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QID : 76 - In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an
appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it
by selecting the appropriate option.
The lawyer tried to ______________ his client to accept the generous settlement offer.
Options:
1) draw
2) seduce
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3) incite
4) persuade
Correct Answer: persuade
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QID : 77 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
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The stranded pilgrims (had waited) in the bitter cold for more than two hours now.
Options:
1) has been waiting
2) have been waiting
3) have waited
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: have been waiting
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QID : 78 - In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a
sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
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I am coming directly(A)/to my office(B)/from the station.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) B
2) A
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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The exhausted travellers seemed relieved when the train finally (came into) the station.
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Options:
1) pulled in
2) pulled into
3) pulled onto
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: pulled in
QID : 80 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
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It is for the government,

P-especially one with such a
Q-significant majority, to have the
R-intelligence and leadership to think long term
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
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QID : 81 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which
best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
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to drink like a fish
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Options:
1) a person who spends a lot
2) a person who keeps cheating for a very long time without getting noticed
3) a person who needs to relive himself very frequently
4) to drink excessive amounts of alcohol
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Correct Answer: to drink excessive amounts of alcohol

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There is a deeper
P-fissure here that goes
Q-from western theory
R-beyond explanations
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Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
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4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
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QID : 83 - Select the synonym of
to preside
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Options:
1) to acquiesce
2) to concur
3) to officiate
4) to accord
Correct Answer: to officiate
dabble
Options:
1) solemn
2) austere
3) meditative
4) dally
Correct Answer: dally
QID : 85 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of
four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the
same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
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The owners remodelled the car to help it sell.
Options:
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1) The car was remodelled by the owners to help it sell.
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2) The car is being remodelled by the owners to help it sell.
3) The car was remodelled by the owners to help it being sold.
4) The car is being remodelled by the owners to help it being sold.
Correct Answer: The car was remodelled by the owners to help it sell.
QID : 86 - Select the word with the correct spelling.
Options:
1) thresonical
2) numeracy
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3) nepotesm
4) tolarate
Correct Answer: numeracy
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QID : 87 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is
the best substitute of the phrase.
A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

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Options:
1) hog
2) slob
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3) swine
4) brute
Correct Answer: slob
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QID : 88 - Select the antonym of
therapeutic
Options:
1) ameliorative
2) analeptic
3) salubrious
4) inimical
Correct Answer: inimical
to perpetuate
Options:
1) to eternize
2) to canonize
3) to cease
4) to bolster
Correct Answer: to cease
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The task of(A)/writing a autobiography(B)/is a difficult one.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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down to the wire

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Options:
1) removing the bondage that is keeping one down
2) the last second before the bomb explodes
3) to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last minute
4) finishing all of one's resources to the last penny
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Correct Answer: to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last
minute
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QID : 92 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the
same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
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Manoj said, "I must go now."
Options:
1) Manoj said that he must go then.
2) Manoj said that he must go than.
3) Manoj said he has to go then.
4) Manoj said that he should be going than.
Correct Answer: Manoj said that he must go then.
To exclude from a society or group.
Options:
1) to ostracise
2) to deport
3) to boycott
4) to snub
Correct Answer: to ostracise
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Options:
1) glucose
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2) hermetec
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3) wigling
4) derrogate
Correct Answer: glucose
QID : 95 - In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an
appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by
selecting the appropriate option. at
If immigrants don't learn to speak the native languages of their new countries, they won't be
able to _____________ themselves into society.
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Options:
1) conjoin
2) interface
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3) integrate
4) reconciliate
Correct Answer: integrate
QID : 96 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage
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carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four
alternatives.
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______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government had
purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________ ensuring
that they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system.
These assets __________________ later at a profit by the government! The
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U.S. government had acted smartly, while in the Indian case the banks now find themselves
______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with
negative net worth.
______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Options:
1) Below
2) Down
3) Lower
4) Under
Correct Answer: Under
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negative net worth.
(TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view
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_______________
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Options:
1) to
2) of
3) for
4) so
Correct Answer: to
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alternatives.
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negative net worth.
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they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system.
Options:
1) from
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2) all
3) along with
4) also with
Correct Answer: along with
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alternatives.

negative net worth.
These assets __________________ later at a profit by the government!

Options:
1) are disposed of
2) were disposed of
3) are disposed off
4) had been disposed off
Correct Answer: were disposed of
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carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the
four alternatives.
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negative net worth.
negative net worth.

Options:
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find themselves ______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with
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1) saddled
2) baffled
3) puzzled
4) caught
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Correct Answer: saddled
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QID : 176 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which
is the best substitute of the phrase.
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To rummage about in a place or container in search of something.

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Options:
1) to rake
2) to excavate
3) to ferret
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4) to poke
Correct Answer: to ferret
to buy a lemon
Options:
1) to purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems
2) buying only half the recipe will not help you prepare the full dish
3) to purchase an insignificant thing which eventually becomes very useful
4) to buy stuff which you don't need
Correct Answer: to purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems
QID : 178 Select the antonym of
mere
Options:
1) unadorned
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2) immense
3) sheer
4) blunt
Correct Answer: immense
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QID : 179 In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate
option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
The population of Mumbai(A)/is greater than(B)/in any city in USA.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: C
QID : 180 In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an
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appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate
it by selecting the appropriate option.
The bank _______________ his house as he had failed to pay the instalments despite repeated
warnings.
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Options:
1) mobbed
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2) confiscated
3) hijacked
4) captured
Correct Answer: confiscated
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QID : 181 Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:
At one level,
P-the law in understanding
Q-such cases of violence
R-one senses the limits of
Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
For a full week(A)/she enjoyed the benefits(B)/ of being a big sister.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
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Correct Answer: D
QID : 183 Select the synonym of
to ordain
Options:
1) to anoint
2) to retract
3) to veto
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4) to void
Correct Answer: to anoint

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to stranded
Options:
1) to douse
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2) to aground
3) to swamp
4) to inundate
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Correct Answer: to aground
QID : 185 Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

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All the allegations levelled (over) the poor watchman were found to be baseless.
Options:
1) upon
2) off
3) against
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: against
QID : 186 Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
It is the right to
P-who see us at our most vulnerable
Q-the indiscretions of doctors
R-privacy that protects us from
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
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Correct Answer: RQP
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to comprise
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Options:
1) to dispute
2) to embody
3) to span
4) to encompass
Correct Answer: to dispute at
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to cast iron stomach
Options:
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1) a very greedy person

2) to be able to eat or drink anything without any problems
3) to be indifferent to harsh words
4) to face so many difficulties in life that one now becomes immune to even poison
Correct Answer: to be able to eat or drink anything without any problems
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QID : 189 In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out
of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the
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same sentence in Passive/Active.
The event manager is making all the reservations.

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Options:
1) All the reservations would be made by the event manager.
2) All the reservations are being made by the event manager.
3) All the reservations would have been made by the event manager.
4) All the reservations will have been made by the event manager.
Correct Answer: All the reservations are being made by the event manager.
"I am the only man in the world who (can) paint a picture so true to life," he said.
Options:
1) will
2) could
3) may
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: no improvement
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To sell (stocks or other securities or commodities) in advance of acquiring them, with the
aim of making a profit when the price falls.
Options:
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1) bilking
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2) duping
3) conning
4) shorting
Correct Answer: shorting
QID : 192 In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech.
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Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express
the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
‘Do you have anything to say on behalf of the accused?' said the judge finally.
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Options:
1) The judge finally asked that if he had anything to say on behalf of the accused.
2) The judge finally ask that whether he had anything to say on behalf of the accused.
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3) The judge finally asked that if he has anything to say on behalf of the accused.
4) The judge finally asked that if he has had anything to say on behalf of the accused.
Correct Answer: The judge finally ask that whether he had anything to say on behalf of the
accused.
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QID : 193 Select the word with the correct spelling.
Options:
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1) amphybia
2) indanted
3) ancumber
4) levelled
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Correct Answer: levelled
QID : 194 In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an
A large crowd ____________ to get a glimpse of their favourite star.
Options:
1) gathered
2) rallied
3) clustered
4) compiled
Correct Answer: gathered
Options:
1) tidlers
2) thistlees
3) pulchritude
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4) tenderred
Correct Answer: pulchritude
QID : 196 In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the
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passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the
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four alternatives.
In a strange ________________, the production and the consumption of the event become
cause for concern. _______________ wonders
whether newer forms of “noncaring” or violence are appearing. Somehow, silence, even
__________________, quietly suppresses a meditation
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on such events. __________________ a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions
when my students have cried as we discussed such
events in class. _____________, society seems so indifferent.
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In a strange ________________,
Options:
1) way
2) form
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3) step
4) method
Correct Answer: way
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four alternatives.
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_______________ wonders whether newer forms of "noncaring" or violence are appearing.

Options:
1) Anyone
2) One
3) Someone
4) Somebody
Correct Answer: One
four alternatives.
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Somehow, silence, even __________________, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events.
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Options:
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1) attention
2) bias
3) regard
4) indifference
Correct Answer: indifference
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four alternatives.
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__________________ a professor,
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Options:
1) Like
2) Alike
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3) As
4) Being
Correct Answer: As
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four alternatives.
_____________, society seems so indifferent.

Options:
1) Yet
2) Thus
3) Hence
4) So
Correct Answer: Yet
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SET-3
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The recession is going to cause ___________ times for families who are already struggling to
pay their bills.
Options:
1) furious
2) agitated
3) turbulent
4) wild
Correct Answer: turbulent
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Mother said, "Lie down, Arjun."
Options:
1) Mother told lie down Arjun.
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2) Mother told Arjun for lying down.

3) Mother asked Arjun to lie down.
4) Mother asked Arjun to be lied down.
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Correct Answer: Mother asked Arjun to lie down.
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ethnic cleansing
Options:
1) a social revolution where negative aspects of a culture are removed
2) to perform mass religious conversions
3) the mass killing of members of one ethnic group
4) removal of all signs of culture from a society
Correct Answer: the mass killing of members of one ethnic group
I don't want an award (for help to you).
Options:
1) to have helped you
2) for helping you
3) for helping to you
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: for helping you
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Very rude or coarse; vulgar.
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Options:
1) gross
2) adipose
3) porcine
4) corpulent
Correct Answer: gross
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To stop doing something; cease or abstain.
Options:
1) to endure
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2) to desist
3) to persevere
4) to dismay
Correct Answer: to desist
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I have sign over(A)/the cheque, you can(B)/collect it tomorrow.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
every cloud has a silver lining
Options:
1) no bad situation is permanent
2) if one wants rain then one has to bear with dark clouds
3) every blessing comes with a hidden curse
4) every bad situation has some good aspects to it
Correct Answer: every bad situation has some good aspects to it
It is a crisis which
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P-unless policymakers
Q-exercise some intelligence
R-will get even worse
.
Options:
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1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
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Shouts of the crowd cheering the home team now (stuff) the air.
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Options:
1) fill
2) occupy
3) infest
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4) no improvement
Correct Answer: fill

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Options:
1) dementia
2) quaterain
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3) necrosys
4) frenetec
Correct Answer: dementia
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In Tamil nadu,
P-cows and bulls are worshipped and celebrated
Q-on Maattu Pongal,
R-and the finale is Jallikattu
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: QPR
The seawater eventually corroded the pillars of the bridge.
Options:
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1) Eventually the pillars of the bridge are being corroded by the seawater.
2) Eventually the pillars of the bridge have been corroded by the seawater.
3) The pillars of the bridge were eventually corroded by the seawater.
4) The pillars of the bridge have been eventually corroded by the seawater.
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Correct Answer: The pillars of the bridge were eventually corroded by the seawater.
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selecting the appropriate option.
On the trip, we needed a guide to ____________ the foreign language for us.
Options:
1) describe
2) illustrate
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3) mimic
4) interpret
Correct Answer: interpret
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to remand
Options:
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1) to filibuster
2) to tarry
3) to expedite
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4) to adjourn
Correct Answer: to expedite
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He told me the same(A)/story which he told(B)/you yesterday.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
proximal
Options:
1) frontier
2) obscure
3) remote
4) adjacent
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Correct Answer: adjacent
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eternity
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Options:
1) perpetuity
2) yonder
3) aeon
4) ephemeral
Correct Answer: ephemeral

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to alight
Options:
1) to escalate
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2) to clamber
3) to disembark
4) to astride
Correct Answer: to disembark
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Options:
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1) prophesey
2) nihilism
3) aesthet
4) avulusion
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Correct Answer: nihilism
alternatives.
The answer to the third question is __________________ answered; State leaders

___________________ great willingness to play into the hands of the Central
government, presumably for a price. ________________ the process, representatives have
forgotten the history of their own societies. But they fail to ________________
that history cannot be disremembered, it constantly nudges us to recollect past struggles

___________________ injustice in these States.
The answer to the third question is __________________ answered

Options:
1) easily
2) easy to
3) easy for
4) so easy
Correct Answer: easily
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alternatives.
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government
Options:
1) is showing
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State leaders ___________________ great willingness to play into the hands of the Central
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2) have shown
3) to show
4) have showed
Correct Answer: have shown
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alternatives.
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________________ the process, representatives have forgotten the history of their own
societies.
Options:
1) As
2) So
3) Into
4) In
Correct Answer: In
alternatives.

But they fail to ________________ that history cannot be disremembered,
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Options:
1) forget
2) memorize
3) recall
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4) by heart
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Correct Answer: recall
four alternatives.
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it constantly nudges us to recollect past struggles ___________________ injustice in these

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States.
Options:
1) against
2) for
3) to
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4) from
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SET-4
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Brijesh said that he has no _____________ of stepping down, although he is under a lot of
pressure to do so.
Options:
1) intuition
2) intention
3) point
4) object
Correct Answer: intention
QID : 177 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out
Lakhs of tourists view the Taj Mahal every year.
Options:
1) The Taj Mahal is being viewed by lakhs of tourists every year.
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2) Every year the Taj Mahal is being viewed by lakhs of tourists.
3) Every year the Taj Mahal was being viewed by lakhs of tourists.
4) The Taj Mahal is viewed by lakhs of tourists every year.
Correct Answer: The Taj Mahal is viewed by lakhs of tourists every year.
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They have now

P-by a paternalistic state
Q-of goods mandated
R-been turned into consumers
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
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3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
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Causing a burning sensation like that of hot liquid on the skin

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Options:
1) piping
2) igneous
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3) sizzling
4) scalding
Correct Answer: scalding
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dead ringer
Options:
1) a competition whose outcome is already decided (by unfair means)
2) a candidate fraudulently substituted for another in a competition
3) a person who was in a situation to warn others is now missing
4) a warning which comes too late, after the damage is done
Correct Answer: a candidate fraudulently substituted for another in a competition
pervert
Options:
1) virtuous
2) libertine
3) deviant
4) debauchee
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Correct Answer: virtuous
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If
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a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
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The Directors are(A)/now inquiring(B)/in the cause of the fire.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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As the judge enters the courtroom, ______________ calls upon all occupants in the room to
stand.
Options:
1) formality
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2) pattern
3) culture
4) habit
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Correct Answer: formality
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dark horse
Options:
1) a candidate about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins
2) a good person who has been unfairly maligned
3) a person despised by everybody wins
4) a very unpredictable contestant, sometimes wins sometimes loses
Correct Answer: a candidate about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins
parlance
Options:
1) definitive
2) lingo
3) canonical
4) classic
Correct Answer: lingo
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Options:
1) bordeux
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2) ambienc
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3) macakues
4) culinary
Correct Answer: culinary
obstreperous
Options:
1) boisterous
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2) bashful
3) reticent
4) taciturn
Correct Answer: boisterous
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Options:
1) metaled
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2) lonsome
3) piquancy
4) shufled
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Correct Answer: piquancy

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We were still waiting in the queue for tickets when the show (had begun).
Options:
1) was beginning
2) begins
3) began
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: began
frazzle
Options:
1) prostration
2) vigour
3) enervation
4) lassitude
Correct Answer: vigour
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An organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.
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Options:
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1) conglomerate
2) donation
3) charity
4) dole
Correct Answer: charity
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She was an(A)/only child who(B)/had been very welcome.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
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Elections globally
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P-dominated by numbers, percentages

Q-and tallies
R-can be dry affairs
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Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express
"Alas! I have broken my grandfather's watch" said Amit.
Options:
1) Amit was sorrowful that he broke his grandfather's watch.
2) Amit exclaimed sorrowfully that he has broken his grandfather's watch.
3) Amit was sorrowful that he had broken his grandfather's watch.
4) Amit exclaimed sorrowfully that he had broken his grandfather's watch.
Correct Answer: Amit exclaimed sorrowfully that he had broken his grandfather's watch.
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It was so hot during the concert that some spectators passed (out).
Options:
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1) away
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2) by
3) over
4) no improvement
four alternatives.
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________________ various signs of economic slowdown such as languishing industrial

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production and adverse __________________of the drought on rural livelihoods
and demand, the government is apparently unable ____________________ unwilling to increase
public spending to _________________ people’s material distress or to
kick-start economic ____________________ to increase employment.
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production
Options:
1) As
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2) Despite
3) So
4) Because
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Correct Answer: Despite
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four alternatives.

adverse __________________of the drought on rural livelihoods and demand

Options:
1) effects
2) effect
3) affects
4) affect
Correct Answer: effects
four alternatives.
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the government is apparently unable ____________________
Options:
1) hence
2) but
3) or
4) nor
Correct Answer: or at
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four alternatives.

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spending to _________________ people's material distress

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Options:
1) cool off
2) cut
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3) less
4) mitigate
Correct Answer: mitigate
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four alternatives.

distress or to kick-start economic ____________________ to increase employment.

Options:
1) activity
2) happening
3) performance
4) acts
Correct Answer: activity
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Purush wandered _______________ through life, with no clear ideas of where he was heading
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and what he wanted to accomplish.
Options:
1) madly
2) excitedly
3) crazily
4) aimlessly
Correct Answer: aimlessly at
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Would it be impolite (to be asked) why they are leaving?
Options:
1) to ask
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2) for asking
3) for being asked
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to ask
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We should learn our lesson

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P-from this history and stay away

Q-of our neighbours
R-from interfering in the messy domestic politics
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Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
to hew
Options:
1) to prune
2) to chop
3) to agglutinate
4) to cleave
Correct Answer: to agglutinate
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The chess player moved his piece to a more _____________________ position, securing the win.
Options:
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1) profitable
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2) auspicious
3) advantageous
4) worthwhile
Correct Answer: advantageous
maestro
Options:
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m
1) neophyte
2) catechumen
3) sophomore
4) conductor
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Correct Answer: conductor
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The coach said, "Don’t move, boys."

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Options:
1) The coach told to the boys don't move.
2) The coach said to the boys not to be moving.
3) The coach asked the boys not to move.
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4) The coach told to them, don't move boys.

Correct Answer: The coach asked the boys not to move.
Public goods are

P-important as they
Q-mitigate the impact of
R-income poverty and inequality
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
The workers are bent (on) getting a full months pay as bonus.
in
Options:
1) for
2) upon
3) to
.
4) no improvement
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Correct Answer: upon
to flay
Options:
1) to scalp
2) to peel
3) to excoriate
at
m
4) to sheath
Correct Answer: to sheath
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They will advise me about the price of the accessories.

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Options:
1) I will have been advised about the price of the accessories.
2) I would have been advised about the price of the accessories.
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3) I shall be advised about the price of the accessories.

4) I would have had been advised about the price of the accessories.
Correct Answer: I shall be advised about the price of the accessories.
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Options:
1) Paraguay
2) snugled
3) gimicky
4) benifice
Correct Answer: Paraguay
Mother does not hardly(A)/know what happened(B)/in school yesterday.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
in
.
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No beggar who comes(A)/to our doors(B)/goes back empty handed.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
at
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To lift or haul something heavy with great effort.

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Options:
1) heave
2) shrimp
3) wimp
4) runt
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Correct Answer: heave
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flea market
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Options:
1) a market for semi-precious stones and jewellery
2) a market where stolen goods are sold
3) a street market selling second-hand goods
4) a small but crowded and noisy place
Correct Answer: a street market selling second-hand goods
Options:
1) libreto
2) jazziest
3) serephim
4) kamikazey
Correct Answer: jazziest
troll
Options:
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1) spruce
2) suave
3) gnome
4) dapper
.
Correct Answer: gnome
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A conclusion or agreement done or reached decisively and with authority.
Options:
1) precise
2) definitive
3) reliable
at
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4) specific
Correct Answer: definitive
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flesh and blood
Options:
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1) a very gory murder scene

2) a lot of hard work
3) loss of lives in battle
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4) a person's physical body and their needs and frailties

Correct Answer: a person's physical body and their needs and frailties
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four alternatives.
The scene will now shift to obtaining __________________ instruments of ratification to bring
the agreement into force _________________ 2020, the first year of
its________________ implementation. The agreement will enter into force with the ratification
of ______________ 55 countries, whose aggregate greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions ________________ at least 55 per cent of global emissions.
The scene will now shift to obtaining __________________ instruments
Options:
1) enough
2) full
3) lavish
4) comfortable
Correct Answer: enough
four alternatives.
in
.
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bring the agreement into force _________________ 2020
Options:
1) on
2) before
3) at
4) previous
Correct Answer: before
at
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four alternatives.
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the first year of its________________ implementation.

Options:
1) proposal
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2) proposition
3) supposed
4) proposed
Correct Answer: proposed
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four alternatives.
The agreement will enter into force with the ratification of ______________ 55 countries
Options:
1) partially
2) at least
3) slightly
4) somewhat
Correct Answer: at least
in
four alternatives.
.
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whose aggregate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ________________ at least 55 per cent of
global emissions.
Options:
1) established
2) constitute
3) enact
4) complement
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Correct Answer: constitute
SET-6
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This may be essential at

P-where the market fails to deliver
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Q-swath of an economy
R-times, but there is a wide
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Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
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4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
As management we are accountable (to) the Board of Directors.
Options:
1) towards
2) with
3) against
4) no improvement
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather
than by using rational argument.
Options:
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1) rebel
2) radical
3) demagogue
4) anarchistic
.
Correct Answer: demagogue
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to go for broke
Options:
1) to risk everything in an all-out effort
2) failure in relationship or partnership
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3) losing all money in an effort to revive a failing business
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4) to start again after failing in a business
Correct Answer: to risk everything in an all-out effort
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Kunal said, "Tanu is coming this week."

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Options:
1) Kunal says that Tanu was coming that week.
2) Kunal says that Tanu was coming this week.
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3) Kunal said that Tanu was going to be come this week.

4) Kunal said that Tanu was coming that week.
Correct Answer: Kunal said that Tanu was coming that week.
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Options:
1) paterns
2) smudeging
3) dissuade
4) fripery
Correct Answer: dissuade
Usually the climate in the Northern parts of India is cooler (from) the Southern parts.
Options:
1) as
2) to
3) than
4) no improvement
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Jasbir has the ____________ of a movie star.
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Options:
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1) jinx
2) charisma
3) flash
4) mysticism
Correct Answer: charisma
apocalypse
at
m
Options:
1) catastrophe
2) miracle
3) decimation
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4) holocaust
Correct Answer: miracle
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The substitution of cream(A)/ instead of milk in the recipe (B)/makes for a rich
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dessert.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
to actuate
Options:
1) to retard
2) to spur
3) to impel
4) to propel
Correct Answer: to retard
We must urgently
P-ethics that respects, and responds
Q-humanely to, the strangers in our cities
in
R-and consciously develop a new
Options:
1) RQP
.
2) PQR
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3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
I took the grinder yesterday.

at
m
Options:
1) The grinder was took by me yesterday.
2) The grinder was took by me the day before.
3) The grinder had been took by me the day before.
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4) The grinder was taken by me yesterday.

Correct Answer: The grinder was taken by me yesterday.
QID : 89 - Choose the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase: In the following question, out of
the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the
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meaning of the idiom/phrase.
to go the extra mile

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Options:
1) to get an unexpected bonus
2) to make a special effort to achieve something
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3) to lose one's way and walk aimlessly

4) a vehicle which is very fuel efficient
Correct Answer: to make a special effort to achieve something
The prince and princess(A)/made their way(B)/through the cheering crowd.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
shimmering
in
Options:
1) stolid
2) glinting
3) daft
.
4) daffy
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Correct Answer: glinting
Options:
1) catalyst
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The enzyme was the _____________ that triggered the chemical reaction.
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2) support
3) encouragement
4) incitation
Correct Answer: catalyst
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Options:
1) adendum
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2) atlantise
3) inovate
4) abseiled
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Correct Answer: abseiled
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The action of repeating something aloud from memory.
Options:
1) paraphrase
2) rendition
3) erudition
4) recitation
Correct Answer: recitation
bounder
Options:
1) lout
2) mediocre
3) done
4) decorous
Correct Answer: lout
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four alternatives.
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_________________ the many existing cyber warfare scenarios, not excluding a coordinated
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cyber attack that __________________ sabotage multiple infrastructure
assets, erecting proper defences is _________________. Anonymity and low cost have meant
that __________________ small disaffected groups — apart from hostile
states and official agencies — could _________________ to cyber techniques.
_________________ the many existing cyber warfare scenarios

Options:
1) Give
2) Given
3) Giving
at
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4) To give
Correct Answer: Given
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four alternatives.
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coordinated cyber attack that __________________ sabotage multiple infrastructure assets

Options:
1) would
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2) should
3) could
4) will
Correct Answer: could
four alternatives.

erecting proper defences is _________________.

Options:
1) vital
2) vitality
3) to vital
4) vitalness
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Correct Answer: vital
.
four alternatives.
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Options:
1) too
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Anonymity and low cost have meant that __________________ small disaffected groups
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2) not only
3) even
4) both
Correct Answer: even
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four alternatives.
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hostile states and official agencies — could _________________ to cyber techniques.

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Options:
1) camp
2) lodge
3) park
4) resort
Correct Answer: resort
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grotesque
Options:
1) horrid
2) pleasing
3) appalling
4) grisly
Correct Answer: pleasing
in
A trace or remnant of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
.
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Options:
1) memento
2) variable
3) glimmer
4) vestige
Correct Answer: vestige
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She decided to drink(A)/water instead of soft drinks(B)/ in order to lose weight.(C)/No
error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: D
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He is so ________________ in his beliefs that no one can change his mind!

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Options:
1) vigorous
2) adamant
3) tough
4) stiff
Correct Answer: adamant
fixed in one's ways
Options:
1) not wanting to change how one does things
2) one will succeed if one does not change thier path
3) trapped in a particular unpleasant situation
4) a dilemma of two different paths
Correct Answer: not wanting to change how one does things
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We will send you your laboratory reports as soon as they are ready.
.
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Options:
1) You would be sent your laboratory reports as soon as they will be ready.
2) Your laboratory reports will be sent to you as soon as they are ready.
3) You would be send your laboratory reports as soon as they will be ready.
4) Your laboratory reports should be sent to you as soon as they are ready.
Correct Answer: Your laboratory reports will be sent to you as soon as they are ready.
to procure
at
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Options:
1) to forfeit
2) to appropriate
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3) to solicit
4) to wangle
Correct Answer: to forfeit

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impassive
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Options:
1) ardent
2) reticent
3) agitated
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4) susceptible
Correct Answer: reticent
I feel (out for sorts) today.
Options:
1) of sort
2) out of sort
3) out of sorts
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: out of sorts
'Are you coming with us?' Isha asked Nishi.
Options:
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1) Isha asked Nisha whether she would be going with them.
2) Isha asked Nisha if she was going with them.
3) Isha asked Nisha whether she would go with them.
4) Isha asked Nisha whether she would come with us.
.
Correct Answer: Isha asked Nisha if she was going with them.
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to revamp
Options:
1) to overhaul
2) to maraud
3) to raze
4) to sabotage
at
m
Correct Answer: to overhaul

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Options:
1) mistique
2) chimmeras
3) plesure
4) obituary
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Correct Answer: obituary
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To trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall.

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Options:
1) to totter
2) to stammer
3) to stumble
4) to blunder
Correct Answer: to stumble
An increase in incidents of chain snatching (has been reported) in the newspapers recently.
Options:
1) has been written
2) have been reported
3) are being reported
4) no improvement
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You want to stay(A)/with him, in spite(B)/off what he did?(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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I shall ____________ receipt of your email even if I cannot respond to it immediately.
Options:
1) acknowledge
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2) endorse
3) ratify
4) allow
Correct Answer: acknowledge
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It may not be a simple

P-someone does stand to gain
Q-by keeping farmers divided
R-case of "divide and rule", but
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Options:
1) QPR
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
Rewarding an encroacher on public

P-reward to a pickpocket
Q-site is like giving a
R-land with free alternative
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
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Correct Answer: RQP
.
Options:
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1) coroded
2) topalogy
3) homogony
4) protuzoa
Correct Answer: homogony
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flash in the pan
Options:
1) a trick one learn which makes thier work easier
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2) a thing or person whose sudden but brief success is not repeated

3) to build something good but it gets destroyed
4) to find something unpleasant in food
Correct Answer: a thing or person whose sudden but brief success is not repeated
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four alternatives.
Since the justification for the demand of anonymity and confidentiality is______________
questioned by reporters, and since the deals ____________ routinely between
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reporter and privileged source to grant confidential ________________ are rarely monitored and
supervised properly within the newsroom, the misuse of sources by
journalists, and what is ____________________ damaging, the misuse of journalists and the
news media by privileged sources____________________ epidemic
proportions.
confidentiality is______________ questioned by reporters

Options:
1) rarely
2) ever
3) once
4) infinitely
Correct Answer: rarely
four alternatives.
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proportions.
.
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since the deals ____________ routinely between reporter
Options:
1) strike
2) striked
3) striking
4) struck
Correct Answer: struck at
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four alternatives.
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proportions.
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privileged source to grant confidential ________________ are rarely monitored

Options:
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1) dignity
2) pride
3) status
4) degree
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Correct Answer: status
four alternatives.
proportions.
and what is ____________________ damaging

Options:
1) more so
2) more of
3) even more
4) even too
Correct Answer: even more
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four alternatives.
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proportions. at
the news media by privileged sources____________________ epidemic proportions.
Options:
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1) assume
2) have assumed
3) so assume
4) being assumed
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Correct Answer: have assumed
SET-8
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My husband has listed me as the _______________ of his life insurance policy.
Options:
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1) successor
2) beneficiary
3) heir
4) inheritor
Correct Answer: beneficiary
They lock the door every night.
Options:
1) The door was being locked every night by them.
2) The door has been locked every night by them.
3) The door had been locked every night by them.
4) The door is locked every night by them.
Correct Answer: The door is locked every night by them.
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vile
Options:
1) virtuous
.
2) coarse
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3) vicious
4) abject
QID : 279 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence
Options:
1) could have
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We (should had) the confidence that we will surely succeed one day.
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2) had to have
3) must have
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: must have
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To invent (something) in order to deceive.

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Options:
1) to formulate
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2) to compose
3) to project
4) to fabricate
Correct Answer: to fabricate
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nifty
Options:
1) dandy
2) obnoxious
3) grody
4) gross
Correct Answer: dandy
to foam at the mouth
Options:
1) to be very angry
2) to shout loudly
3) to get very weak, dizzy
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4) to die of poisoning
Correct Answer: to be very angry
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Since they were all dressed up,(A)/she assumed they(B)/were going to church
together.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: D
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To disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.
Options:
1) to tangle
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2) to crumple
3) to ruffle
4) to crease
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Correct Answer: to ruffle
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fuddy-duddy
Options:
1) An ill mannered person that one accepts willingly because he/she is a very dear friend
2) a person who is very old-fashioned and pompous
3) a shoddy work
4) a very confusing situation
Correct Answer: a person who is very old-fashioned and pompous
Options:
1) rocketted
2) bienial
3) actuator
4) statuory
Correct Answer: actuator
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Options:
1) bathetick
2) promotar
3) ilusive
.
4) saddlers
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Correct Answer: saddlers
Options:
1) A
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In spite of(A)/her irritation, she(B)/couldn't help smile.(C)/No error(D)
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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Since I forgot about Jeetu’s birthday last week, I will send him a _____________ greeting today.
Options:
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1) belated
2) timely
3) unpunctual
4) tardy
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Correct Answer: belated
The question
P-are on the right path
Q-is whether we
R-to the goal
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
to amputate
Options:
in
1) to sever
2) to fasten
3) to truncate
4) to lop
.
Correct Answer: to fasten
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Ensuring security
P-harder than hacking into a system
Q-of data, information, and
R-communication is considerably
Options:
1) RQP
at
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2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
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Teacher said to children, "Have you prepared well for the finals?"
Options:
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1) Teacher asked the children whether they have prepared well for the finals.
2) Teacher asked the children whether they have been preparing well for the finals.
3) Teacher asked the children if they did prepare well for the finals.
4) Teacher asked the children if they had prepared well for the finals.
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Correct Answer: Teacher asked the children if they had prepared well for the finals.
The guide's (knowledge) of the history of the monument surprised me.
Options:
1) knowing
2) familiarity
3) know how
4) no improvement
to visualise
Options:
1) to repudiate
2) to anticipate
3) to eschew
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4) to scorn
Correct Answer: to anticipate
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four alternatives.
Going _______________defections, attempts to topple governments and establish

governments, it is time to ask, ______________ is the relationship between
federalism, States, representative ________________ and justice? Justice follows only
_______________ the wants of people who have elected representatives are
derivative.
Going _______________defections,
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addressed, and when these representatives _________________ that their own status is
attempts to topple governments and establish

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governments
Options:
1) away
2) beyond
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3) far
4) over
Correct Answer: beyond
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four alternatives.
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derivative.
______________ is the relationship between federalism

Options:
1) what
2) why
3) where
4) which
Correct Answer: what
four alternatives.

derivative.
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States, representative ________________ and justice?
Options:
1) autocracy
.
2) anarchy
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3) democracy
4) aristocracy
Correct Answer: democracy
four alternatives. at
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derivative.
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Justice follows only _______________ the wants of people who have elected representatives
are addressed
Options:
1) when
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2) whether
3) as
4) then
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Correct Answer: when
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four alternatives.

derivative.
and when these representatives _________________ that their own status is derivative.
Options:
1) verify
2) forget
3) diagnose
4) recognise
Correct Answer: recognise
SET-9
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Courteousness and refinement of manner.
Options:
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1) plaudit
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2) adulation
3) urbanity
4) profanity
Correct Answer: urbanity
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to have an axe to grind

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Options:
1) sharpening your skills in anticipation of future challenges
2) to have a private reason for doing something
3) preparing for a fight
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4) getting ready for work or a new project

Correct Answer: to have a private reason for doing something

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precedent
Options:
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1) contingent
2) criterion
3) arbitrary
4) fortuitous
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Correct Answer: criterion
Jayesh has sent the email.
Options:
1) The email has had been sent by Jayesh.
2) The email has been sent by Jayesh.

