Subject English
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