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- Question
Choose the word that best defines the given phrase ?A style in which a writer makes a display of hisknowledge?
Options- A. Verbose
- B. Pedantic
- C. Ornate
- D. Pompous
- Correct Answer
- Verbose
ExplanationVerbose means using or expressed in more words than are needed.
Pedantic means excessively concerned with minor details or rules.
Ornate means elaborately or highly decorated.
Pompous means self-important
- 1. Choose the word that best defines the given phrase?Prolonged inability to sleep?
Options- A. Amnesia
- B. Utopia
- C. Nausea
- D. Insomnia Discuss
- 2. Choose the word that best defines the given phrase?The identification of a disease by its symptoms?
Options- A. Prescription
- B. Prognosis
- C. Diagnosis
- D. Biopsy Discuss
- 3. Choose the word that best defines the given phrase ?A written account of the life of an individual?
Options- A. Autobiography
- B. Epigraph
- C. Biography
- D. Novel Discuss
- 4. Choose the word that best defines the given phrase ?Able to use both hands alike?
Options- A. Dexterous
- B. Ambidextrous
- C. Skilful
- D. Expert Discuss
- 5. Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word ?CALUMNY?
Options- A. Apology
- B. Eulogy
- C. Enjoyment
- D. Reservation Discuss
- 6. Choose the correctly spelt word The school alumni gathering put us in a mood.
Options- A. Remniscent
- B. Reminisent
- C. Reminiscent
- D. Reminicent Discuss
- 7. Choose the correctly spelt word ?God is Dead? is a statement.
Options- A. Blasphemus
- B. Blaphemous
- C. Blasphemous
- D. Blosphemos Discuss
- 8. Choose the correctly spelt word The din caused by the children howling is enough to the dead.
Options- A. Ressurect
- B. Resurrect
- C. Resurect
- D. Resurecct Discuss
- 9. Choose the correctly spelt word Can you the car into that parking spot?
Options- A. Manuer
- B. Manever
- C. Manoeuvre
- D. Manuver Discuss
- 10. 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. Fourteen kilometres ______ not a short distance, to reach to my office daily.
Options- A. are
- B. has
- C. have
- D. is Discuss
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Correct Answer: Insomnia
Explanation:
Amnesia means a partial or total loss of memory.
Utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Nausea means a feeling of sickness with an inclination to vomit.
Insomnia means habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep
Correct Answer: Diagnosis
Explanation:
Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
Correct Answer: Biography
Explanation:
Biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs.
Autobiography is written by the person himself or herself.
Correct Answer: Ambidextrous
Explanation:
Ambidextrous people have the ability to use both hands with equal dexterity. Ambidextrous describes someone who can use either hand to write.
Dexterous means showing skills.
Correct Answer: Eulogy
Explanation:
CALUMNY means making of false statement.
Apology means regretful acknowledgement
Eulogy means a speech or piece of writing that praises someone ? which is nearly opposite in meaning to calumny.
Enjoyment means the state of taking pleasure in something.
Reservation means action of reserving something.
Correct Answer: Reminiscent
Explanation:
Reminiscent is correctly spelt which means tending to remind one of something.
Correct Answer: Blasphemous
Explanation:
Blasphemous is spelt correctly which means irreligious.
Correct Answer: Resurrect
Correct Answer: Manoeuvre
Explanation:
Manoeuvre is correctly spelt which means series of moves requiring skill and care.
Correct Answer: is
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