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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.
- The teacher’s task is to_____________ learning.
1) versatile
2) foster
3) adjudge
4) proscribe
5) exciting
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation : foster – encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable). - The statistics that he quotes with _____________regularity.
1) explicit
2) censure
3) castigate
4) monotonous
5) variable
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation : monotonous – dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest. - He was a rather_____________ individual who never spoke an unnecessary word.
1) depreciate
2) chide
3) captivated
4) exultant
5) saturnine
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 5)
Explanation : saturnine – (of a person or their manner) gloomy. - The_____________ note in her voice was unmistakable.
1) paragon
2) imperative
3) disparage
4) reprobate
5) confirmed
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation : imperative – giving an authoritative command; peremptory. - The_____________ weather made the late afternoon seem like evening.
1) chipper
2) dismal
3) belittle
4) reprehend
5) punctilious
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation : dismal – causing a mood of gloom or depression. - The tribe say that millet was discovered by a woman_____________by famine.
1) decay
2) decry
3) blest
4) maddened
5) upbraid
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation : maddened – drive (someone or something) insane. - Her first-class mind made her an_____________in the British establishment.
1) deprecate
2) denunciate
3) eminence
4) intoxicated
5) outgoing
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : eminence – fame or acknowledged superiority within a particular sphere. - a child in a bed nearby began to____________.
1) shriek
2) holler
3) vociferate
4) whimper
5) bluster
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : whimper – make a series of low, feeble sounds expressive of fear, pain, or unhappiness. - Such passages reflect a sense of_____________, of alienation even.
1) facilitate
2) chirpy
3) disquietude
4) elated
5) precise
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : disquietude – a state of uneasiness or anxiety. - The sap causes swelling which can_____________breathing.
1) advance
2) decorous
3) jubilant
4) contented
5) impede
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 5)
Explanation : impede – delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.
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