Vocabulary Questions

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Dilya-eje, a secondary school teacher in the border village of Samarkandek, Kyrgyzstan, often visits the houses of her neighbourhood to record the children who should attend school the next year. She always indicates the status of their parents in her notebook. More than half of the parents are labelled as migrants.
When men migrate, women take on the usual male roles: today most agricultural labour in the villages is done by women. But in Kyrgyzstan there are also a high number of women migrants. In 2016, women accounted for about 40% of total Kyrgyz labour migrants to Russia. Some are divorced or married women and some are very young girls who begin to earn money just after graduating from high school. Women migrating to Russia are usually employed in the service sector.
Because of these trends, traditional notions of femininity and masculinity are now often in conflict. Despite the fact that these women are sometimes the main source of income in their families, they have to face misogynistic behaviour – and violence.

Select the most suitable word from the passage which means 'contempt against women'.

Population ____1____ is one of the most serious problems of the world today. Studies ____2____ in this area suggest that the world population is further likely to increase by a few more billions. According to many environmental scientists, ecologists, researchers, and other intellectuals, the rise in the population will lead to several ____3____ consequences. Most significantly, the increasing number of people will ____4____ more water, more food, and more energy ____5____ to survive.
Choose the word which fits in the blank labelled 5 and gives appropriate meaning.

Population ____1____ is one of the most serious problems of the world today. Studies ____2____ in this area suggest that the world population is further likely to increase by a few more billions. According to many environmental scientists, ecologists, researchers, and other intellectuals, the rise in the population will lead to several ____3____ consequences. Most significantly, the increasing number of people will ____4____ more water, more food, and more energy ____5____ to survive.
Choose the word which fits in the blank labelled 4 and gives appropriate meaning.

Population ____1____ is one of the most serious problems of the world today. Studies ____2____ in this area suggest that the world population is further likely to increase by a few more billions. According to many environmental scientists, ecologists, researchers, and other intellectuals, the rise in the population will lead to several ____3____ consequences. Most significantly, the increasing number of people will ____4____ more water, more food, and more energy ____5____ to survive.
Choose the word which fits in the blank labelled 3 and gives appropriate meaning.

Population ____1____ is one of the most serious problems of the world today. Studies ____2____ in this area suggest that the world population is further likely to increase by a few more billions. According to many environmental scientists, ecologists, researchers, and other intellectuals, the rise in the population will lead to several ____3____ consequences. Most significantly, the increasing number of people will ____4____ more water, more food, and more energy ____5____ to survive.
Choose the word which fits in the blank labelled 2 and gives appropriate meaning.

Population ____1____ is one of the most serious problems of the world today. Studies ____2____ in this area suggest that the world population is further likely to increase by a few more billions. According to many environmental scientists, ecologists, researchers, and other intellectuals, the rise in the population will lead to several ____3____ consequences. Most significantly, the increasing number of people will ____4____ more water, more food, and more energy ____5____ to survive.
Choose the word which fits in the blank labelled 1 and gives appropriate meaning.

Choose an appropriate synonym for the given word.
Cease

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the highlighted word in the given sentence.
Sheena comes of an affluent family.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Forbid

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
How do you ___________ the photos and files you have lost in your computer?

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A person who eats meat but not seafood or fish

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the context of its meaning in the given sentence.
She felt relieved and light after taking the headache medicine.

Select the option that can be used as synonym for the underlined word.
Mohan is deprived of the opportunity to start his business.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Concise

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM to replace the italicised word.
There was no point in trying to conceal the truth now.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Meagre

Substitute one word for the italicised expression.
He did not make perfectly clear what was meant by a significant submission.

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A herd of cattle or animals driven in a body.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Cordial

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
LIBERTY

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Get your own way

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Bid fair

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
[Same Passage as Above]

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Simultaneously

From among the words given in bold, select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the following sentence.
These are the letters of administration that are useful for genaelogical studies and for investigations pertaining to the state of society.

