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VERBAL INTELLIGENCE TEST – (ENGLISH)

Name:___________________________ Total Questions: 30 (Time: 10 Minutes)

1. Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to the word BARREN:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Fertile Rejecting Crater Concave Freedom

2. Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to the word PORTLY:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Briskly Vessel Slender Entirely Empty

3. Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to the word PROFUSION:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Penetration Abundance Scarcity Ordinance audacity

4. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
CAT : MOUSE

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

BIRD : WORM DOG : TAIL TRAP : ATTIE HIDE : SEEK COW : BULL

5. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
FISH : SCALES

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

BOOK : SNAKE : BIRD : CAR : CAT : CLAWS
PAPERS FANGS FEATHERS WHEELS

6. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
TRUCK : LORRY

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

ADOBE : CRANE : HOIST CARRIAGE : TRANSPORT : MAN :
BRICK PRAM SUPPORT WOMAN

7. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:

ALBUM : PHOTOGRAPHS

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

HEAD : CAP BULB : LIGHT COMPACT DISKS : CPU SHELF : BOOKS PEN : PAPER

8. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
BOTANY : PLANTS

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(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

LAND : ASTRONOMY : ANTHROPOLOGY PHILOSOPHY : TRUCK :
SHRUBS STARS : THORN ENCYCLOPAEDIA BUS

9. Select the appropriate word:

Despite his illness, Babar was _______ in his team’s win.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Disappointing Useless Vigorous Instrumental Disarming

10. Select the appropriate word:

It was difficult to imagine Zainab, ____________ woman, as a psychiatrist; listening while others
talked was not her style.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

a talkative a cheering a smiling an aggressive a stylish

11. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
VISE : GRIPS

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

TEMPERS : KILN : SPOUT : CALIPERS : MOM :
FLARE POTTER GEYSERS MEASURE ANGER

12. Select the word that is most opposite to the word DETACH:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Separate Pack Scratch Ambulatory Bottom line

13. Select the word that is most opposite to the word MEAGER:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Minimize Lavish Sensitive Recover Flexible

14. Select the word that is most opposite to the word LOUTISH:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Dejected Vast Urbane Pitiful Silent

15. Select the word that is closest to the word ESOTERIC:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Fair Alluring Popular Private Commercial

16. Select the word that is closest to the word WANE:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Decline Tired Dead Shine Polish

17. Choose the word that best describes the act in the following sentence:

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He had the nerve to suggest that I was cheating.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Strength Courage Capacity Audacity Respect

18. Choose the word that best describes the act in the following sentence:
He used to regale us with anecdotes.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Flatter Bore Fix Entertain Weep

19. Choose the word that best describes the act in the following sentence:
He had the nerve to face the robbers all alone.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Strength Courage Capacity Audacity Respect

20. Select the word that is closest to the word BENEDICTION:

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Rise Blessing Curse Prayer Downfall

21. Find in the blank with the appropriate word / words from the choices given:
The criminal _________ this cell in 2010.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

bought was brought was brought to is be brought to

22. Find in the blank with the appropriate word / words from the choices given:
During the war of 1965 thousands of villagers ____________ to leave their homes.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

would force so as were forced forced would forced were force

23. Find in the blank with the appropriate words from the choices given:
The windows were opened by me _________ I entered the class room.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

by me by me when by me as by me, by me where

24. Choose the correct sentence out of the given choices to express the following sentence in Indirect
Speech:
She said, “ I can teach English online”.

(A) She said she would teach English online.

(B) She said she could teach English online.
(C) She asked that could she teach English online.
(D) She told that she could teach English.
(E) She will teach English online.

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25. Choose the correct sentence out of the given choices to express the following sentence in Indirect
Speech:
Hassan says, “I am ill”

(A) Hassan told me that he was ill.

(B) Hassan said to me that he was ill.
(C) Hassan says that he is ill.
(D) Hassan asked that he was ill.
(E) Hassan said that he was ill.

26. Choose the best answer from the given choices to replace the underlined words to correct the
sentence:
Ali is one of the participants who was to chosen to attend the seminar.

(A) which was chosen

(B) that was chosen
(C) whom was chosen
(D) who were chosen
(E) whom was to chosen

27. Choose the best answer from the given choices to replace the underlined words to correct the
sentence:
He is better keeper than any of the other of players in the team.

(A) then any of the other of players

(B) then any of the players
(C) than any of the other players
(D) than any of the players
(E) Than any of the other keepers

28. Choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word SEDULITY

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Disparage Largess Truthfulness Carelessness Persistence

29. Fill the blank with a suitable choice:

As a result of __________, no one can trade with this country.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Enigma Embargo Vicious Voracious Language

30. Find the word that is incorrect:

There is two cars over there.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

there is two cars over

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