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English Questions: Vocabulary test – 51

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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. She revelled in the__________life of Montparnasse.
    1) conformist
    2) plausible
    3) bohemian
    4) conforming
    5) orthodox
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Bohemian – socially unconventional.

  2. The 1000-storey building is a vast, exciting and perhaps__________project.
    1) doable
    2) empirical
    3) obeying
    4) quixotic
    5) applied
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : quixotic – extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

  3. The piano player is clearly a__________virtuoso of the first order.
    1) operatives
    2) utilitarians
    3) implicits
    4) feasible
    5) Virtuoso
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : Virtuoso – a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

  4. A number of agricultural implements were found in the__________.
    1) excavations
    2) serviceables
    3) ingests
    4) bushels
    5) systematic
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : excavations – a site that is being or has been excavated.

  5. He had an__________attitude to their money problems.
    1) hilarous
    2) anxious
    3) Insouciant
    4) pragmatic
    5) nervous
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Insouciant – showing a casual lack of concern.

  6. The political inexperience of a__________.
    1) personage
    2) replete
    3) sober
    4) parvenu
    5) satiate
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : parvenu – a person of humble origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity.

  7. I am a complete__________when it comes to paintings.
    1) repair
    2) Philistine
    3) furbish up
    4) luminary
    5) cultured
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : philistine – a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.

  8. They__________to the sitting room for liqueurs and brandy.
    1) advanced
    2) furthered
    3) hastened
    4) adjourned
    5) constructive
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : adjourned – break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.

  9. She was little more than a__________round the house.
    1) interrupt
    2) prevaricate
    3) equivocate
    4) drudge
    5) quibble
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation :drudge – person made to do hard menial or dull work. 

  10. There was a brief pitch__________when Sunderland scored.
    1) retreat
    2) whoever
    3) invades
    4) consume
    5) invasion
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : invasion – an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.





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