REPRIMAND. Select the synonym of this word.
Praise
Rebuke
Reminder
Reward
IDIOSYNCRASIES. Select the synonym of this word.
Peculiar habits
Bad habits
Weaknesses
Stupid manners
PUNCTILIOUS. Select the synonym of this word.
Careful
Serious
Punctual
Hardworking
DISCREET. Select the synonym of this word.
Mature
Prudent
Clever
Intelligent
VINDICTIVE. Select the synonym of this word.
Cruel
Harsh
Rude
Revengeful
SANCTUM. Select the synonym of this word.
Environment
The holy place
Corridor
Room for pilgrims
FORTHRIGHT. Select the synonym of this word.
Honest and outspoken
Strong and brave
Serious and stubborn
Willing and determined
STALEMATE. Select the synonym of this word.
Degeneration
Exhaustion
Deadlock
Settlement
OBEISANCE. Select the synonym of this word.
Homage
Subjugation
Pilgrimage
Obligation
KINDLE. Select the synonym of this word.
Excite
Very kind
Make fun of
Kind hearted
Directions: In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each
sentence is given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a),
(b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against the
corresponding number (a), (b), or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the
sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus, a “No improvement”
response will be signified by the letter (d). (December)
I will be happy if you will buy me apples.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. No improvement
b. Bought
c. Buy
d. Will be buying
Had she been hungry, she would have devoured the whole lot of it. (December)
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. As if she had been hungry
b. No improvement
c. However she had been
hungry
d. Unless she had been
hungry
Hardly had he reached home when the telephone rang.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. he reached
b. did he reached
c. No improvement
d. he had reached
Only when you left I did sleep
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. No improvement
b. Had I slept
c. Did I sleep
d. I slept
I would have waited for you at the station if I knewthat you would come. (April)
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. had known
b. was knowing
c. have known
d. No improvement
Direction: Choose the response, whichever is the most appropriate expression and mark
your response in your answer sheet accordingly. (April)
A clarion call
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. An intimidating voice
b. An urgent order
c. A strong request
d. A trumpet call
Turn topsy-turvy
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. To exhaust yourself
completely
b. To completely evaluate
something
c. To completely change
something
d. To enjoy yourself greatly
Open a Pandora՚s box
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. To do something that
causes a lot of new
problems that you did not
expect
b. To do something out of the
box, that causes awards
and ceremonies for you
c. To do something beyond
expectation
d. To do something out of
compulsion
When we saw him last, he ran to catch a bus.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. had run
b. No improvement
c. was running
d. has run
The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly no effort at all.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. hardly any effort
b. No improvement
c. hard effort
d. a hardly any effort
She cut a sad figure in her first performance on the stage.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. made a sorry
b. No improvement
c. cut a sorry face
d. cut a sorry figure
I would like to avail a fifteen days՚ holiday this summer. (April)
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. to avail myself of
b. to avail of
c. No improvement
d. to avail myself
But in all these cases conversion from one scale to another is easy because scales have
well-formulated.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. can be well-formulated
b. are well-formulated
c. well-formulated
d. No improvement
He preferred death rather than imprisonment.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. for
b. to
c. than
d. No improvement
Direction: In the items in this section, each passage consists of six sentences. The first
and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four
sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S.
You are required to find out the proper order for the four sentences and mark
accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: Hope springs eternally in the heart of man.
S6: This is the central idea of the poem.
P: But hope is everlasting.
Q: Love, friendship, and youth perish.
R: It is nursed by the glorious elements of nature.
S: Man derives hope from nature in his gallant struggle after some noble ideal.
The proper sequence should be
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. SRQP
b. RSQP
c. QPRS
d. QPSR
After the heavy rains last week, the water in the lake raised another two feet.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. would raise another two
feet
b. No improvement
c. arisen another two feet
d. rose another two feet
He ought not to tell me your secret, but he did.
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. telling
b. have told
c. having told
d. No improvement
Direction: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings
to each. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate
expression.
To vote with your feet
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. to show that you do not
support something
b. to replace something
important
c. to express a particular
opinion
d. to change something you
must do
A paper tiger
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. Person or organisation
that appears powerful, but
actually is not
b. A daredevil
c. Person or organisation
that acts like a tiger
d. People who campaign for
the protection of tigers
banana republic
Choices
CHOICE (4) RESPONSE
a. A country without any
government
b. A small or poor country
which produces banana
c. A small or poor country
with a weak government
d. A country which has been
occupied by a big country
Direction: Read it to find out whether there is any error in any part and indicate your
response. If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d) .
This hardly won liberty (a) /was not to be (b) /lightly abandoned. (c) /No error (d) (February)
With a population of over one billion, (a) /India is second-most populous country (b)
/in the world after China. (c) /No error (d)
There are hundred of superstitions (a) /which survive (b) /in various parts of the
country. (c) /No error (d)
She confessed that (a) /she feels like a woman with wings (b) /whenever she drove the
car last summer. (c) /No error (d)
Few creature (a) /outwit (b) /the fox in Aesop՚s Fables. (c) /No error
I like to (a) listen the song of the Nightingale (b)in the evening. (c) No error. (d
