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Q:

Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A style in which a writer makes a display of hisknowledge’

A) Verbose B) Pedantic
C) Ornate D) Pompous
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Verbose

Explanation:

Verbose means using or expressed in more words than are needed.

Pedantic means excessively concerned with minor details or rules.

Ornate means elaborately or highly decorated.

Pompous means self-important

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Tenzing Norgay created history

P-to conquer Mount Everest
Q-became the first men
R-on May 29, 1953, when he and Sir Edmund Hillary

A) QRP B) QPR
C) PRQ D) RQP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) RQP

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Q:

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Everyday we (have usually) dinner at 8 o'clock.

A) usually have B) have usual
C) have had usually D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) usually have

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Q:

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Some modern anthropologists hold that

P : but also human behaviour

Q : biological evolution has shaped

R : not only human morphology

A) QRP B) RQP
C) PQR D) PRQ
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) QRP

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Q:

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

There's more than the 101-seater dining table at the Falaknuma Palace that is awe inspiring. The library done in rosewood and mahogany is a place that will force anyone to pause, if only to admire the fine original polish, the furniture and the walnut carved high roof. The last is supposedly an imitation of the one at Windsor Castle.

The library is almost the size of a large banquet hall and acts as the passage to other parts of the palace including the dining area. For years the palace had no librarian because they couldn't find the right person to do justice to the treasure trove of books collected by the Nizam's family over several decades. That is until they found Asif Husain Arastu who belongs to the family that owned the famous A A Husain book store in Abids. So when his friend and historian Anuradha Naik pointed out the palace's requirement at the library, Husain was delighted. On his very first day as the librarian at the magnificent Taj Falaknuma palace, Asif Husain found a reference book on 'How to paint grass' by Alfred East.

Which of the following is false about Mr Arastu?

A) He was a descendent of the Nizam's family B) He was the librarian at the Falaknuma Palace
C) He owned a book store D) He was a friend of Anuradha Naik
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) He was a descendent of the Nizam's family

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

 

It was hard to believe that she (were) dead for three months.

 

A) was B) has been
C) is D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) has been

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Q:

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

Many people look down upon

 

P : they feel that

Q : abstract art because

R : abstractionists compose irrationally

 

A) PQR   B) QPR  
C) RPQ   D) PRQ
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) QPR  

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Q:

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

P: But our behavior, ‘good’ or ‘bad’, certainly shapes our persona and determines our personality.
Q: If one is helpful, polite and considerate in one’s actions towards fellow-beings, one is known as a kind person.
R: The converse is equally true and a mean, rude and selfish person is regarded as bad.
S: Growing urbanisation and lack of roots in any given place have made us increasingly indifferent to the feelings of others and led us to adopt an apathetic attitude to most things.

A) PQRS B) PSQR
C) SPQR D) SQRP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) SPQR

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