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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Reiterate

A) Abuse B) Pretend
C) Detest D) Repeat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Repeat

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

The first working steam­ powered vehicle was designed and most likely built by Ferdinand Verbies, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm long scale­ model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It is not known if Verbiest's model was ever built. Nicolas- Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full­ scale, self ­propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769; he also created a steam­ powered tricycle. He constructed two steam tractors for the French Army, one of which is preserved in the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. His inventions were however handicapped by problems of water supply and maintaining steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam ­powered road vehicle. It was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods. Sentiment against steam ­powered road vehicles led to the Locomotive Acts of 1865. In 1807 Nicephore Niepce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called Pyreolophore.

The problem with Trevithick's Puffing Devil was:

A) Its incapability to carry a driver or a passenger B) With the water supply
C) Its inability to maintain steam pressure D) Its combustion engine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Its inability to maintain steam pressure

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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.

Once and for all

A) Now and for the last time; finally B) To be successful in the first attempt
C) To do a charitable act for the benefit of everybody D) To speak for the majority
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Now and for the last time; finally

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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.

It took her a long time(A)/to get off (B)/the death of her husband.(C)/No Error(D)

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

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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.

Myopic

A) Blind B) Biased
C) Careless D) Farsighted
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Farsighted

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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.

I was first (A) / to reach the school (B) / today (C) / No Error (D)

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

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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.
Ball is in your court

A) Put the blame on the other person. B) Request someone to return your belonging.
C) It is up to you to make the next decision or step. D) To tell someone politely about his/her mistake.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) It is up to you to make the next decision or step.

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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘The identification of a disease by its symptoms’

A) Prescription B) Prognosis
C) Diagnosis D) Biopsy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Diagnosis

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Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
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