3) The email was sent by Jayesh.
4) The email was send by Jayesh.
Correct Answer: The email has been sent by Jayesh.
QID : 80 In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out
Anil says, "I am glad to be here this morning"
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Options:
1) Anil says he is glad to be there that morning.
2) Anil says that he is glad to be there that morning.
3) Anil was saying that he was glad to be there this morning.
.
4) Anil says that he was glad to be here this morning.
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Correct Answer: Anil says that he is glad to be there that morning.
your phone number.
Options:
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Either you're a mind reader or it's a __________________ that you called me just as I was keying
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1) coincidence
2) correlation
3) union
4) happening
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Correct Answer: coincidence
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great minds think alike
Options:
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1) it is said when two people have the same opinion

2) it is said when clever people think rationally
3) since there is only one truth , the great philosophers have reached on similar conclusions
4) scientists and philosophers easily become friends
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Correct Answer: it is said when two people have the same opinion
to rake
Options:
1) to harrow
2) to scatter
3) to scour
4) to enfilade
Correct Answer: to scatter
When I (go) to Paris, I shall visit the Eiffel Tower.
Options:
1) shall go
2) will be going
3) have to go
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4) no improvement
.
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digression
Options:
1) meandering
2) candid
3) categorical
4) unequivocal
Correct Answer: meandering
at
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Excusing yourself before standing to leave is part of proper table ____________.

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Options:
1) usage
2) etiquette
3) dignity
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4) habit
Correct Answer: etiquette
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Options:
1) deriesion
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2) apalled
3) civilian
4) sacluded
Correct Answer: civilian
Please pass me that (scissors).
Options:
1) scissor
2) pair of scissor
3) pair of scissors
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: pair of scissors
Do people take
P-rejection of every candidate?
Q-the trouble to go and
in
R-vote only to register their
Options:
1) RQP
.
2) RPQ
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3) PRQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
Options:
1) alackrity
2) refileing
3) bufoons
at
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4) condense
Correct Answer: condense
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Involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives
Options:
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1) redoubt
2) scrupulous
3) immaculate
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4) sordid
Correct Answer: sordid

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The reference
P-is simultaneously a matter
Q-to the size of a vulnerable community
R-of legal as well as political and ethical perspective
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option.
If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
To the whale, its(A)/tail is the sole(B)/mean of propulsion.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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There was a fine line(A)/between being frugal(B)/and being a miser.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: D

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to contend
Options:
1) to comply
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2) to oppugn
3) to grapple
4) to vie
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Correct Answer: to comply
QID : 96 In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage
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four alternatives.
Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The
_____________________ framers did not use
this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and
______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating
individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the
individual _______________ the society.
_______________ to destroy them.
Options:
1) neither
2) nor
3) no
4) not
Correct Answer: not
four alternatives.
in
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The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term

Options:
1) Constitutions'
2) Constitution's
3) Constitutions
4) Constitution
Correct Answer: Constitution's
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four alternatives.
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a court to come along 66 years _________________,

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Options:
1) late
2) lately
3) later
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4) latest
Correct Answer: later
four alternatives.

and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights

Options:
1) appropriate
2) appropriately
3) appropriating
4) appropriated
Correct Answer: appropriate
in
four alternatives.
.
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Options:
1) on
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entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.
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2) onto
3) upon
4) within
Correct Answer: within
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SET-10

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proscriptive
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Options:
1) squalid
2) exiguous
3) excessive
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4) thrifty
Correct Answer: excessive
To be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
Options:
1) to divest
2) to bereave
3) to oust
4) to dispossess
Correct Answer: to bereave
To make someone feel completely baffled.
Options:
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1) to perplex
2) to explicate
3) to construe
4) to elucidate
.
Correct Answer: to perplex
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Everyday we (have usually) dinner at 8 o'clock.
Options:
1) usually have
2) have usual
3) have had usually
4) no improvement
at
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Correct Answer: usually have
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The plane was too(A)/ far away that it was(B)/just a dot in the sky.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: A

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obligation
Options:
1) bond
2) burden
3) commitment
4) irresponsibility
Correct Answer: irresponsibility
(It is) a pleasant day, we went for a walk.
Options:
1) Having been
2) It being
3) It was
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: It being
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QID : 283 - In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an
.
For three months, I have had a ______________headache.
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Options:
1) inbred
2) settled
3) chronic
4) lifelong
Correct Answer: chronic

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proximity
Options:
1) futile
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2) preposterous
3) absurd
4) imminent
Correct Answer: imminent
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of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses
the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
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We have finished the assignment.
Options:
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1) The assignment has been finished by us.

2) The assignment were finished by us.
3) The assignment had been finished by us.
4) The assignment has had been finished by us.
Correct Answer: The assignment has been finished by us.
QID : 286 - In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an
When I broke my leg, it was the ____________ of a nightmare week.
Options:
1) top
2) maximum
3) summit
4) climax
Correct Answer: climax
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Options:
1) thorogh
2) brazened
3) termynus
.
4) adherant
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Correct Answer: brazened
Options:
1) A
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It was like(A)/reading a(B)/open book.(C)/No error(D)
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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Only a country not yet rid

P-of its colonial hangover
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Q-and controls, labels dissent as seditious

R-of a government that commands
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Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
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4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
to lament
Options:
1) to deplore
2) to bawl
3) to laud
4) to bemoan
Correct Answer: to laud
Developing countries
P-should question the rationale
Q-for such a registry ahead
R-of a negotiated outcome on this issue
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Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
.
4) QPR
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Correct Answer: PQR
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best
express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
Options:
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Mother said to you, "When will you start from Pune?"
1) Mother asked you when you would start from Pune.

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2) Mother asked you when you will start from Pune.
3) Mother asked you when you will be starting from Pune.
4) Mother asked you when you will have started from Pune.
Correct Answer: Mother asked you when you would start from Pune.
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Options:
1) quaffing
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2) conveynor
3) fuselag
4) bumbbling
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Correct Answer: quaffing
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graveyard shift
Options:
1) to work in a very scary place
2) a place where one is forced to work so hard that it almost kills you
3) to work with a team where everybody else is very lazy
4) a work shift that runs through the early morning hours
Correct Answer: a work shift that runs through the early morning hours
good Samaritan
Options:
1) a very rich but humble person
2) a person who helps others but with a hidden cause
3) a charitable or helpful person
4) a person who accepts defeat sportingly
Correct Answer: a charitable or helpful person
in
four alternatives.
.
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The second strategy proposed __________________ the committee was institutional reform of
police processes, including investigation of crimes,
professionalization and ________________ of court systems with induction of technology
_____________ limiting appeal procedures to the _________________
required. It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger and responsible
role to victims of crime in the whole proceedings.
Options:
1) of
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The second strategy proposed __________________ the committee
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2) by
3) for
4) from
Correct Answer: by
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four alternatives.
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professionalization and ________________ of court systems
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Options:
1) rationalising
2) rationalisation
3) rationally
4) rational
Correct Answer: rationalisation
four alternatives.
induction of technology _____________
Options:
in
1) but
2) because
3) and
4) nor
.
Correct Answer: and
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four alternatives.
at
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limiting appeal procedures to the _________________ required.
Options:
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1) minimum
2) bottom
3) lower
4) negligible
Correct Answer: minimum
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four alternatives.
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It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger
Options:
1) bought
2) brought
3) caught
4) sought
Correct Answer: sought
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Open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning.
in
Options:
1) trite
2) opposite
3) exceptional
.
4) ambiguous
hs
Correct Answer: ambiguous
Options:
1) humanoide
2) rikshaw
3) deviance
4) virtuos
Correct Answer: deviance
at
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vibrant
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Options:
1) drab
2) gaudy
3) jazzy
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4) vivid
Correct Answer: drab
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If you are caught using a calculator in the exam then it will be ______________.
Options:
1) taken
2) confiscated
3) confisticate
4) under possession
Correct Answer: confiscated
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express the
"Please don't hit me" Rita said to the attacker.
Options:
1) Rita begged the attacker to not to hit her.
2) Rita told the attacker to not hit her.
3) Rita begged the attacker not to hit her.
4) Rita pleaded with the attacker to not to hit her.
Correct Answer: Rita begged the attacker not to hit her.
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dignity
.
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Options:
1) decency
2) immoral
3) primacy
4) chagrin
Correct Answer: decency
at
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Indian Defence forces(A)/fought the enemy(B)/till the last soldier was standing.(C)/No
error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: A
QID : 83 - Choose the synonym of

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defecate
Options:
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1) chaff
2) quench
3) ingest
4) secrete
Correct Answer: secrete
Options:
1) bargundy
2) panacea
3) revolwer
4) cantinue
Correct Answer: panacea
_______ and my younger brother went to the movies all by ourselves.
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Options:
1) I
2) Mine
3) Myself
.
4) My own self
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Correct Answer: I
QID : 86 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order
The truth about these

P-communities is that
Q-they deserve to die
R-dysfunctional, downscale
Options:
at
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1) PQR
2) QPR
3) RPQ
4) RQP
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Correct Answer: RPQ
The unfortunate old man was knocked (away by) the rash driver.
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Options:
1) out by
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2) off by
3) by
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: out by
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the best substitute of the phrase
Something widely feared as a possible dangerous occurrence.
Options:
1) spectre
2) beguile
3) monolith
4) canny
Correct Answer: spectre
The landlord could not(A)/tell which of the servant(B)/broke the glass.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
.
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One should get (trained) to prepare one's own breakfast.
Options:
1) habituated
2) used
3) prepared
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: used
at
m
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Mrs. Vaijanthi teaches us literature.
Options:
1) We have been taught literature by Mrs. Vaijanthi.
2) Literature is being taught by Mrs. Vaijanthi to us.
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3) Literature is being taught to us by Mrs. Vaijanthi.

4) Literature is taught by Mrs. Vaijanthi to us.
Correct Answer: Literature is being taught to us by Mrs. Vaijanthi.
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deep-seated
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Options:
1) chronic
2) temporary
3) inbred
4) subconscious
Correct Answer: temporary
Zero tolerance
Options:
1) Accuracy is paramount
2) Non-acceptance of antisocial behaviour
3) No return without risk
4) No problem at all
Correct Answer: Non-acceptance of antisocial behaviour
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Do not be anxious about
P-thanksgiving, present your requests to God
Q-and petition, with
.
R-anything, but in every situation, by prayer
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Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QRP
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP at
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Variety is the spice of life
Options:
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1) New experiences make life more interesting

2) Experimentation may be risky
3) Life is very beautiful
4) There is no life without excitement
Correct Answer: New experiences make life more interesting
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QID : 96 - In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage
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alternatives.
Potholes and _____________ placed speed breakers of all shapes and sizes on city streets
have become a health ______________ for two-wheeler riders. From cuts and
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bruises, wounds, and a visit to the emergency room to serious and ______________ back and
neck-related complications, potholes have become an _______________
for those on the road. Doctors report an increase in patients with injuries and serious bone-
related __________________ in the monsoon.
Potholes and _____ placed speed breakers
Options:
1) haphazardly
2) accidently
3) casually
4) randomly
Correct Answer: haphazardly
alternatives.
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a health ______________ for two-wheeler riders.
.
Options:
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1) risk
2) threat
3) danger
4) hazard
Correct Answer: hazard
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alternatives.
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to serious and ______________ back and neck-related complications
Options:
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1) chronic
2) painful
3) hurtful
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4) terrible
Correct Answer: chronic
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alternatives.
potholes have become an _______________
Options:
1) health risk
2) dangerous situation
3) imminent threat
4) epidemic
Correct Answer: imminent threat
alternatives.
in
.
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serious bone-related __________________ in the monsoon.
Options:
1) confusions
2) complications
3) complexities
4) difficulties
Correct Answer: complications
at
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SET-12
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You fail to
P-what someone is born,
Q-recognize that it matters not
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R-but what they grow to be!
Options:
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1) QPR
2) PRQ
3) RPQ
4) QRP
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Correct Answer: QPR
Humdrum
Options:
1) tedious
2) trite
3) drab
4) fascinating
Correct Answer: fascinating
The young man (was carried by) the passionate appeal made by the social worker.
Options:
1) was carried towards
2) was carried off by
3) got carried away by
in
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: got carried away by
.
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A large _______ of angry bisons rampaged through the villages.
Options:
1) herd
2) swarm
3) group
4) flock
Correct Answer: herd
at
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Options:
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1) acolade
2) registry
3) gaudyest
4) frackture
Correct Answer: registry
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Average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.
Options:
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1) moderate
2) supernatant
3) hobble
4) hum
Correct Answer: moderate
The wide world is all

Pcannot for ever fence it out
Q about you: you can fence

R yourselves in, but you
Options:
1) PRQ
2) QRP
3) RQP
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: QRP
in
eminent
Options:
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1) obscure
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2) common
3) renowned
4) phenomenal
Correct Answer: renowned
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The officer asked the recruit (A)/which district(B)/he came from.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D

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celibate
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Options:
1) chaste
2) virtuous
3) promiscuous
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4) continent
Correct Answer: promiscuous
The road from(A)/my house(B)/to temple is full of potholes.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Options:
1) transmitt
in
2) aplauds
3) mobility
4) ceramix
Correct Answer: mobility
.
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snatch
Options:
1) detonate
2) bequeath
3) confer
4) wrench
Correct Answer: wrench
at
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Scotfree
Options:
1) To escape from captivity
2) Be free of all responsibilities
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3) To Get something unexpected

4) Without suffering any punishment or injury
Correct Answer: Without suffering any punishment or injury
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Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express
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The holy prophet said, " God helps those who help others."
Options:
1) The holy prophet said that God helped those who helped others.
2) The holy prophet said that God helps those who help others.
3) The holy prophet said that God helps people who help others.
4) The holy prophet said that God helps those people who help others.
Correct Answer: The holy prophet said that God helps those who help others.
Tongueincheek
Options:
1) In an insincere way
2) To praise wholeheartedly
3) A sensational news
4) To say something hurtful
Correct Answer: In an insincere way
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is the best substitute of the phrase
.
A factory, where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor
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conditions.
Options:
1) Impalpable
2) Outset
3) Bloomy
4) Sweatshop
Correct Answer: Sweatshop
at
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Mangoes do not ___________ all at the same time. Hence, they are not plucked on the same
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day.
Options:
1) germinate
2) ripen
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3) grow
4) age
Correct Answer: ripen
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of four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the
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I saw the master conducting the orchestra.
Options:
1) I saw that the orchestra was being conducted by the master.
2) I saw the orchestra being conducted by the master.
3) The master was seen conducting the orchestra by me.
4) The master was conducting the orchestra and I saw that.
Correct Answer: I saw the orchestra being conducted by the master.
Due to heavy monsoon showers, the water in the dam (rose another foot).
Options:
1) raised another foot
2) raised by a feet.
3) had risen a foot
4) no improvement
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QID : 196 In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage
four alternatives.
.
_______________ to a simple yoga technique in the morning, such as an energising
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sunsalutation or catcow pose, can wake up the whole
mindbody element. It thus builds focus for the rest of the day and leaves you feeling
_________________ and ready. It also _____________
awareness while doing so. This is a ______________ that works backwards. You tend to sleep
earlier as you are mindful of waking up early for
the yoga class, so bedtime gets a higher priority in your life. Early morning yoga calms you
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down for the rest of the day by setting a steady tone.
The breathing patterns are carried into the day leaving you ______________ and relaxed.
_______________ to a simple yoga technique
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Options:
1) Following
2) Adhering
3) Going after
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4) Superseding
Correct Answer: Adhering
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four alternatives.

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_________________ and ready. It also _____________
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leaves you feeling _________________ and ready.
Options:
1) rejuvenated
2) updated
3) refurbished
4) restituted
Correct Answer: rejuvenated
four alternatives.

_________________ and ready. It also _____________
in
.
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It also _____________ awareness
Options:
1) booms
2) facilitates
3) speeds up
4) enhances
Correct Answer: enhances
at
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four alternatives.

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_________________ and ready. It also _____________
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This is a ______________ that works backwards
Options:
1) shortcut
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2) hymn
3) melody
4) mantra
Correct Answer: mantra
four alternatives.

_________________ and ready. It also _____________
leaving you ______________ and relaxed.
Options:
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1) lazy
2) carefree
3) feeling at ease
4) spontaneous
.
Correct Answer: feeling at ease
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SET-13
to get over it
Options:
at
1) to accept something that happened in the past and move on
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2) to complete a project or task
3) to control one's anger
4) to achieve something seemingly easy, but with a lot of difficulty
Correct Answer: to accept something that happened in the past and move on
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I wish I (knew what was) wrong with my daughter.

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Options:
1) had known what is
2) knew what is
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3) had knew what was

4) no improvement
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Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
Options:
1) pique
2) vexation
3) chagrin
4) distress
Correct Answer: distress
Accepting that one form

P-of price discrimination is okay opens
Q-the door to all other forms
R-of discrimination as well
Options:
1) QRP
in
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
.
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dare
Options:
1) cohort
2) taunt
3) patronize
4) chum
Correct Answer: taunt
at
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Seven decades ago,

P-Orwell wrote a clutch
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Q-for the post-World War II British journal Polemic

R-of essays
Options:
1) RPQ
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2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
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Correct Answer: PRQ
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a region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise.
Options:
1) pustule
2) knurl
3) contusion
4) tumour
Correct Answer: contusion
to get up on the wrong side of the bed
Options:
1) to find oneself in a strange place when one wakes up especially after drinking a lot
previous night
2) to start the day in a bad mood which continues all day long
3) to argue with your spouse
4) to roll a lot in bed while sleeping
in
Correct Answer: to start the day in a bad mood which continues all day long
.
snag
hs
Options:
1) hurdle
2) boon
3) bug
4) glitch
Correct Answer: boon

at
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to delude
Options:
1) hoodwink
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2) conscientious
3) scrupulous
4) bona fide
Correct Answer: hoodwink
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The candidates are writing an essay.
Options:
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1) An essay was wrote by the candidates.

2) An essay is being written by the candidates.
3) An essay has had been written by the candidates.
4) An essay had been written by the candidates.
Correct Answer: An essay is being written by the candidates.
Bunty said, "I have done my class work".
Options:
1) Bunty said, he had done his class work.
2) Bunty said that he had done his class work.
3) Bunty was saying, he has done his class work.
4) Bunty said that he did his class work.
Correct Answer: Bunty said that he had done his class work.
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If I (just had) the money I would have bought the car.
Options:
1) have had
.
2) was having
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3) had
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: had
diligence
Options:
1) lethargy
at
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2) exertion
3) vigour
4) assiduity
Correct Answer: lethargy
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The relocation of the car factory to our struggling town is an economic ___________.
Options:
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1) boon
2) good
3) donation
4) present
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Correct Answer: boon
Options:
1) thrashere
2) fiefedoms
3) snifing
4) squashed
Correct Answer: squashed
Her heart was(A)/pounding as he(B)/stopped front of her.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: C
.
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He only plays a subsidiary(A)/ role in the management(B)/of this organization.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
at
m
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My grandmother's exercise regime is to walk the mall at a __________ pace.
Options:
1) potent
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2) brisk
3) strong
4) vital
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Correct Answer: brisk

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Options:
1) insolente
2) saphire
3) immersed
4) peperony
Correct Answer: immersed
alternatives.
______________ reader can add to the list and to the possibilities of a new ethical and moral
politics _________________ requires a Gandhian inventiveness of ritual and
politics. What I wish to add is a ___________________. The rituals of apology and the question
of justice, reconciliation and ethical repair are not easy. They require a
rigour and an inventiveness _____________ ethical thinking which ___________________ new
experiments with the idea of truth and healing in India.
______________ reader can add to the list
Options:
1) One
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2) Some
3) Each
4) Anyone
Correct Answer: Each
.
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alternatives.
at
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moral politics _________________ requires a Gandhian inventiveness of ritual and politics.
Options:
1) which
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2) why
3) where
4) what
Correct Answer: which
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alternatives.
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What I wish to add is a ___________________.
Options:
1) fear
2) panic
3) warn
4) caveat
Correct Answer: caveat
alternatives.
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They require a rigour and an inventiveness _____________ ethical thinking
Options:
.
1) with
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2) of
3) to
4) against
Correct Answer: of
four alternatives.
at
m
.q

which ___________________ new experiments with the idea of truth and healing in India.
Options:
1) necessitate
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2) ask
3) take
4) oblige
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Correct Answer: necessitate
SET-14
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It does not suit you to cast ____________ on the character of such a pure woman.
Options:
1) praise
2) abuses
3) vituperations
4) aspersions
Correct Answer: aspersions
Options:
1) marothon
2) seagulls
3) pungancy
4) palpatted
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Correct Answer: seagulls
.
Options:
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1) garotte
2) dillution
3) variably
4) exhumming
Correct Answer: variably
homogeneous
at
m
Options:
1) akin
2) ditto
3) disparate
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4) cognate
Correct Answer: disparate
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The comatose patient was kept under observation till his body's systems came back from
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suspended ______________.
Options:
1) dynamism
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2) elation
3) animation
4) ebullience
Correct Answer: animation
an event serving as an introduction to something more important
Options:
1) perform
2) prelude
3) introduce
4) preface
Correct Answer: prelude
QID : 182 Improve the bracketed part of the sentence
The good fortune of (my being) your disciple in my youth has greatly benefited me in my
career.
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Options:
1) my having been
2) myself being
.
3) being
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4) no improvement
Correct Answer: my having been
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The injured old man exclaimed, 'Will none of you help me?'
Options:
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1) The injured old man exclaimed whether none of them would help him.
2) The injured old man exclaimed if none of them would help him.
3) The injured old man said that could anyone of them help him.
4) The injured old man cried if none of them would help him.
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Correct Answer: The injured old man exclaimed whether none of them would help him.
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All the furnitures(A)/has been replaced(B)/by the landlord.(C)/No error(D)

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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: A
There is also
P-drought, the
Q-the hope that after two years of
R-monsoon will be good in the coming fiscal
Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
scarcity
in
Options:
1) opulence
2) myriad
3) plethora
.
4) dearth
hs
Correct Answer: dearth
To bite the dust
Options:
1) To be killed
2) To fall down
at
m
3) To be dirt poor
4) To get dirty
Correct Answer: To fall down
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To burn the midnight oil

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Options:
1) When resources get finished half way
2) To read or work late into the night
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3) Value of a small lamp is most when it is the darkest

4) To save some resources for the future
Correct Answer: To read or work late into the night
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Before I met your brother I (have had) a poor opinion of him.
Options:
1) had had
2) had
3) did have
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: had
The party faithful, who

P-expectations, are now disillusioned
Q-had greeted his political arrival in 2004
R-with great enthusiasm, and
Options:
1) RQP
2) QRP
in
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: QRP
.
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feign
Options:
1) bluff
2) affect
3) act
4) fact
Correct Answer: fact
at
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Has anyone from our team answered your question?
Options:
1) Did someone from our team answer to your question?
2) Is your question been answered by someone from our team?
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3) Has your question been answered by anyone from our team?

4) Have your question been answered by anyone from our team?
Correct Answer: Has your question been answered by anyone from our team?
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This town has an ancient temple(A)/and beautiful waterfall(B)/so many tourists come
here.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
cheeky
Options:
1) nervous
2) aghast
3) brash
4) startled
Correct Answer: brash
in
.
the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated
hs
Options:
1) illustration
2) elucidation
3) implication
4) explication
Correct Answer: implication at
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four alternatives.
___________ it became difficult to empirically prove that children __________ better in private
schools, the attack __________ a new weapon:
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per unit cost of learning outcomes. Most of the learning outcome researches almost
_______________ fail to understand the entire
______________ of education in any depth and reduces it to learning of socalled 3Rs for
economic purposes.
___________ it became difficult to empirically prove
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Options:
1) So
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2) Therefore
3) When
4) Then
Correct Answer: When
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four alternatives.
economic purposes.
children __________ better in private schools
Options:
1) learn
2) study
3) educate
4) train
Correct Answer: learn
in
four alternatives.
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economic purposes.
the attack __________ a new weapon
Options:
1) invents
2) had invented
3) is inventing
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4) invented
Correct Answer: invented
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four alternatives.
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economic purposes.
Most of the learning outcome researches almost _______________ fail to understand
Options:
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1) sometimes
2) always
3) often
4) rarely
Correct Answer: always
four alternatives.
economic purposes.
the entire ______________ of education in any depth
Options:
1) purpose
2) target
in
3) scheme
4) ambition
Correct Answer: purpose
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SET-15
Options:
1) brooches
2) linoleam
3) limekilne
4) cherubick
Correct Answer: brooches
at
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An outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something.
Options:
1) tracery
2) contour
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3) doodle
4) pattern
Correct Answer: contour
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Soon as he(A)/saw the policeman,(B)/ he ran away.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
We are told that its

P-Public Distribution System
Q-creating a functional
R-sole purpose is the noble goal of
Options:
1) QRP
2) RQP
3) PRQ
in
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
.
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Options:
1) lammented
2) scabbard
3) ordenance
4) synaptick
Correct Answer: scabbard
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Gokul said to Sumit, "Why did not you attend the meeting yesterday?"
Options:
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1) Gokul asked Sumit why he did not attend the meeting the day before.
2) Gokul asked Sumit why he had not attended that meeting yesterday.
3) Gokul asked Sumit why he had not attended the meeting the day before.
4) Gokul asked Sumit why he did not attend that meeting yesterday.
Correct Answer: Gokul asked Sumit why he had not attended the meeting the day before.
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to lose one's head
Options:
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1) to lose respect within your community

2) to become complacent and gradually worsen your performance
3) to become confused or overly emotional about someone or something
4) to lose sense or start behaving like a lunatic
Correct Answer: to become confused or overly emotional about someone or something
A person famous and respected within a particular sphere.
Options:
1) eminent
2) obscure
3) despotic
4) imperative
Correct Answer: eminent
in
We shall invite Suresh.
Options:
.
1) Suresh would be invited by us.
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2) Suresh would have been invited by us.
3) Suresh will be invited by us.
4) Suresh will have been invited by us.
Correct Answer: Suresh will be invited by us.
amenable
Options:
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1) responsive
2) pliable
3) docile
4) unsusceptible
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Correct Answer: unsusceptible
to subsume
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Options:
1) to bate
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2) to obviate
3) to preclude
4) to incorporate
Correct Answer: to incorporate
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I prefer black coffee (over) cappuccino.
Options:
1) rather than
2) to
3) instead of
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to
You must not(A)/look down into(B)/parents' advice.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
in
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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The priest agreed (to answer on) questions on theology.
Options:
1) to answer
2) for answering
3) to answer for
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to answer
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to lash
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Options:
1) to endear
2) to fondle
3) to chastise
4) to snuggle
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Correct Answer: to chastise
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Arun's financial ______________ has helped him earn a fortune on the stock market.
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Options:
1) dexterity
2) readiness
3) expertise
4) knack
Correct Answer: expertise
Fuel suppliers will ______________ the national oil shortage by raising prices to increase their
bottom lines.
Options:
1) use
2) misuse
3) venture
4) exploit
Correct Answer: exploit
in
to muster
.
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Options:
1) to convocate
2) to rally
3) to estrange
4) to aggregate
Correct Answer: to estrange
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head over heels
Options:
1) to think with head instead of heart
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2) to run away from an unpleasant situation

3) to take a nasty fall
4) to be madly in love
Correct Answer: to be madly in love
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So, increasingly,
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P-paying to provide revenues

Q-for the Central government
R-the poor have been
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Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
four alternatives.
The scenario _________________ dramatically today. We have the ___________________ of

powerful Internet monopolies that are much bigger ________________ the
telcos. Not surprisingly, these companies now see the _______________ of monopoly. They
would like to combine with telcos to create monopolies for their
platforms, ensuring that they control the future of the Internet and freeze their competition
____________.
The scenario _________________ dramatically today.
Options:
1) change
in
2) had changed
3) has changed
4) changing
Correct Answer: has changed
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four alternatives.

at
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We have the ___________________ of powerful Internet
Options:
1) emerging
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2) emerge
3) emergence
4) emergency
Correct Answer: emergence
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four alternatives.
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____________.
monopolies that are much bigger ________________ the telcos
Options:
1) then
2) than
3) to
4) of
Correct Answer: than
four alternatives.

in
____________.
Not surprisingly, these companies now see the _______________ of monopoly.
Options:
.
1) virtues
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2) respectability
3) trust
4) innocence
Correct Answer: virtues
four alternatives.
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____________.
future of the Internet and freeze their competition ____________.
Options:
1) off
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2) about
3) in
4) out
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Correct Answer: out
SET-16
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I asked the shopkeeper (A)/"Do you have change(B)/for a five hundred rupees note?"(C)/No
error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
things that have been discarded as worthless.
Options:
in
1) remains
2) flotsam
3) shambles
4) havoc
.
Correct Answer: flotsam
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(I myself think) that this investigation is biased.
Options:
1) I think myself
2) I thought myself
3) I myself thought
4) no improvement
at
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Each boy was given (A)/a toy as a parting gift,(B)/which made them happy.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: D
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The __________ with which she manages the task is remarkable.
Options:
1) calm
2) comfort
3) ease
4) satisfaction
Correct Answer: ease
The preacher said, "May God grant peace to the departed!"
Options:
1) The preacher prays that God will grant peace to the departed.
2) The preacher prayed that God would grant peace to the departed.
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3) The preacher said that God may grant peace to the departed.
4) The preacher said, God may grant peace to the departed.
Correct Answer: The preacher prayed that God would grant peace to the departed.
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ingestion
Options:
1) gulp
2) slug
3) excrete
4) chug
Correct Answer: excrete
at
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Today, however, when one in four rural Indians

P-in identifying the poor are far greater
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Q-is poor, our chances of being wrong

R-and one in six urban Indians
Options:
1) PRQ
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2) RQP
3) QRP
4) QPR
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Correct Answer: RQP

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Fans (queue) for the concert tickets since early morning.
Options:
1) has queued up
2) have had queued
3) have been queuing up
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: have been queuing up
become apparent through the appearance of symptoms.
Options:
1) manifest
2) distinct
3) visible
4) divulged
Correct Answer: manifest
in
splinter
.
Options:
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1) stub
2) share
3) chip
4) friction
Correct Answer: chip
In that case,
P-put together the best gender-just
at
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Q-practices from all Personal Laws
R-a Uniform Civil Code would simply
Options:
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1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) RQP
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RPQ
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Wear your heart on your sleeve
Options:
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1) a very bold person

2) a noble pure person
3) make one's feelings apparent
4) being overtly polite at all times
Correct Answer: make one's feelings apparent
Options:
1) comando
2) coolants
3) limphoid
4) permutted
Correct Answer: coolants
spartan
Options:
1) garish
in
2) forgiven
3) civilized
4) brave
Correct Answer: brave
.
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The Directors failed to understand the ______________ behind the decision to suspend the
manager.
Options:
1) belief
2) politics
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3) ideology
4) rationale
Correct Answer: rationale
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When it rains, it pours

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Options:
1) one getting much less than what one expected
2) calamity always occurs in bad times
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3) you always fall into trouble when you are least prepared
4) When something bad occurs, it usually occurs more than once
Correct Answer: When something bad occurs, it usually occurs more than once
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Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.
Options:
1) By the dark clouds the evening sky was overcast.
2) The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.
3) Dark clouds overcastted the evening sky.
4) The sky of the evening was overcasted by dark clouds.

Correct Answer: The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.
horrify
Options:
1) affright
2) petrify
3) appall
in
4) soothe
Correct Answer: soothe
.
hs
Options:
1) pillages
2) spliter
3) palenes
4) bloting
Correct Answer: pillages
at
alternatives.
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Words give reality to life. Some do better than others, offering ____________ as in twenty
shades of grey. They do not _____________ describe reality, they create it,
giving it colour, depth, and form. __________ all, what I am really interested in here is talking
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about just one word which reveals a great ___________ about India. The
word tells us about its politics, its social self, and its communities. __________, that word is
not jugaad. It's close, but the word is matlabi.
offering ____________ as in twenty shades of grey.
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Options:
1) distinction
2) nuance
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3) hint
4) implication
Correct Answer: nuance
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alternatives.
They do not ______________ describe reality
Options:
1) so
2) just
3) somewhat
4) whatsoever
Correct Answer: just
in
alternatives.
.
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__________ all, what I am really interested in here is talking about
Options:
1) Hence
2) So
3) Henceforth
4) But
at
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Correct Answer: But
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alternatives.
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one word which reveals a great ___________ about India.
Options:
1) deal
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2) amount
3) quantity
4) information
Correct Answer: deal
four alternatives.
__________, that word is not jugaad.
Options:
1) Because
2) But
3) No
in
4) Yes
Correct Answer: No
.
SET-17
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Their luggages which were(A)/kept at the station's(B)/ restroom's lockers, were later
retrieved.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
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The warning bells __________several times before anyone realized the danger.
Options:
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1) were ringing
2) had rung
3) had rang
4) would have rung
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Correct Answer: had rung
sacred
Options:
1) pious
2) hallowed
3) divine
4) profane
Correct Answer: profane
Rub a part of the body to restore warmth or sensation.
Options:
1) Fuzz
2) Chafe
in
3) Scum
4) Oblique
Correct Answer: Chafe
.
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Human beings are social animals, (who are living in communities), regulated by social norms
and laws.
Options:
1) living in communities
2) living amongst a community
3) living in midst of communities
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: living in communities
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astonish
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Options:
1) mundane
2) empress
3) overwhelm
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4) calm
Correct Answer: overwhelm
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I never go shopping on weekends as on those days the malls are ________ of people.
Options:
1) full
2) busy
3) crowded
4) packed
Correct Answer: full
Williamson shoveled scorn on

P-the low-income white Republican voters who,
Q-were most responsible for the rise of Trump
R-as he saw it,
Options:
1) PRQ
2) RQP
3) QPR
4) QRP
in
Correct Answer: PRQ
.
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That summer, elections were(A)/held at many a place(B)/without any untoward
incident.(C)/No error
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express
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Sahil said, "Where will I be this time next year!"
Options:
1) Sahil asked where he should be that time the following year.
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2) Sahil worried where he would be that time the next year.

