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

One who walks in sleep

A) Drover B) Fastidious
C) Numismatist D) Somnambulist
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Somnambulist

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

A funeral poem

A) Elegy B) Pandemonium
C) Parody D) SonnetSonnet
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Elegy

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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.

Throw up the sponge

A) To attack B) To laugh at someone
C) To surrender D)  To talk loudly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) To surrender

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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.

The alpha and the omega

A) Happy and sad B) The beginning and the end
C) The love and the hatred D) Truth and dare
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The beginning and the end

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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

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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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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘Prolonged inability to sleep’

A) Amnesia B) Utopia
C) Nausea D) Insomnia
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Insomnia

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Amnesia means a partial or total loss of memory.
Utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Nausea means a feeling of sickness with an inclination to vomit.
Insomnia means habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep
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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘The identification of a disease by its symptoms’

A) Prescription B) Prognosis
C) Diagnosis D) Biopsy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Diagnosis

Explanation:
Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A written account of the life of an individual’

A) Autobiography B) Epigraph
C) Biography D) Novel
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Biography

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Biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs.
Autobiography is written by the person himself or herself.
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