Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Desiccate
(A) Honour
(B) Ascend
(C) Hydrate
(D) Venerate
Such was the education / of the Spartans with regard to / one of the greatest of there king
(A) No error
(B) one of the greatest of there kings.
(C) Such was the education
(D) of the Spartans with regard to
Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Sane
(A) Paranoid
(B) Reposeful
(C) Stoical
(D) Halcyon
Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
His shoes were soaked from walk through the dew.
(A) soaked from walking
(B) soak from walking
(C) No improvement
(D) soaks from walk
Choose the option that is the correct passive form of the sentence.
We had eaten the cake.
(A) The cake had been eaten by us.
(B) The cake will be eaten by us.
(C) The cake is eaten by us.
(D) The cake was eaten by us.
The past perfect tense "had eaten" is transformed into the past perfect passive form "had been eaten."
Some parts of a few sentences have been jumbled up, and labelled A, B, C and D. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
I didn’t speak to the sage again for many years,
A. seer, born on a dark island of a union between an ascetic and a fisher princess
B. because of the many hefty books, he’d written. Vyasa the
C. though I heard of him from time to time. I learned
D. his name: Vyasa the Compendious,
(A) ABCD
(B) DCAB
(C) CDBA
(D) BADC
Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.
A leader who sways his followers by his oratory
(A) Fugitive
(B) Narcissist
(C) Impostor
(D) Demagogue
A demagogue is a leader who gains popularity by appealing to emotions, prejudices, and desires rather than through rational argument.
Choose the word that means the same as the given word.
Soar(A) Sweet
(B) Fly
(C) Bitter
(D) Sour
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Miranda said to her teacher, “I was sick for a day.”
(A) Miranda told her teacher that she has been sick for a day.
(B) Miranda told her teacher that she is sick for a day.
(C) Miranda told her teacher that she was sick for a day.
(D) Miranda told her teacher that she had been sick for a day.
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
To miss the bus
(A) Short lived glory
(B) To lose an opportunity
(C) Escape by a thin margin
(D) A problem in a situation
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