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Direction (1-5): In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One of these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. ‘All Correct’, as your answer.
1) Seen in the context (A) of the pressing needed (B) to revive investment (C), his exhortations (D) tick all the right boxes.
A.Context
B.Needed
C.Investment
D.Exhortations
E.All correct
2) The government’s ability to apportion (A) more funds for growth-spurring capital projects is hamstrung (B) by a widening fiscal deficit amid a protected (C) border stand-off, the health crisis and a debilitating (D) revenue shortfall.
A.Apportion
B.Hamstrung
C.Protected
D.Debilitating
E.All correct
3) Even as the Centre is yet to clarify whether it will accept or challenge the tossing of its tax claim against Vodafone by an international arbitral (A) tribunal, it separately last week enacted an ordinance to retrospectively (B) amend the arbitration law, obstensibly (C) to deal with contracts that may be underpinned (D) by ‘fraud or corruption’.
A.Arbitral
B.Retrospectively
C.Obstensibly
D.Underpinned
E.All correct
4) As the population of Jaipur grew, the meticulus(A) planning(B) of the old city was thrown out of the window, waterways were encroached(C) upon and the drainage(D) systems weren’t paid much attention to.
A.meticulus
B.planning
C.encroached
D.drainage
E.All correct
5) Imposing(A) exclusion(B) zones around vulnerable(C) islands may provide some protection, but this latest accident is another laud(D) call for a shift to less polluting ship fuels.
A.Imposing
B.exclusion
C.vulnerable
D.laud
E.All correct
Direction (6-10): In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One of these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. ‘All Correct’, as your answer.
6) Robert Provine, a nueroscientist(A)/ from the University of Maryland, found that we’re thirty (B)/ times more likely to laugh at something (C)/ when we are talking to our friends, even if what they’re saying isn’t really funny (D).
A.nueroscientist
B.thirty
C.something
D.funny
E.All correct
7) Goethe, who lived and died by the invisibility (A)/ of art and life, insisted (B)/ that we ought to treat the works of others, however imperfect, (C)/ the way we treat their actions — with a loving sympathy (D).
A.invisibility
B.insisted
C.imperfect
D.sympathy
E.All correct
8) One of the great cruelties (A)/ and great glories of creative (B)/ work is the wild discrepency (C)/ of timelines between vision and execution (D).
A.cruelties
B.creative
C.discrepency
D.execution
E.All correct
9) Under the volcanoes (A)/, beside the snow-capped mountains, among the huge lakes, the fragrant, the silent, the tangled Chillyian (B)/ forest; my feet sink down into the dead leaves, a bird from the cold jungle (C)/ passes over, flaps its wings, and stops in the sunless branches (D).
A.volcanoes
B.Chillyian
C.jungle
D.branches
E.All correct
10) Long ago, when the present (A)/ and the living appealed (B)/ to me more, I endeavoured (C)/ to compile best of reading (D) list at the close of each year.
A.present
B.appealed
C.endeavoured
D.reading
E.All correct
Answers :
1) Answer: B
The word ‘needed’ is misspelt as it is used in its incorrect form to the context of the sentence and should be replaced with ‘need’.
Therefore, option B is the correct answer.
2) Answer: C
‘Protected’ meaning preserved from harm, especially by means of formal or legal measures, is misspelt and should be replaced with ‘protracted’ referring lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
3) Answer: C
the word ‘obstensibly’ is misspelt and should be rewritten as’ ostensibly’, referring as appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; apparently.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
4) Answer: A
‘meticulus’ spelling is incorrect here. The correct spelling should be ‘meticulous’ and it means showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise. So the correct option will be option A.
5) Answer: D
‘laud ’ spelling is incorrect here. The correct spelling should be ‘loud ’. ‘Laud’ means praise. So the correct option will be option D.
6) Answer: A
The correct spelling is ‘neuroscientist’.
Therefore, option A is the correct answer to this question.
7) Answer: A
The correct word used in the context should be ‘indivisibility’.
Therefore, option A is the correct answer to this question.
8) Answer: C
The correct spelling is ‘discrepancy’.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer to this question.
9) Answer: B
The correct spelling is ‘Chilean’. It refers something that belongs to Chile.
Therefore, option B is the correct answer to this question
10) Answer: E
All the words are spelt correctly here.
Therefore, option E is the correct answer to this question.
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Direction (1-5): In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. ‘All Correct’, as your answer.
