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Directions: (1-10) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
Q1. Senseless talk or writing
(a) Droll
(b) Titter
(c) Balderdash
(d) Stroppy
Q2. Depict or describe in painting or words
(a) Gadarene
(b) Thrapple
(c) Gravitas
(d) Limn
Q3. Light, delicate, and translucent
(a) Gravid
(b) Diaphanous
(c) Ocellated
(d) Patulous
Q4. Prolonged and idle discussion
(a) Pantomime
(b) Simulacrum
(c) Palaver
(d) Scapegrace
Q5. Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class
(a) Staid
(b) Matutinal
(c) Piffle
(d) Clerisy
Q6. A disorderly collection; a jumble
(a) Purlieu
(b) Congeries
(c) Pittance
(d) Jejune
Q7. Worthless, empty ideas
(a) Fuliginous
(b) Epigone
(c) Pablum
(d) Rostrum
Q8. Examine thoroughly and in great depth
(a) Raiment
(b) Tout
(c) Plumb
(d) Canto
Q9. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering or performing
(a) Parry
(b) Ravel
(c) Surly
(d) Comport
Q10. A person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill
(a) Bier
(b) Muggle
(c) Cabby
(d) Victual
Solutions
S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. Droll: humorous, especially in an unusual way.
Titter: a short, half-suppressed laugh.
Stroppy: bad-tempered and argumentative.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. Gadarene: involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something.
Thrapple: a person’s or animal’s throat.
Gravitas: dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner.
S3. Ans.(b)
Sol. Gravid: full of meaning or a specified quality.
Ocellated: having eye-like markings.
Patulous: spreading widely or expanded.
S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. Pantomime: a performance using gestures and body movements without using words.
Simulacrum: an image or representation of someone or something.
Scapegrace: a mischievous or wayward person.
S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. Staid: sedate, respectable, and unadventurous.
Matutinal: of or occurring in the morning.
Piffle: nonsense.
S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. Purlieu: the area near or surrounding a place.
Pittance: a very small or inadequate amount of money.
Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial.
S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Fuliginous: sooty; dusky.
Epigone: a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.
Rostrum: a raised platform on which a person stands to make a public speech.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Raiment: clothing.
Tout: attempt to sell (something), typically by a direct or persistent approach.
Canto: one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided.
S9. Ans.(a)
Sol. Ravel: untangle or unravel something.
Surly: bad-tempered and unfriendly.
Comport: conduct oneself; behave.
S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. Bier: a stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed.
Cabby: someone who drives a taxi for a living.
Victual: food or provisions.
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