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English Questions – Vocabulary test 53

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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. The teacher’s task is to_____________ learning.
    1) versatile
    2) foster
    3) adjudge
    4) proscribe
    5) exciting
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : foster – encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable).

  2. The statistics that he quotes with _____________regularity.
    1) explicit
    2) censure
    3) castigate
    4) monotonous
    5) variable
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : monotonous – dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

  3. He was a rather_____________ individual who never spoke an unnecessary word.
    1) depreciate
    2) chide
    3) captivated
    4) exultant
    5) saturnine
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : saturnine – (of a person or their manner) gloomy.

  4. The_____________ note in her voice was unmistakable.
    1) paragon
    2) imperative
    3) disparage
    4) reprobate
    5) confirmed
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : imperative – giving an authoritative command; peremptory.

  5. The_____________ weather made the late afternoon seem like evening.
    1) chipper
    2) dismal
    3) belittle
    4) reprehend
    5) punctilious
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : dismal – causing a mood of gloom or depression.

  6. The tribe say that millet was discovered by a woman_____________by famine.
    1) decay
    2) decry
    3) blest
    4) maddened
    5) upbraid
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : maddened – drive (someone or something) insane.

  7. Her first-class mind made her an_____________in the British establishment.
    1) deprecate
    2) denunciate
    3) eminence
    4) intoxicated
    5) outgoing
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : eminence – fame or acknowledged superiority within a particular sphere.

  8. a child in a bed nearby began to____________.
    1) shriek
    2) holler
    3) vociferate
    4) whimper
    5) bluster
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : whimper – make a series of low, feeble sounds expressive of fear, pain, or unhappiness.

  9. Such passages reflect a sense of_____________, of alienation even.
    1) facilitate
    2) chirpy
    3) disquietude
    4) elated
    5) precise
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : disquietude – a state of uneasiness or anxiety.

  10. The sap causes swelling which can_____________breathing.
    1) advance
    2) decorous
    3) jubilant
    4) contented
    5) impede
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : impede – delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.





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