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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Find the incorrectly spelt word.

A) Accurate B) Business
C) Sedentery D) Jewellery
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sedentery

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Clandestine

 

A) Truthful B) Secret
C) Frank D) Upright
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Secret

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

 

Orthodox

 

A) Routine B) Unconventional
C) Formal D) Correct
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Unconventional

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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.

 

Noted for its ____ of realistic detail and

A) energy B) veracity
C) suitability D) mastery
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) mastery

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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.

Truth is indeed a controversial aspect of ______. But almost always it can be justified as a moral principle on the basis of ______. When we talk about speaking the truth in order not to hide what, if hidden, will only prove damaging to others, we are emphasizing the ability to ‘feel’ for others. Again, often we purposely keep ourselves from communicating the truth as, once ______, it may hurt someone‘s feelings and sentiments. But keeping a person in the dark or denying him or her knowledge which he or she ought to have amounts to ______ another soul of its right to know that with which it has a ______.

Truth is indeed a controversial aspect of ______.

A) morality B) ability
C) civility D) debility
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) morality

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

A) Definite B) Inchoate
C) Dismal D) Sullen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Definite

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Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) encroch B) stingiely
C) capittate D) placated
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) placated

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

 

Verdant

 

A) Grassy B) Lush
C) Dying D) Fresh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Dying

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