3) Sahil wondered where he would be that time the following year.
4) Sahil said where he would be that time the next year.
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Correct Answer: Sahil wondered where he would be that time the following year.

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Virat bats very well, (didn't he)?
Options:
1) isn't it
2) doesn't he
3) wasn't it
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: doesn't he
Add fuel to the fire
Options:
1) Go from one bad situation to another
2) A cause becomes stronger when more people join
3) The flame will extinguish if it runs out of oil
4) Cause a situation to become worse
Correct Answer: Cause a situation to become worse
in
outlandish
.
Options:
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1) droll
2) kinky
3) common
4) grotesque
Correct Answer: common
at
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The Marathas surrendered their fort to the Mughals after the war.
Options:
1) After the war the Marathas had to surrender their fort to the Mughals.
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2) The Mughals after the war took the fort surrendered by the Marathas.
3) Their fort was surrendered by the Marathas to the Mughals after the war.
4) The Marathas after the war surrendered their fort to the Mughals.
Correct Answer: Their fort was surrendered by the Marathas to the Mughals after the war.
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Options:
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1) femenism
2) acesses
3) permuted
4) vacuols
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Correct Answer: permuted
Amartya Sen lays claim

P-to a history of writing
Q-some of the finest research papers
R-that have been published
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RQP
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
Options:
1) arobics
2) chosers
in
3) batered
4) eternity
Correct Answer: eternity
.
hs
The punishment of being kept in school after hours.
Options:
1) Pretension
2) Isolate
3) Detention
4) Blender
Correct Answer: Detention
at
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A slap on the wrist
Options:
1) A mild punishment
2) Punishing the wrong person
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3) To hit someone where it hurts the most

4) To threaten someone
Correct Answer: A mild punishment
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gaudy
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Options:
1) modest
2) showy
3) refined
4) sophisticated
Correct Answer: showy
alternatives.
Did you think that colouring books were a ____________ of your childhood? Here's something
that will come as a surprise. Colouring books for adults have been
steadily gaining popularity since last year. While some focus on ______________ and floral
designs, others have patterns _______________ by nature, animals and even
angels. The most popular books are those which feature mandalas. Mandalas refer to
sacred circles in Sanskrit, which have ___________ qualities. Deeply
____________, mandalas have a rich history and are even associated with healing. Several
studies say that mandalas increase self-awareness, improve concentration
and promote harmony. Colour therapists reckon that different colours have different
in
qualities and therefore, have different effects on the human mind.
Did you think that colouring books were a ____________ of your childhood?
Options:
.
1) blast from the past
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2) remnant
3) fond memory
4) activity
Correct Answer: fond memory
alternatives.
at
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While some focus on ______________ and floral designs
Options:
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1) deep
2) philosophical
3) ideal
4) abstract
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Correct Answer: abstract
alternatives.
others have patterns _______________ by nature, animals and even angels.
Options:
1) inspired
2) roused
in
3) excited
4) encouraged
Correct Answer: inspired
.
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alternatives.
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which have ___________ qualities.
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Options:
1) prayerful
2) pensive
3) thoughtful
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4) meditative
Correct Answer: meditative
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alternatives.
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Deeply ____________, mandalas have a rich history
Options:
1) sacred
2) holy
3) spiritual
4) religiously
Correct Answer: spiritual
SET-18
in
His exact date of birth is not known
.
P-but it is believed that he was born in
hs
Q- late May and later on he decided to celebrate May 29 as his birthday,
R- as this was the date he climbed Everest
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QRP
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PQR
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Today, less privileged white

P- Americans are considered to be
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Q- and pathologists predominates

R- in crisis, and the language of sociologists
Options:
1) PRQ
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2) QPR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
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Correct Answer: PRQ
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Vicky said, "I clean my teeth daily."
Options:
1) Vicky said he cleans his teeth daily.
2) Vicky says he cleans his teeth daily.
3) Vicky said that he cleaned his teeth daily.
4) Vicky said that he used to clean his teeth daily.
Correct Answer: Vicky said that he cleaned his teeth daily.
QID : 79 - In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an
Nobody gets __________ with a pretentious smug.
Options:
1) along
2) up
3) about
in
4) through
Correct Answer: along
.
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As the financial situation worsened we realized that we were heading (toward) a disaster.
Options:
1) along
2) into
3) for
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: for
at
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After today's terrible test I am sure that my teacher's opinion (about) me will change for the
worse.
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Options:
1) for
2) of
3) in
4) no improvement
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Actions speak louder than words

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Options:
1) Achievers are better than those who talk big
2) No action can compensate for saying bad words
3) A pen is mightier than a sword
4) What someone does mean more than what they say they will do
Correct Answer: What someone does mean more than what they say they will do
coalesce
Options:
1) separate
2) adhere
3) cleave
4) amalgamate
Correct Answer: separate
loiter
in
Options:
1) lag
2) hasten
.
3) amble
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4) loll
Correct Answer: hasten
important role in the consciousness.
Options:
at
The outer layer of the cerebrum (part of the brain), composed of folded grey matter, plays an
m
1) victor
2) cortex
3) scrub
4) capered
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Correct Answer: cortex
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I was taken by surprise (A)/when I came(B)/face to face with my school friend.(C)/No

error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
A hot spring in which water intermittently boils, pushing a tall column of water and steam
into the air.
Options:
1) geyser
2) smite
3) brew
4) pitted
Correct Answer: geyser
Options:
1) sylabus
in
2) encroach
3) coalesse
4) adhetion
Correct Answer: encroach
.
hs
Options:
1) sargeons
2) divorsee
3) depicted
4) parlancee
Correct Answer: depicted

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gregarious
Options:
.q
1) introvert
2) melancholy
3) affable
4) pensive
Correct Answer: affable
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The factory complex houses a shop-floor(A)/and 10 cubicles for the staff in an area(B)/of
about thousand squares meters.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Even if two horses may look ____________, they may not be of the same age.
Options:
1) comparable
2) alike
3) on par
4) only same
Correct Answer: alike
in
four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the
.
Do you intimidate your younger brothers?
hs
Options:
1) Were your younger brothers being intimidated by you?
2) Are your younger brothers intimidated by you?
3) Have your younger brothers being intimidated by you?
4) Are your younger brothers being intimidated by you?
at
Correct Answer: Are your younger brothers intimidated by you?
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A blessing in disguise
Options:
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1) A misfortune that eventually has good results

2) A person who has changed so much that he is now unrecognisable
3) A prayer asking for God's favour
4) A bad person hiding his face behind a mask
Correct Answer: A misfortune that eventually has good results
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reassert
Options:
1) renounce
w
2) acknowledge
3) disbelief
4) conceal
Correct Answer: acknowledge
alternatives.
Once again, a _____________ monsoon so vital to India's economic fortunes has left some
states in shambles. From Assam to Karnataka, heavy rainfall in a

____________ has created paralysing floods that have taken a _______________, wiped out crops
and destroyed hard-earned assets. When the waters ___________, a
familiar cycle of assessment of damage by Central teams, preparation of loss estimates and
expensive ____________ work such as repairs of river embankments,
will follow.
a _____________ monsoon so vital to India's economic fortunes
Options:
1) rapid
2) huge
in
3) thunder
4) vigorous
Correct Answer: vigorous
.
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alternatives.
at
will follow.
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heavy rainfall in a ____________
Options:
1) short span of time
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2) very quickly
3) short moments
4) fraction of a second
Correct Answer: short span of time
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alternatives.
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will follow.
floods that have taken a _______________
Options:
1) many deaths
2) dangerous turn
3) heavy toll of life
4) big cost in terms of life

Correct Answer: heavy toll of life
alternatives.
in
will follow.
When the waters ___________
.
hs
Options:
1) rush back
2) recede
3) flow away
4) ebb
Correct Answer: recede
at
four alternatives.
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will follow.
expensive ____________ work such as repairs of river embankments, will follow.
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Options:
1) rejuvenation
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2) reclamation
3) renovation
4) restoration
Correct Answer: restoration
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SET-19
Make something seem less important, significant, or trifling.
Options:
1) superintend
2) optimality
3) trivialize
4) dumb down
Correct Answer: trivialize
fidgety
Options:
in
1) composed
2) restive
3) twitchy
4) antsy
.
Correct Answer: composed
hs
Against the clock
Options: at
1) To do a job fast to finish it before a deadline
2) Time is money
3) Man is a victim of time
m
4) It is useless to fight destiny
Correct Answer: To do a job fast to finish it before a deadline

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Options:
1) karnages
2) halogram
3) demagogy
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4) comands
Correct Answer: demagogy
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bland
w
Options:
1) blah
2) insipid
3) tame
4) lively
Correct Answer: lively
The parents gave their children some (advice) before they left for the picnic.
Options:
1) advices
2) advise
3) advises
4) no improvement
in
She was annoyed (A)/when she found that(B)/the chewing gum was stuck to her hair.(C)/No
error(D)
.
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
at
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It is not easy for an actor(A)/to earn respect from both, the fans(B)/as well as critic.(D)/No
error
Options:
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1) A
2) C
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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A gesture expressing respect, such as a bow.
Options:
1) Consensual
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2) Obeisance
3) Perk
4) Germinate
Correct Answer: Obeisance
Options:
1) preecher
2) hygenic
3) paralel
4) blotting
Correct Answer: blotting
bedevilment
Options:
1) delight
2) beset
in
3) facilitate
4) contentment
Correct Answer: beset
.
hs
Someone gave the old man a push.
Options:
1) The old man got a push from someone. at
2) Somebody had given a push to the old man.
3) The old man was being pushed by someone.
4) A push was given to the old man.
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Correct Answer: A push was given to the old man.

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The white American underclass is in thrall

P-and used heroin needles
Q-to a vicious, selfish culture
R-whose main products are misery
w
Options:
1) PQR
2) QRP
w
3) RPQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: QRP
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She deserved the accolades as she ____________________ for it.
Options:
1) hardly worked
2) had hard worked
3) was working hard
4) had worked hard

Correct Answer: had worked hard
But the most important thing is,

P-I'll always be
Q-even if we're apart
R-with you
Options:
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1) QPR
2) RPQ
3) PQR
4) RQP
.
Correct Answer: QPR
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The passengers (were waited) for the flight at the emigration lobby, for long.
Options:
1) had wait
2) had been waited
4) no improvement
at
m
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Geetal said, " I bought a Honda City yesterday."
Options:
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1) Geetal said that I have bought a Honda City yesterday.

2) Geetal told me that she had bought a Honda City yesterday.
3) Geetal said she had bought a Honda City the previous day.
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4) Geetal said that she had bought a Honda City the previous day.
Correct Answer: Geetal said that she had bought a Honda City the previous day.

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deprive
Options:
1) bestow
2) confer
3) dispossess
4) endow
Correct Answer: dispossess
Scapegoat
Options:
1) Animal sacrifice as an offering to God
2) The most useful animal or person
3) A lucky person who is forgiven for his crimes
4) A person who is blamed for the mistakes of others
Correct Answer: A person who is blamed for the mistakes of others
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.
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Let the cat out of the ______.
Options:
1) house
2) well
3) bag
4) cart
Correct Answer: bag
at
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alternatives.
The ______________ of gurudakshina is very ancient and it is ________________ to the Indian

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culture and tradition. If you are absolutely ______________ about India, then
it's advisable that you first try to understand the meaning of a guru and the ________________
of his presence in the lives of those around him. This, in turn, will help
you to understand what guru dakshina is. In ancient India, a teacher or a guru was a
spiritually _____________ guide.
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The ______________ of gurudakshina is very ancient
Options:
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1) habit
2) approach
3) perception
4) concept
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Correct Answer: concept
alternatives.

it is ________________ to the Indian culture and tradition.
Options:
1) unique
2) rare
3) different
4) particular
Correct Answer: unique
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alternatives.
.
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If you are absolutely ______________ about India
Options:
1) unknowing
2) unknowledgeable
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3) naive
4) blind to
Correct Answer: naive
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alternatives.

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the ________________ of his presence in the lives of those around him.
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Options:
1) connotation
2) implication
3) understanding
4) significance
Correct Answer: significance
alternatives.

a teacher or a guru was a spiritually _____________ guide
Options:
1) enlarged
in
2) evolved
3) grown
4) enhanced
Correct Answer: evolved
.
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SET-20
_____________ around the bush.
Options:
at
m
1) To hit
2) To beat
3) To circle
4) To hide
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Correct Answer: To beat
adulterate
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Options:
1) attenuated
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2) purify
3) vitiated
4) dilute
Correct Answer: purify
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In punishment for the uprising,

P-called tributes, to participate
Q-each of the twelve districts must provide
R-one girl and one boy,
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) RQP
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
conjoined
Options:
1) sever
in
2) adjoin
3) meld
4) affix
Correct Answer: sever
.
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It was obviously for everyone (A)/that grandfather was (B)/hiding something from all of
us.(C)/ No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
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an event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence

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Options:
1) stanza
2) episode
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3) series
4) lesson
Correct Answer: episode
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consolidate
Options:
1) centralize
2) variate
3) declare
4) announce
Correct Answer: centralize
A dime a dozen
Options:
1) Strength is in numbers
2) People who say bad things have no value
3) Very common and of no particular value
4) You save more if you buy in large numbers
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Correct Answer: Very common and of no particular value
.
The public vent their anger on social media to protest (toward) police brutality.
hs
Options:
1) for
2) against
3) regards
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: against at
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Options:
1) missible
2) saosages
3) emullator
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4) abdicate
Correct Answer: abdicate
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Recently I visited Kerala(A)/and found the sceneries(B)/to be breathtaking.(C)/No error(D)

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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
The twentyfour tributes

P-that could hold anything from a
Q-will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena
R-burning desert to a frozen wasteland
Options:
1) PQR
2) PRQ
3) QPR
4) RQP
Correct Answer: QPR
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Have the car stolen!
Options:
.
1) Steal the car.
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2) You should have the stolen car.
3) Get someone to steal the car.
4) They have stolen the car.
Correct Answer: Get someone to steal the car.

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Look at this video clip in which (I, my friend and you) are enjoying a boat ride.
Options:
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1) you, my friend and I
2) I, you and my friend
3) my friend, you and I
4) no improvement
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Correct Answer: you, my friend and I
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The teacher said to the students, "Don't make noise."

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Options:
1) The teacher asked the students not to make noise.
2) The teacher scolded the students, they should not make noise.
3) The teacher warned the students not to make noise.
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4) The teacher told the students that don't make noise.

Correct Answer: The teacher warned the students not to make noise.
Options:
1) eraseable
2) probabble
3) secretes
4) esteemeed
Correct Answer: secretes
inscription
Options:
1) scrubbed
2) rivet
3) jaded
4) engrave
in
Correct Answer: engrave
.
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Every evening a ____________ of wolves descends into the valley to hunt.
Options:
1) pack
2) gang
3) company
4) herd
Correct Answer: pack
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A drop in the bucket

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Options:
1) So much silence that even a drop can be heard
2) A very small amount compared with what is needed
3) The final act before the task is done
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4) A small favour is worth a lot to a person in trouble

Correct Answer: A very small amount compared with what is needed
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Represent something as being less important than it really is.

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Options:
1) discriminant
2) stride
3) underplay
4) imperious
Correct Answer: underplay
four alternatives.
Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians, the British government took to more
____________ measures. Under the Defense of
India Act, it gave more power to the police to arrest persons to stop processions with
____________ movements and actions. The Act brought in
the Central Legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. Even then it was to be passed in
the form of an ordinance in the "interest of the
public." Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the
Central Legislative Assembly where the meeting to
pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out _________, not to cause death or
in
injury but to _____________ the attention of the
government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was decided
that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court
arrest after throwing the bomb.
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Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians
Options:
1) discontent
2) problem
3) sadness
4) protest
Correct Answer: discontent at
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four alternatives.
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the British government took to more ____________ measures.

Options:
1) drastic
2) angrier
3) repressive
4) damaging
Correct Answer: repressive
four alternatives.
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to arrest persons to stop processions with ____________ movements and actions.
Options:
1) out of the ordinary
2) suspicious
3) cautious
4) skeptical
Correct Answer: suspicious at
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four alternatives.
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It was a carefully laid out _________

Options:
1) scam
2) trick
3) trap
4) plot
Correct Answer: plot
four alternatives.
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.
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not to cause death or injury but to _____________ the attention of the government
Options:
1) draw
2) bring
3) get
4) notice
Correct Answer: draw
SET-21
at
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Practice makes a man perfect
Options:
1) Perfection demands patience
2) Any problem can be solved if you are willing to try many times
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3) Regular activity is the way to become proficient in it

4) It takes a long time to form a good habit
Correct Answer: Regular activity is the way to become proficient in it
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A rate of growing is different(A)/for different sectors, but the service sector(B)/ always
grows faster than agriculture.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
The food basket contained(A)/ a dark chocolate, an eclair and a pastry(B)/neatly wrapped in
foil paper.(C)/No error
Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
.
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The arbitration
P-dented China's interests
Q-in multiple ways
R-award has, nevertheless,
Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
at
m
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ

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Any bad habit must be nipped (on) the bud.
Options:
1) on
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2) in
3) off
4) no improvement
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Correct Answer: in
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At this critical juncture what the company needs is a _______________ marketing strategy.
Options:
1) creditable
2) adventurous
3) incredible
4) credible
Correct Answer: credible
mishmash
Options:
1) potpourri
2) medley
3) organized
4) haphazard
Correct Answer: organized
in
.
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He is not a native speaker yet he has a good __________ over German.
Options:
1) authority
2) hold
3) command
4) expertise
Correct Answer: command
at
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match or surpass a person by imitation.

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Options:
1) parallel
2) emulate
3) ditto
4) impression
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Correct Answer: emulate

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Options:
1) rootless
2) xpanded
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3) fulstop
4) griling
Correct Answer: rootless
lack of skill, ability, or competence
Options:
1) ineptitude
2) dexterity
3) proficiency
4) prowess
Correct Answer: ineptitude
Pull the plug
in
Options:
1) Make a firm refusal
2) Save a situation by acting in the nick of time
3) To waste away somebody's effort
.
4) Prevent something from continuing
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Correct Answer: Prevent something from continuing
The patient died (of a wound and not of) cancer.
Options:
1) from a wound and not of
2) of a wound and not from
3) from a wound and not from
at
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4) no improvement
Correct Answer: from a wound and not of
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I said, "My grandfather snored throughout the night."

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Options:
1) I said my grandfather had snored throughout the night.
2) I said that my grandfather snored throughout the night.
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3) I said that my grandfather had snored throughout the night.

4) I said that my grandfather had been snoring throughout the night.
Correct Answer: I said that my grandfather had snored throughout the night.
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generosity
Options:
1) altruism
2) general
3) largesse
4) malevolence
Correct Answer: malevolence
rip
Options:
1) cease
2) terminate
3) gash
4) sew
Correct Answer: gash
in
.
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Sunny was driving the car so fast that it slipped at the turn.
Options:
1) Sunny slipped at the turn as he was driving the car so fast.
2) So fast was Sunny driving the car that it slipped at the turn.
3) The car was being driven by Sunny so fast that it slipped at the turn.
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4) The car slipped at the turn as Sunny was driving it so fast.
Correct Answer: The car was being driven by Sunny so fast that it slipped at the turn.

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Options:
1) terains
2) priestly
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3) fereted
4) ablasion
Correct Answer: priestly

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stash
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Options:
1) dearth
2) deficit
3) lack
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4) cache
Correct Answer: cache
Senior officials
P-to negotiate a solution
Q-readiness
R-have signalled China's
Options:
1) QRP
2) RQP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
four alternatives.
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A saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________, freezing her acts of goodness in time.
Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality
__________ in amber. Rather than _____________ a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes a
hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a
.
redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a
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statue __________ inflexibly. Goodness becomes a
stencil fixed _________ time.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________

Options:
1) pedestal
2) platform
3) plinth
4) podium
Correct Answer: pedestal
at
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four alternatives.
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Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality __________ in amber.

Options:
1) ingrained
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2) impacted
3) embedded
4) deepseated
Correct Answer: embedded
four alternatives.

Rather than _____________ a living creature

Options:
1) being
2) having been
in
3) had been
4) becoming
Correct Answer: becoming
.
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four alternatives.
hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a at
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a statue __________ inflexibly.
Options:
1) standing
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2) stands
3) stood
4) always stands
Correct Answer: standing
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four alternatives.
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Goodness becomes a stencil fixed _________ time.

Options:
1) of
2) in
3) with
4) about
Correct Answer: in
SET-22
Tie the knot
in
Options:
1) To put yourself into a problem
2) To make fateful decision
3) To sign the deal
.
4) To get married
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Correct Answer: To get married
carnal
Options:
1) chaste
2) sensual
3) decent
at
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4) spiritual
Correct Answer: sensual

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intrinsic
Options:
1) elemental
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2) innate
3) connate
4) accquired
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Correct Answer: accquired
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Providence smiles ________ those who are diligent.
Options:
1) with
2) in
3) upon
4) over
Correct Answer: upon
Options:
1) chaastity
2) marothon
3) reasert
4) toxicity
Correct Answer: toxicity
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When I last saw Ravi, he (had been running) to catch his bus.
Options:
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1) ran
hs
2) was running
3) had run
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: was running
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If you are in the wrong gears (A)/the car won't be (B)/able to climb the hill.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
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The ball is in your court

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Options:
1) It is up to you to make the next move
2) You have got a fantastic opportunity
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3) You will be blamed for crimes that you have not committed
4) You have been put into a dilemma.
Correct Answer: It is up to you to make the next move
I would love (to availing) a short holiday, and go for an overnight trek.
Options:
1) to avail myself of
2) to avail of
3) to avail myself
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to avail myself
Mariam was writing a note to her boss.
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Options:
1) A note was written to her boss by Mariam.
2) A note was wrote by Mariam to her boss.
3) A note was being written by Mariam to her boss.
.
4) A note was written by Mariam to her boss.
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Correct Answer: A note was being written by Mariam to her boss.
incinerate
Options:
1) parch
2) moderate
3) ignite
at
m
4) quench
Correct Answer: ignite

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ogle
Options:
1) leer
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2) gaze
3) ignore
4) gawk
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Correct Answer: ignore

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Options:
1) snatched
2) litigat
3) abhored
4) variabely
Correct Answer: snatched
To harass someone persistently to do something.
Options:
1) Iconoclast
2) Dote
3) Neurotic
4) Importune
Correct Answer: Importune
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The baby looked__________ the toffee with greedy eyes.
.
Options:
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1) upon
2) into
3) on
4) at
Correct Answer: at

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A short statement expressing a general truth.

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Options:
1) Maxim
2) Infer
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3) Drum
4) Pander
Correct Answer: Maxim

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It is a truth universally
P-acknowledged that a single
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Q-man in possession of a good

R-fortune must be in want of a wife
Options:
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1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
Your absence has

P-gone through me
Q-through a needle
R-like thread
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
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This is the sportsperson(A)/whom I think has won(B)/the much coveted prize.(C)/ No
.
error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B at
m
Abhay said to Veena, " Are you coming to the Reception?"

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Options:
1) Abhay told Veena if she was coming to the Reception.
2) Abhay asked Veena if she will be coming to the Reception.
3) Abhay asked Veena if she was coming to the Reception.
4) Abhay asked Veena whether she was coming to the Reception.
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Correct Answer: Abhay asked Veena if she was coming to the Reception.
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alternatives.
In view of last year's H1N1 attack and prevailing ________________ weather conditions, the
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health department officials _______________ that the virus will turn more
active by January end. In-charge, Integrated Disease ________________ Programme (IDSP), Dr
Shah, said, "Virus is still active, but not in a major way. In coming
months, it is likely to become more active. Last year too, virus had claimed lives in January
and February. Therefore, we are _____________ as coming months might
_________________ a challenge."
In view of last year's H1N1 attack and prevailing ________________

Options:
1) erratic
2) weird
3) dicey
4) unstable
Correct Answer: erratic
alternatives.
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_________________ a challenge."
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the health department officials _______________
Options:
1) expect
2) expects
3) were expecting
4) are expecting
Correct Answer: are expecting
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alternatives.
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_________________ a challenge."
In-charge, Integrated Disease ________________ Programme (IDSP)

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Options:
1) management
2) control
3) surveillance
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4) eradication
Correct Answer: surveillance
alternatives.
_________________ a challenge."
Therefore, we are _____________

Options:
1) vigilant
2) open to
3) on toes
4) impulsive
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Correct Answer: vigilant
.
alternatives.
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_________________ a challenge."
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coming months might _________________ a challenge."

m
Options:
1) show
2) pose
3) throw
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4) put up
Correct Answer: pose
SET-23
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My twin (A)/is five minutes younger(B)/than myself.(C)/No error(D)

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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Tenzing Norgay created history
P-to conquer Mount Everest

Q-became the first men
R-on May 29, 1953, when he and Sir Edmund Hillary
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
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A piece of cake
.
hs
Options:
1) Everything tastes nice to a hungry person
2) Getting a smaller share than expected
3) It is difficult to forget tasty food
4) Something easily achieved
Correct Answer: Something easily achieved
at
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Having or displaying an overly critical point of view.
Options:
1) Judgemental
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2) To hallucinate
3) To contravene
4) Expanse
Correct Answer: Judgemental
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She (has fallen out with) the boy she was supposed to marry.
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Options:
1) fell out with
2) has fallen out of
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3) has fallen in with

4) no improvement
Obtain something by force, threats, or other unfair means.
Options:
1) To regret
2) To extort
3) To resent
4) To encompass
Correct Answer: To extort
If the screen (was any brighter), it would have been easier to read from the tablet.
Options:
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1) was bright enough
2) was more brighter
3) had been brighter
4) no improvement
.
Correct Answer: had been brighter
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Options:
1) infarnal
2) dorsally
3) somwhat
4) mangoose
Correct Answer: dorsally
at
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All tyrants realize that,

P-victims, there is sure to be one who
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Q-rises against them and strikes back!'

R-one day, amongst their many
Options:
1) RQP
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2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
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Correct Answer: RPQ
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The manager's bank account has been hacked.
Options:
1) They have hacked the manager's bank account.
2) Hacking has been done to the manager's bank account.
3) Bank's account hacking has been done of the manager.
4) Someone has hacked the manager's bank account.
Correct Answer: Someone has hacked the manager's bank account.
Options:
1) deceased
2) choiciest
3) anglecan
4) thankfull
Correct Answer: deceased
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nutritious
Options:
.
1) insubstantial
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2) exceptional
3) nourishing
4) superlative
Correct Answer: nourishing
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A picture paints a thousand words

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Options:
1) An image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description
does
2) It is impossible to describe a beautiful sight
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3) A painter can express his feelings better than a writer

4) A beautiful poem creates a mental picture
Correct Answer: An image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than
a description does
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The government allocated Rs 1,000 Cr for __________________ of historical monuments.
Options:
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1) resurrection
2) revival
3) resumption
4) restoration
Correct Answer: restoration
He says that (A)/he has done engineering(B)/besides an MBA./(C)No error/(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
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Put your own house_______ order before preaching others.
.
Options:
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1) within
2) into
3) in
4) to
Correct Answer: in
at
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Vinod said to me, "Has your brother returned from Dubai?"
Options:
1) Vinod said to me if my brother has returned from Dubai.
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2) Vinod asked me if my brother had returned from Dubai.

3) Vinod enquire to me if my brother had returned from Dubai.
4) Vinod asks me whether my brother had returned from Dubai.
Correct Answer: Vinod asked me if my brother had returned from Dubai.
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pejorative
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Options:
1) rude
2) complimentary
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3) derisive
4) cheeky
Correct Answer: complimentary
transient
Options:
1) lacerate
2) ephemeral
3) perpetual
4) enduring
Correct Answer: ephemeral
avid
Options:
1) apathetic
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2) desirous
3) devoted
4) fanatical
Correct Answer: apathetic
.
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alternatives.
The preacher challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a

___________ Polish meadow to reject being a "____________" who retreats into
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video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to
create a more just world. __________ his speech with ______________, the 79-
year-old pope, despite a long day of public appearances, addressed his eager audience with
enthusiasm yesterday on a warm summer night. Pope Francis spoke of
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a ______________ that comes from merely seeking convenience, from confusing happiness
with a complacent way of life that could end up depriving people of the
ability to determine their own fates.
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who gathered in a ___________ Polish meadow

Options:
1) huge
2) sprawling
3) very big
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4) gigantic
Correct Answer: sprawling
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alternatives.
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"____________" who retreats into video games and computer screens

Options:
1) couch potato
2) lazy tomato
3) loafer
4) spectator
Correct Answer: couch potato
alternatives.
in
.
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__________ his speech with

Options:
1) Showering
2) Endowing
at
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3) Glorifying
4) Peppering
Correct Answer: Peppering
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alternatives.

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______________, the 79-year-old pope, despite a long day of public appearances,

Options:
1) contemporary lingo
2) modern linguistics
3) fashionable jargon
4) common slang
Correct Answer: contemporary lingo
alternatives.

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Pope Francis spoke of a ______________ that comes from merely seeking convenience
.
Options:
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1) selfishness
2) panic
3) paralysis
4) calamity
Correct Answer: paralysis
SET-24
at
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Options:
1) pamflet
2) montaage
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3) illusary
4) stroller
Correct Answer: stroller

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The Finance Minister, under

P-whose supervision this
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Q-has not made any definite statement

R-has taken place,
Options:
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1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
metropolitan
Options:
1) idyllic
2) arcadian
3) bucolic
4) urbane
Correct Answer: urbane
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He succeeded in proving his point with ______________ logic.
Options:
1) diabolical
.
2) irrefutable
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3) rational
4) analytical
Correct Answer: irrefutable
impiety
Options:
1) blasphemy
at
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2) heresy
3) profanity
4) reverence
Correct Answer: reverence
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To bite off more than one can chew

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Options:
1) To take on a commitment that one cannot fulfill
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2) A task which has unexpectedly become very difficult

3) A greedy person will always suffer
4) To grab a share more than what is rightfully theirs
Correct Answer: To take on a commitment that one cannot fulfill
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pompous
Options:
1) modern
2) turgid
3) modest
4) vain
Correct Answer: modest
clasp
Options:
1) grip
2) commute
3) clemency
4) acquittal
in
Correct Answer: grip
.
hs
To bite the bullet
Options:
1) Hatred should be nipped in the bud
2) To do something difficult that one has been hesitating over
3) To punish someone who was later found to be not guilty
4) To prevent someone form getting killed at
Correct Answer: To do something difficult that one has been hesitating over
m
to shut a door, window, or lid forcefully and loudly

.q
Options:
1) to clam
2) to strike
3) to shutter
4) to slam
w
Correct Answer: to slam

w
This too, is a classic

P-"stock versus flow" problem, where
Q-focusing only on the latter
w
R-completely distorts the picture
Options:
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
Veer said, "I was playing football".
Options:
1) Veer said he had been playing football.
2) Veer said he was playing football.
3) Veer said that, that he was playing football.
4) Veer said that he had been playing football.
in
Correct Answer: Veer said that he had been playing football.
.
hs
At the party(A)/Rohit introduced me to his friend(B)/who is radio jockey.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
at
m
.q
Expectant mothers are more ____________ to lung damage due to smoking.
Options:
1) vulnerable
2) disposed
w
3) sensitive
4) affected
Correct Answer: vulnerable
w
w
Sarah's father, died(A)/of heart attack at(B)a very young age.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
Options:
1) circulate
2) cordonned
3) binommial
4) fontannel
Correct Answer: circulate
in
The footballers (has been) arguing with the coach since morning.
Options:
1) was
.
2) had been
hs
3) have been
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: have been
Options:
1) since the past
at
She has not been well (for the past) few months
m
2) for past
3) since the last
4) no improvement
.q
sums of money expressed in a specified monetary unit

w
Options:
1) to denominate
w
2) to monetise
3) to nominate
4) demarche
Correct Answer: to denominate
w
The storm destroyed several huts in the village.
Options:
1) The storm in the village had destroyed several huts.
2) Several huts in the village have been destroyed by the storm.
3) The storm was destructive for the several huts in the village.
4) Several huts in the village were destroyed by the storm.
Correct Answer: Several huts in the village were destroyed by the storm.
four alternatives.
But what does this enthusiasm for voting actually _____________? One popular theory
____________ that poor people __________ because
they are intimidated into doing so. Intimidation occurs for sure but why then, voters in places
in
where there is no intimidation do so? Another
theory is that people vote in return for _____________. But recent research across India
_________ that those who spend the most do not
always win elections and voters do not feel any obligation to vote for those handing out
.
freebies. In fact, they often accept the goodies from all
hs
parties but vote for only one.
But what does this enthusiasm for voting actually _____________?