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
Speech without prior preparation

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
A snake in the grass

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Warm

Choose the antonym of the given word.निर्मल

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
It was certainly a cowardly act.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
A frugal lifestyle doesn't necessarily reflect someone's personality.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Many societies throughout history have understood the ______ for harmony between the environment, society, and economy.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM for the highlighted word.
His liberal policies were responsible for progress in the community.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
The term 'germ' ______ an army of tiny terrors, including viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria. These pathogens all have the ability to ______ from victim to victim, who is known as host. These look like microscopic monsters.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given underlined idiom.
The construction of the office building of the company was taking place in leaps and bounds.

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Dhamaal is a mix of Sufi and African (mostly East African) musical and dance traditions. It refers particularly to the spiritual practices of the Siddis of Gujarat. The Siddis begin almost every Dhamaal song by blowing into a conch shell. This is often followed by the slow playing of East African percussion instruments like the musindo and the slow thumping of feet that marks the onset of the singing and dancing Dhamaals. The ritual of foot thumping is a crucial part of spiritual East African dance and musical traditions. The Siddis are followers of Islam and arrived in India from Muslim communities in East and Central Africa. Dhamaals are performed in memory of their spiritual leaders, among them Bava Gor, Mai Misra, Baba Habash and Sidi Nabi Sultan. According to Siddi folklore they arrived from Ethiopia through the Nubian Valley, Syria and the Indian Ocean to the coast of Kuda in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat. Usually, Dhamaal songs and dances are performed to celebrate the anniversary of the birth and death of spiritual leaders. They are performed in two ways - Dance Dhamaal and Baithaaki Dhamaal. The Baithaaki Dhamaal is performed in the sitting position and the Dance Dhamaal is performed in both sitting and dance positions. During the performance of Baithaaki Dhamaal the focus is more on the lyrics and less on the musical instruments. During Dance Dhamaal the focus is more on the sounds of the instruments. These are often played in a frenzied manner and accompanied by frenzied dance movements. The spiritual songs that are sung during the Dhamaals are known as zikrs.

Select the most suitable word from the passage which means 'excited'.

Give one word for the given phrase:जिसका अंत न हो

Select the correctly spelled word.

Select the correctly spelled word.

Choose the antonym of the given word.उज्ज्वल

Select the synonym of the given word.संपूर्ण

Give one word for the given phrase:जिसमें कोई संदेह न हो

Select the synonym of the given word.प्रधान

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
"Fish out of water"

[The same passage from Q.41 applies here] Select the most appropriate synonym of the word precise stated in para 6 of the given passage.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word 'dense' in the given sentence.
"The African continent has thick forests but the Sahara desert area has sparse distribution of population."

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
"Satisfy"

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM to replace the italicised word.
"We wish them a lifetime of wedded bliss together."

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
"It is a privilege and I shall be ________ to meet the king."

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
"Hit the sack"

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
"Changes observed in Earth's climate since the early 20th century are ______ driven by human activities, particularly fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere, raising Earth's average surface temperature."

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
"The dancers were ______ to know the results of the All India Dance Competition."

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the given sentence.
"Fashion is something that lasts only for a short time."

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
"Boisterous"

Identify the spelling error in the given sentence and select the option that rectifies the error.
"You may reffer to our research findings in this document."

