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English Questions – Synonyms Set 61 (SSC CGL)

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  1. Ravage
    1) abridged

    2) succinct

    3) compensation
    4) demolish

    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Ravage – severely damaged; devastated.
    demolish – pull or knock down (a building).

  2. Menace
    1) threat
    2) reinforcement
    3) furtherance
    4) compendious
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Menace – a person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger.
    threat – a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.

  3. Surmount
    1) backing
    2) epigrammatic
    3) condensed
    4) overcome
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Surmount – overcome (a difficulty or obstacle).
    overcome – succeed in dealing with (a problem or difficulty).

  4. Gnome
    1) boost
    2) dwarf
    3) prodigious

    4) verbose

    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: Gnome – a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth’s treasures underground.
    dwarf – (in folklore or fantasy literature) a member of a mythical race of short, stocky human-like creatures who are generally skilled in mining and metalworking.

  5. Capricious
    1) gargantuan
    2) collaboration
    3) whimsical
    4) Herculean
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Capricious – given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
    whimsical – playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

  6. Laconic
    1) concise
    2) cooperation
    3) mammoth
    4) plumb
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Laconic – (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.
    concise – giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive.

  7. Regress
    1) facilitation
    2) humongous
    3) colossal
    4) backslide
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Regress – return to a former or less developed state.
    backslide – relapse into bad ways or error.

  8. Accused
    1) exonerate
    2) elephantine
    3) acquitted
    4) indicted
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Accused – a person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
    indicted – formally accuse of or charge with a crime.

  9. Slither
    1) slide
    2) absolve
    3) monstrous
    4) whitewash
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: Slither – move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or oscillating motion.
    slide – move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it.

  10. Veracity
    1) exculpate
    2) vindicate
    3) truth
    4) hulking
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Veracity – conformity to facts; accuracy.
    truth – the quality or state of being true.