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English Questions: Vocabulary test – 45

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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. He was______________to acknowledge that the agreement was sacrosanct.
    1) stern
    2) crack
    3) antipathetic
    4) austere
    5) fain
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : fain – compelled by the circumstances; obliged.

  2. The Ganges is______________as a sacred, cleansing river.
    1) definite
    2) hallowed
    3) rigorous
    4) intransigent
    5) exact
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : hallowed – honour as holy.

  3. The two of them run off to the woods for a______________together.
    1) descry
    2) revere
    3) venerate
    4) gambol
    5) admire
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : gambol – run or jump about playfully.

  4. This power______________the peasant above his brethren.
    1) debase
    2) exalts
    3) castigate
    4) condemn
    5) criticize
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : exalts – think or speak very highly of (someone or something).

  5. No one should be______________for their religious beliefs.
    1) content
    2) indulge
    3) persecuted
    4) appease
    5) recompense
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : persecuted – subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

  6. Thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the____________.
    1) gripe
    2) bhorrence
    3) Rapture
    4) bugbear
    5) animus
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Rapture – a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.

  7. you appear convinced of my guilt, and_____________every reply I have made.
    1) bestow
    2) wrest
    3) anathema
    4) disgust
    5) excellent
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : wrest – forcibly pull (something) from a person’s grasp.

  8. His determination to____________the murder of his brother.
    1) supply
    2) exalted
    3) avenge
    4) antagonism
    5) irritant
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : avenge – inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another).

  9. The body was beginning to_____________.
    1) chasten
    2) commendable
    3) putrefy
    4) better
    5) purify
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : putrefy – (of a body or other organic matter) decay or rot and produce a fetid smell.

  10. A____________imitation of the real thing.
    1) pitiable
    2) nailed
    3) coward
    4) noble
    5) magnificent
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : pitiable – contemptibly poor or small.





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