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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) vacuoles B) skulcking
C) squodron D) absenses
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) vacuoles

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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.

 

A brain and nervous system that are poorly developed or insufficiently nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes, just as a poorly constructed or wrongly adjusted motor means loss of power in applying the electric current to its work. We will, __________, look upon the mind and the brain as counterparts of ___________ other, each performing activities which correspond to activities in the other, ________ inextricably bound together at least so far as this life is concerned, and each getting its _______________ by its union with the other. This view will lend interest to a brief study of the brain and nervous system.

 

each getting its _______________ by its union with

 

A) significant B) significance
C) significantly D) significances
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) significance

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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) Repositary B) Repository
C) Repozitory D) Repozitary
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Repository

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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.

He is not a native speaker yet he has a good __________ over German.

A) authority B) hold
C) command D) expertise
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) command

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word and click the button corresponding to it.
GREGARIOUS

A) UNSOCIABLE B) UNSYMPATHETIC
C) UNGRATEFUL D) UNATTRACTIVE
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) UNSOCIABLE

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Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.

I was living in Chennai for ten years when I was a child.

A) had lived B) lived
C) had been living D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) had lived

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The event of living in Chennai is over long back, hence the sentence is in past perfect tense. ‘had lived’ will be the correct expression.

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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.

 

Convulsion

 

A) Cramp B) Shaking
C) Restful D) Disaster
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Restful

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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.

 

which arm he puts ________ the sleeve

 

 

A) into B) on
C) upon D) to
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) into

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