Directions (Q1-3): Select the word which is wrongly spelt.
Q1.
(a) Onerous
(b) Tentetive
(c) Deleterious
(d) Parochial
Q2.
(a) Ludicurous
(b) Excruciate
(c) Retribution
(d) Indolent
Q3.
(a) Accentuated
(b) Stringent
(c) Connosseur
(d) Prerogative
Directions (Q4-5): A part of a sentence is bold. Select the option which, when substituted for the underlined part will improve it. If no improvement is possible, select (D).
Q4. The fact finding team which had been at the area found the situation very grave.
(a) Which had been for
(b) Which led to
(c) That had been to
(d) No improvement
Q5. What did happen there earlier does not interest me.
(a) What had happen
(b) What happened
(c) What would happen
(d) No improvement
Directions(Q6-7): Fill in the blanks.
Q6. Gandhiji had……… the path of non-violence.
(a) Suggested
(b) Adopted
(c) Accepted
(d) Proposed
Q7. All the characters in this story are……..
(a) Imaginative
(b) Unreal
(c) Unreliable
(d) Fictitious
Directions (Q8-10): select the correct meaning of the given idiom/phrase.
Q8. By the skin of one’s teeth
(a) Just in time
(b) Hardly
(c) Barely
(d) Speedily
Q9. To play fast and loose
(a) Cheat during play
(b) To win sometimes and to lose at others
(c) To play tricks
(d) To play with someone’s feelings
Q10. To break the ice
(a) Make friends
(b) To start a conversation
(c) To dissolve old enmity
(d) To win
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol.
Tentative is the correct spelling
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol.
Ludicrous is the correct spelling
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol.
Connoisseur is the correct spelling
S4. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S5. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S9. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S10. Ans.(b)
Sol.
