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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.

Keep under one's hat

A) Keep all your wealth in your home B) To keep something a secret
C) Steal and hide something D) Take care of somebody else's valuables given to you for safe keeping
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) To keep something a secret

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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.

Deliberately destroy something for military advantage

A) Devotion B)  Fidelity
C) Sabotage D) Ardour
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sabotage

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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.

 

Fritter

 

A) Blow B) Dwindle
C) Dissipate D) Save
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Save

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In the following question, four words have been given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.

A) Contemptous B) Commemorate
C) Complaisant D) Conciliatory
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Contemptous

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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.

 

War and Peace is _____ concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families,

A) importantly B) primarily
C) heavily D) connectively
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) primarily

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

A) Oenology B) Oncology
C) Phrenology D) Upology
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Oncology

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

The parting was painful for ______.

 

A) two B) second
C) both D) it
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) both

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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.

A drop in the bucket

A) So much silence that even a drop can be heard B) A very small amount compared with what is needed
C) The final act before the task is done D) A small favour is worth a lot to a person in trouble
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) A very small amount compared with what is needed

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