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

A) Changeable B) Inedible
C) Tracable D) Valuable
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Tracable

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

"We were living in Dehradun," they told me.

A) They told me that they had been living in Dehradun. B) They told me that they lived in Dehradun.
C) They told me this that they had been living in Dehradun. D) They told me this that they were living in Dehradun.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) They told me that they had been living in Dehradun.

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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.
Being a _____ doctor, he never shirks work.

A) conscious B) conscience
C) conscientious D) consensus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) conscientious

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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.


A saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________

A) pedestal B) platform
C) plinth D) podium
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) pedestal

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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) lammented B) scabbard
C) ordenance D) synaptick
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) scabbard

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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".

 

If all of us (had been) philosophical thinkers, we would not have been deceived by scheming politicians all these years.

 

A) has been B) have been
C) had being D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Conflagration

 

A) Fire B) Conversation
C) Harmony D) Shooting
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Fire

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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.

Birds of a feather flock together

 

A) even a small similarity is enough to become friends and stay together B) there is always more safety in a crowd
C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together D) people with bad intentions always form a gang
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together

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