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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation inAffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing vocabulary test based on the some difficult words from THE HINDU EDITORIALS, which is important for IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. An automatic right to claim interest on__________payments .
    1) overdue
    2) Aboriginal
    3) Untimely
    4) Prima
    5) Proterozoic
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : overdue – not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.

  2. She sensed his__________to continue.
    1) reluctance
    2) liking
    3) fondness
    4) courier
    5) sympathy
    Answer –  1) 
    Explanation :reluctance – unwillingness or disinclination to do something. 

  3. She is something of a__________her views on immigration resemble those of the right-wing tabloid press
    1) populists
    2) anomalous
    3) bizarre
    4) extraordinary
    5) deviating
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : populists – a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.

  4. Every garden is_________with wildlife.
    wanting
    2) perpetuating
    3) teeming
    4) empty
    5) lacking
    Answer – 3) 
    Explanation : teeming – be full of or swarming with. (भरा हुआ)

  5. The country was subjected to acute economic__________ austerity.
    1) meekness
    2) austerity
    3) blandness
    4) calmness
    5) gentility
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation :austerity -difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure.

  6. The_________business George has built up.
    1) thriving
    2) languishing
    3) fluctuating
    4) shutting
    5) losing
    Answer –  1)
    Explanation : thriving – prosperous and growing; flourishing.

  7. Political reforms to match those in the economic__________.
    1) limelight
    2) beginning
    3) forepart
    4) sphere
    5) vanguard
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : sphere – sphere – an area of activity, interest, or expertise; a section of society or an aspect of life distinguished and unified by a particular characteristic.

  8. primitive vehicle used in animal__________.
    1) redundance
    2) unfitting
    3) traction
    4) peril
    5) dynamite
    Answer –  3) 
    Explanation : traction -the action of drawing or pulling something over a surface, especially a road or track.

  9. Organizations with___________hierarchical structures.
    1) controlled
    2) delicate
    3) harmonious
    4) exquisite
    5) cumbersome
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : cumbersome – slow or complicated and therefore inefficient.

  10. The_________of Finnish society.
    1) bias
    2) unjustness
    3) partiality
    4) unfairness
    5) equity
    Answer –  5)
    Explanation : equity – the quality of being fair and impartial.