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English Questions: Vocabulary test – 48

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Hello Aspirants.
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. An automatic right to claim interest on__________payments .
    1) overdue
    2) Aboriginal
    3) Untimely
    4) Prima
    5) Proterozoic
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : overdue – not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.

  2. She sensed his__________to continue.
    1) reluctance
    2) liking
    3) fondness
    4) courier
    5) sympathy
    Answer –  1) 
    Explanation :reluctance – unwillingness or disinclination to do something. 

  3. She is something of a__________her views on immigration resemble those of the right-wing tabloid press
    1) populists
    2) anomalous
    3) bizarre
    4) extraordinary
    5) deviating
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : populists – a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.

  4. Every garden is_________with wildlife.
    wanting
    2) perpetuating
    3) teeming
    4) empty
    5) lacking
    Answer – 3) 
    Explanation : teeming – be full of or swarming with. (भरा हुआ)

  5. The country was subjected to acute economic__________ austerity.
    1) meekness
    2) austerity
    3) blandness
    4) calmness
    5) gentility
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation :austerity -difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure.

  6. The_________business George has built up.
    1) thriving
    2) languishing
    3) fluctuating
    4) shutting
    5) losing
    Answer –  1)
    Explanation : thriving – prosperous and growing; flourishing.

  7. Political reforms to match those in the economic__________.
    1) limelight
    2) beginning
    3) forepart
    4) sphere
    5) vanguard
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : sphere – sphere – an area of activity, interest, or expertise; a section of society or an aspect of life distinguished and unified by a particular characteristic.

  8. primitive vehicle used in animal__________.
    1) redundance
    2) unfitting
    3) traction
    4) peril
    5) dynamite
    Answer –  3) 
    Explanation : traction -the action of drawing or pulling something over a surface, especially a road or track.

  9. Organizations with___________hierarchical structures.
    1) controlled
    2) delicate
    3) harmonious
    4) exquisite
    5) cumbersome
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : cumbersome – slow or complicated and therefore inefficient.

  10. The_________of Finnish society.
    1) bias
    2) unjustness
    3) partiality
    4) unfairness
    5) equity
    Answer –  5)
    Explanation : equity – the quality of being fair and impartial.





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