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In the given question, an idiom/phrase highlighted in bold is given in a sentence. Choose the most suitable meaning of the idiom/phrase.

The prisoners broke out of jail when the guards weren’t looking

A) Raised B) Surrenderd
C) Escaped D) Perpetuated
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Escaped

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A forcible escape from a prison is called a breakout. The correct answer is option 3. Perpetuate means to preserve or continue. Hence option 3 is the correct response.

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word

A) frenatically B) freneticaly
C) frenetically D) frenaticaly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) frenetically

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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, all of us, (are compromise) the moment we’re living in.

 

A) compromise B) compromising
C) is compromised D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) compromise

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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.

 

The committee _____________ criminal justice reforms recommended a threefold strategy to arrest the drift and to prevent total disaster. First, the law, substantive and procedural, requires a fresh _______________ look based on changes in society and economy _____________ priorities in governance. The guiding ____________ in the reform process should be decriminalisation wherever ______________ and diversion, reserving the criminal justice system mainly to deal with real “hard" crimes.

 

economy _____________ priorities in governance.

 

A) as well as B) and
C) and also D) plus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) as well as

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

He had no (A)/ accuse for attacking (B)/ that old man. (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.


Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.


_______________ to destroy them.

A) neither B) nor
C) no D) not
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) not

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In a majority of flowering plants, out of the four megaspores, what is the ratio of functional and degenerate megaspores?

A) 2:2 B) 1:3
C) 3:1 D) 4:0
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1:3

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Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Speech delivered without preparation

A) Rhetoric B) Oration
C) Extempore D) Maiden speech
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Extempore

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