Options:
1) answer
2) signify
3) ponder
4) suppose
Correct Answer: signify
at
m
four alternatives.
.q
w

w
One popular theory ____________

Options:
w
1) poses
2) supposes
3) disposes
4) proposes
Correct Answer: proposes
four alternatives.
poor people __________ because they are intimidated into doing so.
in
Options:
1) vote
2) are voting
3) have voted
.
4) voted
hs
Correct Answer: vote
four alternatives.
at
m
.q
Another theory is that people vote in return for _____________.

Options:
1) bribes
w
2) favours
3) inducements
4) help
w
Correct Answer: inducements
w
four alternatives.
But recent research across India _________ that those who spend the most do not always win
elections
Options:
1) show
2) has shown
3) had shown
4) showed
Correct Answer: has shown
in
SET-25
.
hs
Options:
1) adoption
2) crocusses
3) dollorous
4) pallatine
Correct Answer: adoption
at
m
During the class(A)/the teacher request to(B)/the students to have patience.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.q
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
w

w
We need not
P-order to nurture true cosmopolitanism
Q-burden of loving each other in
R-place on ourselves the unbearable
w
Options:
1) QRP
2) RQP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
Corporates need to do much more to increase consumer __________________ about duplicate

products.
Options:
1) information
2) habits
3) awareness
4) satisfaction
Correct Answer: awareness
in
.
Bed of roses
hs
Options:
1) What may look comfortable may have hidden thorns
2) A situation or activity that is comfortable or easy
3) A warm welcome to a loved one
4) One needs to be extremely rich to live a luxurious life
at
Correct Answer: A situation or activity that is comfortable or easy
m
To officially register as a member of an institution
Options:
.q
1) to muster
2) to enrol
3) to institutionalize
4) to officiate
Correct Answer: to enrol
w

w
conspiracy
Options:
1) fidelity
w
2) plot
3) ardour
4) zeal
Correct Answer: plot
Back to the drawing board
Options:
1) An idea has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised
2) A person decides his own fate
3) All efforts can be wasted because of one mistake
4) One always returns to his roots in times of crisis
Correct Answer: An idea has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised
They are even poorer

P-failure will deprive
in
Q-them of jobs altogether
R-than farmers; and crop
Options:
.
1) RPQ
hs
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
is the best substitute of the phrase. at
To reveal the true, objectionable nature of someone
m
Options:
1) to betray
2) to forsake
3) to expose
.q
4) to delude
Correct Answer: to expose

w
Options:
1) decanyter
2) ghoullish
w
3) accollade
4) abruptly
Correct Answer: abruptly
w
The management would prefer (you finishing) the project on time.
Options:
1) that you finish
2) you had finished
3) that you could finish
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: that you finish
Kabir said to me, "I was waiting for you for a long time."
Options:
1) Kabir told me that he had been waiting for me for a long time.
2) Kabir had told that me had been waiting for me for a long time.
3) Kabir told me he had been waiting for me for a long time.
in
4) Kabir told that me he was waiting for me for a long time.
Correct Answer: Kabir told me that he had been waiting for me for a long time.
.
hs
So soon as I shall (A)/reach office, I shall(B)/mail you the documents.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
at
m
.q
The investment bankers worked with the management of both the merging companies to
___________ a consensus on the merger terms.
Options:
w
1) express
2) emerge
3) elucidate
w
4) reach
Correct Answer: reach

w
whirl
Options:
1) swirl
2) peace
3) flurry
4) surge
Correct Answer: peace
Our Institute has launched a new scholarship scheme for the weaker sections of the society.
Options:
1) A new scholarship scheme has been launched by our Institute for the weaker sections of
the society.
2) A new scholarship scheme was launched for our Institute for sections of the society
which are weak.
in
3) For the weaker sections of the society a new scholarship scheme had been launched by
our Institute.
4) For the weaker sections of the society our Institute had launched a new scholarship
scheme.
.
Correct Answer: A new scholarship scheme was launched for our Institute for sections of the
hs
society which are weak.
jaunt
Options:
1) halt
2) excursion
3) stroll
at
m
4) ramble
Correct Answer: halt

.q
It has been a long (ago) I last saw you.
Options:
1) time
w
2) since
3) before
4) no improvement
w
Correct Answer: since

w
dire
Options:
1) calm
2) mild
3) critical
4) trivial
Correct Answer: critical
four alternatives.
What does "victim-centric" mean in the criminal justice system? It means restoring the
confidence of victims in the system and achieving the __________ of justice
in whichever sense the idea is conceived. __________ this end, the system must confer certain
rights on victims to enable them to _____________ in the proceedings,
including the right to be impleaded and to engage an advocate in serious offences, the right
to track the progress of ________________, the right to be heard on
critical issues and to assist the court in the ___________ of truth.
in
achieving the __________ of justice in whichever sense the idea is conceived.
Options:
1) purpose
2) agenda
.
3) plan
hs
4) goal
Correct Answer: goal
four alternatives.
at
m
.q
__________ this end,

Options:
1) Toward
2) For
w
3) Near
4) Forward
Correct Answer: Toward
w
four alternatives.
w
the system must confer certain rights on victims to enable them to _____________ in the
proceedings
Options:
1) share
2) participate
3) judge
4) speak
Correct Answer: participate
four alternatives.
in
.
hs
the right to track the progress of ________________

Options:
1) a case
2) the ruling
3) the proceedings
4) the process
at
m
Correct Answer: the proceedings
.q
four alternatives.
w

w
the right to be heard on critical issues and to assist the court in the ___________ of truth.
Options:
w
1) pursuance
2) perusal
3) pursuing
4) pursuit
Correct Answer: pursuit
SET-26
Please put on a note(A)/declaring that (B)/Monday will be a holiday.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
in
veteran
.
hs
Options:
1) youthful
2) pliable
3) expert
4) amateur
Correct Answer: amateur
at
m
To make a long story short
Options:
1) A very long boring narrative
.q
2) One should always communicate with fewer words wherever possible

3) Used to end an account of events quickly
4) When you want the complete details and not just the summary
Correct Answer: Used to end an account of events quickly
w
incursion
w
Options:
1) hurt
2) retreat
w
3) aggression
4) cut
Correct Answer: aggression
To steal someone's thunder
Options:
1) To share the secret of a person just before that person was supposed to receive praise
2) To defuse the ego of an egoistic person
3) To plagiarize work done by others
4) To do a job before another person can do it and take away the credit
Correct Answer: To do a job before another person can do it and take away the credit
We are pleased that(A)/our daughter is married with(B)/such a nice man.(C)/No error(D)
in
Options:
1) A
2) B
.
3) C
hs
4) D
Correct Answer: B
QID : 82 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:
Thus,
P-a developing economy also needs
Q-to have some notion of external balance
R-at the very least,
at
m
Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
.q
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the
w
When did Rohit return my bike?

w
Options:
1) When was my bike returned by Rohit?
2) When was it that Rohit returned my bike?
w
3) Rohit returned my bike when?

4) When did my bike come back from Rohit?
Correct Answer: When was my bike returned by Rohit?
Both the families were invited but neither (had accepted) our invitation.
Options:
1) accepted
2) did accept
3) has accepted
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: accepted
Options:
1) sentreis
2) surgeons
3) sibblings
in
4) imolate
Correct Answer: surgeons
.
hs
rot
Options:
1) mature
2) stagnate
3) smell
4) decay
Correct Answer: decay
at
m
QID : 87 - Choose the antonym of
fatigue
.q
Options:
1) restive
2) slouch
3) vigour
4) tire
w
Correct Answer: vigour

w
You are what you (have eaten).
Options:
w
1) will eat
2) eat
3) shall eat
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: eat
To regard with disgust and hatred.
Options:
1) tease
2) abhor
3) ridicule
4) sneer
Correct Answer: abhor
in
The investigations revealed a ______________lack of efficiency in the functioning of the
airlines.
.
Options:
hs
1) plain
2) obscure
3) conspicuous
4) concealed
Correct Answer: conspicuous
at
m
In India, Hindi is the most ___________ spoken language.
Options:
1) profusely
.q
2) richly
3) deeply
4) widely
Correct Answer: widely
w
Options:
w
1) wrapping
2) bargundy
3) streses
4) stenchhes
w
Correct Answer: wrapping
The coach said, "Bravo! Puneet, you have done well."
Options:
1) The coach applauded Puneet saying that he had done well.
2) The coach said to Puneet Bravo, he had done well.

3) The coach congratulated Puneet, saying he did well.
4) The coach said to Puneet, that he did well.
Correct Answer: The coach applauded Puneet saying that he had done well.
Gone are the days

P-about foreign trade and payments
Q-and not really worried
R-when we could think of ourselves as a closed economy
in
Options:
1) QRP
2) RQP
.
3) PRQ
hs
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
unable to be destroyed or removed.
Options:
1) ineradicable
at
m
2) habit
3) worn
4) fixed
Correct Answer: ineradicable
.q
alternatives.
w
An ideal policeman is a myth. You come __________ him only in crime fiction. ____________
elusive is 'good policing', an idea ___________ even the best of criminal
justice thinkers have found it difficult to define. This is why, in what is a chaotic world, we
w
have to reluctantly _____________ for an imperfect policeman and ________

inadequate system.
You come __________ him only in crime fiction.

w
Options:
1) over
2) cross
3) across
4) to
Correct Answer: across
alternatives.
inadequate system.
____________ elusive is 'good policing',

Options:
1) Fairly
2) Justly
in
3) Equally
4) Uniformly
Correct Answer: Equally
.
hs
alternatives.
inadequate system.
at
an idea ___________ even the best of criminal justice thinkers have found
m
Options:
1) that
2) which
3) whom
.q
4) who
Correct Answer: that
w
alternatives.
w

inadequate system.
w
to reluctantly _____________ for an imperfect policeman

Options:
1) decide
2) pay
3) adjust
4) settle
Correct Answer: settle
alternatives.
inadequate system.
________ inadequate system.

Options:
in
1) a
2) an
3) this
4) our
.
Correct Answer: an
hs
SET-27
at
Pinky said, "What a beautiful vase!"

m
Options:
1) Pinky exclaimed that it is a very beautiful vase.
2) Pinky said that it is a very beautiful vase indeed.
3) Pinky exclaimed that it was a very beautiful vase.
.q
4) Pinky reported that it was an indeed a beautiful vase.

Correct Answer: Pinky exclaimed that it was a very beautiful vase.

w
Options:
1) blamefull
2) procsimal
w
3) hilocky
4) miracles
Correct Answer: miracles
w
bristle
Options:
1) thorn
2) tranquil
3) friction
4) sleek
Correct Answer: thorn
the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes
Options:
1) trunk
2) snout
3) beak
4) mandible
in
Correct Answer: mandible
.
A saint or a satyagrahi
hs
P-freezing her acts of goodness
Q-is often put on a pedestal
R-in timE
Options:
1) PQR
2) PRQ
3) QPR
4) RQP
Correct Answer: QPR
at
m
castigated
.q
Options:
1) approve
2) rate
3) flay
w
4) drub
Correct Answer: approve
w
deliberate
w
Options:
1) judge
2) imprudent
3) cogitate
4) argue
Correct Answer: imprudent
I couldn't help but (had to cry) at his sad story.
Options:
1) cry
2) cried
3) was crying
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: cry
in
Rise and shine
Options:
1) Work hard and succeed in life
.
2) An expression used when waking someone up
hs
3) Try harder to overcome life's problems
4) Be of spotless character
Correct Answer: An expression used when waking someone up
by selecting the appropriate option. at
With his political _____________, the Party President deftly handled the rebellion.
m
Options:
1) temperament
2) sagacity
3) attitude
.q
4) inexperience
Correct Answer: sagacity
w
urge someone to act in a violent or unlawful way.

w
Options:
1) taunt
2) solicit
3) incite
w
4) psych
Correct Answer: incite
Gandhi often
P-was unnecessary violence
Q-withdrew from an act of Satyagraha if he
R-felt there
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) RQP
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
in
The High Court judge ____________ the orders passed by the district court.
Options:
1) quashed
.
2) squashed
hs
3) killed
4) rented
Correct Answer: quashed
best expresses the meaning of the idiom/Phrase.
Raining cats and dogs
Options:
at
m
1) It is raining unusually hard
2) To win a big lottery
3) To get wealth beyond what one deserves
4) To become filthy rich by honest means
.q
Correct Answer: It is raining unusually hard
confuse
w
Options:
1) explicate
w
2) perplex
3) mix
4) divert
Correct Answer: perplex
w
Options:
1) unweded
2) informmer
3) mongrels
4) powderred
Correct Answer: mongrels
The thief escaped (from burning) as the noble King pardoned him.
Options:
1) of being burnt
2) from being burnt
3) from having being burnt
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: from being burnt
in
The painting had not been painted by the famous painter.
.
hs
Options:
1) The painting had never been painted by the painter who was famous.
2) The painter who was famous not had painted the painting.
3) The famous painter had not painted the painting.
4) The famous painter could not have painted the painting.
Correct Answer: The famous painter had not painted the painting.
at
m
Was it him, that the teacher(A)/punished for not submitting(B)/his project on time(C)/No
error
.q
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
w
Correct Answer: A
w
Entrance exams for the(A)/posts of associate professors(B)/will begin from Tuesday.(C)/No

w
error
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
four alternatives.
Targeting inflation comes from a belief that policy should be _________ and transparent, so
that the private sector can factor this ___________ their decision-making.
The question that this ________ is: are there more "complicated" policies which _________
better? I just note that one such policy is called "nominal income targeting".
_____________ it is more complicated and the private sector is deemed to be intellectually
challenged.
policy should be _________ and transparent,
in
Options:
1) elaborate
2) detailed
3) easy
.
4) simple
hs
Correct Answer: simple
four alternatives.
at
m
challenged.
private sector can factor this ___________ their decision-making.

.q
Options:
1) into
2) in
3) within
4) onto
w
Correct Answer: into
w
four alternatives.
w
challenged.
The question that this ________ is

Options:
1) shows
2) poses
3) brings along
4) ask
Correct Answer: poses
four alternatives.
in
challenged.
.
are there more "complicated" policies which _________ better?
hs
Options:
1) have been
2) will be
3) were
4) are
Correct Answer: are
at
four alternatives.
m
.q
challenged.
_____________ it is more complicated

w
Options:
1) But
2) Hence
w
3) So
4) Because
Correct Answer: But
w
SET-28
spine
Options:
1) supple
2) vertebrae
3) rotund
4) grime
Correct Answer: vertebrae
If I (have had) money, I would have bought this car.
Options:
1) had
2) did have
in
3) had had
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: had
.
hs
The first clue
Pto the nature of this agenda
Qlies in the origin of
Rthe smart city idea itself
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QPR
3) QRP
at
m
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
.q
I had invited(A)/all my sisterinlaws(B)/to my son's birthday party.(C)/No error(D)

w
Options:
1) A
2) B
w
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
w
a loud, harsh, piercing cry
Options:
1) noise
2) howl
3) screech
4) cry
Correct Answer: screech
Run out of steam
Options:
1) To lose impetus or enthusiasm
2) To work quickly like a machine
3) To give up easily
4) no more money to spend
in
Correct Answer: To lose impetus or enthusiasm
.
Options:
hs
1) haunchhes
2) exulltant
3) marketted
4) transmit
Correct Answer: transmit
demure
at
m
Options:
1) humble
2) bold
3) coy
.q
4) sober
Correct Answer: bold

w
Options:
1) stumbal
2) wrinkeled
w
3) bristles
4) reasert
Correct Answer: bristles
w
The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.
Options:
1) The hardworking salesman collected the payment.
2) The salesman who worked hard was able to collect the payment.
3) To collect the payment the salesman had to work hard.
4) The hardworking salesman was able to collect the payment.

Correct Answer: The hardworking salesman collected the payment.
The client said to the ticketseller, "At what time do the counters close?"
Options:
1) The client asked the ticketseller at what time the counters closed.
in
2) The client asked the ticketseller at what time did the counters always close.
3) The client said to the ticketseller at what time the counters close.
4) The client inquired to the ticketseller at what time the counters usually close.
Correct Answer: The client asked the ticketseller at what time the counters closed.
.
hs
This palace (has been belonging) to our family since generations.
Options:
1) has belonging
2) has belonged
3) belonged
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: has belonged
at
m
One year after its official launch,

.q
P-while expectations
Q-has largely escaped political scrutiny
R-have been scaled down, the rhetoric
Options:
w
1) QPR
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
w
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PRQ
w
The Department has ____________ a complaint against Mr. Bakshi.
Options:
1) expressed
2) registered
3) informed
4) noted
Correct Answer: registered
A hollow object used to contain something.
Options:
1) platter
2) salver
3) plate
in
4) receptacle
Correct Answer: receptacle
.
hs
He has a ___________ interest in studying human psychology.
Options:
1) deep
2) wide
3) vast
4) heavy
Correct Answer: deep
at
m
.q
Due to me being new(A)/to the city, I had(B)/difficulty in finding a job.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
w
2) B
3) C
4) D
w
Correct Answer: A

w
purge
Options:
1) evacuate
2) pressurize
3) thrust
4) float
Correct Answer: evacuate
genteel
Options:
1) uncivilized
2) stuffy
3) urbane
4) prim
Correct Answer: uncivilized
in
saved by the bell
.
Options:
hs
1) when time is in your favour
2) saved at the last moment
3) the bell rings at the most opportune time
4) prayers are answered when the church bell rings
Correct Answer: saved at the last moment
at
four alternatives.
m
In Greek mythology, it is said that Lycurgus, the ruler of Sparta, ___________ a promise from
his ____________, assuring him of the
immutability of his laws till he returned from an _______________ journey. To make his laws
immutable, Lycurgus _____________. Seven
.q
justices of the Indian Supreme Court on a historic day in 1973 christened themselves as
modernday Lycurguses, seeking to create, in India's
constitutional context, an island of immutability, ___________ titled the "basic structure".
it is said that Lycurgus, the ruler of Sparta, ___________

w
Options:
1) elicited
2) derived
w
3) evinced
4) attested
Correct Answer: elicited
w
four alternatives.
a promise from his ____________

Options:
1) nation
2) society
3) subjects
4) community
Correct Answer: subjects
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
Options:
1) impending
2) brewing
at
he returned from an _______________ journey.
m
3) approaching
4) looming
Correct Answer: impending
.q
four alternatives.
w

w
w
To make his laws immutable, Lycurgus _____________.

Options:
1) did not return
2) never did return
3) never returns
4) never returned
Correct Answer: never returned
four alternatives.
an island of immutability, ___________ titled the "basic structure".
in
Options:
1) timely
2) aptly
3) opportunely
.
4) pertinently
hs
Correct Answer: aptly
SET-29
Options:
1) splintted
2) goudiest
at
m
3) gibbered
4) gleening
Correct Answer: gibbered
.q
Options:
1) toxicety
2) mamalia
w
3) collumned
4) notation
Correct Answer: notation
w
abominable
w
Options:
1) attractive
2) gross
3) grim
4) lousy
Correct Answer: attractive
I said to her, "I will do it now or never."
Options:
1) I informed her that I would do it that moment or never.
2) I told her I would do it then or never.
3) I told her that I would not do it then or ever.
4) I told her that I would do it then or never.
Correct Answer: I told her that I would do it then or never.
in
Smell a rat
.
hs
Options:
1) To sense that events will not be in one's favour
2) To begin to suspect trickery or deception
3) To be forewarned of danger to oneself
4) To prevent calamity by chance
Correct Answer: To begin to suspect trickery or deception
at
An engineer building a bridge

m
P-find easy to comprehend
Q-picks the best plan
R-and not the one that motorists-
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Options:
1) RQP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) QRP
w
Correct Answer: QRP
w
You may try but she is too ______________ to fall for your trick.
w
Options:
1) brilliant
2) intelligent
3) genius
4) witty
Correct Answer: intelligent
The tendency to recur at intervals.
Options:
1) rotation
2) wheel
3) sequence
4) periodicity
Correct Answer: periodicity
in
As the improvement in his situation was ______________, the doctor did not discharge him.
.
hs
Options:
1) marginal
2) tiny
3) microscopic
4) negated
Correct Answer: marginal
aground
at
m
Options:
1) stranded
2) higher
.q
3) afloat
4) buoyant
Correct Answer: stranded

w
flog
w
Options:
1) whop
2) compliment
3) flay
w
4) flax
Correct Answer: compliment
A dramatic entertainment, in which performers express through gestures
Options:
1) mimicry
2) ham
3) pantomime
4) depiction
Correct Answer: pantomime
My father is going to build a six bedroom bungalow.
in
Options:
1) A six bedroom bungalow was going to be built by my father.
2) My father will have built a bungalow which will have six bedrooms.
3) A bungalow of six bedrooms will have been built by my father.
.
4) A six bedroom bungalow is going to be built by my father.
hs
Correct Answer: A six bedroom bungalow is going to be built by my father.
To begin with,
P-is not that they are 'unsmart'
Q-the problem with Indian cities
R-but that they are dysfunctional
Options:
at
m
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
.q
Correct Answer: QPR
My patients (were waited) for me since morning.

w
Options:
1) wait
w
2) had been waited

4) no improvement
w
Sixth sense
Options:
1) An intuitive power of perception
2) A strong power of sense
3) An ability to perceive when something will go wrong
4) The false feeling that you know the truth

Correct Answer: An intuitive power of perception
There is no question(A)/of me failing(B)/ in the examination.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
in
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
.
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decree
Options:
1) certificate
2) Law
3) title
4) award
Correct Answer: Law
at
m
.q
One should respect(A)/religious beliefs of others,(B)/as much as his owns.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
w
2) B
3) C
4) D
w
Correct Answer: C

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He is an atheist (yet) he goes to the church every Sunday.
Options:
1) because
2) and
3) however
4) no improvement
four alternatives.
_____________ nearly eight decades, the women's movement __________ and debated the
desirability and feasibility of a Uniform Civil Code,
and has ended up ___________ a simple question — what is the value of uniformity? Is it for
the "integrity of the nation" that uniformity in laws
is required, as some judicial pronouncements ___________? If so, who exactly is the
beneficiary? Which sections of people benefit from
"integrity of the nation", that abstract entity which is not exactly _______ the top of your mind
as your husband throws you out on the street?
in
_____________ nearly eight decades
Options:
1) About
.
2) Of
hs
3) With
4) For
Correct Answer: For
m
.q
the women's movement __________ and debated the desirability

Options:
w
1) discussed
2) has discussed
3) had discussed
w
4) had been discussing

Correct Answer: has discussed
w
four alternatives.
and has ended up ___________ a simple question — what is the value of uniformity?
Options:
1) holding
2) positioning
3) posturing
4) posing
Correct Answer: posing
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
Options:
1) have suggested
at
as some judicial pronouncements ___________?
m
2) had been suggesting
3) suggests
4) suggested
Correct Answer: have suggested
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four alternatives.
w
w

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that abstract entity which is not exactly _______ the top of your mind
Options:
1) in
2) for
3) at
4) of
Correct Answer: at
SET-30
The teacher said, "It is time that your daughter (has learned) how to write."
Options:
1) learned
2) had learnt
3) learnt
in
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: learnt
.
hs
For a moment I was _____________ blinded by the camera's bright flash.
Options:
1) heavily
2) totally
3) greatly
4) powerfully
Correct Answer: totally
at
m
.q
As it was his first date,(A)/he dressed(B)/himself in best suit.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
w
2) B
3) C
4) D
w
Correct Answer: C
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The vehicles involved in the accident were _______________ the flow of traffic.
Options:
1) obstructing
2) stalling
3) interfering
4) delaying
Correct Answer: obstructing
gripe
Options:
1) To grieve
2) To grasp
3) To flatter
4) To hold
Correct Answer: To grieve
in
extravagance
.
hs
Options:
1) expensive
2) thrift
3) cheap
4) absurd
Correct Answer: thrift
virtuous
at
m
Options:
1) vile
2) chaste
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3) kosher
4) celibate
Correct Answer: vile

w
Options:
1) scuries
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2) snached
3) cavortted
4) Hispanic
Correct Answer: Hispanic
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There was a second part

P-are ambivalent about
Q-many people
R-of her decision which
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
stumpy
Options:
1) rangy
in
2) pudgy
3) lanky
4) lofty
Correct Answer: pudgy
.
hs
The policeman said, "I saw a knife here."
Options: at
1) The policeman exclaimed that he had seen a knife here.
2) The policeman said that he had seen a knife there.
3) The policeman said he had seen a knife here.
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4) The policeman told he had seen a knife there.
Correct Answer: The policeman said that he had seen a knife there.
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Rome was not built in a day
Options:
w
1) It takes time to create great things

2) You have to win many wars to build an empire
3) A task done hurriedly fails completely
w
4) Building anything worth while requires skill

Correct Answer: It takes time to create great things
w
work extremely hard or incessantly.
Options:
1) job
2) craft
3) toil
4) activity
Correct Answer: toil
The audience are(A)/humbly requested to be(B)/seated in their seats.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
in
4) D
Correct Answer: D
.
hs
I shall have written the full thesis by December.
Options:
1) By December I shall have wrote the full thesis.
at
2) The full thesis will have been written by me by December.
3) The full Thesis will be wrote by me by December.
4) By December the full thesis must have been wrote by me.
Correct Answer: The full thesis will have been written by me by December.
m
.q
express a proposition, theory, etc. in clear or definite terms.
Options:
1) publish
2) postulate
w
3) proclaim
4) enunciate
Correct Answer: enunciate
w
He would often
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P-Brahmacharya if his protests were not functioning the way

Q-he expected
R-critique his own life of
Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
Options:
1) genatics
2) sterage
3) grossest
4) granaite
Correct Answer: grossest
in
Rule of thumb
.
Options:
hs
1) A rough unit of measure for small lengths
2) A broadly accurate guide based on practice
3) To force someone to work against his wish
4) To use your power to ensure discipline
Correct Answer: A broadly accurate guide based on practice
at
(Take off) your shoes before you enter the temple.

m
Options:
1) Put away
2) Extract
3) Put off
.q
4) No improvement
Correct Answer: No improvement
w
four alternatives.
The "Global Nutrition Report 2016" once again ____________ India's slow overall progress
w
____________ addressing chronic malnutrition,

manifest in stunting (low weight for age), wasting (low weight for height), micronutrient
__________ and overweight. Our track _________ in
reducing the proportion of undernourished children over the past decade has been modest at
w
best, and _____________ what other countries

with comparable socioeconomic indicators have achieved.
The "Global Nutrition Report 2016" once again ____________

Options:
1) demonstrates
2) demonstrated
3) demonstrated that
4) had demonstrated
Correct Answer: demonstrates
four alternatives.
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India's slow overall progress ____________ addressing chronic malnutrition

Options:
.
1) of
hs
2) for
3) in
4) into
Correct Answer: in
four alternatives.
at
m
.q

micronutrient __________ and overweight.

Options:
w
1) scarcities
2) lack
3) absence
w
4) deficiencies
Correct Answer: deficiencies
w
four alternatives.
Our track _________ in reducing the proportion of undernourished children

Options:
1) progress
2) record
3) report
4) result
Correct Answer: record
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
Options:
1) leads
2) fails
at
and _____________ what other countries with comparable socioeconomic indicators
m
3) lags
4) falters
Correct Answer: lags
.q
SET-31
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I ________ to return by the 3rd of the month.

w
Options:
1) strategize
2) program
w
3) plan
4) project
Correct Answer: plan
Einstein was one (of the wisest men) that ever lived.
Options:
1) of the wisest man
2) wise man
3) wisest man
4) no improvement
Options:
1) oxidieser
2) thespian
3) aproval
in
4) secreetes
Correct Answer: thespian
.
hs
To sweep over something so as to surround it completely.
Options:
1) engulf
2) imbibe
3) drown
4) plunge
Correct Answer: engulf
at
m
Venezuelans (were being) deprived of food and medicines for the past year.
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Options:
1) were
2) are
3) have been
4) no improvement
w
Correct Answer: have been
w
Turn a blind eye

w
Options:
1) Not able to see the obvious truth
2) Hide the ugly truth from someone
3) Pretend not to notice
4) Stay away from bad habits
Correct Answer: Pretend not to notice
The girl in the red dress said to me, "Where is the film studio?"
Options:
1) The girl in the red dress inquired me, where the film studio is.
2) The girl in the red dress asked me, where is the film studio.
3) The girl in the red dress asked me, where the film studio is.
4) The girl in the red dress asked me, where the film studio was.
Correct Answer: The girl in the red dress asked me, where the film studio was.
in
sheath
Options:
.
1) weapon
hs
2) hide
3) encourage
4) coat
Correct Answer: coat
primed
Options:
at
m
1) fit
2) able
3) unready
4) prepped
.q
Correct Answer: unready
Aggregate levels of under nutrition in India

w
P-remain shockingly high, despite the impressive

Q-stunting in the last decade
R-reduction in
w
Options:
1) PRQ
2) QPR
w
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: PRQ
I had to stop all my work to complete this project.
Options:
1) All other work had to be stopped to complete this project by me.
2) For completing this project all other work must be stopped.
3) For completing this project I had to stop all my work.
4) To complete this project all other work had been stopped by me.
Correct Answer: To complete this project all other work had been stopped by me.
pilferer
in
Options:
1) sniper
2) punk
3) lifter
.
4) police
hs
Correct Answer: police
To take someone somewhere suddenly and quickly
Options:
1) rush
2) whisk
at
m
3) fly
4) flit
Correct Answer: whisk
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Imagine the government

P-were an investor,
Q-trying to maximize India's long-run
w
R-economic growth
Options:
w
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QRP
4) RPQ
w
Correct Answer: PQR
genre
Options:
1) celebrity
2) common man
3) category
4) pleasant
Correct Answer: category
Up a blind alley
Options:
1) hiding something intentionally from another person
2) not warning a person who is in danger
in
3) one can enjoy thrills only if one takes risk
4) following a course of action that is certain to lead to an undesirable outcome
Correct Answer: following a course of action that is certain to lead to an undesirable
outcome
.
hs
Options:
1) tapestry
2) emannates
3) insissted
4) coalese
Correct Answer: tapestry
at
m
His success is worthy of ______________.

.q
Options:
1) copying
2) aping
3) simulation
w
4) emulation
Correct Answer: emulation
w
w
My younger sister (A)/is much smarter(B)/then me.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Those sort of people (A)/are always nice(B)/to you on your face.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
____________ so long ago, virtually everyone seemed _____________ that a sizeable majority of
British voters ____________ reaffirm their faith and confidence in a
united Europe. Unfortunately, what was considered to be a remote possibility has actually
become a very ____________ reality. A small majority of voters ____________
to take Britain out of the European Union (EU) in the referendum held on June 23.
____________ so long ago,

Options:
1) Not
2) Far
at
m
3) So
4) Nor
Correct Answer: Not
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four alternatives.
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virtually everyone seemed ____________

Options:
w
1) satisfied
2) positive
3) presumptuous
4) confident
Correct Answer: confident
four alternatives.
a sizeable majority of British voters ____________ reaffirm

Options:
1) would
2) will
3) should
in
4) surely
Correct Answer: should
.
hs
four alternatives.
at
a remote possibility has actually become a very ____________ reality.

Options:
m
1) ominous
2) grim
3) dire
4) haunting
.q
Correct Answer: ominous
four alternatives.
w
w
w
A small majority of voters ____________ to take Britain out

Options:
1) had opted
2) will opt
3) have opted
4) has opted
Correct Answer: will opt
SET-32
to spurn
Options:
1) to accept
2) to flout
3) to scorn
4) to rebuff
Correct Answer: to accept
in
the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.:
.
hs
"I'm off to the games. Where are you going?"
Options:
1) He said he would be off to the games and wanted to know where I was going.
2) He said he was going off to the games and wanted to know where I was planning to go.
3) He said he is going off to the games and asked me where I was planning to go.
at
4) He said that he was off to the games and wanted to know where I was going.
Correct Answer: He said that he was off to the games and wanted to know where I was
going.
m
Familiarity breeds contempt

.q
Options:
1) close association with someone leads to a loss of respect for them
2) if you do an undesirable thing daily then it becomes acceptable
3) too many people living closely will eventually cause bitterness
w
4) routine has to be broken to bring excitement to life

Correct Answer: close association with someone leads to a loss of respect for them
w
a symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
w
Options:
1) obelisk
2) minaret
3) mast
4) totem
Correct Answer: totem
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Options:
1) avoid risky ventures if you want to be successful in life
2) don't risk everything on the success of one venture
3) one should try multiple things, at least one will succeed
4) those who are blessed with more children are happier
Correct Answer: don't risk everything on the success of one venture
in
to conceive
Options:
1) to reckon
.
2) to neglect
hs
3) to apprehend
4) to perceive
Correct Answer: to neglect
by selecting the appropriate option. at
The criminal was released on ___________ for a few days so that he could spend time with his
ailing mother.
m
Options:
1) parole
2) guarantee
.q
3) grant
4) mercy
Correct Answer: parole

w
We don't need our computers to be infinitely fast, just a whole lot (faster than) they are today.
w
Options:
1) as fast as
2) faster then
3) more faster than
w
4) no improvement
Their judgment can be

P-easily swayed by false
Q-propaganda, as is being done
R-right now across the country
Options:
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
Options:
1) adhision
in
2) fundango
3) canabis
4) closeted
Correct Answer: closeted
.
hs
rendezvous
Options:
1) tryst
2) dispersal
3) rift
4) split
Correct Answer: tryst
at
m
.q
I read the story in one night.
Options:
1) The story had been read by me in one night.
w
2) The story has been read by me in one night.

