengthen
c) to run away
d) to work very hard

42. Choose the word that is closest to the given word

Delectation

a) Enjoyment
b) Envy
c) Inspiration
d) Astuteness

43. Choose the word that is opposite to the given word

Scintilla
a) unscientific
b) Huge quantity
c) Mealy-mouthed
d) Unpromising
44. Choose the word that is opposite to the given word

Knave

a) Honest
b) Ignorant
c) Timid
d) Belligerent

45. Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) insouciance
b) inseuciance
c) insauceince
d) insouciance

46. Choose the option that is closest to the given idiom or phrase

To turn over a new leaf

a) to change completely one’s course of action

b) To shift attention to new problems after having studied the old ones thoroughly
c) To cover up one’s faults by wearing new marks
d) To change the old habits and adopt new ones

47. Choose the option that is closest to the given idiom or phrase

A fair crack of the whip

a) Severe punishment
b) A good check
c) An equal chance to do something
d) Failure of administration

48. Choose the option that is closest to the given idiom or phrase

To talk one’s head off

a) To talk loudly
 b) To talk in whispers
c) To talk to oneself
d) To talk excessively

49. One word substitution:

A small piece of potato

a) Chunk
b) Chip
c) Scrap
d) Bit

50. One word substitution:

A child who stays away from school without any good reason

a) Vagabond
b) Delinquent
c) Schizophrenic
d) Truant