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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing vocabulary test based on the some difficult words , which is important for IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of animadvert?
    1) An animal of microscopic smallness
    2) To make alive
    3) To pass criticism or censure
    4) Hatred
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : animadvert v. To pass criticism or censure.
    animalcule n. An animal of microscopic smallness.
    animate v. To make alive.
    animosity n. Hatred.

  2. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of alleviate ?
    1) A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like
    2) Any combination or union for some common purpose
    3) To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person
    4) To make less burdensome or less hard to bear
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : alleviate v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
    alley n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
    alliance n. Any combination or union for some common purpose.
    allot v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.

  3. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of  allusion?
    1) person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness
    2) A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain
    3) An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it
    4) Flood
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : allusion n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
    alluvion n. Flood.
    ally n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
    almanac n. A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain

  4. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of aloof ?
    1) Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others
    2) Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned
    3) To make change in
    4) Change or modification
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : aloof adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
    altar n. Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
    alter v. To make change in.
    alteration n. Change or modification.

  5. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of alcove?
    1) A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain
    judicial functions
    2) Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family
    3) A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages
    4) A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : alcoholism n. A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
    alcove n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
    alder n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
    alderman n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain
    judicial functions.

  6. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of ancestry?
    1) Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles
    2) One’s ancestors collectively
    3) A brief account of some interesting event or incident
    4) Affected with anemia
    5) None of these
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : ancestry n. One’s ancestors collectively.
    anecdote n. A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
    anemia n. Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
    anemic adj. Affected with anemia.

  7. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of anathema?
    1) Anything forbidden, as by social usage
    2) One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method
    3) To examine minutely or critically
    4) Absence or utter disregard of government
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : analyst n. One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
    analyze v. To examine minutely or critically.
    anarchy n. Absence or utter disregard of government.
    anathema n. Anything forbidden, as by social usage.

  8. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of anagram ?
    1) The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or
    phrase
    2) Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time
    3) Diversion
    4) To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : amputate v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
    amusement n. Diversion.
    anachronism n. Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
    anagram n. The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or
    phrase.

  9. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of albeit ?
    1) Cheerful willingness
    2) A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris
    3) Even though
    4) A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : alacrity n. Cheerful willingness.
    albeit conj. Even though.
    albino n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
    album n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.

  10. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of amplitude ?
    1) An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena
    2) To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body
    3) Sufficiently
    4) Largeness
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : amphitheater n. An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
    amplitude n. Largeness.
    amply adv. Sufficiently.
    amputate v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.