3) In one night the story has been read by me.
4) The story was read by me in one night.
w
Correct Answer: The story was read by me in one night.

w
The teacher did not ask (any questions to Rinky).
Options:
1) any questions of Rinky
2) to Rinky any questions
3) Rinky any questions
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: Rinky any questions
Options:
1) dievorce
2) carapase
3) usefully
4) shufles
Correct Answer: usefully
in
Being occupied with(A)/work, father had no(B)/time to see us(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.
1) A
hs
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D

at
The employee had become _______________ to both the manager's praise as well as
m
reprimand.
Options:
1) hardened
.q
2) indifferent
3) hostile
4) immune
Correct Answer: indifferent
w
defuse
w
Options:
1) irritate
2) alleviate
w
3) agitate
4) incite
Correct Answer: alleviate
Although no convincing
P-arguments were made against
Q-was commotion in the House
R-the amendment, there
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
in
Visitors to the zoo(A)/are amused by the monkeys(B)/play in the cages.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.
1) A
hs
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
to leave a place suddenly or secretly.

at
m
Options:
1) scarce
2) ligger
3) decamp
.q
4) loiter
Correct Answer: decamp
w
alternatives.
Equally disappointing is the court's ________________, one-paragraph dismissal of the claim

w
that criminal ________________ creates a chilling effect upon speech.

Such proclamations are easy _______________ from the high, secure, and insulated bench of
the Supreme Court. It is journalists and newspapers, fighting hundreds
of _____________ cases in court, _______________ have to deal with the very real consequences.
w
Equally disappointing is the court's ________________,

Options:
1) cursory
2) shortened
3) tiny
4) slight
Correct Answer: cursory
alternatives.

criminal ________________ creates a chilling effect upon speech

Options:
in
1) defamating
2) defamation
3) defamate
4) defamations
.
Correct Answer: defamation
hs
alternatives.

at
m
Such proclamations are easy _______________ from the high
Options:
1) making
.q
2) made
3) for making
4) to make
Correct Answer: to make
w
alternatives.
w

w

It is journalists and newspapers, fighting hundreds of _____________ cases in court

Options:
1) imaginary
2) frivolous
3) unintellgible
4) ordinary
Correct Answer: frivolous
four alternatives.

in
_______________ have to deal with the very real consequences.
Options:
1) whom
2) which
.
3) who
hs
4) those
Correct Answer: who
SET-33
at
(As soon as I saw) the ferocious dog than I ran away.

m
Options:
1) No sooner than I saw
2) No sooner has I seen
3) No sooner did I see
.q
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: No sooner did I see

w
It is a good sign
P-that the ratio remains the same despite
Q-the revenue base coming down because
w
R-of increased devolution to States
Options:
1) QRP
w
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
We have to accept(A)/that driving vehicles(B)require expertise.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
to brood
in
Options:
1) to repine
2) to ignore
.
3) to fret
hs
4) to mope
Correct Answer: to ignore
of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses
the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
The cricket ball struck me on the head.
Options:
at
m
1) Struck me on the head the cricket ball .
2) I was struck on the head by the cricket ball.
3) I had been struck on the head by the cricket ball.
4) I am striked on the head by the cricket ball.
.q
Correct Answer: I was struck on the head by the cricket ball.
w
Through thick and thin
Options:
w
1) To be together under all circumstances, no matter how difficult

2) None of the days are alike. Some are good and some are bad
3) To pass through various types of obstacles
4) An obese person suddenly losing weight
w
Correct Answer: To be together under all circumstances, no matter how difficult
India is extremely short

P-of water, and there will be even less
Q-is taken out
R-of it as groundwater
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
Thumb one's nose
in
Options:
1) an illmannered person
2) to show affection
3) to scold a naughty person
.
4) to express scorn
hs
Correct Answer: to express scorn
Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best
Options:
at
‘Have you come from Japan?' said the shopkeeper to the tourist.
1) The shopkeeper asked the tourist whether she had come from Japan.
m
2) The shopkeeper asked the tourist that if she had come from Japan.
3) The shopkeeper asked the tourist that whether she had came from Japan.
4) The shopkeeper asked the tourist if she came from Japan.
Correct Answer: The shopkeeper asked the tourist if she came from Japan.
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crown
w
Options:
1) frown
2) apex
w
3) nadir
4) base
Correct Answer: apex
w
The unruly behaviour of the parliamentarians _____________ the speaker.
Options:
1) incensed
2) estranged
3) enflamed
4) disparaged
Correct Answer: incensed
The hapless kid (cut a sorry figure) in his first performance on the stage.
Options:
1) made a sorry figure
2) made a sad figure
3) cut a sorry face
in
4) no improvement
.
appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and
hs
indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
To better the public transport system, the municipality ______________ the scheme of securing
dedicated lanes for buses.
Options:
1) marketed
2) launched
3) floated
4) enhanced
at
m
Correct Answer: launched

.q
Options:
1) blottched
2) essences
3) sylabus
4) semmantic
w
Correct Answer: essences

w
preacher
Options:
w
1) atheist
2) agnostic
3) evangelist
4) pagan
Correct Answer: evangelist
the customary code of polite behaviour in society or among members of a particular
profession or group
Options:
1) etiquette
2) frizette
3) epaulette
4) fossette
Correct Answer: etiquette
in
Options:
1) depictted
2) brisbaane
3) fiddling
.
4) ponderred
hs
Correct Answer: fiddling
Options:
1) A
at
Although he studied(A)/very hard, he(B)/could not pass the exam.(C)/No error(D)
m
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
.q
veracity
w
Options:
1) deceit
2) condor
w
3) probity
4) rectitude
Correct Answer: deceit
w
the way in which a substance holds together; thickness or viscosity
Options:
1) corpulency
2) consistency
3) exigency
4) exultancy
Correct Answer: consistency
QID : 196 correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The main failings were of conception and a political willingness to settle _________ easy
options. _______________ the expansive declarations
of the need "to maintain effective security of all nuclear materials, _______________ includes
nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons”, the
summits narrowed their _______________ to civilian holdings __________________ nonnuclear
weapon states.
in
options.
Options:
1) to
.
2) of
hs
3) from
4) for
Correct Answer: for
at
m
weapon states.
_______________ the expansive declarations of the need

.q
Options:
1) Inspite
2) Since
3) Despite
4) Despite of
w
w
w

weapon states.
_______________ includes nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons”

Options:
1) which
2) that
3) those
4) who
weapon states.
in
the summits narrowed their _______________
Options:
1) view
2) focus
.
3) attention
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4) vision
Correct Answer: focus
at
m
weapon states.
civilian holdings __________________ nonnuclear weapon states.

Options:
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1) into
2) for
3) in
4) about
Correct Answer: in
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SET-34
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Technology for
w
P-tracking droughts has

Q-grown in leaps and bounds
R-forecasting and
Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
If you are living in the crowded part of the city then you should be ready to (bear) the noise.
Options:
1) bear off
2) bear away
3) bear with
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: bear with
in
Options:
.
1) extoled
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2) couscous
3) infernall
4) conceriti
Correct Answer: couscous
based on random choice or personal whim

at
m
Options:
1) auxiliary
2) arbitrary
3) allegory
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4) ambulatory
Correct Answer: arbitrary
w
Wild goose chase

w
Options:
1) A hopeless search for something unattainable
2) An adventurous trip full of surprises
3) To waste a lot of time and effort for small returns
w
4) To have fun doing a certain task

Correct Answer: A hopeless search for something unattainable
The NSG
P- of nuclear trade, spelt out in its guidelines and trigger-lists
Q- covering every aspect
R- has already made its rules,
Options:
1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
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Today the cost of living(A)/is so high that many people(B)/find it difficult to make ends
meet.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
You bet
at
m
Options:
1) Contradicting someone
2) Certainly
3) Gamble
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4) Letting others lead

Correct Answer: Certainly
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The workers expected to finish the job.

w
Options:
1) The job was expecting to being finished by the workers.
2) It was expected that the workers would be finishing the job.
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3) The job was expected to been finished by the workers.

4) It was expected by the workers that they would finish the job.
Correct Answer: It was expected by the workers that they would finish the job.
Vipul has been(A)/suffering from fever(B)/since seven days.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
to slap with one's hand or a flat object
in
Options:
1) to spank
2) to clobber
.
3) to whip
hs
4) to flog
Correct Answer: to spank
deployment
Options:
1) bane
2) banishment
at
m
3) stationing
4) strategise
Correct Answer: stationing
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QID : 288 - Select the antonym of:
to sue
Options:
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1) to absolve
2) to litigate
3) to indict
w
4) to solicit
Correct Answer: to absolve

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facade
Options:
1) frontage
2) semblance
3) veneer
4) reality
Correct Answer: reality
If you come across new words, you should look (them up) in the dictionary.
Options:
1) for them
2) at them
3) them down
4) no improvement
in
.
hs
Crimes against women are ______________ of the deep rooted patriarchal systems of our
society.
Options:
1) indications
2) manifestations
3) demonstrations
4) explanations
Correct Answer: manifestations
at
m
.q
Three Indian ad agencies have _______________ awards at the International competition.
Options:
1) obtained
2) attained
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3) bagged
4) procured
Correct Answer: bagged
w
Options:
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1) deseased
2) spedier
3) schemata
4) unioniest
Correct Answer: schemata
Sara answered, "The photographs are under the drawer”.
Options:
1) Sarah answered the photographs are under the drawer.
2) Sarah answered that, that the photographs are under the drawer.
3) Sarah answered the photographs were under the drawer.
4) Sarah answered that the photographs were under the drawer.
Correct Answer: Sarah answered that the photographs were under the drawer.
in
banquet
Options:
1) fast
.
2) feast
hs
3) voracity
4) gluttony
Correct Answer: feast
To begin______, let us ask ___________ such an appellation, assuming it has only
positive___________, was ever deserved in a city like Bengaluru. At the risk__________
m
earning the well-shaped wrath of fellow Bengalureans, let me explain that______ for a
"peacefull" past apart, it would be difficult to assert that "Asia's Silicon Valley"
had even a history of toleration of difference.
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To begin______,
Options:
1) for
2) so
3) with
w
4) thus
Correct Answer: with
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four alternatives.
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let us ask ___________ such an appellation
Options:
1) whether
2) if
3) even if
4) in case
Correct Answer: whether
four alternatives.

in
.
assuming it has only positive___________,
hs
Options:
1) nuances
2) hints
3) suggestions
4) connotations
Correct Answer: connotations
at
four alternatives.
m
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At the risk__________ earning the well-shaped wrath of fellow Bengalureans

Options:
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1) for
2) of
3) about
w
4) over
Correct Answer: of
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four alternatives.

let me explain that______ for a "peacefull" past apart
Options:
1) nostalgia
2) remorse
3) sentimentality
4) memories
Correct Answer: nostalgia
SET-35
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Ravi had committed a mistake.
.
hs
Options:
1) A mistake has been committed by Ravi.
2) A mistake had been committed by Ravi.
3) A mistake was committed by Ravi.
4) A mistake is committed by Ravi.
Correct Answer: A mistake had been committed by Ravi.
at
Options:
m
1) comands
2) prigish
3) adhesive
4) serenly
.q
Correct Answer: adhesive
endeavour
w
Options:
1) passive
w
2) buck
3) assay
4) intend
Correct Answer: passive
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To understand the nature of electromagnetic radiation, it is imperative that we grasp the

_______ nature of light.
Options:
1) twice
2) dual
3) double
4) dichotomous
Correct Answer: dual
To put the cat among the pigeons
Options:
in
1) To hunt easy prey
2) To be different in a group where everybody is alike
3) To do something that is likely to cause controversy
4) When the entire group feels trapped in a bad situation
.
Correct Answer: To do something that is likely to cause controversy
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He spent a third
P-was of any consequence
Q-made sure that none of them
Options:
1) QRP
at
R-of the time describing his tax proposals, but
m
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
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The temple is(A)/within a hundred yards(B)/from my house(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: D
to moan
Options:
1) to sigh
2) to beam
3) to smirk
4) to simper
Correct Answer: to sigh
deserving reward or praise
Options:
1) meritorious
2) honourable
in
3) virtuous
4) noble
Correct Answer: meritorious
.
hs
The candidate was likely to win the assembly elections (with the) sweeping majority.
Options:
1) by the
2) with a
3) by a
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: by a
at
m
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I am certain that(A)/the officer is not only(B)/greedy but corrupt.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
w
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‘Do you have anything to tell me, little princess?' asked the king.
Options:
1) The king ask the little princess if she have anything to tell him.
2) The king asked the little princess that if she had anything to tell him.
3) The king said to the little princess if she had anything to say to him.
4) The king asked the little princess whether she had anything to tell him.
Correct Answer: The king asked the little princess whether she had anything to tell him.
involving or showing violence and bloodshed
Options:
1) inundate
2) gory
3) sanguine
4) imbrue
Correct Answer: gory
in
beleaguer
.
hs
Options:
1) gnaw
2) assist
3) badger
4) pester
Correct Answer: assist
at
m
The special court was ____________ without having reached any decision on the case.
Options:
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1) adjourned
2) dispersed
3) postponed
4) recessed
Correct Answer: adjourned
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w
Options:
1) bloting
2) terrazo
3) gulible
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4) pyroxene
Correct Answer: pyroxene
melodramatic
Options:
1) tranquil
2) halcyon
3) bucolic
4) theatrical
Correct Answer: theatrical
The yatra focussed

P-for poor and
Q-marginalised communities
R-on access to development and dignity
in
Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
.
4) QRP
hs
Correct Answer: RPQ
to shoot the breeze
Options:
at
1) To do random acts hoping one will be successful
2) To have a casual conversation
m
3) To release stomach gases
4) To brag about some mild achievement
Correct Answer: To have a casual conversation
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It was hard to believe that she (were) dead for three months.
Options:
w
1) was
2) has been
3) is
w
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: has been
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___________ being an intangible idea, the nation is quite real because it is a shared idea.
_______________ of nationhood are important for this
sharing to be reliably reproduced, which is why we have familiar _____________ to memory like
maps, flags, or the figure of Mother India.
National symbols are extremely powerful ________________ they connect to compressed
reservoirs of intense _________________.
___________ being an intangible idea

Options:
1) Inspite
2) Although
3) Despite of
4) Despite
in
.
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_______________ of nationhood are important

Options:
1) Symbols
2) Badges
3) Emblems
4) Figures
Correct Answer: Symbols
at
m
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w

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we have familiar _____________ to memory like maps, flags, or the figure of Mother India.
Options:
1) assistance
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2) aids
3) help
4) support
Correct Answer: aids

National symbols are extremely powerful ________________

Options:
1) since
2) because
3) so
in
4) thereof
Correct Answer: because
.
hs

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they connect to compressed reservoirs of intense _________________.

m
Options:
1) compassion
2) empathy
3) emotion
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4) elation
Correct Answer: emotion
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The professor _______________ over just one point for full two hours.
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Options:
1) deliberated
2) mentioned
3) conversed
4) stated
Correct Answer: deliberated
Statistics show
P-figures over the last three decades

Q-in several parts of India
R-a steady rise in the turnout
Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
in
.
Priya got good grades(A)/not in Hindi essay(B)/but also in arithmetic.(C)/No error(D)
hs
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B at
m
the recently dead person in question
Options:
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1) obliviate
2) deceased
3) euthanized
4) reposed
Correct Answer: deceased
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The best of both worlds
Options:
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1) To live like a saint so that you are the best in the living world as well as the heavens
2) To be lucky in life as well as in death
3) The benefits of widely differing situations, enjoyed at the same time
4) To be popular amongst both the opposing groups
Correct Answer: The benefits of widely differing situations, enjoyed at the same time
vigour
Options:
1) lethargy
2) fettle
3) kilter
4) robust
Correct Answer: lethargy
QID : 182 Select the synonym of:
streak
in
Options:
1) freak
2) bright
3) immaculate
.
4) smear
hs
Correct Answer: smear
QID : 183 Select the antonym of:
skeptic
Options:
1) profaner
2) heretic
3) atheist
at
m
4) devotee
Correct Answer: devotee

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Options:
1) humanoid
2) spiling
3) amigrate
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4) referrent
Correct Answer: humanoid
w
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I told to the coach(A)/that I won't be able(B)/to come for the practice.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
sentry
Options:
1) bandit
2) competitor
3) sentinel
4) foe
Correct Answer: sentinel
in
If a person (studied) the history of the Maratha empire, he would have wondered how a small
warrior tribe could have challenged the mighty Mughals.
.
Options:
hs
1) has studied
2) had studied
3) could study
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: had studied
at
To take the cake

m
Options:
1) To have something unexpectedly good to eat
2) To get a lovely gift
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3) To grab the prize before others

4) To to be especially good; outstanding
Correct Answer: To to be especially good; outstanding

w
Options:
1) rewolver
w
2) culpable
3) vagetate
4) rhythmmic
Correct Answer: culpable
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Father said to Rahul, “Are you in such a hurry to cross the road?”
Options:
1) Father asked Rahul if he was in such a hurry to cross the road.
2) Father asked Rahul whether he was in a big hurry to cross the road.
3) Father asked Rahul that if he was in such a hurry to cross the road.
4) Father ask Rahul whether he was in such a hurry to cross the road.
Correct Answer: Father asked Rahul if he was in such a hurry to cross the road.
The most useful gift of my wedding was given to me by my aunt.
Options:
in
1) My aunt gave me the most useful gift of my wedding.
2) My aunt had given me the most useful gift of my wedding.
3) The gift which has been most useful has been given to me by my aunt.
4) My aunt has given me the most useful gift of my wedding.
.
Correct Answer: My aunt gave me the most useful gift of my wedding.
hs
A dissent in a court
P-the intelligence of a future day
Q-to the brooding spirit of law, to
R-of last resort is an appeal
Options:
1) QRP
at
m
2) RQP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
.q
By 2030 India (would) have become the most populous country in the world.
w
Options:
1) will
2) should
w
3) shall
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: will
w
I won't be able to come to the party, as I have certain _______________ to meet.
Options:
1) promises
2) commitments
3) assurances
4) tasks
Correct Answer: commitments
To cut off a branch, limb, or twig from the main body of a tree
Options:
1) dollop
2) clop
in
3) lop
4) slop
Correct Answer: lop
.
hs
four alternatives.
Restorative justice is _______________ from mediation though it involves meetings and

dialogues to fix responsibility for wrongdoing and to
find a solution acceptable to ______________ three parties. More importantly, it directly
at
addresses victim needs and ________________
emphasises the private dimensions of a public wrong. It is not a substitute _______________
the formal criminal justice system, but a good
backup to reduce its workload and to increase the sense of justice in the system as a
m
__________________.
Restorative justice is _______________ from mediation though it involves meeting

Options:
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1) clear
2) distinct
3) recognisable
4) specific
Correct Answer: distinct
w
w
four alternatives.

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__________________.
to find a solution acceptable to ______________ three parties.

Options:
1) all
2) entire
3) full
4) complete
Correct Answer: all
four alternatives.

in
.
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__________________.
More importantly, it directly addresses victim needs and ________________ emphasises the
private dimensions of a public wrong.
Options:
1) so
2) therefore
3) because it
4) then it
Correct Answer: therefore
at
m
four alternatives.
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w

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__________________.
It is not a substitute _______________ the formal criminal justice system,

Options:
w
1) to
2) for
3) of
4) from
Correct Answer: to
four alternatives.

__________________.
a good backup to reduce its workload and to increase the sense of justice in the system as a
__________________.
in
Options:
1) total
2) aggregate
3) whole
.
4) entirety
hs
Correct Answer: whole
SET-37
at
Ignorance is bliss
m
Options:
1) Lack of knowledge is a curse
2) Sometimes it is better for you if you do not know all the facts
3) Fools believe they know more than the wise
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4) To be truly happy one should ignore everything else

Correct Answer: Sometimes it is better for you if you do not know all the facts

w
Options:
1) fidellity
2) befalen
w
3) probable
4) salwager
Correct Answer: probable
w
Varun goes (for cinema) every Friday.
Options:
1) to cinema
2) to the cinema
3) in cinema
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to the cinema
Have a blast
Options:
1) A party with very loud music
2) To have peace amidst noise
3) To have a lot of fun
4) An explosion of happiness
in
Correct Answer: To have a lot of fun
.
hs
It is impossible to do this job.
Options:
1) This job is impossible to be done.
2) This job cannot be done with.
3) No one can do this job.
4) This job cannot be done by anyone.
at
Correct Answer: This job is impossible to be done.
m
Options:
1) essoteric
.q
2) manerly
3) sawsages
4) dissolve
Correct Answer: dissolve
w
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This is the time that you need to _________ all your strength.
Options:
w
1) muster
2) build
3) capture
4) show
Correct Answer: muster
There is renewed sense(A)/of urgency in(B)/completing the project.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) There is renewed sense
2) of urgency in
3) completing the project.
4) No error
Correct Answer: There is renewed sense
in
to allay the sorrow or grief
Options:
.
1) to lament
hs
2) to console
3) distress
4) solace
Correct Answer: to console
at
Your motivational speech(A)/has had the tremendous(B)/effect on my students.(C)/No

m
error(D)
Options:
1) Your motivational speech
.q
2) has had the tremendous

3) effect on my students.
4) No error
Correct Answer: has had the tremendous
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A significant number
P-in the rural nonfarm sector
w
Q-to be created
R-of these jobs will have
Options:
w
1) QRP
2) RQP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
The child looked up at her teacher, obviously afraid that she would further __________ her.
Options:
1) revere
2) extol
3) laud
4) chastise
Correct Answer: chastise
in
Jyoti said to her sister, "The RBI is India's central bank".
.
Options:
hs
1) Jyoti told her sister the RBI was India's central bank.
2) Jyoti told her sister that the RBI was India's central bank.
3) Jyoti told her sister that the RBI is India's central bank.
4) Jyoti told her sister the RBI is India's central bank.
Correct Answer: Jyoti told her sister that the RBI is India's central bank.
escort
at
m
Options:
1) entourage
2) cavalier
3) foe
.q
4) convoy
Correct Answer: foe

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to permeate
Options:
w
1) to desiccate
2) to imbue
3) torrid
4) stale
w
Correct Answer: to imbue
demon
Options:
1) spectre
2) angel
3) shadow
4) zombie
Correct Answer: angel
to teach a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically
Options:
1) to drill
2) to instill
in
3) to indoctrinate
4) to convince
Correct Answer: to indoctrinate
.
hs
Mr. Shah (is having) two houses.
Options:
1) has
2) got
3) has been having
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: has
at
m
swine
.q
Options:
1) hog
2) simple
3) immaculate
4) shine
w
Correct Answer: hog
QID : 95 Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

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By doing so, it
P-brought it closer
Q-to cultural and social life
w
R-has redefined politics and
Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
four alternatives.
Antiapartheid activist Desmond Tutu is even more hardheaded when he says, "In almost
____________ language, the most difficult words are 'I am sorry’." Mr.
Tutu adds that ______________ reconciliations can only lead to spurious healing. _____________
him forgiveness is a wager, an ethical wager on the future of
______________ relationship. This is why the few events of apology which stand up to
_____________ scrutiny deserve to be treasured.
"In almost ____________ language, the most difficult words are 'I am sorry'."
in
Options:
1) each
2) all
3) any
.
4) every
hs
Correct Answer: every
four alternatives.
at
m
Mr. Tutu adds that ______________ reconciliations can only lead to spurious healing.
.q
Options:
1) artificial
2) phony
3) spurious
4) bogus
w
Correct Answer: spurious
w
four alternatives.
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_____________ him forgiveness is a wager

Options:
1) For
2) To
3) By
4) About
Correct Answer: For
four alternatives.
in
.
an ethical wager on the future of ______________ relationship.
hs
Options:
1) the
2) a
3) them
4) him
Correct Answer: a
at
four alternatives.
m
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This is why the few events of apology which stand up to _____________ scrutiny deserve to be
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treasured.
Options:
1) critical
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2) sarcastic
3) cynical
4) satirical
Correct Answer: critical
w
SET-38
Options:
1) mamoths
2) nicotien
3) rickshaw
4) platypous
Correct Answer: rickshaw
One must keep one's promises.
Options:
1) One's promises must be kept by one.
in
2) One's promises had to be kept.
3) Promises must be kept.
4) Promises have to be kept by one.
Correct Answer: Promises must be kept.
.
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Taken together, this

P-gives a total global
Q-stockpile of almost 1,900 tons of
R-nuclear weaponsusable material
Options:
1) QRP
at
m
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
.q
Crocodile tears
w
Options:
1) To feel sad for another person's misfortunes
w
2) To laugh so much that your eyes start to water

3) A person whose sadness is never noticed
4) Expressions of sorrow that are insincere
Correct Answer: Expressions of sorrow that are insincere
w
The professor told the class, "Ice floats on water".
Options:
1) The professor told the class that, that ice floats on water.
2) The professor told the class ice floats on water.
3) The professor told the class that ice floats on water.

4) The professor told the class how ice floats on water.
Correct Answer: The professor told the class that ice floats on water.
to portray in words; describe
Options:
1) to evince
in
2) to divulge
3) to depict
4) to manifest
Correct Answer: to depict
.
hs
In 2001, hundreds of people were killed (from) the earthquake in Gujarat.
Options:
1) in
2) because of
3) since
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: in
at
m
Options:
.q
1) defered
2) decifer
3) fammished
4) glaucoma
Correct Answer: glaucoma
w
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The residence of that rich man was plain to the point of being ____________, with no luxuries.
w
Options:
1) ascetic
2) austere
3) stringent
4) solemn
Correct Answer: austere
motley
Options:
1) kaleidoscopic
2) assorted
3) homogenous
4) disparate
Correct Answer: homogenous
violation
in
Options:
1) abuse
2) obedience
.
3) felony
hs
4) crime
Correct Answer: obedience
at
Seldom we have been(A)/treated in such(B)/a rude manner.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
m
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
.q
Correct Answer: A
Vikram (insist that) he was innocent.

w
Options:
1) insisted on that
w
2) insisted that
3) insisted on
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: insisted that
w
Then, he left for Silicon Valley to ___________ his dream of launching a startup.
Options:
1) persevere
2) eschew
3) pursue
4) cherish
Correct Answer: pursue
bother
Options:
1) obscene
2) beset
in
3) obfuscate
4) oblivious
Correct Answer: beset
.
hs
elate
Options:
1) abase
2) faze
3) exhilarate
4) enervate
Correct Answer: exhilarate
at
m
.q
I will try to be on time(A)/but don't worry when(B)/I am late.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
w
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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The loss of these

w
P-young, and often

Q-make us ponder
R-bright, people must
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
Chink in one's armour
Options:
1) A spotless shield tells that the person has not yet fought any war
2) A small crack if not repaired will break the shield
3) An area of vulnerability
4) One's primary defence system against loss or injury
in
Correct Answer: An area of vulnerability
.
hs
to impose something unwelcome on
Options:
1) to subject
2) to extort
3) to levy
4) to inflict
Correct Answer: to inflict
at
m
four alternatives.
It is obviously wrong as the cost of school uniform, books and stationery, and transport,
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________ all are under the monopoly of the school, are

not included. ______________ private schools want additional money for special occasions like
festivals, picnics, ______________ and projects.
And they often recommend tuition for the children. None of this ______________ in this cost
calculation. However, the family __________ this
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burden and these items add significantly to the revenue of private schools.
books and stationery, and transport, ________ all are under the monopoly of the school, are
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not included.
Options:
1) that
2) those
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3) which
4) when
four alternatives.
______________ private schools want additional money

Options:
1) Occasionally
2) Randomly
3) Rarely
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4) Mostly
Correct Answer: Occasionally
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four alternatives.
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______________ and projects.
Options:
1) travels
2) tours
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3) expeditions
4) excursions
Correct Answer: excursions
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four alternatives.
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None of this ______________ in this cost calculation.

Options:
1) counts
2) is counted
3) have been counted
4) had been counted
Correct Answer: is counted
four alternatives.
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However, the family __________ this burden
.
Options:
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1) bore
2) bears
3) had borne
4) is bearing
Correct Answer: bears
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QID : 76 - Select the synonym of:

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to entrain
Options:
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1) to alight
2) to debark
3) to mount
4) to disembark
Correct Answer: to mount
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Options:
1) virtuous
2) tabbulate
3) infinete
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4) feytishes
Gita had been(A)/dancing at the party little(B)/more than usual.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
vivified
Options:
in
1) invigorated
2) revived
3) dull
4) animated
.
Correct Answer: dull
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Options: at
1) The world is beautiful if one can see it that way
2) To see only beautiful things if one wants to make his life beautiful
3) That which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another
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4) For an infatuated person even bad qualities of the beloved appear good
Correct Answer: That which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to
another
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Earlier its forays

P-were concentrated on ancient
Q-and medieval India
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R-in history
Options:
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1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
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Correct Answer: RPQ
________________ your crime and your sentence may be reduced, suggested the police.
Options:
1) Apologise
2) Communicate
3) Confess
4) Inform
Correct Answer: Confess
The painters painted the entire building.
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Options:
1) The entire building had been painted by the painters.
2) The painters had an entire building painted.
3) The entire building was painted by the painters.
.
4) The entire building has been painted by the painters.
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Correct Answer: The entire building was painted by the painters.
His condition has only deteriorated, his life (hangs with threads).
Options:
1) is hanging on threads
2) hangs by a thread
3) hangs on a thread
4) no improvement
at
m
Correct Answer: hangs by a thread
QID : 85 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:

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Guardians of
P-the tyranny of the state
Q-four square against
R-intellectual liberty must stand
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Options:
1) QRP
2) RQP
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3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP
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Mother said, "Oh! It's a scorpion. Don't go near it, children."
Options:
1) Mother exclaimed with disgust that, that was a scorpion and told the children not to go
near it.
2) Mother exclaimed disgustingly that, it was a scorpion and told the children not to go near
it.
3) Mother exclaimed with disgust that it was a scorpion and told the children not to go near it.
4) Mother exclaimed with disgust that, that was a scorpion and told the children not to go
near that.
Correct Answer: Mother exclaimed with disgust that it was a scorpion and told the children
not to go near it.
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to have as belonging to one; own.
Options:
1) to dominate
.
2) to possess
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3) to abandon
4) to hog
Correct Answer: to possess
Options:
1) panacease
2) saboteur
3) contraste
at
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4) columunar
Correct Answer: saboteur
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Necessity is the mother of invention
Options:
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1) solution to a problem is easy if one is sufficiently desperate

2) great inventions happen only if you are desperate
3) there is always a mother behind every great scientist who has invented something
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4) when the need for something becomes essential, you are forced to find ways of getting it
Correct Answer: when the need for something becomes essential, you are forced to find
ways of getting it
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the action of making amends for a wrong one has done
Options:
1) reparation
2) extortion
3) reclamation
4) retrieval
Correct Answer: reparation
The payment of dues have been _________ delayed , informed the executive to the client.
Options:
1) incredibly
2) crazily
in
3) amazingly
4) unduly
Correct Answer: unduly
.
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discerning
Options:
1) naive
2) asinine
3) inept
4) astute
Correct Answer: astute
at
m
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Ramesh is far arrogant(A)/to learn the error(B)/of his ways.(C)/No error(D).
Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
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We are late because my wife took two hours to (put up) her make-up.
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Options:
1) put on
2) put
3) put over
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: put on
wary
Options:
1) frugal
2) leery
3) prudent
4) inattentive
Correct Answer: inattentive
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alternatives.
India has already made _________________ concessions to enable a consensus and

successful outcome at Paris. Now it must ensure that it is not caught in a
.
relentless ________________ process where each concession becomes an argument for
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making the next one. The post-Paris negotiations will determine more
____________ the shape of the climate change architecture for the next several decades. We
_______________ ensure that India’s vital interests are safeguarded and
the principle ____________ equity and equitable burden-sharing is reflected across this
architecture.
Options:
1) so much
2) substantial
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India has already made _________________ concessions to enable a consensus
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3) many
4) a lot of
Correct Answer: substantial
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alternatives.