"Good is the enemy of great" is one of the most popular self-improvement expressions there is. It's the first sentence of an international bestselling business book, the title of another self-help book, and a mantra that NFL superstar J.J. Watt has used in press conferences. It sounds appealing and rolls off the tongue nicely, but there's a good chance it's downright wrong.
We're told that striving to be great and never being satisfied are necessary to meet the ever-increasing pressures and pace of today's world. It's the only route to success. But what is it all for? What does success even mean? Rates of clinical anxiety and depression are higher than ever. Some experts believe that loneliness and social isolation have reached epidemic proportions. Two-thirds of all employees report feeling burned out at work. Surely this isn't the kind of success that everyone is after.
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers that true success means feeling content with the unfolding of your life. It is "finding happiness in your work and life, in the here and the now."
The kind of success that Thich Nhat Hanh champions isn't about striving to be great all the time. It's about being at least OK with where you are, about accepting good enough. What's interesting is that not always trying so damn hard to be great isn't just the path to being happier; it's also the path to getting better.
This mindset improves confidence and releases pressure because you don't always feel like you're coming up short. It also lessens the risk of injury-emotional and physical-since there isn't a perceived need to put forth heroic efforts every day. The result is more consistent performance that compounds over time. Research shows that sustainable progress, in everything from diet to fitness to creativity, isn't about being consistently great; it's about being great at being consistent. It's about being good enough over and over again.
A wonderful case study is Eliud Kipchoge, who just shattered the marathon world record. He's literally the best in the world at what he does. Yet Kipchoge says that the key to his success is not overextending himself in training. He's not fanatical about trying to be great all the time. Instead, he has an unwavering dedication to being good enough. He recently told The New York Times that he rarely, if ever, pushes himself past 80 per cent-90 per cent at most-of his maximum effort during workouts. This allows Kipchoge to string together weeks and weeks of consistent training. "I want to run with a relaxed mind," he says.
Unlike so many other runners who have tried and failed to break the world marathon record, Kipchoge has never been obsessed with the mark. Prior to his record-setting race, when asked about his mindset, he told The Times, "To be precise, I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best." Kipchoge puts running in its place, which, for him, is in the here and now, not in striving to meet ever increasing expectations. “When I run,” he says, "I feel good. My mind feels good. I sleep in a freeway, and I enjoy life."
It's a paradox. A good-enough mindset might very well be the key to being great and happy. The less you want to be happy, the happier you'll be. The less you need to perform better, the better you'll perform. Just think about your own life. During the times you were happiest and performed best, were you striving? Were you chasing after something? Or were you more like Kipchoge-grounded, at peace, and feeling good enough with what was in front of you? This doesn't mean you should never desire productive change or improvement. Quite the opposite. Though they may run counter to so much of the current ethos, adopting the following core principles of good enough is likely the best route to being happier and getting better.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the word depression stated in para 2 of the given passage.

[The same passage from Q.41 applies here] Select the most appropriate synonym of the word epidemic stated in para 2 of the given passage.

[The same passage from Q.41 applies here] Select the most appropriate synonym of the word perceived stated in para 5 of the given passage.

[The same passage from Q.41 applies here] Select the most appropriate synonym of the word marathon stated in para 6 of the given passage.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
More or less

Indeed, the path she had chosen was full of difficulties. It was almost an unimaginable thing in those days for a woman of means to live a life of independence, but the particular profession for which Florence had trained herself was a disreputable one. Thus, nurses in those days were noted for their immoral conduct. They could hardly be trusted to carry out the simple medical duties. No wonder, therefore, that Florence's parents did not like that their daughter should take up the profession. Florence, however, did not see eye to eye with them. She felt wretched. Her sadness increased.
Select the option that gives the closest meaning of the following phrase:
"A WOMAN OF MEANS"

[The same passage from Q.46 applies here] Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the following word: "WRETCHED"

Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word. (The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must not be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word.)
Cease: Desist :: Eradicate : ________

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill each blank.
There is a fantastic body of evidence which indicates that (1) ________ brings down the stress chemical and it enhances (2) ________ happiness chemical. The videos of medicos (3) ________ in hospital corridors have helped us (4) ________ in these gloomy times. Indeed optimism and (5) ________ are the need of the hour.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill each blank.
There is a fantastic body of evidence which indicates that (1) ________ brings down the stress chemical and it enhances (2) ________ happiness chemical. The videos of medicos (3) ________ in hospital corridors have helped us (4) ________ in these gloomy times. Indeed optimism and (5) ________ are the need of the hour.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Fasten

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Condone

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A given space, time or position

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Recede

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
The belief that people cannot change or avoid what happens

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The king often went on a hunting _________ in the nearby forest.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
On the back burner

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Release

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The ancient Indian texts _________ trees and plants to be animate beings that should never be harmed.