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Find the odd word/letters/number from the given alternatives.

A) Apartment B) Garage
C) Quarter D) Flat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Garage

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

The groom said to the bride, "I will take good care of you."

 

A) The groom promised the bride that he would take good care of her. B) The groom has promised the bride that he will be taking good care of her.
C) The groom had promised the bride that he would have taken good care of her. D) The groom promises the bride that he would take good care of her.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) The groom promised the bride that he would take good care of her.

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Mollify

 

A) Pacify B) Agitate
C) Provoke D) Worry
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Pacify

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

We (have been) away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.

 

A) has been B) is been
C) have being D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

 

Lacking foresight or intellectual insight

 

A) Sagacity B) Myopic
C) Acumen D) Discern
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Myopic

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

 

A bad patch

 

A) A potholed road B) A medical bandage
C) A period of difficulty D) Shoddy repair work
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) A period of difficulty

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

Without habit, personality could not exist; for we could never do a thing twice alike, and ___________ would be a new person each succeeding moment. The acts which give us our own peculiar _____________ are our habitual acts--the little things that do themselves moment by moment without care or attention, and are the truest and best expression of our real selves. Probably _______ one of us could be very sure which arm he puts ________ the sleeve, or which foot he puts into the shoe, first; and yet each of us ____________ formed the habit long ago of doing these things in a certain way.

 

and yet each of us ____________ formed the habit

 

 

A) certain B) certainty
C) certainly D) be certain
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) certainly

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

All this suggests the intimate relations which exist between history, politics, and sociology. The ____________ thing, however, is not the identities but the distinctions.For, however much the _____________ disciplines may, in practice, overlap, it is necessary ________ the sake of clear thinking to have their limits defined. As far _______sociology and history are concerned the differences may be summed up in a word. __________ history and sociology are concerned with the life of man as man.

 

sociology. The ____________ thing, however,

 

A) important B) importance
C) importances D) importantly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) important

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