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architecture.
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Now it must ensure that it is not caught in a relentless ________________ process

Options:
1) lengthy
2) protracted
3) infinite
4) attrition
Correct Answer: attrition
alternatives.

architecture.
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The post-Paris negotiations will determine more ____________ the shape of the climate
change
Options:
.
1) precisely
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2) exactly
3) refinely
4) sophisticatedly
Correct Answer: precisely
alternatives.
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m
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architecture.
We _______________ ensure that India's vital interests are safeguarded

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Options:
1) would
2) could
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3) must
4) have
Correct Answer: must
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four alternatives.

architecture.
the principle ____________ equity

Options:
1) for
2) of
3) about
4) like
Correct Answer: of
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succulent
Options:
1) torrid
2) luscious
3) arid
4) bare
Correct Answer: luscious
at
m
Options:
1) stamppede
2) easemant
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3) cul-de-sac
4) ripostes
Correct Answer: ripostes
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a state of stunned confusion or bewilderment

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Options:
1) snarl
2) maze
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3) daze
4) paradox
Correct Answer: daze
The majestic Himalayas are revered, for from them _________ the life sustaining river, mother
Ganga.
Options:
1) derives
2) exudes
3) emanates
4) radiates
Correct Answer: emanates
The kids are happy. They (were playing ) in the pool since noon.
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Options:
1) are playing
2) played
3) have been playing
.
4) no improvement
hs
Correct Answer: have been playing
snarl
Options:
1) growl
2) empathy
3) accord
at
m
4) amity
Correct Answer: growl
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To delay or prevent someone or something by obstructing them
Options:
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1) to perturb
2) to impede
3) to irk
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4) to faze
Correct Answer: to impede
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By the seat of one's pants
Options:
1) When one is saved in the nick of time
2) Your future depends on what choices you make now
3) To do it using only one's own experience and judgment
4) Nothing worthwhile can be achieved if you sit in one place
Correct Answer: To do it using only one's own experience and judgment
The pesticides
P-are more harmful than
Q-those used in many other parts of the world
R-used in India
Options:
1) RQP
2) PQR
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3) RPQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: RPQ
.
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The sink is leaking, we had better (send for) a plumber.
Options:
1) be sending for
2) been sending for
3) send off
4) no improvement
at
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panacea
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Options:
1) malady
2) cure
3) elixir
4) nostrum
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Correct Answer: malady
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Discretion is the greater part of valour

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Options:
1) To be brave in any situation
2) Caution is preferable to rash bravery
3) A genuinely brave person is always humble
4) If you are over-cautious then you cannot achieve great things
Correct Answer: Caution is preferable to rash bravery
cameo
Options:
1) trinket
2) gem
3) bauble
4) plain
Correct Answer: plain
The last issue
in
P-can bend policy by virtue of its control over its users
Q-how a powerful monopoly
R-we need to examine is
.
Options:
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1) QRP
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
Options:
1) ceramix
at
m
2) bulwaark
3) adjourns
4) studiuos
Correct Answer: adjourns
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Siddhartha ____________ his wife and children, and left for the mountains.
Options:
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1) renounced
2) deserted
3) neglected
4) relinquished
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Correct Answer: renounced
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best
The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked, ‘What can I do for you?'
Options:
1) The emperor impressed with the singer and asked that what he could do for him.
2) The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what he could do for him.
3) The emperor impressed with the singer asked what could be done for him.
4) The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what could be done for him.
Correct Answer: The emperor was impressed with the singer and asked what he could do for
him.
Vicky is the one who(A)/always finds faults with(B)/whatever Priya does.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) Vicky is the one who
2) always finds faults with
.
3) whatever Priya does.
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4) No error
Correct Answer: No error
of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best
expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
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The online shopping site lowered the prices.
Options:
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1) Lowering of the prices was done by the online shopping site.
2) The prices were lowered by the online shopping site.
3) The prices had been lowered by the online shopping site.
4) The prices have been lowered by the online shopping site.
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Correct Answer: The prices were lowered by the online shopping site.
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Some are born great.(A)/Some achieve greatness(B)/and some had greatness thrust on
them.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out
of the four alternatives.
Irony. __________________word captures our response to the ongoing nationwide drought in

more ways than one. We have woken
_________ the reality of drought a full six months after the end of monsoon. After waking up,
we focus ____________ the drinking water
__________ in urban centres and not the multidimensional crisis of life and livelihood in
_______________ hinterland.
Irony. __________________word captures our response to the ongoing nationwide drought

Options:
1) This one
2) That one
3) One
4) A
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Correct Answer: This one
.
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_______________ hinterland. at
We have woken _________ the reality of drought
Options:
m
1) up
2) up to
3) to
4) for
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Correct Answer: up to
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_______________ hinterland.
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After waking up, we focus ____________

Options:
1) on
2) in
3) into
4) upon
Correct Answer: on

_______________ hinterland.
drinking water __________ in urban centres
in
Options:
1) dilemma
2) trouble
3) impasse
.
4) crisis
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Correct Answer: crisis

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_______________ hinterland.
multidimensional crisis of life and livelihood in _______________ hinterland

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Options:
1) rustic
2) village
3) rural
4) urban
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Correct Answer: rural

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to theorize
Options:
1) to measure
2) to prove
3) to speculate
4) to calculate
Correct Answer: to speculate
To write in plain vigorous language

P-one has to think fearlessly, and if
Q-one thinks fearlessly
R-one cannot be politically orthodox
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
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Correct Answer: PQR
.
hs
No parents can __________to see their ward waste their potential.
Options:
1) visualize
2) predict
3) envisage
4) afford
Correct Answer: afford
at
m
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Abhay said, "I will go to Surat tomorrow".
Options:
1) Abhay said that he would go to Surat the next day.
2) Abhay said he would go to Surat tomorrow.
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3) Abhay said he will be going to Surat the next day.

4) Abhay said that he would go to Surat tomorrow.
Correct Answer: Abhay said that he would go to Surat the next day.
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The (needs) of the hour was to reform the entire banking system.
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Options:
1) need
2) needing
3) needings
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: need
They are going to watch a drama tomorrow.
Options:
1) A drama is going to be watched by them tomorrow.
2) A drama will be watched by them tomorrow.
3) A drama was going to be watched by them tomorrow.
4) Tomorrow the drama is going to be watched by them.
Correct Answer: A drama is going to be watched by them tomorrow.
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.
The minister appealed to the public not to ____________ to violence.
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Options:
1) criticize
2) provoke
3) resort
4) influence
Correct Answer: resort

at
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ambushed
Options:
1) lurk
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2) waylay
3) camouflage
4) exposed
Correct Answer: exposed
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Elections are likely to be held

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P-in 2017 once law and order

Q-time frame has been set
R-is restored though no
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Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
wide in range or effect
Options:
1) sweeping
2) exaggerate
3) exclusive
4) superficial
Correct Answer: sweeping
QID : 286 Choose the word with the correct spelling.
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Options:
1) toxisity
2) traducer
3) rubycund
.
4) impeeding
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Correct Answer: traducer
to treat with cruelty or violence
Options:
1) wrong
2) abuse
at
m
3) pervert
4) fault
Correct Answer: abuse
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One minute they're all sweet (but) caring and the next minute they stab you in the back.
Options:
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1) if
2) and
3) only
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4) nor
Correct Answer: and
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If I had remembered(A)/this it will have(B)/prevented some mistakes.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Options:
1) it is always better to do a job independently
2) asking many people for advice will cause confusion, and the decision will never be made
3) if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well
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4) food is always cooked better if one person cooks it
Correct Answer: if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well
.
hs
Options:
1) litigate
2) diatrybe
3) cloyster
4) griemiest
Correct Answer: litigate
malignant
at
m
Options:
1) mortal
2) internecine
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3) benign
4) lethal
Correct Answer: benign
w
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It was being hard to believe(A)/that my brother could be(B)/involved with anything so

sinister.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) C
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
Easy come, easy go
Options:
1) if you forcibly tie up a person in a relationship that person will run away
2) no matter what, one should never lose temper
3) every task is easy for a talented person
4) something acquired without effort may be lost without regret
Correct Answer: something acquired without effort may be lost without regret
QID : 295 Choose the synonym of
to thrash
in
Options:
1) to pin
2) to grasp
.
3) to pinch
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4) to beat up
Correct Answer: to beat up
four alternatives.
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The battle between attackers and the attacked is becoming still more _____________. Faced
with potentially new cyber ____________, the
danger to India’s economic and national security is going _________________ geometrical
m
progression. To be forearmed, with
_______________ offensive cyber operations and __________________ cyber security, is essential.
The battle between attackers and the attacked is becoming still more _____________
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Options:
1) stronger
2) asymmetric
3) inclined
4) strange
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Correct Answer: asymmetric

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four alternatives.
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Faced with potentially new cyber ____________

Options:
1) onslaughts
2) attack
3) world
4) intrusions
Correct Answer: onslaughts
four alternatives.
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India's economic and national security is going _________________ geometrical progression.
Options:
1) down as
.
2) down for
hs
3) up on
4) up in
Correct Answer: up in
m
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To be forearmed, with _______________ offensive cyber operations

Options:
1) the two
2) both
3) either
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4) neither
Correct Answer: both
w
four alternatives.
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__________________ cyber security, is essential.

Options:
1) more stronger
2) strongest
3) strengthened
4) strengthening
Correct Answer: strengthened
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Options:
1) crockery
in
2) filigre
3) mobillity
4) saccristy
Correct Answer: crockery
.
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To spill the beans
Options:
2) To lose inherited wealth

at
1) To reveal secret information unintentionally
3) To spread rumours to intentionally harm someone

4) To spend away hard earned savings
m
Correct Answer: To reveal secret information unintentionally

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The pool was dry as the water (had been drained off) the day before.
Options:
1) has been drained off
2) was drained
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3) has been drained away

4) no improvement
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cosset
w
Options:
1) ignore
2) close
3) caress
4) fondle
Correct Answer: ignore
The essay is about

P-namely,
Q-what its title says,
R-the enemies of intellectual liberty
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
in
.
hs
The combination of high IQ and general knowledge makes it easier to ____________ these
skills.
Options:
1) have
2) acquire
3) procure
4) get
Correct Answer: acquire
at
m
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"Bring me a cup of coffee” said Nita to her mother.
Options:
1) Nita asked her mother that would she bring her a cup of coffee.
2) Nita asked her mother that if she could bring her a cup of coffee.
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3) Nita asked her mother that could she bring her a cup of coffee.
4) Nita asked her mother to bring her a cup of coffee.
Correct Answer: Nita asked her mother to bring her a cup of coffee.
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Despite the bank's security staff ____________ a vigil over the treasury boxes, the cash was
stolen.
Options:
1) putting
2) placing
3) keeping
4) taking
Correct Answer: keeping
Why did he break the vase?
Options:
1) Why is the vase broken by him?
2) Why was the vase broken by him?
3) Why had been the vase broken by him?
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4) Why has been the vase broken by him?
Correct Answer: Why was the vase broken by him?
.
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privation
Options:
1) hardship
2) abundance
3) private
4) luxury
Correct Answer: hardship

at
m
carnage
Options:
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1) accord
2) butchery
3) concord
4) cessation
Correct Answer: butchery
w
w
To spin one's wheels
Options:
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1) to take a chance
2) to do a job quickly
3) to narrate someone a confusing story
4) to waste one's time
Correct Answer: to waste one's time
The average age at which(A)/people die of heart diseases(B)/are decreasing.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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to kill someone by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate
Options:
.
1) to smite
hs
2) to extirpate
3) to lynch
4) to smother
Correct Answer: to smother
Options:
1) smoldder
2) alveolar
at
m
3) canvacess
4) innosent
Correct Answer: alveolar
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Hardly had I stepped(A)/out of my house when(B)/I saw them coming towards my

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house.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: D
to break up into small parts as the result of impact or decay
Options:
1) to disintegrate
2) disharmony
3) to disinherit
4) to denigrate
Correct Answer: to disintegrate
hollow
Options:
1) alveolate
2) cleft
in
3) cavernous
4) solid
Correct Answer: solid
.
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It was never meant
P-upon fundamental rights
Q-to become a tool
R-to broaden the scope of restrictions
Options:
1) RQP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
at
m
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP

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(Her all) answers were incorrect.
Options:
1) All of her
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2) Her every answer

3) All in her
4) no improvement
w
Correct Answer: All of her
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alternatives.
To impose costs on one of the parties at the end of a ________________ litigation is common;
it is meant, among other things, to act as a ___________________ against
litigants abusing the process and the system of the law. But to seek pre-deposits with a view
to prioritising a certain kind of case over another, by
__________________ early dates of hearing to those that are capable of paying huge
___________ of money, is simply staggering. It reinforces a scheme of classism
that ought to have no place in any court of law, let ______________ the apex court of the land.
To impose costs on one of the parties at the end of a ________________ litigation is common
Options:
1) chronic
2) protracted
3) perpetual
4) infinite
Correct Answer: protracted
alternatives.
in
.
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to act as a ___________________ against litigants abusing the process and the system of the
law.
Options:
1) deterrent
2) incentive
3) catalyst
at
m
4) stimulus
Correct Answer: deterrent
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alternatives.
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by __________________ early dates of hearing

Options:
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1) conceding
2) rewarding
3) donating
4) granting
Correct Answer: granting
alternatives.
capable of paying huge ___________ of money

Options:
1) total
in
2) quantity
3) sums
4) worth
Correct Answer: sums
.
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four alternatives.
at
m
let ______________ the apex court of the land.

Options:
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1) only
2) lonely
3) alone
4) sole
Correct Answer: alone
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Grandfather always (finds faults) with the poor gardener.

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Options:
1) find fault
2) find faults
3) is finding faults
4) no improvement
During a depression even the affluent middle class struggles to _______ out a living.
Options:
1) make
2) eke
3) pull
4) stretch
Correct Answer: eke
in
to cause a process or action to begin
.
hs
Options:
1) to initiate
2) to impel
3) to imitate
4) to conscript
Correct Answer: to initiate
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(As) you find me absent, please leave the parcel with my colleague.
m
Options:
1) Would
2) Could
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3) Should
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: Should

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to dawdle
w
Options:
1) to loiter
2) to mosey
3) to hasten
w
4) to saunter
Correct Answer: to hasten
Dia said to Pari, "Do you like oranges?”
Options:
1) Dia asked Pari that did she like oranges.

2) Dia asked Pari if she likes oranges.
3) Dia asked Pari that whether she liked oranges.
4) Dia asked Pari if she liked oranges.
Correct Answer: Dia asked Pari if she liked oranges.
It is becoming
P-increasingly clear that anyone
Q-of freedom, justice and equality is seen as a threat
in
R-who dares to raise issues
Options:
1) RPQ
.
2) QRP
hs
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
Options:
1) wanquish
2) banterred
3) brouhaha
at
m
4) wanderrer
Correct Answer: brouhaha
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To jump ship
Options:
w
1) Climbing the career ladder

2) To jump to grab an opportunity
3) To leave an organization
w
4) To renounce great wealth

Correct Answer: To leave an organization

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fuddle
Options:
1) upset
2) explicate
3) nonplus
4) rattle
Correct Answer: explicate
To kick the bucket
Options:
1) to get angry
2) to die
3) to fall ill
4) to get hurt
Correct Answer: to die
in
.
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We must take care of the old.
Options:
1) Those who are old need to be taken care of by us.
2) The old must be taken care of by us.
3) Those who are old need care by us.
4) The old should be taken care of by us. at
Correct Answer: The old must be taken care of by us.
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I asked two persons(A)/the way to the school(B)but neither of them knew it.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: D
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a rich source of something

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Options:
1) antecedent
2) lode
3) node
4) provenience
Correct Answer: lode
Options:
1) envalop
2) banditry
3) dorsaly
4) agarager
Correct Answer: banditry
in
While mother mixed the cake __________, Dipu stood at the table watching her.
Options:
1) batter
.
2) concoction
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3) recipe
4) mixture
Correct Answer: batter
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We had to return because(A)/when we reached the railway(B)/station the train left.(C)/No

error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C

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murmur
w
Options:
1) fuzzy
2) muffled
3) buzz
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4) taciturn
Correct Answer: buzz
Further negotiations
P-are necessary
Q-to reach a common understanding
R-to enable implementation
Options:
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
peripatetic
in
Options:
1) confine
2) spire
3) ultimate
.
4) nomadic
hs
Correct Answer: nomadic
four alternatives.
at
All of us have admired some writers, ______________ their work over that of others for their
writing style as much as for the content of their work. ____________ writer
who has, for more than half a century, _______________ for his searing honesty is George
Orwell. He is recondite, but he is never ________________. He says it as it is
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and yet says it as it has not been said ____________.
All of us have admired some writers, ______________ their work

Options:
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1) preferring
2) preferred
3) having preferred
4) had preferred
Correct Answer: preferred
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four alternatives.
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____________ writer who has

Options:
1) The
2) This
3) That
4) One
Correct Answer: One
four alternatives.
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_______________ for his searing honesty is George Orwell.
Options:
1) was admired
.
2) been admired
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3) admired
4) was being admired
Correct Answer: been admired
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He is recondite, but he is never ________________.
Options:
1) trite
2) pertinent
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3) impressive
4) relevant
Correct Answer: trite
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four alternatives.
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He says it as it is and yet says it as it has not been said ____________.

Options:
1) after
2) later
3) before
4) since
Correct Answer: before
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Let us hurry, or else the bus (will be leaving) the stop by the time we reach there.
in
Options:
1) will leave
2) will have left
.
3) would have left
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4) no improvement
Correct Answer: will have left
I won't be able to leave for office until they (arrive).
Options:
1) have arrived
2) had arrived
at
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3) will have arrived
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: have arrived
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"O, what a beautiful lake that is!” said she.

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Options:
1) She exclaimed joyfully that that was a very beautiful lake.
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2) She exclaimed joyfully it was a very beautiful lake.

3) She exclaimed joyfully that was a very beautiful lake.
4) She exclaimed joyfully that it was a very beautiful lake.
Correct Answer: She exclaimed joyfully that that was a very beautiful lake.
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X marks the spot
Options:
1) A very popular place
2) Not to tell others of a fantastic discovery
3) The exact location
4) A secret hideout
Correct Answer: The exact location
to use for the first time
Options:
1) paten
2) smitten
in
3) begotten
4) christen
Correct Answer: christen
.
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synchronicity
Options:
1) conformity
2) conflict
3) vendetta
4) altercation
Correct Answer: conformity
at
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The atmosphere
P-is against them, but there appears
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Q-in their administrations

R-to be fight left
Options:
1) QPR
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2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
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Correct Answer: PRQ
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The weather disrupted the final match.
Options:
1) The final match has been disrupted by the weather.
2) The final match had been disrupted by the weather.
3) The final match was disrupted by the weather.
4) The final match was being disrupted by the weather.
Correct Answer: The final match was disrupted by the weather.
Options:
1) fibrossis
2) quaries
3) arobics
4) homilies
Correct Answer: homilies
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to expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly
.
Options:
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1) to irrupt
2) to puke
3) to spew
4) to spritz
Correct Answer: to spew
accolade
at
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Options:
1) bungle
2) performance
3) fiasco
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4) distinction
Correct Answer: distinction
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One of the state(A)/in which there was a severe drought(B)/last year is Maharashtra.(C)/No
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error(D)
Options:
1) A
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2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
Options:
1) leukeamia
2) steeplees
3) feminism
4) mendril
Correct Answer: feminism
The stock was(A)/divided among(B)/the two brothers.(C)No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
.
Correct Answer: B
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Please be patient. All your grievances will be ____________.
Options:
1) settled
2) satisfied
at
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3) solved
4) attended
Correct Answer: settled
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I ________ my black leather shoes till they shine.

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Options:
1) scrub
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2) rub
3) brush
4) polish
Correct Answer: polish
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You can say that again
Options:
1) To challenge someone
2) To express agreement
3) To politely ask someone to repeat
4) A favourite story
Correct Answer: To express agreement
astringe
Options:
1) liberate
2) constringe
3) circumscribe
in
4) tauten
Correct Answer: liberate
.
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The idea was
P-to spend as little money
Q-while avoiding loss of lives
R-as possible
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QPR
3) QRP
4) PQR
at
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Correct Answer: PQR

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abdicate
Options:
1) forgo
2) usurp
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3) waive
4) cede
Correct Answer: usurp
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alternatives.
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We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic policy of India: a declared
attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined with a _________________ to
do what it takes to raise tax revenues. This unfortunate ________________ has meant a
squeeze _____________ Central government expenditures, and particularly
those relating to social spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic policy of India

Options:
1) into
2) in
3) of
4) about
Correct Answer: in
alternatives.
in
.
combined with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues.
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Options:
1) doubt
2) objection
3) questioning
4) reluctance
Correct Answer: reluctance
at
alternatives.
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This unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze

Options:
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1) juxtaposition
2) nearness
3) contact
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4) proximity
Correct Answer: juxtaposition
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alternatives.
_____________ Central government expenditures
Options:
1) onto
2) on
3) upon
4) for
Correct Answer: on
four alternatives.
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.
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social spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.
Options:
1) effects
2) affected
3) affects
4) affect
Correct Answer: affects
at
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In some seats, the

P-winning margin, thereby
Q-votes for NOTA have been larger than the
R-determining the result
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Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
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3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
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The elephant in the room
Options:
1) A very fat man
2) When a big person is finally trapped
3) An obvious problem that no one wants to discuss
4) One person who is strong enough to defeat everybody else
Correct Answer: An obvious problem that no one wants to discuss
redemption
Options:
1) forfeit
2) atonement
3) retribution
4) penalty
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Correct Answer: atonement
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Ajay, who (was studying) architecture at present, hopes to go to Australia after graduation.
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Options:
1) studies
2) has been studying
3) is studying
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: is studying at
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to imply or suggest an idea in addition to the literal meaning
Options:
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1) to nub
2) to connote
3) to malign
4) to purport
Correct Answer: to connote
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Options:
1) encroch
2) stingiely
3) capittate
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4) placated
Correct Answer: placated
They have published the names of all the successful candidates.
Options:
1) The candidates who have succeeded their names they had published.
2) The names of all the successful candidates have been published by them.
3) The candidates who have succeeded their names have been published by them.
4) The names of all the successful candidates were published by them.
Correct Answer: The names of all the successful candidates have been published by them.
Options:
1) chastise
2) adellaide
in
3) paarlance
4) bouttique
Correct Answer: chastise
.
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To improve your vocabulary(A)/one thing that you should do (B)/is to read Times of
India(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: C
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The professor informed that (A)/they had all done(B)/very badly.(C)/No error(D)
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Options:
1) A
2) B
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3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
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to make from scratch
Options:
1) The universe was created out of nothing
2) To do something from the beginning
3) To build something out of nothing
4) One scratch if neglected will destroy the structure eventually
Correct Answer: To do something from the beginning
to resolve a sentence into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles
Options:
1) to dissect
2) to anatomize
3) to parse
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4) to synthesize
Correct Answer: to parse
.
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The primary objective of a socialist government is to __________ the miseries of the poor.
Options:
1) mollify
2) mitigate
3) soothe
4) abet
Correct Answer: mitigate
at
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They not only

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P-tech activists on to the streets

Q-ran an innovative and creative campaign, but
R-were also able to bring
Options:
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1) RQP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
w
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
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They said, “We are starting now."
Options:
1) They said that we were starting then.
2) They said that they were starting now.
3) They said that they would be starting now.
4) They said that they were starting then.
Correct Answer: They said that they were starting then.
haste
Options:
1) soon
2) eventually
3) later
4) never
in
Correct Answer: soon
.
The Saranda forest is infested (with) King Cobras.
hs
Options:
1) of
2) in
3) from
4) no improvement

at
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provision
Options:
1) removal
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2) cater
3) plan
4) stock
Correct Answer: removal
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The unfortunate family could do nothing, but __________ the death of their sole bread winner.
Options:
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1) wail
2) languish
3) mourn
4) repent
Correct Answer: mourn
sortie
Options:
1) raid
2) assault
3) sally
4) retreat
Correct Answer: retreat
four alternatives.
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The committee _____________ criminal justice reforms recommended a threefold strategy to
arrest the drift and to prevent total disaster. First,
the law, substantive and procedural, requires a fresh _______________ look based on changes
in society and economy _____________
.
priorities in governance. The guiding ____________ in the reform process should be
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decriminalisation wherever ______________ and diversion,
reserving the criminal justice system mainly to deal with real “hard" crimes.
The committee _____________ criminal justice reforms

Options:
1) of
2) on
3) for
4) upon
Correct Answer: on
at
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four alternatives.
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requires a fresh _______________ look based on changes

Options:
1) full
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2) complete
3) through
4) comprehensive
Correct Answer: comprehensive
four alternatives.

economy _____________ priorities in governance.

Options:
1) as well as
2) and
in
3) and also
4) plus
Correct Answer: as well as
.
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four alternatives.

in society and economy _____________ at
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The guiding ____________ in the reform
Options:
1) law
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2) rule
3) principle
4) path
Correct Answer: principle
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four alternatives.
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process should be decriminalisation wherever ______________ and diversion

Options:
1) possible
2) allowed
3) imaginable
4) viable
Correct Answer: possible
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pal
Options:
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1) buddy
2) lad
3) foe
4) dude
.
Correct Answer: buddy
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having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger
Options:
1) volatile
2) wild
3) reckless
at
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4) giddy
Correct Answer: giddy

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(It is no good to cry) over past failures.
Options:
1) It is of no good crying
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2) It is of no good to cry
3) It is no good crying
4) no improvement
w
Correct Answer: It is no good crying
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Sairat is one of the latest(A)/in the list of contemporary Marathi movies(B)/which appeared
in recent times.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
A month before he was scheduled to be hanged from the ________________ , the president
granted him clemency.
Options:
1) gallows
in
2) balcony
3) stands
4) frame
Correct Answer: gallows
.
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
Options:
at
1) Many times those who fight eventually become best of friends
2) If one has to give up fighting with some group because one can't win, band together with
them
3) Not to hurt others. Instead, be friends with them.
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4) To fight till you get acceptance to a group which does not initially accept you as a member
Correct Answer: If one has to give up fighting with some group because one can't win, band
together with them
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bequeath
Options:
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1) receive
2) impart
3) bestow
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4) entrust
Correct Answer: receive
QID : 283 Choose the antonym of

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stun
Options:
1) petrify
2) calm
3) flabbergast
4) stupefy
Correct Answer: calm
Preeti ran the race in record time.
Options:
1) In record time Preeti ran the race.
2) The race was run by Preeti in record time.
3) The race was being run by Preeti in record time.
4) The race had been ran by Preeti in record time.
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Correct Answer: The race was run by Preeti in record time.
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I went to sleep last night, (almost as soon as) my head hit the pillow.
hs
Options:
1) no sooner then
2) as quickly as
3) almost as quickly as
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: no improvement at
m
Options:
1) aplauds
2) neonaetes
3) bestiary
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4) pinnioned
Correct Answer: bestiary
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All good things must come to an end

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Options:
1) Even enjoyable experiences cannot last for ever
2) A good story should always have a happy ending
3) The world will be destroyed one day
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4) Only bad things can continue forever. Life of good things feel short.
Correct Answer: Even enjoyable experiences cannot last for ever
to defile
Options:
1) to esteem
2) to besmirch
3) to elevate
4) to sanctify
Correct Answer: to besmirch
I am better(A)/adapted to the(B)/climate than you.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
.
Correct Answer: D
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It is high time
P-about the cost and
Q-the government started thinking
R-quality of power supply
Options:
1) RPQ
at
m
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
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For India, therefore,

P-a priority along with nuclear safety
w
Q-nuclear security is not a new objective,

R-but has always been
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Options:
1) RQP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
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4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
Options:
1) frackture
2) thiners
3) aproved
4) divining
Correct Answer: divining
The researchers are _____________ into the mode of life of diabetes patients as diabetes is a
lifestyle ailment.
Options:
1) inspecting
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2) investigating
3) observing
4) seeing
Correct Answer: investigating
.
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Puneet said, "I have been reading a story book".
Options: at
1) Puneet said he has been reading a story book.
2) Puneet said that he had been reading a story book.
3) Puneet said that he has been reading a story book.
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4) Puneet said that he had read a story book.
Correct Answer: Puneet said that he had been reading a story book.
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a person who is not accepted by a social group, especially because he or she is not liked,
respected, or trusted
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Options:
1) fugitive
2) vagrant
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3) pariah
4) tramp
Correct Answer: pariah
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four alternatives.
The new claim that ______________ out of misplaced confidence that all that is in education
can be ______________ is that the ‘per unit cost of
outcome’ is lower in private schools. Meaning that even _________ the learning outcomes of
private schools are not better _____________ the
public schools, the cost _______________ running private schools is much lower.
The new claim that ______________ out of misplaced

Options:
1) emerging
2) emerge
3) was emerged
4) emerged
Correct Answer: emerged
four alternatives.
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.
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education can be ______________ is that the ‘per unit cost of outcome' is lower in private
schools.
Options:
1) quantified
2) counted
3) totalled
4) scored
Correct Answer: quantified
at
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four alternatives.
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Meaning that even _________ the learning outcomes of private schools

w
Options:
1) if
2) when
3) whereas
w
4) as
Correct Answer: if
four alternatives.

better _____________ the public schools

Options:
1) then
2) than
3) to
4) as
Correct Answer: than
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four alternatives.
.
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the cost _______________ running private schools is much lower.

Options:
1) for
2) about
3) of
at
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4) with
Correct Answer: of
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Rupa said to the driver, "Can you take me to the doctor now?"
w
Options:
1) Rupa asked the driver if he could take her to the doctor then.
2) Rupa asked the driver that if he could take her to the doctor than.
3) Rupa asked the driver that if he would take her to the doctor at once.
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4) Rupa asked the driver that if he can take her to the doctor than at once.
Correct Answer: Rupa asked the driver if he could take her to the doctor then.
"If I can see you(A)/I am sure you would(B)/be looking beautiful,"Naina said.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
He is now very old, yet grandfather still is the _______________ head of my extended family.
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Options:
1) absolute
2) complete
.
3) overall
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4) undisputed
Correct Answer: undisputed
barking up the wrong tree
Options:
at
1) One should ignore those who keep harassing them
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2) To say something wrong to a person who has always been kind to you
3) Scolding a thick skinned person will cause no improvement
4) To be pursuing a misguided line of course of action
Correct Answer: To be pursuing a misguided line of course of action
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Back to the drawing board

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Options:
1) To solve a problem one has to go back to the root cause
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2) An inventive person will find fresh ways to solve a problem

3) An idea has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised
4) An artist is always happy if he gets a chance to go back to painting
Correct Answer: An idea has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised
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Options:
1) bulfrog
2) assemble
3) paraket
4) colandeer
Correct Answer: assemble
to pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.
Options:
1) to loot
2) to filch
3) to rip off
4) to plunder
Correct Answer: to filch
in
.
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At the same _________ the bell struck and school was dismissed.
Options:
1) occasion
2) jiffy
3) moment
4) period
Correct Answer: moment
at
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This means that for
P-making a significant dent
Q-have to grow at a faster rate
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R-in poverty, rural incomes
Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
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3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
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To have succumbed to their

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P-blackmail was not an instance of

Q-making pragmatic political
R-concessions; it was one of capitulation
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
conception
Options:
1) clue
2) cognition
3) fact
4) notion
Correct Answer: fact
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People in some rural areas don't get water to drink, (besides) many people in urban areas
.
have water even for their pools.
hs
Options:
1) and
2) whereas
3) where
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: whereas at
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Ajay told the manager that he would not mind (standing and eat) the lunch.
Options:
1) standing and eating
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2) stand and eating

3) to stand and eat
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: standing and eating
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I've been trying(A)/to catch you as(B)/ you left college.(C) No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
Options:
1) reverent
2) tumberils
3) grambled
4) sitation
Correct Answer: reverent

to reiterate
Options:
1) to hark
2) to drawl
3) to halt
in
4) to recur
Correct Answer: to recur
.
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hypnotist
Options:
1) rookie
2) novice
3) conjurer
4) amateur
Correct Answer: conjurer

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to expunge
Options:
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1) to gut
2) to omit
3) to zap
4) to insert
Correct Answer: to insert
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w
An achievement or something desired fail to be attained by someone
Options:
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1) to elude
2) to eschew
3) to shirk
4) to devoid
Correct Answer: to elude
The flood destroyed the whole town.
Options:
1) The whole town was destroyed by the flood.
2) The whole town had been destroyed by the flood.
3) The whole town has been destroyed by the flood.
4) The whole town has had been destroyed by the flood.
Correct Answer: The whole town was destroyed by the flood.
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alternatives.
____________________ some respects, this is unsurprising. Many of these laws do not have an
_______________ political flavour. The rule against admitting
.
_______________ evidence, for instance, is a result of simple good sense and a keen
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awareness of human ______________, independent of the relationship between the
ruler and the ruled. The same ________________ for the laws of property and contract.
____________________ some respects

Options:
1) Into
2) About
3) In
4) On
Correct Answer: In
at
m
alternatives.
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Many of these laws do not have an _______________ political flavour.

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Options:
1) overtly
2) adequately
3) averagely
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4) abundantly
Correct Answer: overtly
alternatives.

The rule against admitting _______________ evidence
Options:
1) gossip
2) rumour
3) scandal
4) hearsay
Correct Answer: hearsay
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alternatives.
.
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Options:
1) biology
2) nature
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a keen awareness of human ______________,
m
3) personality
4) quality
Correct Answer: nature
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four alternatives.
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The same ________________ for the laws of property and contract.

Options:
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1) comes
2) goes
3) pushes
4) pulls
Correct Answer: goes
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I wish you(A)/can hear(B)/yourself talking.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
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I took for a ride the motorcycle (which Rohit has) bought yesterday.
.
hs
Options:
1) that Rohit
2) that which Rohit has
3) that Rohit had
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: that Rohit
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Whether the emergence

m
P-will change the ugly dynamic
Q-of these popular protests
R-in Brazil is to be seen
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Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) PRQ
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Correct Answer: QPR

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taciturn
Options:
w
1) reticent
2) curt
3) laconic
4) verbose
Correct Answer: verbose
Options:
1) snoping
2) leniency
3) bivoacs
4) kerbsid
Correct Answer: leniency
No one responded to Rahul's query.
in
Options:
1) Rahul's query was not responded to by anyone.
2) Rahul's query is not being responded to by anyone.
3) Rahul's query has not been responded to by anyone.
.
4) Rahul's query had not been responded to by anyone.
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Correct Answer: Rahul's query was not responded to by anyone.
to jostle
Options:
1) to scramble
2) to shove
3) to eschew
at
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4) to hustle
Correct Answer: to eschew
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a person involved in a lawsuit.
Options:
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1) pseudo
2) litigant
3) suspect
w
4) appelant
Correct Answer: litigant
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blood is thicker than water
Options:
1) relations are more important than merit
2) all crimes are not equal so punishment for murder is not same as that of theft
3) family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones
4) deceit from a family member hurts more than being cheated by strangers
Correct Answer: family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important
ones
After walking around

P-to quench their thirst
Q-a bit, the women searched
R-for a hand pump
Options:
1) RQP
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2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: QRP
.
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I'll never be marrying(A)/anyone, but(B)/will be a dancer.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: A
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The princess asked, 'What is it that makes you stronger and braver than other men?'
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Options:
1) The princess asked him what was it that made him stronger and braver than other men.
2) The princess asked him that, what was it that made him stronger and braver than other
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men.
3) The princess asked him that, what was making him stronger and braver than other men.
4) The princess asked him, what has made him stronger and braver than other men.
Correct Answer: The princess asked him what was it that made him stronger and braver than
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other men.
He had never been of a ____________ constitution, and after a little more than a week's illness
he died.
Options:
1) superb
2) energetic
3) dynamic
4) robust
Correct Answer: robust
panorama
Options:
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1) puny
2) wee
3) diminutive
4) spectacle
.
Correct Answer: spectacle
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Corruption has become (the day's order).
Options:
1) today's order
2) the order of the day
3) the order of today
4) no improvement
at
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Correct Answer: the order of the day
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It doesn't look like you're all that ________ at singing either.
Options:
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1) ignorance
2) skilled
3) adept
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4) adapt
Correct Answer: adept

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Options:
1) clinched
2) manteling
3) vivicity
4) alergic
Correct Answer: clinched
Either of two parallels of latitude on the earth, one 23°27′ north of the equator and the other
23°27′ south of the equator
Options:
1) tropic
2) torrid
3) arctic
4) frigid
Correct Answer: tropic
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initiative
.
Options:
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1) apathy
2) cowardice
3) dynamism
4) lethargy
Correct Answer: dynamism
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once in a blue moon

m
Options:
1) an imaginary situation
2) feeling sad
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3) a beautiful sight
4) to happen very rarely
Correct Answer: to happen very rarely
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four alternatives.
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Decisions that profoundly _________________ not only the present __________________

succeeding generations, should not be taken in a
______________, or through onetime referendums. This is basic political common
________________. But in a voter turnout of 72.2 per cent,
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51.9 per cent decided that Britain should exit the European Union (EU). The
___________________ of the Brexit vote are painfully clear.
Decisions that profoundly _________________

Options:
1) effect
2) affect
3) are effecting
4) are affecting
Correct Answer: affect
four alternatives.

