Subject English | |||
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Provide the correct antonym: | |||
2276. Destitute | |||
(a) Affected | |||
(b) Wealthy | |||
(c) Indifferent | |||
(d) Indigent | |||
Ans. b | |||
Provide the appropriate synonym: | |||
2277. Frugal | |||
(a) Careful | |||
(b) Economical | |||
(c) Profligate | |||
(d) Ideal | |||
Ans. b | |||
2278. Intermittent | |||
(a) Continuous | |||
(b) Irregular | |||
(c) Immediate | |||
(d) Constant | |||
Ans. b | |||
Choose the appropriate options to complete the sentences. | |||
2279. Heavy fines and jail sentence have made ____ difference in preventing elephant poaching. | |||
(a) a few | |||
(b) many | |||
(c) little | |||
(d) the number of | |||
Ans. c | |||
2280. Today ____ people who enjoy cricket is bigger than that of thirty years ago. | |||
(a) number of | |||
(b) a great deal of | |||
(c) many | |||
(d) the number of | |||
Ans. d | |||
2281. William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the ____ century. | |||
(a) fifteenth | |||
(b) sixteenth | |||
(c) fourteenth | |||
(d) seventeenth | |||
Ans. b | |||
2282. John Keats is known as a Romantic poet. So is (choose one name) | |||
(a) T. S. Eliot | |||
(b) Lord Tennyson | |||
(c) Lord Byron | |||
(d) G. M. Hopkins | |||
Ans. c | |||
2283. Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare? | |||
(a) Desire Under the Elms | |||
(b) Measure of Measure | |||
(c) Pygmalion | |||
(d) Cocktail Party | |||
Ans. b | |||
2284. Who wrote the introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Song offerings (also known as English Gitanjaliji)? | |||
(a) T. S. Eliot | |||
(b) W. H. Auden | |||
(c) Ezra Pound D | |||
(d) W. B. Yeats | |||
Ans. d | |||
2285. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel in literature? | |||
(a) Rabindranath Tagore | |||
(b) W. B. Yeats | |||
(c) T. S. Eliot | |||
(d) Robert Browning | |||
Ans. b | |||
2286. “To meet trouble half way” means - | |||
(a) to get nervous | |||
(b) to be puzzled | |||
(c) to gear up | |||
(d) to disappointed | |||
Ans. b | |||
2287. `A person who was before another person` refers to- | |||
(a) superior | |||
(b) successor | |||
(c) contemporary | |||
(d) predecessor | |||
Ans. d | |||
2288. An ordinance is a - | |||
(a) book | |||
(b) law | |||
(c) newspaper | |||
(d) manuscript | |||
Ans. b | |||
2289. Anarchy : Government- | |||
(a) Penury : Wealth | |||
(b) Chaos : Disorder | |||
(c) Monarchy : Republic | |||
(d) Verbosity : Words | |||
Ans. a | |||
2290. The price of daily necessaries increases by - | |||
(a) the by | |||
(b) leaps and bounds | |||
(c) hook or by crook | |||
(d) fits and starts | |||
Ans. b | |||
2291. William Shakespeare wrote - | |||
(a) Tempest | |||
(b) Doctor Faustus | |||
(c) Rainbow | |||
(d) The Sun also Rises | |||
Ans. a | |||
2292. What is the antonym of `honorary`? | |||
(a) official | |||
(b) honorable | |||
(c) salaried | |||
(d) literary | |||
Ans. c | |||
2293. He ran _____debt. | |||
(a) with | |||
(b) in | |||
(c) after | |||
(d) into | |||
Ans. d | |||
2294. Democracy demands _____ to rules. | |||
(a) adherence | |||
(b) respectful | |||
(c) knowledge | |||
(d) awareness | |||
Ans. a | |||
2295. The synonym of `Trivial` is - | |||
(a) intellectual | |||
(b) insignificant | |||
(c) uncertain | |||
(d) unusual | |||
Ans. b | |||
2296. If I lived near my office, ____ in time for work. | |||
(a) I would be | |||
(b) I shall be | |||
(c) I will be | |||
(d) I were | |||
Ans. a | |||
2297. Nostalgic means - | |||
(a) soothing | |||
(b) temperate | |||
(c) realistic | |||
(d) homesick | |||
Ans. d | |||
2298. Hydrophobia is the fear of - | |||
(a) closed place | |||
(b) examination | |||
(c) water | |||
(d) snake | |||
Ans. c | |||
2299. Jerry said, ``I ____ the axe _____.` | |||
(a) put down, slow | |||
(b) brought down, carelessly | |||
(c) took away, now | |||
(d) hit over, powerfully | |||
Ans. b | |||
2300. Which is the synonym of the `Valiant` is - | |||
(a) active | |||
(b) overcome | |||
(c) brave | |||
(d) ingenious | |||
Ans. c |