Directions (1-10): In the following questions a word/phrase is given followed by four alternatives. Select the alternative that conveys the same meaning as the word/phrase given.
Q1. Abbot
(a) a discharge from accusation by judicial action
(b) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum
(c) the superior of a community of monks
(d) sufficiently
Q2. Amiable
(a) affiliate
(b) abstemious
(c) affable
(d) abeyance
Q3. Academy
(a) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught
(b) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government
(c) the act of detecting extremely
(d) to refer incidentally
Q4. Erratic
(a) irresponsible, eccentric; lacking a fixed purpose erratic behaviour
(b) display or wave boastfully
(c) relating to the countryside
(d) dry; barren
Q5. Affront
(a) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness
(b) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year
(c) the character ‘&’; and
(d) an open insult or indignity
Q6. Benevolent
(a) art authoritative statement; a saying
(b) kindly; charitable
(c) to pierce through with a pointed instrument
(d) a distortion of the face to express an attitude or feeling
Q7. Affix
(a) to contend angrily or zealously in words
(b) practising an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession
(c) to stick fast or together
(d) to fasten
Q8. Expound
(a) to express sorrow or grief over
(b) to set forth in detail; to explain
(c) to make gestures, or indicate feelings by motions
(d) a God
Q9. Alienable
(a) occurring or existing before birth
(b) to make inefficient or worthless; muddle
(c) anything forbidden, as by social usage
(d) capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands
Q10. Acute
(a) historian
(b) of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation
(c) estrangement
(d) having fine and penetrating discernment
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, a phrase or a sentence is given in the question, out of the four options find out the word which carry the same meaning as expressed in the questions.
Q11. a legal agreement by which a bank, building society, etc. lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property, with the condition that the conveyance of title becomes void upon the payment of the debt.
(a) Document
(b) Mortgage
(c) Lease
(d) Invoice
Q12. Able to use the left hand and right hand equally well
(a) Ambivert
(b) Ambidextrous
(c) Ambivalent
(d) Ambitious
Q13. One who hates women
(a) Philanthropist
(b) Ascetic
(c) Misogamist
(d) Misogynist
Q14. A system of naming things
(a) Horticulture
(b) Miniature
(c) Genocide
(d) Nomenclature
Q15. A raised passageway in a building
(a) Walkway
(b) Walkout
(c) Walkabout
(d) Walkover
Solutions
1.C
2.C
3.A
4.A
5.D
6.B
7.D
8.B
9.D
10.D
11.B
12.B
13.D
14.D
15.A