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not only the present __________________ succeeding generations,
Options:
1) even the
.
2) but even the
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3) however also
4) but also
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should not be taken in a ______________, or through onetime referendums.

Options:
1) speed
2) rush
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3) fast
4) race
Correct Answer: rush
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four alternatives.
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This is basic political common ________________.

Options:
1) sense
2) feeling
3) attitude
4) philosophy
Correct Answer: sense
four alternatives.
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.
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The ___________________ of the Brexit vote are painfully clear.
Options:
1) residue
2) corollary
3) consequences
4) sequel
Correct Answer: consequences
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SET-49

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When the prodigal son returned home, his father welcomed him (with open hands).
Options:
1) with open hearts
2) with open mind
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3) with open arms

4) no improvement
Correct Answer: with open arms
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"I don't know the way. Do you?" Vipul asked.
Options:
1) Vipul said he didn't know the way and asked her if she did.
2) Vipul said he didn't knew the way and asked her if she did.
3) Vipul said he didn't knew the way and asked her whether she did.
4) Vipul said that he didn't know the way and asked her if she did.
Correct Answer: Vipul said that he didn't know the way and asked her if she did.
It is hard to
P-of some
Q-miss the political significance
R-of these beneficiaries
Options:
1) PQR
2) RQP
3) QPR
in
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: QPR
.
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to have a strong emotional effect on.
Options:
1) to smother
2) to yield
3) to overwhelm
4) to forfeit
Correct Answer: to overwhelm
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objectionable
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Options:
1) aperitif
2) abhorrent
3) savory
4) saporus
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Correct Answer: abhorrent
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Grandfather along (A)/with the children(B)/have gone to Chennai.(C)/No error(D)

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Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
You can play video games and paint or (draw) from anywhere.
Options:
1) be drawing
2) can draw
3) could draw
4) no improvement
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A fool and his money are easily parted
Options:
.
1) a foolish person spends money carelessly and will soon be penniless
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2) a miser will eventually lose all his money due to one foolish mistake
3) a foolish person will never be able to get rich
4) a rich person should be smart enough to avoid people who will fool him for his wealth
Correct Answer: a foolish person spends money carelessly and will soon be penniless
Options:
1) holgram
2) comerce
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3) bluffers
4) cluters
Correct Answer: bluffers
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All bark and no bite

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Options:
1) Children should only be scolded but never beaten
2) To be full of big talk but lacking action
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3) The person who appears most scary will help you the most
4) A person who talks a lot will never harm you
Correct Answer: To be full of big talk but lacking action
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Being a well know scientist,(A)/he was invited to deliver(B)/a lecture on artificial

intelligence.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
Options:
1) hyginic
2) emmigrant
3) anteirior
4) quarrels
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Correct Answer: quarrels
.
to recline
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Options:
1) to lounge
2) to rewind
3) to sheer
4) to plump
Correct Answer: to lounge

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to placate
Options:
1) to provoke
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2) to propitiate
3) to tranquilize
4) to mollify
Correct Answer: to provoke
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But while the defeat made

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P-as it was no longer in currency.

Q-news, the issue on which
R-it was based failed to resonate
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Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
Saima mailed her application for a new job.
Options:
1) The application for a new job had been mailed by Saima.
2) The application for a new job has been mailed by Saima.
3) The application for her new job has been mailed by Saima.
4) The application for a new job was mailed by Saima.
Correct Answer: The application for a new job was mailed by Saima.
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content
Options:
.
1) ease
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2) depressed
3) gratified
4) smug
Correct Answer: depressed
tending to hang loosely.

at
m
Options:
1) to attenuate
2) to enfeeble
3) prostrate
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4) to flop
Correct Answer: to flop
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Possessing even a single nuclear weapon acts as a _________________.

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Options:
1) deterrent
2) detriment
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3) boundary
4) excuse
Correct Answer: deterrent
As global temperatures rise, an untreatable new strain of the flu might _________ up at any
moment.
Options:
1) fill
2) crop
3) bring
4) chop
Correct Answer: crop
four alternatives.
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Once ______________, it is that time of the year when the examination results season may be
just ending and the admissions season is in
progress, and marked by a _________________ of two contradictory voices — often from the
.
same people — that rose to deafening
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____________ from April to May when the results of various school boards _________________.
The first voice __________________ those
who succeeded and did wondrously well.
Once ______________,
Options:
1) upon a time
2) only
3) again
4) more
at
m
Correct Answer: again
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four alternatives.
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marked by a _________________ of two contradictory voices

Options:
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1) cacophony
2) high decibel
3) whisper
4) silence
Correct Answer: cacophony
four alternatives.
rose to deafening ____________ from April to May

Options:
1) level
in
2) levels
3) height
4) crescendos
Correct Answer: levels
.
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four alternatives.

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m
the results of various school boards _________________.

Options:
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1) are declaring
2) declare
3) were being declared
4) were declared
Correct Answer: were declared
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four alternatives.
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The first voice __________________ those who succeeded and did wondrously well.
Options:
1) congratulates
2) applaud
3) celebrated
4) recommended
Correct Answer: celebrated
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Who taught you to drive a truck?
Options:
1) To drive a truck by whom were you taught?
.
2) Driving a truck by whom were you taught?
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3) Driving a truck by who were you being taught?
4) By whom were you taught to drive a truck?
Correct Answer: By whom were you taught to drive a truck?
backseat driver
Options:
at
m
1) A person who keeps giving advice to others for things that they are not responsible
2) The one who is sitting in the back seat behaves like a boss
3) The real power lies in the hands of those who control the strings
4) The puppet dances to the actions of the puppeteer
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Correct Answer: A person who keeps giving advice to others for things that they are not
responsible

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A truly free nation will

P-will fail in the marketplace of ideas
Q-destruction as a bad idea that
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R-confidently view even its advocated
Options:
1) QRP
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2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
antithesis
Options:
1) contradictory
2) harmony
3) affinity
4) analogy
Correct Answer: contradictory
Back to square one
in
Options:
1) Remembering one's past makes one humble
2) To be back to where one started, with no progress having been made
3) To become friends once again with a person with whom you had a fight
.
4) To apologize for one's past actions
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Correct Answer: To be back to where one started, with no progress having been made
I am not demanding
P-a set of ethical scripts whose
R-a census of atrocity but
Options:
at
Q-political possibilities could be played out
m
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
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Correct Answer: RPQ
to wring
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Options:
1) to gouge
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2) to untwist
3) to extort
4) to choke
Correct Answer: to untwist
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The stadium was full(A)/of spectators(B)/from one end to other.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Very poor or bad.
Options:
1) gnarly
in
2) bully
3) lousy
4) rad
Correct Answer: lousy
.
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A formal agreement between individuals or parties.
Options:
1) protocol
2) norm
3) league
4) pact
at
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Correct Answer: pact
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Amit said to the gardener, "Did you find the ring anywhere?"
Options:
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1) Amit asked the gardener that whether he had found the ring anywhere.
2) Amit asked the gardener that if he did find the ring anywhere.
3) Amit asked the gardener that if he did find the ring somewhere.
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4) Amit asked the gardener if he had found the ring anywhere.

Correct Answer: Amit asked the gardener if he had found the ring anywhere.

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The (van's doors) are loose.
Options:
1) van-doors
2) door of the van
3) doors of the van
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: doors of the van
No one knows(A)/how he escaped(B)/being dashed to pieces.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
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Correct Answer: D
.
Options:
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1) ardvark
2) cubickles
3) jauntier
4) celiebate
Correct Answer: jauntier
Options:
1) reckliner
at
m
2) midling
3) sledeging
4) slimmest
Correct Answer: slimmest
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How can any ____________ person hope to know what thoughts transpire in so evil a mind?
Options:
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1) rational
2) sober
3) thinking
4) negligent
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Correct Answer: rational
I understood a good deal of (what was going on) about me.
Options:
1) that which was going on
2) what has had been going on
3) what that has been going on
4) no improvement
They played with the lambs in the field and saw no human __________ but the shepherd.
Options:
1) individual
in
2) beings
3) person
4) self
Correct Answer: beings
.
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repatriation
Options:
1) abolition
2) animation
3) cure
4) invigoration
Correct Answer: abolition
at
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ascetic
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Options:
1) spree
2) austere
3) bacchanal
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4) binge
Correct Answer: austere
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alternatives.
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The very ___________________ of apologizing and forgiveness _________________ the

importance of memory and the vitality of the community as a link between past,
present and future. It ________________ the question of the responsibility ______________ the
past and its injustices. Somehow for many politicians, the past is a
different country for _________________ they have no responsibility.
The very ___________________ of apologizing

Options:
1) act
2) stand
3) behaviour
4) attitude
Correct Answer: act
alternatives.

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forgiveness _________________ the importance of memory and the vitality of the community
.
Options:
hs
1) repeats
2) rectifies
3) replays
4) reiterates
Correct Answer: reiterates
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alternatives.
m
.q
It ________________ the question

Options:
1) hikes
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2) raises
3) ups
4) boosts
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Correct Answer: raises
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alternatives.

the responsibility ______________ the past and its injustices.

Options:
1) of
2) about
3) for
4) to
Correct Answer: for
four alternatives.
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.
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the past is a different country for _________________ they have no responsibility.
Options:
1) that
2) those
3) which
4) whom
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m
meadow
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Options:
1) metro
2) pasture
3) borough
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4) civic
Correct Answer: pasture
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Options:
1) paginat
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2) carosel
3) escalate
4) skewwered
Correct Answer: escalate
People came out on the streets and ____________ firecrackers to celebrate the victory.
Options:
1) burst
2) heated
3) burnt
4) ignited
Correct Answer: burst
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I could scarcely think(A)/ what I was saying,(B)or what was being said to me.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
.
1) A
hs
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
However the major drawback

P-of this process is that
Q-there is no legally binding
at
m
R-outcome at the end of six years
Options:
1) QRP
.q
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: PQR
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When you have(A)/gone through my notes, (B)/give the same to me.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
I don’t have a big budget, I just need a place which provides bed and _______________.
Options:
1) drinks
2) breakfast
3) food
4) eatables
Correct Answer: breakfast
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What time are we (going to leave) tomorrow?
Options:
1) going to go to leave
.
2) going to be leaving
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3) going to have left
4) no improvement
to superimpose
Options:
1) to overlap
at
m
2) to adjoin
3) to juxtapose
4) to continue
Correct Answer: to overlap
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an arm and a leg

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Options:
1) a large, possibly exorbitant, amount of money
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2) a highly motivated person can succeed even with few resources

3) one loves a person so much that one is willing to sacrifice his most precious things for
them
4) all children are equal for a mother. She can't sacrifice anyone.
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Correct Answer: a large, possibly exorbitant, amount of money
Options:
1) tusocky
2) lampereys
3) rebeled
4) atrocity
Correct Answer: atrocity
The professor always answers my questions.
Options:
1) My questions were always answered by the professor.
2) My questions are always answered by the professor.
3) My questions were always being answered by the professor.
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4) My questions had always been answered by the professor.
Correct Answer: My questions are always answered by the professor.
.
hs
to inundate
Options:
1) to underwhelm
2) to glut
3) to deluge
4) to engulf
Correct Answer: to underwhelm
at
m
an axe to grind
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Options:
1) preparing for a fight
2) to have a problem with something or someone
3) some important task to do
4) one's skill should always be practiced or their edge becomes blunt
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Correct Answer: to have a problem with something or someone
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a piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically.

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Options:
1) hybrid
2) bud
3) scion
4) graft
Correct Answer: graft
When he arrived at the party, he (had been dressed) in a black suit.
Options:
1) dressed
2) had dressed
3) was dressed
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: was dressed
to reveal
in
Options:
1) to concede
2) to repudiate
.
3) to avow
hs
4) to divulge
Correct Answer: to repudiate
No democracy
P-can survive without the
Q-philosophical imagination
R-roots of such an ethical and
at
m
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) PRQ
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4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
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Anita said, "I bought a phone yesterday".

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Options:
1) Anita said she had bought a phone the day before.
2) Anita said that she had bought a phone the day before.
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3) Anita said she has bought a phone the day before.

4) Anita said she has bought a phone yesterday.
Correct Answer: Anita said that she had bought a phone the day before.
to cut up (food, especially meat) into very small pieces
Options:
1) to crumble
2) to chop
3) to mince
4) to grind
Correct Answer: to mince
four alternatives.
In its _______________ phase, the big telco monopolies tried to levy a "tax" on all Internet
in
content __________________. The Internet
companies were then the new kids on the _________________. They and the Internet user
community fought back such attempts. This was the
first net neutrality war, and it ______________ the principle of ________________ on the Internet
.
between different types of content or sites.
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In its _______________ phase
Options:
1) nascent
2) potential
3) fresh
4) promising
Correct Answer: nascent
at
m
four alternatives.
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all Internet content __________________.

Options:
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1) stakeholders
2) providers
3) manufacturers
4) coders
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Correct Answer: providers
four alternatives.
The Internet companies were then the new kids on the _________________.
Options:
1) slab
2) bar
3) block
4) square
Correct Answer: block
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four alternatives.
.
hs
Options:
1) established
2) establishes
at
This was the first net neutrality war, and it _____________
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3) was establishing
4) were establishing
Correct Answer: established
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four alternatives.
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the principle of ________________ on the Internet between different types of content or sites.
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Options:
1) suffarage
2) quota
3) nonalignment
4) nondiscrimination
Correct Answer: nondiscrimination
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The student body met the Principal to have their __________ heard.
Options:
1) griefs
2) disdain
3) woes
4) sorrows
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Correct Answer: woes
.
Options:
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1) excusing
2) begared
3) redulent
4) imortal
Correct Answer: excusing
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All in the same boat.

m
Options:
1) staying together is the secret to successfully navigating the ups and downs of life
2) In a group, one's situation is tied up with the situation of the rest.
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3) There is false sense of safety in a large group

4) To be in the same unpleasant situation as other people
Correct Answer: To be in the same unpleasant situation as other people

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antique
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Options:
1) obsolote
2) superannuated
3) current
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4) ancient
Correct Answer: current
Options:
1) feriest
2) meditate
3) diuratic
4) farments
Correct Answer: meditate
void
Options:
1) destitute
2) scant
3) bereft
4) adequate
in
Correct Answer: adequate
.
hs
Nations work to expand justice in the society and provide infrastructure to ___________
commerce.
Options:
1) pass
2) contribute
3) popularize
4) promote
Correct Answer: promote
at
m
.q
"Please give me something to eat. I am hungry" the beggar said to them.
Options:
1) The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said that he was hungry.
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2) The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said he was hungry.
3) The beggar while requesting them to give him something to eat and says he was hungry.
4) The beggar while requesting them to give him something to eat and says he is hungry.
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Correct Answer: The beggar requested them to give him something to eat and said that he
was hungry.
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to make (someone) anxious or unsettled.
Options:
1) to pester
2) to perturb
3) to bug
4) to ruffle
Correct Answer: to perturb
Had anybody(A)/ever told you(B)/that you're beautiful?(C)No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
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4) D
Correct Answer: A
.
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to scram
Options:
1) to cluster
2) to array
3) to convene
4) to scoot
Correct Answer: to scoot
at
m
All Greek to me
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Options:
1) The new person in a group gets the most attention
2) Learning a new language is very difficult
3) Saying that one does not understand something that is said or written
4) Everything is new when one is in a new country
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Correct Answer: Saying that one does not understand something that is said or written

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There is no more (accommodation) for you in this bus.
Options:
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1) room
2) seat
3) space
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: seat
to gnaw
Options:
1) to drool
2) to slaver
3) to nibble
4) to spit
Correct Answer: to nibble
Despite this highlevel political

P-have achieved little
in
Q-these summits
R-attention, and fanfare,
Options:
.
1) QRP
hs
2) RQP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: RQP

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By the end of this decade, doctors surely (must have discover) a cure for cancer.
Options:
m
1) would have discovered
2) could discover
3) have discovered
4) no improvement
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Correct Answer: would have discovered
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to depart from an established course
Options:
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1) to deviate
2) to whirl
3) to err
4) to wander
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Correct Answer: to deviate
They also need help

P-rains have failed, and
Q-agricultural production will fall drastically
R-just now, because
Options:
1) RPQ
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) QPR
Correct Answer: RPQ
Go up the beach and watch for tourists (A)/so you could warn anyone(B)/before they get to
in
the water.(C)No error(D)
Options:
1) A
.
2) B
hs
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
My father decorated the entire house.

at
m
Options:
1) The entire house was decorated by my father.
2) The entire house was being decorated by my father.
3) The entire house has been decorated by my father.
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4) The entire house had been decorated by my father.

Correct Answer: The entire house was decorated by my father.
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four alternatives.
This argument is completely ______________ and shows very little understanding ____________
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education. The costs quoted for private

schools, one, have no reliable source of data and, ______________, they discount two kinds of
hidden costs — to the family and _____________
the nation. Often the cost of education in private schools is _________________ with the fee per
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child.
This argument is completely _____________

Options:
1) incredible
2) spurious
3) amazing
4) inadequate
Correct Answer: spurious
four alternatives.
child.
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shows very little understanding ____________ education.
Options:
1) of
2) for
.
3) with
hs
4) toward
Correct Answer: of
four alternatives.

at
m
child.
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one, have no reliable source of data and, ______________, they discount two kinds of hidden
costs
Options:
1) twice
2) both
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3) two
4) secondly
Correct Answer: two
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four alternatives.
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child.
to the family and _____________ the nation.

Options:
1) to
2) of
3) for
4) about
Correct Answer: to
four alternatives.
in
.
child.
hs
Often the cost of education in private schools is _________________ with the fee per child.
Options:
1) equation
2) equates
3) equating
4) equated
Correct Answer: equated
at
m
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at the drop of a hat
Options:
1) to challenge someone
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2) to give up very easily

3) to pick a fight for small reasons
4) without hesitation or good reason
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Correct Answer: without hesitation or good reason

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There must be more oversight

P-which this is done
Q-and much more accountability
R-in the manner in
Options:
1) RQP
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: QRP
Sorry to have(A)/troubled you; since(B)/it couldn't be helped.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
in
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
.
hs
Rohit said, "Leela, when is the next bus?"
Options:
at
1) Rohit asked Leela when the next bus was supposed to come.
2) Rohit asked Leela when was the next bus coming.
3) Rohit asked Leela when the next bus was.
4) Rohit asked Leela when the next bus was coming.
m
Correct Answer: Rohit asked Leela when the next bus was.
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apple of my eye
Options:
1) every thing looks enticing to a hungry person
w
2) a very pleasant thing to watch

3) someone that one cherishes above all others
4) the ugliest child is still pretty for a mother
w
Correct Answer: someone that one cherishes above all others
w
Could you(A)/like to read(B)/his speech?(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
atheist
Options:
1) skeptic
2) pagan
3) disciple
4) agnostic
Correct Answer: disciple
in
.
It was hard to ________________ him involved with anything illegal.
hs
Options:
1) snap
2) draw
3) photo
4) picture
Correct Answer: picture at
m
Options:
1) cabinets
2) basoons
3) sprinckle
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4) esposes
Correct Answer: cabinets
w
To proclaim widely or loudly.

w
Options:
1) to trumpet
2) to herald
3) to manifest
w
4) to blazon
Correct Answer: to trumpet
Options:
1) rosetes
2) reaffirm
3) estimat
4) lunchon
Correct Answer: reaffirm
ominous
Options:
1) secure
2) auspicious
3) apocalyptic
4) propitious
in
Correct Answer: apocalyptic
.
hs
A substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
Options:
1) sedentary
2) placebo
3) lax
4) torpid
Correct Answer: placebo
at
m
This is where clear,
P-well-publicized editorial guidelines are
Q-precisely formulated, and
.q
R-badly needed in Indian newsrooms
Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
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3) PQR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
w
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The officer walked in front, leaning on a stick and __________ limping.
Options:
1) marginally
2) imperceptibly
3) slightly
4) a little
Correct Answer: slightly
The driver gave (advice) at the court during the murder trial.
Options:
1) evidence
2) proof
3) witness
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: evidence
in
You can always count (at me) in difficult times.
.
Options:
hs
1) upon me
2) on me
3) on I
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: on me
to scowl
at
m
Options:
1) to glower
2) to smirk
3) to grimace
.q
4) to grin
Correct Answer: to grin

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repentance
Options:
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1) intransigent
2) obdurate
3) resolute
4) remorse
w
Correct Answer: remorse
The baby really enjoys that music.
Options:
1) That music was really enjoyed by the baby.
2) That music was really being enjoyed by the baby.

3) That music is really enjoyed by the baby.
4) This music was really enjoyed by the baby.
Correct Answer: That music is really enjoyed by the baby.
four alternatives.
Worldwide, journalism and the news industry are struggling, in this digital age, to
________________ their relevance and value under profoundly changed and
in
_________________ circumstances. In response ________________ the challenge, a strong view
is forming within the profession that one way to ensure that the
activities that __________________ journalism will continue to matter is to hone, strengthen,
and develop its professional capabilities to perform certain
.
__________________ tasks.
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________________
Options:
1) veto
2) reassert
3) withhold
4) renounce
Correct Answer: reassert
at
m
four alternatives.
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__________________ tasks.
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relevance and value under profoundly changed and _________________ circumstances.

Options:
1) stagnant
2) plethora of
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3) variety
4) changing
Correct Answer: changing
four alternatives.

__________________ tasks.
In response ________________ the challenge

Options:
1) to
2) of
3) for
in
4) about
Correct Answer: to
.
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four alternatives.
at
__________________ tasks.
m
activities that __________________ journalism
Options:
1) make
2) manufacture
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3) constitute
4) collect
Correct Answer: constitute
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four alternatives.
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__________________ tasks.
develop its professional capabilities to perform certain __________________ tasks.

Options:
1) trivial
2) core
3) trite
4) frivolous
Correct Answer: core
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disgusting and an unpleasant smell.
Options:
in
1) oops
2) ouch
3) darn
4) rancid
.
Correct Answer: rancid
hs
Maya was not promoted to(A)/the post of a manager(B)/till for a few months of her
resignation.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
at
m
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
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No man is an island
w
Options:
1) a man is self sufficient only when he gets married
w
2) no one is selfsufficient; everyone relies on others

3) nobody prefers to live alone
4) to not marry is like living on an island
Correct Answer: no one is selfsufficient; everyone relies on others
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This letter is to ______________ you with the problems faced by the society members.
Options:
1) acquaint
2) illustrate
3) convince
4) demonstrate
Correct Answer: acquaint
brawl
Options:
1) truce
2) fracas
in
3) altercation
4) bicker
Correct Answer: truce
.
hs
Options:
1) thankfuel
2) chancer
3) nibbling
4) pollyglot
Correct Answer: nibbling at
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a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
Options:
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1) agitate
2) fluster
3) stoic
4) upset
Correct Answer: stoic
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antagonize
Options:
1) alienate
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2) placid
3) sync
4) serene
Correct Answer: alienate
The professor said to Suraj, "Who were you waiting for?"
Options:
1) The professor asked Suraj who he was waiting for.
2) The professor asked Suraj who he had been waiting for.
3) The professor inquired with Suraj who he was waiting for.
4) The professor asked Suraj who he has been waiting for.
Correct Answer: The professor asked Suraj who he had been waiting for.
offensive
in
Options:
1) obnoxious
2) agreeable
.
3) repugnant
hs
4) odious
Correct Answer: agreeable
QID : 286 Select the synonym of:
incisive
Options:
1) daffy
2) concise
at
m
3) stolid
4) tedious
Correct Answer: concise
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I am raising these questions

P-are early warning signs
Q-of a deeper crisis
w
R-because such events
Options:
w
1) RQP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QRP
w
Correct Answer: RPQ
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Options:
1) the most noticeable problems are the ones most likely to get attention
2) one unfortunate child always keep getting punished
3) the person who complains the most is hated the most

4) the favourite child or student gets the most attention
Correct Answer: the most noticeable problems are the ones most likely to get attention
One who perpetually hesitates(A)/which of the two things he will do first(B)/will ultimately do
neither.(C)No error(D)
in
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
.
4) D
hs
Correct Answer: D
The other shirt (will cost) you more.
Options:
1) would cost
2) will be costing
3) could be costing
at
m
4) no improvement

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Even the knowledge

P-for less disastrous policies
Q-the Census would make
R-of elementary facts from
w
Options:
1) QRP
w
2) QPR
3) PRQ
4) RQP
Correct Answer: RQP
w
Options:
1) mongose
2) salavaged
3) belives
4) although
Correct Answer: although
I will wash the car every Sunday.
Options:
1) The car would be washed by me every Sunday.
2) The car will be washed by me every Sunday.
3) Every Sunday the car would be washed by me.
4) The car will have been washed by me every Sunday.
in
Correct Answer: The car will be washed by me every Sunday.
.
hs
If you exercise ______________ for half an hour daily, then you will rid yourself from the
problem of hypertension.
Options:
1) recurrently
2) regularly
3) routinely
4) continuously
Correct Answer: regularly
at
m
Having finished the voluminous novel, (it was being put away by him).
.q
Options:
1) it was put away by him
2) he has had put it away
3) he put it away
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4) no improvement
Correct Answer: he put it away
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four alternatives.
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The chasm ______________ the needs of the people who struggle ______________ survival,
action and inaction by representatives, and lack of
remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________. Defections
from one party to another indicate
_______________ of the basic obligations of representatives, even ___________ their own people
starve.
The chasm ______________ the needs of the people

Options:
1) between
2) of
3) about
4) in
Correct Answer: between
four alternatives.
in
starve.
.
hs
who struggle ______________ survival, action
Options:
1) for
2) with
3) from
4) of
Correct Answer: for at
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four alternatives.
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starve.
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lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________.

Options:
1) really
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2) superlatively
3) enormously
4) too much
Correct Answer: enormously
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four alternatives.
starve.
Defections from one party to another indicate _______________ of the basic obligations of
representatives
Options:
1) renunciating
2) renunciation
3) renunciate
4) the renunciation
Correct Answer: renunciation
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
starve.
even ___________ their own people starve.

Options:
1) like
2) so
at
m
3) whereas
4) as
Correct Answer: as
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Even more astonishingly,

P-he cast as "beautiful"
Q-he went on to
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R-describe the vote
Options:
1) RQP
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2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is
free from error, select 'No Error'.
His mother hoped that(A)/Bunty would grow up to be(B)/the wise and famous man.(C)/No
error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the
in
appropriate option.
The audience absolutely loved the play so much that they ____________ after every act.
.
Options:
hs
1) acclaimed
2) applauded
3) appreciated
4) boosted
Correct Answer: applauded
at
four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same entence in
Passive/Active voice.
m
The two Prime Ministers are signing the accord.
Options:
1) The accord was being signed by the two Prime Ministers.
.q
2) The accord is being signed by the two Prime Ministers.

3) The accord has been signed by the two Prime Ministers.
4) The accord had been signed by the two Prime Ministers.
Correct Answer: The accord is being signed by the two
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Options:
1) bilowed
2) prosadic
3) immanent
w
4) quibles
Correct Answer: immanent
stupor
Options:
1) swoon
2) consciousness
3) trance
4) apathy
Correct Answer: consciousness
Each of our (trainee pay theirs) tuition fee at the beginning of the course.
Options:
1) trainees pay theirs
in
2) trainee pays theirs
3) trainees pays his
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: trainees pays his
.
hs
To show approval or praise by clapping.
Options:
1) To extol
2) To eulogise
3) To applaud
4) To hail
at
m
Correct Answer: To applaud
.q
To beat a dead horse
Options:
1) To revive interest in a hopeless issue
w
2) A cruel master will expect a slave to work even after his death
3) To extract everything from a resource till it fails
4) Doing a cruel act
w
Correct Answer: To revive interest in a hopeless issue
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appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the
appropriate option.
In a clearing that started a few feet away was a small __________ of cattle.
Options:
1) herd
2) flock
3) colony
4) drove
Correct Answer: herd
bouffant
Options:
1) braid
2) barren
3) hirsute
4) glabrous
Correct Answer: braid
in
which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is
free from error, select 'No Error'.
.
hs
Reeta is a spiritually-centred person(A)/who loves every being(B)/she comes in contact
with.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
at
m
Hit hard by austerity measures

P-government, they lead
.q
Q-of the Conservative

R-lives embedded in anxiety
Options:
1) RPQ
w
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ
w
Correct Answer: QPR

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dependant
Options:
1) absolute
2) reliant
3) autonomous
4) nonpartisan
Correct Answer: reliant
Perhaps the wolf (was waiting) to spring upon him.
Options:
1) had been waited
2) has waited
3) could be waiting
4) no improvement
in
appalling
Options:
.
1) reassuring
hs
2) ghastly
3) dire
4) mean
Correct Answer: reassuring
at
beating around the bush

m
Options:
1) Not accepting the real issue and solving minor problems
2) To avoid getting to the point of an issue
.q
3) To run around in circles and never accomplishing results

4) Avoiding coming face to face with a problem, escaping
Correct Answer: To avoid getting to the point of an issue
w
(of a cat) to make a low continuous vibratory sound expressing contentment.

w
Options:
1) to buzz
2) to roar
w
3) to meow
4) to purr
Correct Answer: to purr
of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in
Indirect/Direct speech.
"Won’t you help me to carry this suitcase?" said I to my wife.
Options:
1) I asked my wife that if she would not help me in carrying that suitcase.
2) I asked my wife if she would not help me to carry that suitcase.
3) I asked my wife that whether she would not help me to carry this suitcase.
4) I asked my wife that if she would be helping me to carry this suitcase.
Correct Answer: I asked my wife if she would not help me to carry that suitcase.
Options:
in
1) stripeer
2) borderred
3) varience
4) heretics
.
Correct Answer: heretics
hs
carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
We also need to work towards a re-engineering of procedures. It __________________ that fear

of being scrutinised by the office of the Central Vigilance Commissioner has
at
_________________ loan officers in the public sector into inaction. It is _______________ no use
having a publicly-owned banking ___________ that does not extend credit to sound projects on
grounds of __________________ scrutiny.
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It __________________ that fear of being scrutinised by the office
Options:
1) has been suggested
.q
2) were suggested
3) are being suggested
4) is suggesting
Correct Answer: has been suggested
w
w

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Central Vigilance Commissioner has _________________ loan officers in the public sector into
inaction.
Options:
1) encouraged
2) emboldened
3) petrified
4) energized
Correct Answer: petrified

Central Vigilance Commissioner has _________________ loan officers in the public sector into
in
inaction.
Options:
1) for
2) of
.
3) as
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4) to
Correct Answer: of
at
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___________ that does not extend credit

Options:
.q
1) system
2) scheme
3) structure
4) ideology
Correct Answer: system
w
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alternatives.

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sound projects on grounds of __________________ scrutiny.

Options:
1) pensive
2) retrospective
3) reflective
4) contemplative
Correct Answer: retrospective
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They are sophisticated enough

P-to know that Free Basics
Q-the things they really want to access
R-would not offer them any of
in
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
.
3) PRQ
hs
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
to bite off more than you can chew
Options:
at
1) to take on a commitment one cannot fulfil
m
2) to grab a share more than what one rightfully deserves
3) to hog more than what one needs
4) a greedy person can easily be identified from the way one eats
Correct Answer: to take on a commitment one cannot fulfil
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Being in awe of them,(A)/ the young man followed(B)/their direction to a tee(C)/No error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
w
Correct Answer: D
My father generously donated money to the church.
Options:
1) Money is generously being donated to the church by my father.
2) Money has been generously donated to the church by my father.

