Directions: (1-15) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
Q1. To lift or haul something heavy with great effort.
(a) heave
(b) shrimp
(c) wimp
(d) runt
Q2. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
(a) rebel
(b) radical
(c) demagogue
(d) anarchistic
Q3. The action of repeating something aloud from memory.
(a) paraphrase
(b) rendition
(c) erudition
(d) recitation
Q4. A trace or remnant of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
(a) memento
(b) variable
(c) glimmer
(d) vestige
Q5. To disorder or disarrange (someone’s hair), typically by running one’s hands through it.
(a) to tangle
(b) to crumple
(c) to ruffle
(d) to crease
Q6. Courteousness and refinement of manner.
(a) plaudit
(b) adulation
(c) urbanity
(d) profanity
Q7. Involving immoral or dishonorable actions and motives.
(a) redoubt
(b) scrupulous
(c) immaculate
(d) sordid
Q8. The process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or substance.
(a) aeration
(b) miasma
(c) effluvium
(d) volatile
Q9. To be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
(a) to divest
(b) to bereave
(c) to oust
(d) to dispossess
Q10. A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise.
(a) cyst
(b) knurl
(c) contusion
(d) tumour
Q11. An outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something.
(a) tracery
(b) contour
(c) doodle
(d) pattern
Q12. A person who is blamed for the wrong doings of others.
(a) bursar
(b) captor
(c) phlegmatic
(d) scapegoat
Q13. Take away or alter the natural qualities of.
(a) denature
(b) unadulterated
(c) authentic
(d) limpid
Q14. Not able to produce children.
(a) gravid
(b) hebetic
(c) fecund
(d) sterile
Q15. Just punishment for wrong doing.
(a) dandy
(b) nemesis
(c) prodigy
(d) wagon
SOLUTIONS
1.A
2.C
3.D
4.D
5.C
6.C
7.D
8.A
9.B
10.C
11.B
12.D
13.A
14.D
15.B
