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Vocabulary - Test Set 6

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  1. Question 1

    WBCS Pre 2023
    Select the word that best replaces the italicized word in both of the following sentences.
    (i) The police are trying to control the crowd.
    (ii) Junk food may have levels of harmful chemicals.
    (hold, carry, accommodate)
    1. check
    2. blame
    3. contain
    4. incorporate
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  2. Question 2

    WBCS Pre 2023
    Choose the word which is the antonym of 'Chide'.
    (criticize, scold, chastise)
    1. Scold
    2. Chastise
    3. Praise
    4. Arraign
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  3. Question 3

    WBCS Pre 2023
    Chosse the word which is synonymous with 'Adjunct'.

    (supplement, accompainment)
    1. Admonish
    2. Additional
    3. Amorphous
    4. Ambiguous
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  4. Question 4

    SSC CGL-2024
    Select the most appropriate meaning of the underline idiom.
    My uncle lives in New York, so I only see him once in a blue moon.

    1. Not very often
    2. Monthly`
    3. Weekly
    4. Very Often
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  5. Question 5

    WBCS Pre -2023
    What kind of a person is a 'Clairvoyant'?
    1. An astrologer
    2. An astronomer
    3. An astrophysicist
    4. An astronaut
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  6. Question 6

    WBCS Pre-2022
    The antonym of 'Forgo' is
    (give up, waive)
    1. Claim
    2. Despise
    3. Undergo
    4. Remember
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  7. Question 7

    SSC CGL-2024
    Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
    Turned a deaf ear to
    1. Rebuked
    2. Disregarded
    3. By any means
    4. At intervals
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  8. Question 8

    SSC CPO-2024
    Select the most appropiate synonym of the given word.
    Unhappiness
    1. Wicked
    2. Woe
    3. Willing
    4. Wilful
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  9. Question 9

    WBCS Pre-2023
    Choose the word that best replaces the italicized words in given sentence-
    In earlier times, rebles were executed for killing the king.
    1. homicide
    2. regicide
    3. parricide
    4. fratricide
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  10. Question 10

    WBCS Pre-2023
    Choose the appropriate antonym of
    Adore
    (love, dote on, cherish)
    1. Love
    2. Like
    3. Hate
    4. Ignore
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  11. Question 11

    SSC CPO-2024
    Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
    The syudy of Man.

    1. Anthropology
    2. Biography
    3. Autobiography
    4. Biology
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  12. Question 12

    WBCS Pre-2021
    The antonym of the word 'superficial' is
    (surface, exterior)
    1. Deep
    2. Artificial
    3. Apparent
    4. True
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  13. Question 13

    WBCS Pre-2022
    Give the one-word substitution of:
    One who talks continuously
    1. Voracious
    2. Impecunious
    3. Loquacious
    4. Avaricious
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  14. Question 14

    WBCS pre- 2020
    The idiomatic expression
    Pull yourself together
    1. drag oneself
    2. help one
    3. get angry
    4. calm down by oneself
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  15. Question 15

    SSC CGL-2024
    Select the correctly spelt word.
    1. Privelege
    2. Priviledge
    3. Privilege
    4. Privileg
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  16. Question 16

    SSC CGL-2024
    Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word:
    1. Interrupt
    2. Occurrence
    3. Beginnig
    4. Cemetery
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  17. Question 17

    WBCS pre-2021
    Chooae the right word for love one self.
    1. Hedonism
    2. Masochism
    3. Narcissism
    4. Sadism
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  18. Question 18

    SSC CGL-2024
    Select the correctly spelt word
    1. Consencious
    2. Conscientous
    3. Conscientious
    4. Conscietious
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  19. Question 19

    WBCS pre- 2023
    Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.
    We need to _________ this matter ________ thoroughly.
    1. look into; most
    2. look up; most
    3. look up; much
    4. look for; may be
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  20. Question 20

    WBCS pre-2022
    Instead of 'tolerance' we can say
    1. bear on
    2. bear in
    3. bear with
    4. bear at
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