3) Money had been generously donated to the church by my father.
4) Money was generously donated to the church by my father.
Correct Answer: Money was generously donated to the church by my father.
I said to Arun, "What do you want?"
in
Options:
1) I asked that Arun what he wanted.
2) I asked that Arun what he wants.
3) I asked that Arun what he is wanting.
.
4) I asked Arun what he wanted.
hs
Correct Answer: I asked Arun what he wanted.
Of these,
P-mostly two have proved
Q-to be bones of contention
R-between the two parties
Options:
at
m
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
.q
Correct Answer: PQR
improvident
w
Options:
1) provident
w
2) extravagant
3) miserly
4) thrifty
Correct Answer: extravagant
w
to pilfer
Options:
1) appropriate
2) to bestow
3) to filch
4) to purloin
Correct Answer: to bestow
seedy
Options:
1) posh
2) faded
3) decrepit
4) ailing
in
Correct Answer: posh
.
hs
Technological improvements did not decrease human beings' _____________ to wage war.
Options:
1) routine
2) propensity
3) nature
4) pattern
Correct Answer: propensity
at
m
A period of time during which a person that might have a disease is kept away from other
.q
people so that the disease cannot spread

Options:
1) solitude
2) seclusion
3) quarantine
w
4) desolate
Correct Answer: quarantine
w
to bite your tongue

w
Options:
1) to cause selfinflicting harm
2) to make a desperate effort to avoid saying something
3) harsh words once spoken can never come back
4) to be astonished
Correct Answer: to make a desperate effort to avoid saying something
Do you know (to whom Raj is going to marry)?
Options:
1) who is raj going to get married
2) who Raj will be going to marry
3) whom Raj is going to marry
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: whom Raj is going to marry
in
to ebb
Options:
1) to abatement
.
2) to swell
hs
3) to ascent
4) to surge
Correct Answer: to abatement
Options:
1) magnisia
2) shaters
3) mandarine
at
m
4) horrible
Correct Answer: horrible
.q
A heavy blow, or the sound of such a blow.
Options:
w
1) lop
2) slop
3) flop
w
4) whop
Correct Answer: whop

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You and I must understand (one another), and that too without delay.
Options:
1) one other
2) with one another
3) each another
4) no improvement
Nothing fantastic there, (A)/nor anything Riya would find(B)/either threatening nor
interesting.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
in
4) D
Correct Answer: C
.
hs
Oats are cut shortly before reaching _______________, when they are known as oathay.
Options:
1) maturity
2) age
3) ripeness
4) readiness
Correct Answer: maturity
at
m
Options:
.q
1) ultimasy
2) partime
3) cabarets
4) referes
Correct Answer: cabarets
w
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four alternatives.
India is a country that loves decentralisation and it covers almost every ________________. I
will focus ________________ the subject of
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tyranny. For example, look _______________ our police stations. We ____________________ a

Hobbesian sovereign ruling over us. In political
___________________, one has what is called the concept of sovereignty which is discussed in
Hobbesian terms.
country that loves decentralisation and it covers almost every ________________

Options:
1) area
2) volume
3) range
4) size
Correct Answer: area
four alternatives.
in
Hobbesian terms.
I will focus ________________ the subject of tyranny
.
Options:
hs
1) in
2) to
3) on
4) near
Correct Answer: on
at
four alternatives.
m
.q
Hobbesian terms.
For example, look _______________ our police stations

Options:
w
1) into
2) upon
3) at
w
4) towards
Correct Answer: at
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four alternatives.
Hobbesian terms.
We ____________________ a Hobbesian sovereign ruling over us.

Options:
1) do not need
2) are not needing
3) shall not need
4) won't be needing
Correct Answer: do not need
four alternatives.
in
.
hs
Hobbesian terms.
In political ___________________, one has what is called the concept of sovereignty which is
discussed in Hobbesian terms.
Options:
1) aesthetics
2) metaphysics
3) outlook
4) philosophy
at
m
Correct Answer: philosophy
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.q
Practically (every) part of the coconut tree is used by man.

w
Options:
1) each
2) all
w
3) most
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: each
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Imagine what this can do

P-the news industry in our part of the world
Q-for trust in, and engagement
R-with, professional journalism and
Options:
1) RQP
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: QRP
Tanish has(A)/changed a lot(B)/since then.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
in
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
.
Correct Answer: D
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deviance
Options:
1) accordance
2) compliance
3) alliance
4) aberrance
at
m
Correct Answer: aberrance

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Truth was
P-to lead to a breach of peace as a false one
Q-no defence since
R-a true defamatory statement was as likely
w
Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
w
3) PQR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
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I gave her the book that I (won) as a prize.
Options:
1) will win
2) had won
3) am winning
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: had won
alleviate
Options:
1) irritate
2) aggravate
3) allay
4) agitate
Correct Answer: allay
in
Options:
.
1) mixible
hs
2) dialects
3) venerete
4) pluging
Correct Answer: dialects

at
Unchecked industrial effluents discharging into the rivers has caused ______________ damage
m
to the environment.
Options:
1) uncontrollable
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2) disproportionate
3) infinite
4) incalculable
Correct Answer: incalculable
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I express my gratitudes(A)/to all those who(B)/have voted for me.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
w
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
I am sorry I am late, I was __________ up in traffic.
Options:
1) held
2) delayed
3) detained
4) stucked
Correct Answer: held
in
whole nine yards
Options:
.
1) love someone blindly
hs
2) euphemism for an Indian dress called sari
3) a small area but sufficient
4) everything possible
Correct Answer: everything possible
Options:
1) erasable
2) nuerones
at
m
3) ignomminy
4) trouncees
Correct Answer: erasable
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steadfast
Options:
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1) staunch
2) pliant
3) ardent
w
4) rigid
Correct Answer: pliant
w
Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.
Options:
1) crucify
2) ignify
3) vilify
4) basify
Correct Answer: vilify
under the weather
Options:
1) changing moods like weather
2) a situation changes so fast that it leaves one unprepared
3) slightly unwell
4) raining heavily
in
Correct Answer: slightly unwell
.
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‘Don’t you know the way to the station?’ father said to Anjali.
Options:
1) Father asked Anjali if she did not knew the way to the station.
2) Father asked Anjali that if she did not knew the way to the station.
at
3) Father asked Anjali whether she did not know the way to the station.
4) Father asked to Anjali if she did not know the way to the station.
Correct Answer: Father asked Anjali whether she did not know the way to the station.
m
sibilate
.q
Options:
1) whiz
2) boo
3) exalt
4) rasp
w
Correct Answer: exalt
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The manager must look into this problem.

w
Options:
1) This problem shall be looked into by the manager.
2) Into this problem must take a look the manager.
3) This problem must be looked into by the manager.
4) This problem could be looked at by the manager.
Correct Answer: This problem must be looked into by the manager.
A feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness.
Options:
1) slag
2) declivity
3) prolapse
4) discomfiture
Correct Answer: discomfiture
QID : 96 All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of
in
cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as
________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and
_________________ the unexpected
encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those
.
_______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic,
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nationalist or caste ___________________.
All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism.
Options:
1) well
2) nice
3) good
4) fine
Correct Answer: well
QID : 97
at
All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of
m
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A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already

told us
w
Options:
1) infinite
2) innumerable
w
3) incalculable
4) multiple
Correct Answer: innumerable
w
which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter,

Options:
1) nurtured
2) nurturing
3) nurtures
4) nurture
Correct Answer: nurtures
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respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial
.
Options:
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1) who
2) whom
3) whose
4) whoever
Correct Answer: who
QID : 100 at
All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of
m
.q
ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

Options:
1) partnerships
2) alliances
3) clans
w
4) affiliations
Correct Answer: affiliations
w
SET-58
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The speed with which she typed the draft demonstrated that she is a _______________
secretary.
Options:
1) savvy
2) adapted
3) nimble
4) competent
Correct Answer: competent
magnate
Options:
1) mogul
2) tycoon
3) aristocrat
in
4) nonentity
Correct Answer: nonentity
.
hs
The current ______________ in global negotiations over climate change has stalled progress
on the issue.
Options:
1) intransigence
2) fallacy
3) stalemate
4) rigidity
Correct Answer: stalemate
at
m
India should not be in a hurry

.q
P-to ratify the Agreement

Q-until there is clarity
R-on the U.S. position
Options:
w
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RQP
w
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
w
Birds of a feather flock together
Options:
1) even a small similarity is enough to become friends and stay together
2) there is always more safety in a crowd
3) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together
4) people with bad intentions always form a gang
Correct Answer: people with the same tastes and interests will be found together
The management committee is required to publish a report every year.
Options:
1) A report would be published by the management committee every year.
2) A report would have been published by the management committee every year.
3) A report requires to be published by the management committee every year.
in
4) Every year the report would be published by the management committee.
Correct Answer: A report requires to be published by the management committee every year.
.
hs
Ramesh says, he has already repaid me but I can't recall, so I'll have (to take his word).
Options:
1) to take his word as true
2) to take him at his word
3) to take his for word for it
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: to take him at his word
at
m
No students is(A)/as intelligent(B)/as Priya.(C)/No error(D)

.q
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
w
4) D
Correct Answer: A
w
The manager was highly upset because of (the inordinate delaying).

w
Options:
1) the inordinate delay
2) the inordinately delay
3) the inordinately delaying
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: the inordinate delay
"Is anyone there?" Reema asked.
Options:
1) Reema asked if someone were there.
2) Reema asked whether anyone was being there.
3) Reema asked if anyone was there.
4) Reema asked if anyone was here.
Correct Answer: Reema asked if anyone was there.
in
to cite
Options:
.
1) to conceal
hs
2) to ignore
3) to indicate
4) to deny
Correct Answer: to indicate
at
Rehana had everything(A)/beauties, a good figure,(B)/and a sweet personality.(C)/No

m
issue(D)
Options:
1) A
.q
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
w
Options:
w
1) vacuoles
2) skulcking
3) squodron
4) absenses
w
Correct Answer: vacuoles
a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do
something
Options:
1) loophole
2) ruse
3) ploy
4) gambit
Correct Answer: loophole
Options:
1) etarnity
2) monition
3) advisary
in
4) gigantec
Correct Answer: monition
.
hs
to abnegate
Options:
1) to eject
2) to evict
3) to admit
4) to bounce
Correct Answer: to admit
at
m
having or showing an interest in learning things; curious.

Options:
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1) probe
2) inquisitive
3) speculative
4) snoop
w
Correct Answer: inquisitive

w
poise
Options:
w
1) tizzy
2) turmoil
3) agitate
4) elegance
Correct Answer: elegance
Beggars can't be choosers
Options:
1) those who have nothing have no hope
2) all your options close when you are going through a bad time
3) a poor person is forced to kill all his desires
4) people with no other options must be content with what is offered
Correct Answer: people with no other options must be content with what is offered
The party has not just
in
P-vacated space for other
Q-being steadily hollowed out ideologically
R-political parties, but it is also
.
Options:
hs
1) PRQ
2) RQP
3) QPR
4) QRP
Correct Answer: PRQ
at
four alternatives.
m
Widespread liberalization of the economic ________________ regime was long overdue in 1991,
and has played a positive role since, but its
impact has ________________ its course and the policy has recognisable ___________________.
Liberalization cannot address all aspects of
.q
the manmade environment and now climate change ________________ to change everything
forever. We do not have another quarter century
to deal ___________ these imperatives.
Widespread liberalization of the economic ________________ regime

w
Options:
1) manifesto
2) statement
w
3) plan
4) policy
Correct Answer: policy
w
four alternatives.
but its impact has ________________ its course

Options:
1) run
2) ran
3) been running
4) had ran
Correct Answer: run
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
Options:
1) limits
2) constraint
at
the policy has recognisable ___________________.
m
3) considerations
4) fault
Correct Answer: limits
.q
four alternatives.
w

w
w
now climate change ________________ to change everything forever.

Options:
1) were threatening
2) threatens
3) threatened
4) are threatening
Correct Answer: threatens
four alternatives.
We do not have another quarter century to deal ___________ these imperatives.
in
Options:
1) about
2) for
3) with
.
4) of
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SET-59
If per capita income is taken

P-as the measure then we are
Q-away from 'great power' status
at
m
R-still some distance
Options:
1) PRQ
.q
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ
Correct Answer: PRQ
w
w
My sister will bake a dozen cakes for the fair.
Options:
w
1) For the fair, a dozen cakes would be baked by my sister.

2) For the fair, a dozen cakes would have been baked by my sister.
3) For the fair, a dozen cakes will be baked by my sister.
4) For the fair, a dozen cakes will have been baked by my sister.
Correct Answer: For the fair, a dozen cakes will be baked by my sister.
The naughty boy made (many a mischief).
Options:
1) much mischief
2) many mischief
3) many a mischiefs
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: much mischief
in
My mother likes to ___________ me by showing everyone my baby pictures.
Options:
1) stun
.
2) annoy
hs
3) shame
4) embarrass
Correct Answer: embarrass
agonising
Options:
1) vehement
at
m
2) fierce
3) excruciating
4) cordial
Correct Answer: cordial
.q
Options:
1) motlyiest
w
2) plummets
3) disgorg
4) bangalow
w
Correct Answer: plummets
w
He woke on, rising(A)/to a sitting position(B)/and rubbed his eyes briskly.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
to jeopardise
Options:
1) to chaperone
2) to picket
3) to imperil
4) to escort
Correct Answer: to imperil
in
.
To increase rapidly in number; multiply.
hs
Options:
1) to proliferate
2) to procreate
3) to propagate
4) to escalate
Correct Answer: to proliferate at
m
Grandfather has said so out of affection, do not take (to) heart.
Options:
1) into
.q
2) it to
3) it by
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: it to
w
India has already made

w
P-substantial concessions
Q-to enable a consensus
R-for the Paris pact
w
Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PQR
I was taken ___________ by the server's rude comment about my hair.
Options:
1) away
2) from
3) aback
4) off
Correct Answer: aback
in
Manish said, "Where is she going?".
.
hs
Options:
1) Manish asked that where she was going.
2) Manish asked that where she is going.
3) Manish asked where she was going.
4) Manish asked that where she has been going.
Correct Answer: Manish asked where she was going.
evicted
at
m
Options:
1) congenial
2) sympathetic
.q
3) cordial
4) ousted
Correct Answer: ousted
w
to easily bent; flexible.

w
Options:
1) putty
2) pliable
w
3) rigid
4) ductile
Correct Answer: pliable
I wonder if they(A)/could treat me nicely(B)/if I went there again.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
to chew someone out
in
Options:
1) to bore someone by talking ceaselessly
2) to discourage someone who is going to start a new venture
.
3) reprimand someone severely
hs
4) to save someone
Correct Answer: reprimand someone severely
discrepant
Options:
1) contrary
2) dissonant
at
m
3) harmonious
4) variance
Correct Answer: harmonious
.q
to chip on his shoulder

w
Options:
1) to have huge responsibilities on one's shoulders
2) uniform decorated with stars and medals
w
3) wearing your battle scars like medals

4) holding a grudge or grievance that readily provokes a fight
Correct Answer: holding a grudge or grievance that readily provokes a fight
w
Options:
1) flooring
2) altituede
3) purveyour
4) snobish
Correct Answer: flooring
four alternatives.
That is why publicly invoking these symbols has to be an act of responsible citizenship and
not self____________ demagoguery, but the
difference can be hard to _______________. The problem with emotive symbols is that
_________________ they can multiply the force of
arguments, they cannot replace the arguments__________________. All persuasion harnesses
symbols but principled persuasion must also
provide arguments that can be _____________ debated.
in
an act of responsible citizenship and not self____________ demagoguery
Options:
1) efficacy
2) serving
.
3) esteem
hs
4) reference
Correct Answer: serving
four alternatives.

at
m
.q
but the difference can be hard to _______________.

Options:
1) tell
2) say
w
3) speak
4) mention
Correct Answer: tell
w
four alternatives.
w
The problem with emotive symbols is that _________________ they can multiply the force of
arguments,
Options:
1) tough
2) though
3) through
4) Thorough
Correct Answer: though
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
they cannot replace the arguments__________________.

Options:
1) yourselves
2) yourself
3) by themselves
at
m
4) themselves
Correct Answer: themselves
.q
four alternatives.
w
w

principled persuasion must also provide arguments that can be _____________ debated.
w
Options:
1) absurdly
2) carefully
3) rationally
4) friendly
Correct Answer: rationally
SET-60
feeding frenzy
Options:
1) a mad rush to complete a big project before deadline
2) an episode of frantic competition for something
3) a party where people hog on food
4) a craze which rapidly spreads all over the world
Correct Answer: an episode of frantic competition for something
in
.
hs
You might as well(A)/read a novel instead of(B)/staring at the ceiling.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
at
m
Options:
1) galeons
2) audasity
.q
3) garbbling
4) cerebrum
Correct Answer: cerebrum

w
The pet has just finished its meal (and is satisfied now).
w
Options:
1) now and was satisfied
2) now and is satisfied
3) then and is satisfied
w
4) no improvement
Ajit said to the policeman, 'What have I done to deserve so severe a punishment?'
Options:
1) Ajit asked the policeman that, what he has done to be deserving so severe a punishment.
2) Ajit asked the policeman that, what he has done to deserve so severe a punishment.
3) Ajit asked the policeman that, what he had done to deserve so severe a punishment.
4) Ajit asked the policeman what he had done to deserve so severe a punishment.
Correct Answer: Ajit asked the policeman what he had done to deserve so severe a
punishment.
One will need to watch what

P-happens in the United States
in
Q-presidential elections
R-after the forthcoming
Options:
.
1) RPQ
hs
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
at
m
The kangaroo carried her baby in her pouch.
Options:
1) The baby is carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
.q
2) The baby is being carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.

3) The baby had been carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
4) The baby was carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
Correct Answer: The baby was carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
w
w
There was already a sizable(A)/ gap between her car and(B)/the one front of her.(C)/No
error(D)
w
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
Options:
1) tragic
2) fatal
3) catastrophic
4) pathetic
Correct Answer: catastrophic
in
The air hostess gave me a cup (which had) coffee.
Options:
1) containing
.
2) filled with
hs
3) of
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: of
to concoct
Options:
1) to obliterate
at
m
2) to contrive
3) to decimate
4) to pulverize
Correct Answer: to contrive
.q
w
My aunt wears _________ outfits to ensure she is noticed everywhere she goes.
Options:
w
1) vivid
2) spirited
3) active
4) strong
w
Correct Answer: vivid
to exile
Options:
1) to relegation
2) to usher
3) to banish
4) to ostracism
Correct Answer: to usher
Three examples will

P-suffice as evidence
Q-of her backsliding
R-on longheld positions
Options:
in
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) PQR
.
Correct Answer: PQR
hs
Mayur's second promotion in eleven months confirms he is at the __________ of his career.
Options:
1) roof
2) zenith
at
m
3) climax
4) vertex
Correct Answer: zenith
.q
to envisage
Options:
w
1) oblivious
2) to apprehend
3) to confront
w
4) to visualize
Correct Answer: oblivious
w
excuse my French
Options:
1) to apologize for swearing
2) to speak in a language that others can't understand
3) being excessively polite
4) lack of foreign language skills
Correct Answer: to apologize for swearing
A small, nonrigid airship or dirigible, especially one used chiefly for observation.
Options:
1) float
2) poise
3) bob
4) blimp
in
Correct Answer: blimp
.
eccentric
hs
Options:
1) whimsical
2) chronic
3) bona fide
4) typic
Correct Answer: whimsical at
m
Options:
1) ameenable
2) bevarage
3) chorused
.q
4) loudable
Correct Answer: chorused
w
four alternatives.
But representatives have cynically chosen to look the other _________________ when matters
w
of justice are involved. They seem to have only a

will to power; to be part of a new ___________________ elite. _________________ they forget that
the history of struggle is the future of
struggle. Maoism is one extreme ____________________ struggle ___________________ corrupt
w
appropriative and greedy elites; there are

others.
look the other _________________ when matters of justice are involved.

Options:
1) road
2) action
3) way
4) method
Correct Answer: way
four alternatives.
in
others.
They seem to have only a will to power; to be part of a new ___________________ elite.
Options:
.
1) exploitative
hs
2) decent
3) ethical
4) fair
Correct Answer: exploitative
four alternatives.
at
m
.q

others.
_________________ they forget that the history of struggle is the future of struggle.
Options:
w
1) Hence
2) So
3) Inspite of
w
4) But
Correct Answer: But
w
four alternatives.
others.
Maoism is one extreme ____________________ struggle

Options:
1) size
2) form of
3) sample
4) paragon
Correct Answer: form of
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
others.
___________________ corrupt appropriative and greedy elites; there are others.

Options:
1) against
2) of
3) for
at
m
4) with
.q
SET-61
w
The corrupt officer was a ____________ to the department.

w
Options:
1) disgrace
2) disinterred
3) discontent
w
4) despair
Correct Answer: disgrace
to condemn
Options:
1) to decry
2) to laud
3) to reprobate
4) to proscribe
Correct Answer: to laud
It is a pity that
P-such violence hardly
Q-comes within the
R-purview of the law
in
Options:
1) QRP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
.
4) PQR
hs
Correct Answer: PQR
sketch pens.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
at
For kindergarten children, /(A)drawing by crayons is always(B)/even more preferable then
m
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
.q
Correct Answer: C
w
Jay posted the video on YouTube.

w
Options:
1) The video has been posted on YouTube by Jay.
2) The video was posted on YouTube by Jay.
3) The video had been posted on YouTube by Jay.
w
4) The video is posted on YouTube by Jay.

Correct Answer: The video was posted on YouTube by Jay.
The more technologically

P-advanced and wired a
Q-vulnerable it is to a cyber attack
R-nation is, the more
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) QPR
Correct Answer: PRQ
Options:
1) anteques
in
2) carotane
3) scewl
4) apoplexy
Correct Answer: apoplexy
.
hs
'What do you want?' Sheila asked Rohan.
Options:
1) Sheila asked Rohan what do you want.
2) Sheila asked Rohan what he wanted.
3) Sheila asked Rohan what does he want.
at
m
4) Sheila asked Rohan what he wants.
Correct Answer: Sheila asked Rohan what he wanted.
.q
to cry over spilt milk
Options:
w
1) to dwell pointlessly on past misfortunes

2) to feel sorry for others' misfortunes
3) to immediately start crying after making a mistake to avoid punishment
w
4) to acknowledge one's mistake and move ahead

Correct Answer: to dwell pointlessly on past misfortunes

w
The pilgrim (lain) in the shade of the tree.
Options:
1) lied
2) laid
3) lay
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: lay
The department granted him permission (to stay) in Dubai.
Options:
1) of stay
2) of staying
3) for stay
4) no improvement
in
perusal
.
Options:
hs
1) inspection
2) delinquency
3) inconsideration
4) laxity
Correct Answer: inspection
at
m
The salesman tried to(A)/sell me a solar water heater(B)/but I already have one.(C)/No
error(D)
Options:
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1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
w

w
assiduous
Options:
1) lethargic
w
2) scrupulous
3) diligent
4) exacting
Correct Answer: lethargic
Options:
1) scrimpped
2) avering
3) duodenum
4) evidance
Correct Answer: duodenum
The union allows the employees to bargain ______________ for higher wages.
Options:
in
1) wholly
2) collectively
3) fully
4) completely
.
Correct Answer: collectively
hs
To be full of or covered with a mass of small bubbles.
Options:
1) scintillating
2) brew
3) frothy
at
m
4) aerated
Correct Answer: frothy
.q
Comment added to a text or diagram.
Options:
w
1) lexicon
2) thesaurus
3) terminology
w
4) annotation
Correct Answer: annotation

w
consensus
Options:
1) cacophony
2) harmony
3) tumult
4) clamour
Correct Answer: harmony
best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase
to cry wolf
Options:
1) to keep complaining over small issues
2) to raise a false alarm
3) to act as if one feels sorry for the other person
4) to report to a higher authority the mistakes committed by others
Correct Answer: to raise a false alarm
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
Cyber security has ________________interesting parallel to terrorism. _________________ are
asymmetric. Ensuring security of data,
information, and communication is considerably harder than hacking into a system. The
attacker has an inherent ________________ in both
conventional terrorism and cyber attacks. In the case _________________ statesponsored
attacks, the challenges are of a much
________________ magnitude. at
Cyber security has ________________interesting parallel to terrorism.
Options:
m
1) a
2) an
3) the
4) two
.q
Correct Answer: an
four alternatives.
w

w
w
________________ magnitude.
___________ are asymmetric.

Options:
1) Both
2) Two
3) Twice
4) Together
Correct Answer: Both
four alternatives.

________________ magnitude.
in
The attacker has an inherent ________________ in both conventional terrorism and cyber
attacks.
Options:
.
1) advantage
hs
2) resource
3) comfort
4) sanction
Correct Answer: advantage
four alternatives.
at

m
.q

________________ magnitude.
In the case _________________ statesponsored attacks

Options:
w
1) for
2) of
3) with
w
4) about
Correct Answer: of
w
four alternatives.

________________ magnitude.
the challenges are of a much ________________ magnitude.

Options:
1) heightened
2) heighted
3) high
4) higher
Correct Answer: higher
SET-62
in
.
To place or deal with close together for contrasting effect.
hs
Options:
1) to scrutiny
2) to juxtapose
3) to correlate
4) to contrast
Correct Answer: to juxtapose at
m
After the votes were counted, the family _______________ was for a Hawaiian vacation.
.q
Options:
1) together
2) idea
3) unity
4) consensus
w
Correct Answer: consensus

w
My mother opened the parcel without (worrying) to read the address on it.
Options:
w
1) doubting
2) bothering
3) fearing
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: bothering
to cut to the chase
Options:
1) to chase your dreams
2) to explain a very long story in brief
3) to remove all negative thoughts from one's mind
4) to come to the point
Correct Answer: to come to the point
She could not cope (by) the heavy workload.
in
Options:
1) with
2) of
.
3) up
hs
4) no improvement
The teacher will give you instructions.
Options:
at
m
1) Instructions would be given to you by the teacher.
2) Instructions will have been given to you by the teacher.
3) Instructions will be given to you by the teacher.
4) Instructions were given to you by the teacher.
.q
Correct Answer: Instructions will be given to you by the teacher.
The architecture
w
P-was designed to promote

Q-of the Internet
R-connectivity, not security
w
Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
w
3) PQR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
It secured support from

P-government, a significant development in itself
Q-other sections of the
R-Opposition, and defeated the
Options:
1) RQP
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) PQR
Correct Answer: QRP
in
curiosity killed the cat
Options:
1) a person who constantly keeps asking questions is avoided by everybody
.
2) everybody has a fatal weakness
hs
3) being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble
4) everyone feels like killing a nagging person
Correct Answer: being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble
famished
Options:
1) glut
at
m
2) jaded
3) satiated
4) starved
Correct Answer: starved
.q
Options:
1) humbeling
w
2) wardrobe
3) delicat
4) gazeles
w
Correct Answer: wardrobe

w
mandate
Options:
1) injunction
2) behest
3) breach
4) decree
Correct Answer: breach
Not only we seen(A)/the Tali temple but(B)/also the Thirunelli temple.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: A
in
.
hs
The unique selling proposition of(A)/our products are that(B)/they are unbreakable.(C)/No
error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: B
at
m
arcane
.q
Options:
1) mystic
2) recondite
3) esoteric
4) hackneyed
w
Correct Answer: hackneyed

w
thrashing
Options:
w
1) edifice
2) prefabrication
3) bashing
4) contour
Correct Answer: bashing
Options:
1) guttered
2) melower
3) cystetis
4) mutered
Correct Answer: guttered
My parents will ____________ my car if I get another speeding ticket.
in
Options:
1) capture
2) grab
3) confiscate
.
4) mob
hs
Correct Answer: confiscate
A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in
warfare
Options:
1) trench
at
m
2) gully
3) furrow
4) moat
Correct Answer: trench
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Vicky said, "Please say nothing about this."
Options:
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1) Vicky asked her to not to say anything about this.

2) Vicky asked her that she should not to say anything about that.
3) Vicky asked her to say nothing about that.
4) Vicky asked her that she say nothing about that.
w
Correct Answer: Vicky asked her to say nothing about that.
four alternatives.
The way criminal justice is designed and administered today _______________ serves any of
the purposes for which it is set up: towards securing life and property. It
does not ________________ criminals because of the delay and uncertainties involved in its
processes and ridiculously ineffective punishments it imposes
____________________ those few who get convicted. It provides wide discretion to the police
and the prosecution, __________________ the system vulnerable to
corruption and manipulation and endangering basic ____________________ of innocent citizens.
today _______________ serves any of the purposes for which it is set up: towards securing life
and property.
Options:
1) little
2) only
3) hardly
4) scantily
in
Correct Answer: hardly
.
four alternatives.
hs
at
It does not ________________ criminals because of the delay and uncertainties involved in its
m
processes
Options:
1) deter
2) divert
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3) ban
4) prohibit
Correct Answer: deter
w
four alternatives.
w
w
it imposes ____________________ those few who get convicted.

Options:
1) of
2) onto
3) over
4) on
Correct Answer: on
four alternatives.
in
__________________ the system vulnerable to corruption and manipulation
.
Options:
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1) to render
2) rendering
3) rendered
4) render
Correct Answer: rendering
at
four alternatives.
m
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and endangering basic ____________________ of innocent citizens.

w
Options:
1) powers
2) facilities
w
3) duties
4) rights
Correct Answer: rights
w
SET-63
Options:
1) enobles
2) theistick
3) sagacity
4) bristeled
Correct Answer: sagacity
The insecticide is very powerful and can kill a wide ___________ of insects.
Options:
1) volume
2) spectrum
in
3) rainbow
4) plethora
Correct Answer: spectrum
.
hs
A soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
Options:
1) radical
2) anarchist
3) mutineer
4) revolutionary
Correct Answer: mutineer
at
m
Many such mishaps can be avoided if we (are) careful.

.q
Options:
1) be
2) might be
3) were
w
4) no improvement
w
Options:
1) ambolism
w
2) agendoms
3) neglige
4) heckling
Correct Answer: heckling
He swam to(A)/an island that(B)/was not far away.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: D
in
The partners will celebrate their triumph tomorrow.
Options:
.
1) The triumph would be celebrated by the partners a day after.
hs
2) The triumph will be celebrated by the partners tomorrow.
3) The triumph would have been celebrated by the partners a day after.
4) The triumph will have been celebrated by the partners tomorrow.
Correct Answer: The triumph will be celebrated by the partners tomorrow.
sinister
Options:
at
m
1) malevolent
2) magnanimous
3) auspicious
4) benevolent
.q
Correct Answer: malevolent
Every government wants

w
P-all, they have so many votes

Q-to shower favours on
R-farmers; after
w
Options:
1) RQP
2) RPQ
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3) PRQ
4) QRP
Correct Answer: QRP
The two children were(A)/identical except for(B)/the colour for their eyes.(C)/No error(D)
Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
Correct Answer: C
An unintended consequence of an event or action, especially an unwelcome one.
in
Options:
1) reverberation
2) backlash
.
3) flak
hs
4) repercussion
Correct Answer: repercussion
at
I said to my sister, "where were you this evening?"
Options:
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1) I asked my sister where she was that evening.
2) I asked my sister where she had been that evening.
3) I asked my sister where she was this evening.
4) I asked my sister where she has been that evening.
.q
Correct Answer: I asked my sister where she had been that evening.
Due to poor organic matter

w
P-in soil is below the required

Q-incorporation, organic carbon
R-level in most parts of India
w
Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
w
3) QPR
4) PRQ
Correct Answer: QPR
The best way to ____________ the children's poor test grades is to teach again the lesson and
give a second test.
Options:
1) rectify
2) right
3) revise
4) reform
Correct Answer: rectify
frolic
in
Options:
1) drudgery
2) romp
.
3) antic
hs
4) drollery
Correct Answer: drudgery
affidavit
Options:
1) affirmation
2) slander
at
m
3) oath
4) testimony
Correct Answer: slander
.q
to drive someone up the wall

w
Options:
1) to make someone very irritated
2) to break the barriers of misunderstanding between two persons
w
3) to encourage someone
4) to be the cause of someone's success
Correct Answer: to make someone very irritated
w
The candidate was so ignorant that the officer was (compelled for asking) him to leave.
Options:
1) being compelled to be asking
2) so compelled to ask
3) compelled to ask
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: compelled to ask
dry run
Options:
1) a party without drinks
2) a rehearsal of a performance before the real one
3) doing a fruitless task
4) escaping form an unpleasant situation
in
Correct Answer: a rehearsal of a performance before the real one
.
probable
hs
Options:
1) futile
2) plausible
3) absurd
4) preposterous
Correct Answer: plausible at
m
four alternatives.
Several countries ___________________ the world are now replacing the __________________
model of criminal justice partly
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_____________________ wholly with different models of restorative justice,

_____________________ promising results in crime control. The
process is more collaborative, consensual and inclusive, that is characteristic
____________________ indigenous systems of justice.
w
Several countries ___________________ the world

Options:
1) cross
w
2) across
3) beyond
4) over
Correct Answer: across
w
four alternatives.
now replacing the __________________

Options:
1) opposing
2) anti
3) against
4) adversarial
Correct Answer: adversarial
in
four alternatives.
.
hs
model of criminal justice partly _____________________

Options:
1) or
2) nor
3) and
at
m
4) but
Correct Answer: or
.q
four alternatives.
w

w
_____________________ promising results in crime control.

Options:
w
1) to yield
2) yielding
3) for yielding
4) yields
Correct Answer: yielding

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QID : 79 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

QID : 80 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is for the government,

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QID : 84 - Select the synonym of

QID : 86 - Select the word with the correct spelling.

A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

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down to the wire

Manoj said, "I must go now."

the best substitute of the phrase.

To exclude from a society or group.

______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Correct Answer: Under

These assets __________________ later at a proﬁt by the government! The

______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with

These assets __________________ later at a proﬁt by the government!

negative net worth.

Correct Answer: saddled

To rummage about in a place or container in search of something.

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The population of Mumbai(A)/is greater than(B)/in any city in USA.(C)/No error(D)

QID : 181 Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:

QID : 183 Select the synonym of

QID : 184 Select the synonym of

Correct Answer: to aground

QID : 185 Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

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QID : 187 Select the antonym of

1) a very greedy person

same sentence in Passive/Active.

The event manager is making all the reservations.

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QID : 193 Select the word with the correct spelling.

Correct Answer: levelled

A large crowd ____________ to get a glimpse of their favourite star.

QID : 195 Select the word with the correct spelling.

on such events. __________________ a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions

_______________ wonders whether newer forms of "noncaring" or violence are appearing.

Correct Answer: One

Somehow, silence, even __________________, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events.

on such events. __________________ a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions

events in class. _____________, society seems so indifferent.

_____________, society seems so indifferent.

Mother said, "Lie down, Arjun."

2) Mother told Arjun for lying down.

Correct Answer: Mother asked Arjun to lie down.

QID : 79 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I don't want an award (for help to you).

Very rude or coarse; vulgar.

I have sign over(A)/the cheque, you can(B)/collect it tomorrow.(C)/No error(D)

every cloud has a silver lining

QID : 84 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

QID : 86 - Select the word with the correct spelling.

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The seawater eventually corroded the pillars of the bridge.

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He told me the same(A)/story which he told(B)/you yesterday.(C)/No error(D)