Wednesday, April 25, 2012

25 MCQs on One Word Substitution

25 MCQs on One Word Substitution

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1. A disappointing decline after a previous rise: a) anticlimax b) conflux c) paradox d) autodidactic e) a.

2. An abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle, particularly in front wheels: a) stocky b) scruffy c) shimmy d) cagy e) c.

3. An expression of sarcastic scorn a) curtsy b) gibe c) repartee d) wit e) b.

4. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it: a) headgear b) vizard c) visor d) opera hat e) b.

5. A statement that contradicts itself : a) anticlimax b) conflux c) paradox d) autodidactic e) c.

6. A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit: a) bunny b) choppy c) burry d) chintzy e) a.

7. Dirty and messy; covered with mud: a) tacky b) wacky c) cocky d) mucky e) d.

8. Flowing together :a) anticlimax b) conflux c) paradox d) autodidactic e) b.

9. Having a short and solid form or stature: a) stocky b) scruffy c) shimmy d) cagy e) a.

10. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns : a) bunny b) choppy c) burry d) chintzy e) c.

11. Having or showing a ready disposition to fight a) blase b) bellicose c) comatose d) icky e) b.

12. In a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness: a) blase b) bellicose c) comatose d) icky e) c.

13. Ludicrous, foolish, mentally irregular : a) tacky b) wacky c) cocky d) mucky e) b.

14. Narrow and long and pointed, like pine leaves a) acinose b) adipose c) acerose d) ariose e) c.

15. Nervous and unable to relax: a) antsy b) austere c) tout d) gutsy e) a.

16. Not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch: a) tacky b) wacky c) cocky d) mucky e) a.

17. Of very poor quality; flimsy: a) bunny b) choppy c) burry d) chintzy e) d.

18. Overly self-confident or self-assertive: a) tacky b) wacky c) cocky d) mucky e) c.

19. Recklessness arising out of hopelessness of situation: a) desperation b) temperament c) cynicism d) scepticism e) a.

20. Rough with small waves : a) bunny b) choppy c) burry d) chintzy e) b.

21. Shabby and untidy : a) stocky b) scruffy c) shimmy d) cagy e) b.

22. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others: a) stocky b) scruffy c) shimmy d) cagy e) d.

23. Teaching oneself : a) anticlimax b) conflux c) paradox d) autodidactic e) d.

24. Very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful: a) blase b) bellicose c) comatose d) icky e) d.

25. Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world: a) blase b) bellicose c) comatose d) icky e) a.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

#962 ANSWERS TO 9611 TI 9620

Here are THE ANSWERS TO the quiz on ten GRE verbs:
CHOICE BOX
ACCUSE
BANISH
BEWILDER
DEFACE
DELIBERATE
DISPLAY
INFUSE
PLOD
SPARE
WRING


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9611. Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine. (John Milton in his 'Paradise Lost')


9612. How hast thou the heart, .., To mangle me with that word--banished? (Shakespeare in his 'Romoeo and Juliet')


9613. O, that a mighty man, of such descent, Of such possessions, and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit! (Shakespeare)


9614. False learning is good sense defaced. (Alexander Pope).


9615. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools. (Alexander Pope).


9616. The ploughman plods homeward his weary way. (Robert Gray).


9617. Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. (Shakespeare).


9618. (Oh woman!)... When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! (Scot).


9619. The woman that deliberates is lost. (Addison).


9620. Woodman! Spare the trees! (George P. Morris)

Friday, October 9, 2009

#961 GRE WORDS STARTING WITH 'A'

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE SMALL QUIZ BASED ON TEN GRE WORDS STARTING WITH 'A'.
CHOICE BOX
Abet
Abject
Abjure
Abnegation
Abominable
Abortive
Abrogate
Abseil
Abstruse
Abut


9601. Mexico abuts the U.S.A.


9602. Quantum physics is an abstruse subject.


9603. Fundamentalists abet terrorism.


9604. How many stars die in abject poverty?


9605. We cannot ask people to abjure their religion.


9606. Is abseiling as difficult as climbing?


9607. Which Hollywood films depict self-abnegation by mothers and wives?


9608. Did Alla abrogate his rules for Muhammad? Did God abrogate his promises to Abraham?


9609. Are Star Wars abominable?


9610. Did Napoleon make an abortive attempt to occupy Moscow?

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#960 QUESTIONS 9591 TO 9600-SIX-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN 'ASTER'

Here are the answers to questions 9591 to 9600. Test #960


CHOICE BOX
baster
caster
easter
faster
gaster
laster
master
paster
raster
taster
vaster
waster


QUESTIONS
9591. Does Easter give us spiritual power to do work?


9592. Are home inspections a waster of money for home buyers?


9593. Does Mars have lands vaster than Earth?


9594. How much does a taster for the President of USA get?


9595. Pastors are not pasters.


9596. Can't we live without a master and a model?


9597. Do lasters work in shoe factories?


9598. How many years does a caster need to work, to become a foreman?


9599. Every cook cannot become a good baster?


9600. New car buyers prefer faster models. Is it true? Why?

Friday, October 2, 2009

#959 ANSWERS TO: QUIZ ON MARK TWAIN'S TOM SAWYER AND TOEFL WORD LIST

Here are the answers to the quiz No.959..

9581. Her (Aunt Polly's) conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that.


9582. He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the
exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of
fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly
without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.


9583. One of those omniscient and awe-inspiring marvels, a
detective, came up from St. Louis, moused around, shook his head,
looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve. That is to say, he "found a clew." But you
can't hang a "clew" for murder, and so after that detective had got
through and gone home, Tom felt just as insecure as he was before.


