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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.

A person who completely abstains from alcohol

A) teetotaller B) drunkard
C) alcoholic D) imposter
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) teetotaller

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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.

Mayur's second promotion in eleven months confirms he is at the __________ of his career.

 

A) roof B) zenith
C) climax D) vertex
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) zenith

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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".

 

There is something in a train journey that (was fascinated) a lot of people and I am one of them.

 

A) has fascinated B) have fascinated
C) has fascinate D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) has fascinated

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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 saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________, freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality __________ in amber. Rather than _____________ a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue __________ inflexibly. Goodness becomes a stencil fixed _________ time.


Rather than _____________ a living creature

A) being B) having been
C) had been D) becoming
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) becoming

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A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement".

I had took the papers to John's office.

A) will took the papers B) taken the papers
C) took the papers D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) took the papers

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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.

 

The student body met the Principal to have their __________ heard.

 

A) griefs B) disdain
C) woes D) sorrows
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) woes

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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.


Heave a sigh of relief

 

A) To suddenly feel very happy because something unpleasant has not happened or has ended. B)  Be exhausted after a gruelling physical task.
C) Get trapped in a tricky situation which you could have escaped easily. D)  Feel sad that the good times have ended.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) To suddenly feel very happy because something unpleasant has not happened or has ended.

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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 chasm ______________ the needs of the people who struggle ______________ survival, action and inaction by representatives, and lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________. Defections from one party to another indicate _______________ of the basic obligations of representatives, even ___________ their own people starve.

 

lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________.

 

A) really B) superlatively
C) enormously D) too much
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) enormously

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