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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.

 

To bite the bullet

A) Hatred should be nipped in the bud B) To do something difficult that one has been hesitating over
C) To punish someone who was later found to be not guilty D) To prevent someone form getting killed
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) To do something difficult that one has been hesitating over

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In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

I was first to reach the college today.

A) I did reach first B) I was the first to reach
C) I firstly reached D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) I was the first to reach

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In the following question, a sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

The Internet has totally changed the world like no other technology before it.

A) revolutionised B) reformed
C) radicalised D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) revolutionised

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In the following questions, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the button corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the "No error" option.

They are looking forward (A)/to meet (B) /their parents (C)/No Error (D)

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) B

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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.

 

We get sleepy and wake up, become hungry and thirsty at certain hours, ____________ force of habit. We form the habit of liking a certain chair, or nook, or corner, or path, or desk, and __________ seek this to the exclusion of all others. We ______________ use a particular pitch of voice and type of enunciation in speaking, and this becomes one of our characteristic marks; or we _________ the habit of using barbarisms or solecisms of language in __________, and these cling to us and become an inseparable part of us later in life.

 

We ______________ use a particular pitch of voice

 

 

A) habit B) habits
C) habitual   D) habitually
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) habitually

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

______ a wrench she unscrewed the bolts.

 

A) Along with B) On
C) By means of D) Sticking
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) By means of

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

 

Baroque

 

A) Decorative B) Bizzare
C) Plain D) Rich
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Plain

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Which amendment of the Constitution of India increased the age of retirement of High Court judges from 60 to 62 years?

A) 10th B) 12th
C) 15th D) 245th
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 15th

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