Select the alternative that conveys the same meaning as the word given.
Q1. Amply
(a) sufficiently
(b) to dress
(c) lavish
(d) a brief account of some interesting event or incident
Ans.(c)
Sol. amply-sufficiently; more than adequately, lavish- giving or using a large amount of something
Q2. Comport
(a) abnormal; straying from the normal or usual path
(b) fitting in
(c) too dirty or discoloured
(d) with no shape; unorganized
Ans.(b)
Sol. Comport -accord or agree with., conduct oneself; behave.
Q3. Abjure
(a) hard coal
(b) to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath
(c) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs
(d) one who or that which accompanies
Ans.(b)
Sol. Abjure -solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
Q4. Hostility
(a) cacophonous
(b) comeliness
(c) bombastic
(d) antagonism
Ans.(d)
Sol. Hostility -hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition.
Q5. Alley
(a) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land
(b) a narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like
(c) largeness
(d) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem
Ans.(b)
Sol. alley- a narrow passageway between or behind buildings.
Q6. awry
(a) contentious
(b) collusion
(c) amiss
(d) conglomeration
Ans.(c)
Sol. awry -away from the usual or expected course; amiss.
Q7. Anglophobia
(a) hatred or dread of England or of what is English
(b) having the right or privilege of entry
(c) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles
(d) sourness, with bitterness and astringency
Ans.(a)
Sol. Anglophobe-One who dislikes or fears England, its people, or its culture.
Q8. Touching; or adjoining and close, but not touching
(a) Contiguous
(b) abase
(c) antagonism
(d) apposite
Ans.(a)
Sol. contiguous-sharing a common border; touching.
Q9. Advent
(a) cheerful willingness
(b) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage
(c) a portable free-reed musical instrument
(d) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy
Ans.(b)
Sol. Advent -the arrival of a notable person or thing.
Q10. Trite
(a) baroque
(b) boor
(c) chimera
(d) banal
Ans.(d)
Sol. Trite -(of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse., banal-so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Q11. Alter
(a) flood
(b) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other
(c) to make change in
(d) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation
Ans.(c)
Sol. Alter -change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
Q12. Analogy
(a) unnecessary activity or ceremony
(b) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government
(c) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance, others are formed
(d) that which is near or bordering upon
Ans.(c)
Sol. Analogy -a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Q13. Corroborate
(a) to confirm the validity
(b) tasting sour; harsh in language or temper
(c) unselfish devotion to the welfare of others
(d) controversy; dispute
Ans.(a)
Sol. corroborate-confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding).
Q14. Augment
(a) one who is skeptical of the existence of know ability of a god or any ultimate reality
(b) urge; plead for
(c) increase
(d) pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
Ans.(c)
Sol. Augment -make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.
Q15. To become a semisolid, soft mass; to clot
(a) coagulate
(c) copious
(b) advocate
(d) abysmal
Ans.(a)
Sol. coagulate -(of a fluid, especially blood) change to a solid or semi-solid state.
Q1. Amply
(a) sufficiently
(b) to dress
(c) lavish
(d) a brief account of some interesting event or incident
Ans.(c)
Sol. amply-sufficiently; more than adequately, lavish- giving or using a large amount of something
Q2. Comport
(a) abnormal; straying from the normal or usual path
(b) fitting in
(c) too dirty or discoloured
(d) with no shape; unorganized
Ans.(b)
Sol. Comport -accord or agree with., conduct oneself; behave.
Q3. Abjure
(a) hard coal
(b) to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath
(c) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs
(d) one who or that which accompanies
Ans.(b)
Sol. Abjure -solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
Q4. Hostility
(a) cacophonous
(b) comeliness
(c) bombastic
(d) antagonism
Ans.(d)
Sol. Hostility -hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition.
Q5. Alley
(a) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land
(b) a narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like
(c) largeness
(d) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem
Ans.(b)
Sol. alley- a narrow passageway between or behind buildings.
Q6. awry
(a) contentious
(b) collusion
(c) amiss
(d) conglomeration
Ans.(c)
Sol. awry -away from the usual or expected course; amiss.
Q7. Anglophobia
(a) hatred or dread of England or of what is English
(b) having the right or privilege of entry
(c) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles
(d) sourness, with bitterness and astringency
Ans.(a)
Sol. Anglophobe-One who dislikes or fears England, its people, or its culture.
Q8. Touching; or adjoining and close, but not touching
(a) Contiguous
(b) abase
(c) antagonism
(d) apposite
Ans.(a)
Sol. contiguous-sharing a common border; touching.
Q9. Advent
(a) cheerful willingness
(b) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage
(c) a portable free-reed musical instrument
(d) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy
Ans.(b)
Sol. Advent -the arrival of a notable person or thing.
Q10. Trite
(a) baroque
(b) boor
(c) chimera
(d) banal
Ans.(d)
Sol. Trite -(of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse., banal-so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Q11. Alter
(a) flood
(b) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other
(c) to make change in
(d) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation
Ans.(c)
Sol. Alter -change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
Q12. Analogy
(a) unnecessary activity or ceremony
(b) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government
(c) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance, others are formed
(d) that which is near or bordering upon
Ans.(c)
Sol. Analogy -a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Q13. Corroborate
(a) to confirm the validity
(b) tasting sour; harsh in language or temper
(c) unselfish devotion to the welfare of others
(d) controversy; dispute
Ans.(a)
Sol. corroborate-confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding).
Q14. Augment
(a) one who is skeptical of the existence of know ability of a god or any ultimate reality
(b) urge; plead for
(c) increase
(d) pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
Ans.(c)
Sol. Augment -make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.
Q15. To become a semisolid, soft mass; to clot
(a) coagulate
(c) copious
(b) advocate
(d) abysmal
Ans.(a)
Sol. coagulate -(of a fluid, especially blood) change to a solid or semi-solid state.
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