English Questions – Synonyms For SSC CGL and IBPS/SBI PO Set 69

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1. Nonplussed
   1) educate
   2) hostility
   3) puzzled
   4) repulsion
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation: Nonplussed – so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react.
   
   
2. Forswear
   1) forsake
   2) enlighten
   3) backslide
   4) crisp
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: Forswear – agree to give up or do without.
   
   
3. Hoodwink
   1) brittle
   2) lucidity
   3) deteriorate
   4) deceive
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Hoodwink – deceive or trick.
   
   
4. Conscript
   1) inverse
   2) draft
   3) retrogress
   4) explicitness
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: Conscript – enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services.
   
   
5. Receptacle
   1) recrudesce
   2) decline
   3) definiteness
   4) container
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Receptacle – a hollow object used to contain something.
   
   
6. Cupidity
   1) discount
   2) oblivious
   3) greed
   4) commend
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation: Cupidity – greed for money or possessions.
   
   
7. Pallid
   1) overpass
   2) disdain
   3) revulsion
   4) pale
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Pallid – (of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health.
   
   
8. Venial
   1) evade
   2) abhorrence
   3) adulate
   4) pardonalbe
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: Venial – denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace.
   
   
9. Revile
   1) antipathy
   2) abuse
   3) aversion
   4) revolt
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: Revile – criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.
   
   
10. Enigma
    1) indisposition
    2) acclaim
    3) riddle
    4) repugnance
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Enigma – a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.