1) Vaccine makers and immunologists (A) are aware of the ‘prime boost’ technique (B) where a limited dose of a vaccine is administered that prepares the immune system and a later short (C) then improves the overall production of protective antibodies (D).
A.Immunologists
B.Technique
C.Short
D.Antibodies
E.All correct
2) However, sober (A) reflection leads to the ineluctable (B) conclusion that this might (C) not be one of the ‘lucky accidents’ of science lure (D).
A.Sober
B.Ineluctable
C.Might
D.Lure
E.All correct
3) Companies that are otherwise josting (A) to prematurely (B) announce vaccine results before scientific publication are opaque (C) about full public disclosure (D).
A.Josting
B.Prematurely
C.Opaque
D.Disclosure
E.All correct
4) Haste (A) and opacity will only delay the availability (B) of a safe and efficious (C) vaccine as India prepares for possibly the largest immunisation (D) programme in history.
A.Haste
B.Availability
C.Efficious
D.Immunisation
E.All correct
5) While the panel had suggested that conversion (A) solely for marriage should be declared (B) null and void, the State’s note on the ordinance (C) says it provides for invalidation of marriages solemnied (D) solely for conversion.
A.Conversion
B.Declared
C.Ordinance
D.Solemnied
E.All correct
Direction (6-10): In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One of these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. ‘All Correct’, as your answer.
6) The proposed Uttar Pradesh ordinance (A) seeking to prohibit “unlawful” religious conversions represents a regressive (B) march towards unacceptable medevalism (C) and a reprehensible (D) zeal to police the private lives and beliefs of citizens.
A.Ordinance
B.Regressive
C.Medevalism
D.Reprehensible
E.All correct
7) Cleared for promulgation (A) by the Governor, it does not use the Islamophobic term that votaries (B) of Hindutva have been banding (C) about to denote (D) certain inter-faith marriages, but it is clearly targeted at the idea.
A.Promulgation
B.Votaries
C.Banding
D.Denote
E.All correct
8) While the panel (A) had suggested (B) that conversion solely for marriage should be declared null and void, the State’s note on the ordinance (C) says it provides for invalidation of marriages solemised (D) solely for conversion.
A.Panel
B.Suggested
C.Ordinance
D.Solemised
E.All correct
9) It is disconcerting (A) that several States are keen to join this bandwagon(B) against inter-marriages despite its potential (C) for deepening social discard (D) and communal divides.
A.Disconcerting
B.Bandwagon
C.Potential
D.Discard
E.All correct
10) Therefore, making marriage simplifier (A) a ground for renders (B) conversion illegal (C) may not survive judicial scrutiny (D).
A.Simplifier
B.Renders
C.Illegal
D.Scrutiny
E.All correct
Answers :
1) Answer: C
‘Short’ in this context is misspelt as it refers measuring a small distance from end to end, is incorrect to the context and can be replaced with ‘shot’ referring an attempt to do something.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
2) Answer: D
‘lure’ is misspelt in this context as it means tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward, is incorrect and can be replaced with ‘lore’ meaning a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.
Therefore, option D is the correct answer.
3) Answer: A
‘Josting’ here is misspelt as it infers no meaning and can be replaced with ‘jostling’ meaning struggle or compete forcefully for.
Therefore, option A is the correct answer.
4) Answer: C
‘efficious’ here is misspelt as it infers no meaning and should be rewritten as efficacious meaning (of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
5) Answer: D
‘Solemnied’ here is misspelt as it infers no meaning and should be rewritten as ‘solemnised’ meaning duly perform (a ceremony, especially that of marriage).
Therefore, option D is the correct answer.
6) Answer: C
‘Medevalism’, is the word misspelt in this sentence and should be corrected as ‘medievalism’, referring a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
7) Answer: C
‘banding’ referring the presence or formation of stripes of contrasting colour is misspelt in this context and should be replaced with ‘bandying’ meaning pass on or discuss (an idea or rumour) in a casual or uninformed way.
Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
8) Answer: D
the word ‘solemised’ is misspelt and should be rewritten as ‘solemnised’ meaning duly perform (a ceremony, especially that of marriage).
Therefore, option D is the correct answer.
9) Answer: D
The word ‘discard’ meaning get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable, is misspelt and incorrect to this context and should be replaced with ‘discord’ meaning disagreement between people.
Therefore, option D is the correct answer.
10) Answer: B
The word ‘renders’ is misspelt and written in incorrect form which should be rewritten as rendering meaning the action of giving or surrendering something.
Therefore, option B is the correct answer.
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