1. If people live in 'squalor' for too long, the ruling elite can count on an insurgency.

a. sordidness
b. filthiness
c. griminess
d. dinginess
e. None of these

2. If is 'Iudicrous' to all a cottage a mansion.

a. farcical
b. generosity
c. preposterous
d. incongruous
e. None of these

3. The secretary 'condoned' the workers smoking in the corridor.

a. disregarded
b. overlooked
c. condemned
d. ignored
e. None of these

4. The speaker's address about a career is a litter 'nebulous' at this point.

a. sententious
b. jumbled
c. vague
d. tenuous
e. None of these

5. Choose the word that forms antonym of original with the given prefix. 'Ir'

a. rational
b. resolute
c. responsible
d. All of A, B, C
e. None of these

6. Choose the word that forms antonym of original with the given prefix. 'Un'

a. appear
b. fortune
c. toxin
d. controlled
e. None of these

7. Choose the word that forms antonym of original with the given prefix. 'Im'

a. animate
b. patient
c. sympathy
d. comfort
e. None of these

8. Choose the word that forms antonym of original with the given prefix. 'In'

a. sense
b. septic
c. attentive
d. pure
e. None of these

9. Select a word having the opposite meaning : NASCENT

a. Descending
b. Satisfaction
c. Minute
d. Moribund
e. None of these

10. Select a word having the opposite meaning : RECALCITRANT

a. Unimportant
b. Insoluble
c. Everlasting
d. Tractable
e. None of these

11. Select a word having the opposite meaning : SAGACIOUS

a. Affectionate
b. Incisive
c. Fatuous
d. Sedentary
e. None of these

12. Select a word having the opposite meaning : MANNERED

a. Unstudied
b. Derided
c. Quotidian
d. Suave
e. None of these

13. Select a word having the opposite meaning : DOCTRINAIRE

a. Salacious
b. Iconoclastic
c. Fictitious
d. Illustrating
e. None of these

14. Select a word having the opposite meaning : PANACHE

a. Jauntiness
b. Angry
c. Drabness
d. Obey
e. None of these

15. 'Lately' 'many' of the 'committee's' suggestions 'has been' rejected. 'No error'

a. lately
b. many
c. committee's
d. has been
e. no error

16. The Principal 'stepped aside' just 'as the scam' issue 'came up' and in the process 'asserting' his moral superiority. 'No error'

a. 'stepped aside
b. as the scam
c. came up
d. asserting
e. no error

17. Though many scientists 'had initially regarded' his theory 'as absurd' and 'incompatible to' common sense, they later 'appreciated his work'.'No erroe'

a. had initially regarded
b. as absurd
c. incompatible to
d. appreciated his work
e. no error

18. I do not wish 'to sound too intrusive'but I 'would have been' better pleased 'if you gave' the award to the person 'who best deserved' it. 'No error'.

a. to sound too intrusive
b. would have been
c. if you gave
d. who best deserved
e. no error

19. No animal 'has yet been' discovered that can 'see' 'infrared light' with 'its' eyes. 'No error'

a. has yet been
b. see
c. infrared light
d. its
e. no error

20. Although the two families 'have always been' involved 'in some form of ' bickering 'since the time' they moved into the same neigh bourhood, there 'was no major quarrel' for the past two years. 'No error'.

a. have always been
b. in some form of
c. since the time
d. was no major quarrel
e. no error

21. I read an advertisement that said p: posh, air-conditioned Q: gentlemen of taste R: are available for S: fully furnished rooms

a. SPQR
b. QSRP
c. PSRQ
d. QPSR
e. PQRS

22. In the darkness P: the long, narrow beard Q: was clearly visible with R: the tall stooping figure of the doctor

a. RQPS
b. PRQS
c. QRPS
d. PSRQ
e. None of these

23. The appearance P : dinosaurs were at their peak Q: of the first mammals on the earth R : at the time when S: went almost unnoticed

a. SPRQ
b. PRQS
c. QRPS
d. PSRQ
e. None of these

24. All such students P: get success Q: who are honest and hard-working R: and recognition S: in every walk of life

a. SPRQ
b. PRQS
c. QPPS
d. PSRQ
e. None of these

25. The public did not care about the trial and was ----about the verdict.

a. enraged
b. apathetic
c. boisterous
d. blasphemous
e. saddened

26. Be careful when driving ----weather conditions.

a. under averse
b. under adverse
c. into adverse
d. while adverse
e. during averse

27. Rhetoric often seems to ---over reason in a heated debate with both sides ---- in hyperbole.

a. cloud-subsiding
b. prevail-yielding
c. triumph-engaging
d. trample-tangling
e. reverberate-clamoring

28. In spite of the ----nature of the terrain, the roads were surprisingly -----.

a. uncharted-flooded
b. rocky-duress
c. landlocked- slippery
d. mountainous-plane
e. None of these

29. With a natural --languages, Ahad---German much more rapidly than did his less linguistically gifted brother.

a. apathy towards-spoke
b. inclination towards-assimilated
c. dislike of -learned
d. aversion to -gave up on
e. None of these

30. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ----, but their intensity--- as they travel further from their source.

a. erratically-mitigates
b. eternally-alleviates
c. forever-increases
d. steadily-stabilized
e. indefinitely - diminishes

31. Genetic engineering in humans should be used to____ diseases, not to_____ genetic uniformity.

a. treat, foster
b. eradicate, cater
c. cure, generate
d. avoid, promote

32. I could not______ him to attend the meeting 2

a. prevail over
b. prevail upon
c. prevail about
d. prevail in

33. In this short story, the author____the complexity of modern life and the ______ of moderm man.

a. protrays,picture
b. delineates, inclinations
c. depicts, predicament
d. pictures, life

34. Key: piano

a. Wind: flute
b. oboe:saxophone
c. beat:drum
d. String : ghuiter

35. Plenitude:Abundance

a. augury:divination
b. indurate:harden
c. perpicacity: clarity
d. rnulct:muzzle

36. Fulsome: Praise

a. hansom:cab
b. noisome: smell
c. lissome:movement
d. handsome:appearance

37. Communication : massage

a. humour: amusement
b. expression :words
c. clarification:doubt
d. radiation:cosmic