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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.
to buy a lemon

A) to purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems B) buying only half the recipe will not help you prepare the full dish
C) to purchase an insignificant thing which eventually becomes very useful D) to buy stuff which you don't need
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) to purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems

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In which year, RBI was nationalized?

A) 1939 B) 1949
C) 1959 D) 1969
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1949

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Strait of Malacca separates which two land masses?

A) Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Island of Sumatra B) Africa and Europe
C) India and Sri Lanka D) North America and South America
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Island of Sumatra

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Formic acid is produced by __________ .

A) White ants B) Cockroaches
C) Red ants D) Mosquitoes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Red ants

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The Residuary powers of legislation under Indian Constitution rests with

A) President B) Prime Minister
C) Parliamen D) States
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Parliamen

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

 

Decay of organic matter producing a fetid smell

 

A) Putrefy B) Crisp
C) Neoteric D) Virgin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Putrefy

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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.


Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.


The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term

A) Constitutions' B) Constitution's
C) Constitutions D) Constitution
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Constitution's

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


War and Peace, an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was_____ published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This ____study of early 19th century Russian society, noted for its _____of realistic detail and variety of psychological______is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is_____concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families, the members of which are _____against the_____background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon. The_____ of war, however, is____to the story of family existence which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting ______of human existence.

 

This ____ study of early 19th century Russian society,

A) panoramic B) histrionic
C) omnipotent D) explicit
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) panoramic

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