English Questions

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.

Leaps and bounds

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

Vexation for humiliation of disappointment

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.

Once ______________, it is that time of the year when the examination results season may be just ending and the admissions season is in progress, and marked by a _________________ of two contradictory voices — often from the same people — that rose to deafening ____________ from April to May when the results of various school boards _________________. The first voice __________________ those who succeeded and did wondrously well.

marked by a _________________ of two contradictory voices

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 battle between attackers and the attacked is becoming still more _____________. Faced with potentially new cyber ____________, the danger to India’s economic and national security is going _________________ geometrical progression. To be forearmed, with _______________ offensive cyber operations and __________________ cyber security, is essential.

__________________ cyber security, is essential.

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 primary objective of a socialist government is to __________ the miseries of the poor.

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

Have a chip on one's shoulder

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.

That is why publicly invoking these symbols has to be an act of responsible citizenship and not self­____________ demagoguery, but the difference can be hard to _______________. The problem with emotive symbols is that _________________ they can multiply the force of arguments, they cannot replace the arguments__________________. All persuasion harnesses symbols but principled persuasion must also provide arguments that can be _____________ debated.

but the difference can be hard to _______________.

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

Pull the plug