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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. those unable to meet their taxes were liable to_____________their estates.
    1) wangle
    2) fail
    3) relinquish
    4) forfeit
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : forfeit – lose or be deprived of (property or a right or privilege) as a penalty for wrongdoing.

  2. John is a_________blues singer who goes from bar to bar in hopes of being discovered by a music producer.
    1) nafarius
    2) nefarious
    3) nocturnal
    4) nomadic
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : nomadic

  3. Waving to someone is an_________way to say goodbye.
    1) genuine
    2) untypical
    3) emblematic
    4) simplify
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : emblematic – serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept; symbolic.

  4. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of abstinence ?
    1) To keep oneself back (from doing or using something)
    2) Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food
    3) Self denial
    4) Dealing with matters difficult to be understood
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : abstain – To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
    abstemious – Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
    abstinence – Self denial.
    abstruse – Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.

  5. What is the synonyms of STOCKPLING?
    1) wastrel
    2) hoard
    3) spendthrift
    4) waster
    5) None of these
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : hoard

  6. What is the antonym of SWAY?
    1) futility
    2) dissent
    3) restore
    4) barter
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : futility

  7. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of dead-heat?
    1) Fearless
    2) A day-laborer
    3) A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is nowinner
    4) Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
    5) None of these
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : dauntless adj. Fearless.
    day-man n. A day-laborer.
    dead-heat n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is nowinner.
    dearth n. Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.

  8. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of debonair?
    1) A human skull as a symbol of death.
    2)To lower in character or virtue
    3) Subject to contention or dispute.
    4) Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner
    5) None of these
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : death’s-head n. A human skull as a symbol of death.
    debase v. To lower in character or virtue.
    debatable adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
    debonair adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.

  9. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of altercate ?
    1) To contend angrily or zealously in words
    2) One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other
    3) Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of
    something else
    4) Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : altercate v. To contend angrily or zealously in words.
    alternate n. One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
    alternative n. Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of
    something else.
    altitude n. Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.

  10. these centres are the____________for the nation
    1) pacesetter
    2) retinue
    3) mastermind
    4) commandant
    5) None of these
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : pacesetters – another term for pacemaker (sense 1).