English Questions

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

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

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

Obliterate

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.

_____________ nearly eight decades, the women's movement __________ and debated the desirability and feasibility of a Uniform Civil Code, and has ended up ___________ a simple question — what is the value of uniformity? Is it for the "integrity of the nation" that uniformity in laws is required, as some judicial pronouncements ___________? If so, who exactly is the beneficiary? Which sections of people benefit from "integrity of the nation", that abstract entity which is not exactly _______ the top of your mind as your husband throws you out on the street?

that abstract entity which is not exactly _______ the top of your mind

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

A wet blanket

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

Costing nothing.

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

Evening prayer in church

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.

The most powerful and the most perfect ____________ of thought and feeling through the medium of oral language must be traced to the mastery of words.___________ is better suited to lead speakers and readers ___________ English into an easy control of this language than the command of the phrase that perfectly expresses the thought. Every speaker's aim is to be heard and _____________. A clear, crisp _____________ holds an audience as by the spell of some irresistible power.

aim is to be heard and _____________. A clear