Questions

Select the antonym of

agonising

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

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

How to avoid the mask fogging up?

Select the antonym of

escort

Choose the correctly spelt word

The din caused by the children howling is enough to the dead.

Select the antonym of

to lament

What is the purpose of adding Gypsum to the cement?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is a pity that

P-­such violence hardly
Q­-comes within the
R­-purview of the law

Who is the first female pilot to be inducted into the Indian Navy in 2017?