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Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.

You must accustom yourself with new ideas.

A) accustomed with B) accustom to
C) accustom yourself to D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) accustom yourself to

Explanation:

Accustom is followed by ‘to’. So, the correct idiomatic expression will be ‘accustom yourself to’ or ‘get accustomed to’.

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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 face the music

A) To bear the consequences B) To disparage someone
C) To be hard of hearing D) To enjoy a musical concert
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) To bear the consequences

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word and click the button corresponding to it.

PANACEA

A) PRAISE B) CURE­-ALL
C) POISON D) AMBROSIA
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) CURE­-ALL

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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.

Call on

A) Telephone B) Seek help
C) Pay a visit D) Order
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Pay a visit

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


There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and has done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

 

What is that which only the person himself knows and must act in order to discover it?

A) His untapped potential B) His destiny that lies in the future
C) The power which resides in him D) The joy of achieving success
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The power which resides in him

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

Rebate

A) Deduction B) Bonus
C) Increase D) Remission
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Increase

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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.

A substance easily evaporated at normal temperatures

A) Volatile B) Steadfast
C) Enduring D) Definite
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Volatile

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The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.

He gives everyone _________ the class opportunities for practice.

A) at B) in
C) of D) on
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) in

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