1. Inspite of ........ reforms, American agriculture has not shown remarkable progress.
A) adulation B) arduous C) agrarian D) acumen
Ans: C
2. The saint gave him an ........ to ward off the evil.
A) amulet B) alimony C) adage D) amplify
Ans: A
3. The policy of appeasing everybody in life ........ against one’s own interests.
A) manifest B) militates C) manifold D) mandate
Ans: B
4. Only ........ players can withstand the stress and strain of sports in modern times.
A) robust B) renounce C) ruthless D) retard
Ans: A
5. The ship was ........ when it collided with an invisible rock in the sea.
A) tainted B) wreaked C) wrecked D) estranged
Ans: C
6. The writer seems to have ........ his anger at the injustice done to him in his latest novel.
A) vented B) razed C) rectified D) relinquish
Ans: A
7. There is no person in the world who can claim to have ........ character.
A) fictitious B) impeccable C) heinous D) surruptitious
Ans: B
8. The natural calamities are manifestation of divine ........ and scourge.
A) recrimination B) ramification C) wrath D) harbinger
Ans: C
9. It is a pity that our political leaders are not ........ with the spirit of nationalism.
A) imbued B) intrinsic C) fickle D) erroneous
Ans: A
10. We should not ........ anyone for his poverty.
A) daunt B) divulge C) extort D) despise
Ans: D
11. The writers generally ........ their style by the use of unnecessary imagery.
A) embellish B) fray C) decoy D) covert
Ans: A
12. Poets are born with ........ talent for writing poetry.
A) inept B) inapt C) innate D) indigent
Ans: C
13. The ........ atmosphere of the hill station had a salutary effect on his mind and body.
A) placid B) perennial C) pungent D) unbridled
Ans: A
14. My brother always maintains ........ fund to meet with unforeseen expenses.
A) cryptic B) meticulous C) myriad D) contingency
Ans: D
15. Sushmitha is always depicted as a ........ of ideal woman.
A) penury B) paucity C) paragon D) posterity
Ans: C
16. On the birthday of the Chief Minister, he granted ........ to the prisoners.
A) tacit B) surmise C) biennial D) amnesty
Ans: D
17. The Central Government is thinking of ........ of import duty on medicines.
A) venting B) wrecking C) waiving D) wilting
Ans: C
18. The city was ........ to ground by constant shelling from across the border.
A) robust B) reprieve C) razed D) relinquished
Ans: C
19. At present there is ........ in the talks of Russia and Ukraine.
A) heretic B) grasp C) harbinger D) impasse
Ans: D
20. Nikhil was feeling ........ because of the weather in the afternoon.
A) huddled B) hoaxed C) Heinous D) indolent
Ans: D
21. It is the duty of every government to ........ the sufferings of humanity.
A) monotony B) mitigate C) moot D) militate
Ans: B
22. The lion was in the ........ when the hunter arrived.
A) lair B) iieu C) loathe D) kiosk
Ans: A
23. Inspite of reeling under heavy debt Mr.Rahul was a ........ character.
A) kernel B) jocund C) mammoth D) knave
Ans: B
24. Every member of the family showered ........ on his success.
A) errand B) encomium C) endemic D) fete
Ans: B
25. Yamini was ........ by her husband into bringing money from her parents.
A) defiled B) caviled C) coerced D) dired
Ans: C
Explanations
1. Agrarian: relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.
Adulation: excessive admiration
Arduous: involving
Acumen: the ability to make good judgements and make quick decisions.
2. Amulet: an ornament or small piece of jewellery thought to give protection against evil, danger or disease
Alimony: financial support that a person is ordered by a court to give to their spouse during separation or following
divorce; maintenance.
Adage: a proverb
Amplify: enlarge upon.
3. Militates: conclusive factor in preventing.
Manifest: obvious to the eye
Manifold: numerous
Mandate: give authority to act in a certain way.
4. Robust: strong and healthy
Renounce: refuse to continue to recognize
Ruthless: showing no pity
Retard: hold back in terms of progress
5. Wreck: destroy
Tainted: contaminate
Wreak: cause a large amount of damage or harm
Estranged: no longer close or affectionate to someone
6. Vented: give free expression to (a strong emotion)
Razed: destroy completely
Rectify: correct
Relinquish: abandon
7. Impeccable: faultless
Fictitious: imaginary
Heinous: wicked
Surruptitious: kept secret
8. Wrath: extreme anger
Recrimination: an accusation in response to one from someone else
Ramification: unwelcome consequence of an action
Harbinger: a forerunner of something
9. Imbued: filled with
Intrinsic: essential
Fickle: faithless
Erroneous: mistaken
10. Despise: feel contempt
Daunt: intimidate
Divulge: reveal
Extort: threat
11. Embellish: decorate
Fray: contest
Decoy: lure
Covert: hidden
12. Innate: inborn
Inept: incompetent
Inapt: unsuitable
Indigent: poor
13. Placid: peaceful
Perennial: lasting
Pungent: stinging
Unbridled: unchecked
14. Contingency: an incidental expense.
Cryptic: having a meaning that is mysterious
Myriad: a very large number of something
Meticulous: very careful and with great attention to every detail
15. Paragon: a person or thing that is perfect.
Penury: the state of being extremely poor
Posterity: the people who will exist in the future
Paucity: the fact that there is too little of something
16. Amnesty: a decision by a government that allows political prisoners to go free
Surmise: to guess something, without having much
Tacit: understood without being expressed directly
Biennial: happening once every two years
17. Waive: remove
Wreck: destroy
Wilt: wither
Vent: express
18. Raze: to completely destroy a city
Relinquish: abandon
Robust: strong
Reprieve: temporary stay
19. Impasse: a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock.
Grasp: understand
Harbinger: forerunner
Heretic: holding unorthodox belief
20. Indolent: lazy
Huddle: to come close together in a group
Hoax: trick
Heinous: atrocities
21. Mitigate: make less severe
Moot: debatable
Militate: work against
Monotony: dullness
22. Lair: den
Leiu: instead of
Loathe: hate
Kiosk: small booth
23. Jocund: in a happy mood
Kernel: the part of a nut that is inside the shell
Mammoth: huge
Knave: a dishonest man
24. Encomium: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
Errand: a short journey either to take a message or to take or collect something.
Endemic: prevailing in a region
Fete: outdoor entertainment
25. Coerce: persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.
Cavil: to make unreasonable complaints
Defile: damage the purity or appearance of
Dire: disastrous
