Questions

In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

To keep in abeyance

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

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.

People are now either exposed to the very best of their inner circle and the world, ________ to the worst — articles that look to shock, to provoke rage and put a lens on everything that is wrong _________ the world. Imperceptibly, it goes unsaid that often __________ pieces of ‘news’ fail to actually provide a constructive solution. The effect of such a disparity _________ to the same effect as news of TV and newspapers — a feeling that what we see does not ____________ our lives.

such a disparity _________ to the same effect

∆PQR is right angled at Q. If cosecP = 17/15, then what is the value of sinR ?

In 1617 the British East India Company was given permission by __________ to trade in India.

Sub-prime crisis' is a term associated with which one of the following events?

Temperature of distant luminous bodies can be determined by

The basic unit of the nervous system is the