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

To Indict

A) To Arraign B) To Censure
C) To Exonerate D) To Impeach
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) To Exonerate

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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 preacher challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a ___________ Polish meadow to reject being a "____________" who retreats into video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world. __________ his speech with ______________, the 79- year-old pope, despite a long day of public appearances, addressed his eager audience with enthusiasm yesterday on a warm summer night. Pope Francis spoke of a ______________ that comes from merely seeking convenience, from confusing happiness with a complacent way of life that could end up depriving people of the ability to determine their own fates.


Pope Francis spoke of a ______________ that comes from merely seeking convenience

A) selfishness B) panic
C) paralysis D) calamity
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) paralysis

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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.

Ajay said to my sister, "It's wonderful!"

A) Ajay tells my sister that it's wonderful. B) Ajay tells to my sister that it was wonderful.
C) Ajay told my sister that it was wonderful. D) Ajay told to my sister that it's being wonderful.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ajay told my sister that it was wonderful.

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

To filch

A) To smuggle B) To appropriate
C) To encroach D) To philanthropy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) To philanthropy

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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 woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East

A) for B) from
C) of D) to
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) from

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Who discovered bacteria?

A) Antonie Ven Leeuwenhoek B) Robert Brown
C) Robert Hook D) Robert Koch
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Antonie Ven Leeuwenhoek

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For the movie "Taare Zameen Par", Aamir Khan won the Filmfare Award for

A) Best Director B) Best Debut Director
C) Best Art Direction D) Best Screenplay
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Best Director

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Alexander Kerensky was

A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution B) a  close  confidant  of  Lenin,  with  whose help the Czar was dethroned
C) the head of the Czar’s army D) an advisor of Joseph Stalin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution

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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolutionof 1917. After the February Revolution of 1917 he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government

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