English Questions – Synonyms Set 57 (SSC CGL)

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1. Allure
   1) alleviation
   2) tempt

   3) deter
   4) dissuade
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: Allure – the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.
   tempt – entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise.
   
   
2. Tribulation
   1) discourage
   2) prevent
   3) abundance
   4) suffering
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Tribulation – a cause of great trouble or suffering.
   suffering – the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship.
   
   
3. Parsimony
   1) repel
   2) Miserliness
   3) amenity
   4) gratification
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: Parsimony – extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
   Miserliness – excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness.
   
   
4. Absolve
   1) threaten
   2) opulence
   3) disdain
   4) acquit
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Absolve – declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment.
   acquit – free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
   
   
5. Stern
   1) delinquency
   2) contentment
   3) warmth
   4) strict
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Stern – (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.
   Strict – demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed and observed.
   
   
6. Pretend
   1) oversight
   2) convenience

   3) succor
   4) feign
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Pretend –  behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.
   feign – pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
   
   
7. Flung
   1) inattention
   2) comforts

   3) measurement
   4) threw
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Flung – throw or hurl forcefully.
   threw – propel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand.
   
   
8. Abjure
   1) creature
   2) renounce
   3) assert
   4) impassable
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: Abjure – solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
   renounce – formally declare one’s abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession).
   
   
9. Peruse
   1) examine
   2) nonporous
   3) treasure
   4) dense
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: Peruse – read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.
   examine – inspect (someone or something) thoroughly in order to determine their nature or condition.
   
   
10. Porous
    1) hermetic
    2) usurp

    3) permeable
    4) impervious
    

    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Porous – (of a rock or other material) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass.
    permeable – (of a material or membrane) allowing liquids or gases to pass through it.