9584. In the midst of the prayer a fly had lit on the back of the pew in front of him and tortured his spirit by calmly rubbing its hands together,
embracing its head with its arms, and polishing it so vigorously that it seemed to almost part company with the body,


9585. Tom attempted a diary--but nothing happened during three days, and so he abandoned it


9586. Huck said with some apprehension--for he was long used to being
falsely accused:


9587. Tom promised to abstain from
smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member.

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9588. After the hymn had been sung, the Rev. Mr. Sprague turned himself into a bulletin-board, and read off "notices" of meetings and societies and
things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of
doom--a queer custom which is still kept up in America, even in cities,
away here in this age of abundant newspapers.


9589. When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking. Tom was swimming in bliss. (Tom and Becky)


9590. There are wealthy gentlemen in
England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles
on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them
considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service,
that would turn it into work and then they would resign.



CHOICE BOX
abandoned
abstain
abundant
accused
adherent
vigorous
wane
wages
wise
YEARN

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

#958 ANSWERS TO DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S VOCABULARY AND TOEFL WORDS QUIZ

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE TEN WORD QUIZ ON JOHNSON'S VOCABULARY AND TOEFL LIST:

Dr. Samuel Johnson's essay "Rambler #134 on Procrastination" dated June 29, 1751.
Two paragraphs are given below.

To act is far easier than to suffer; yet we every day see the progress of life retarded by the vis inertiae, the mere 9571 REPUGNANCE to motion, and find multitudes repining at the want of that which nothing but idleness 9572 HINDERS them from enjoying. The case of Tantalus, in the region of poetic punishment, was somewhat to be pitied, because the fruits that hung about him retired from his hand; but what tenderness can be claimed by those who, though perhaps they suffer the pains of Tantalus, will never lift their hands for their own relief?

There is nothing more common among this 9573 TORPID generation than murmurs and complaints; murmurs at uneasiness which only vacancy and suspicion expose them to feel, and complaints of distresses which it is in their own 9579 POWER to remove. Laziness is commonly associated with timidity. Either fear originally prohibits 9574 ENDEAVORS by infusing despair of success; or the frequent failure of irresolute 9580 STRUGGLES, and the constant desire of 9578 AVOIDing labour, impress by degrees false terror on the mind. But fear, whether natural or acquired, when once it has full possession of the fancy, never fails to employ it upon visions of 9575 CALAMITY, such as, if they are not dissipated by useful employment, will soon 9576 OVERCAST it with horrors, and imbitter life not only with those miseries by which all earthly beings are really more or less tormented, but with those which do not yet exist, and which can only be 9577 DISCERNED by the perspicacity of cowardice



The choice box below contains ten words from Toefl Word List.

avoid
calamity
discerned
endeavours
hinders
overcast
power
repugnance
struggle
torpid


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Monday, September 7, 2009

#957, ANSWERS TO 9561 TO 9570- FOUR-LETTER-WORDS ENDING IN 'USS'

English has seven four-letter-words ending in 'uss'.

Here are the answers to quiz 957.

Yours answers need not tally with the key.

CHOICE BOX
buss
cuss
fuss
muss
puss
suss
wuss (slang)



CHOICE BOX
9561, He is not a wuss to become an alcoholic.


9562, He sold more meat for one penny than we could sell for three; and he gave extra weight to whatsoever lass would buss him. -- McSpadden, J. Walker.


9563, We cannot suss things out easily from the "Paradise Lost".


9564, The cussed city was in ruins for centuries.


9565, Cats are pusses. Girls are pusses. Are cats girls?


9566, Media makes much fuss about minuscule things.


9567, Workaholics may have mussy homes.


9568, Who created all this muss in the U.S. economy?


9569, Does a person making the biggest fuss, get all the attention?


9570, Nobody can terrify me. I amn't a wuss.


Monday, August 31, 2009

#956, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 9551 TO 9560- FOUR-LETTER-WORDS ENDING IN 'OSS'

English has nine four-letter-words ending in 'oss'.

Here are the answers to the small quiz based on the above words.

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CHOICE BOX
boss
coss
doss
foss
joss
koss
loss
moss
toss


QUIZ BOX
9551. My intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it. -- Jonas Salk.

9552. A rolling stone gathers no moss. -- Pubililius Syrus.


9553. The boss is always right. -- A Russian proverb.


9554. When at a loss how to go on, cough. -- A Greek proverb.


9555. If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: `Hold on!' -- Rudyard Kipling.



9556. The word KOSS is not in dictionary. It is more a brand name for headphones.


9557. The word coss has a Sanskrit origin 'krosam'. It is a linear unit of distance, approx. equal to 1.5 British miles.


9558. Do people burn joss sticks at the tomb of Mao Zedong?


9559. Is Buckingham Palace surrounded by a moat and foss?


9560. Have you seen the 1933 movie, "Doss House"? Its main theme: Police searching for criminals in doss houses.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

#955, Answers to Questions 9541 to 9550- Four letter words ending in 'ess'

English has six four-letter-words ending in 'ess'.

cess
fess
jess
less
mess
ness (suffix)


HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ NO. 955. Yr. ans. need n't agree with this key.

9541. Jesses can be fastened around the legs of hawks.


9542. The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. -- Thomas Paine.


9543. '... We fess up. We tell Nick.
We go and ask for forgiveness.
- Forgiveness? - Yes. ..." -- The film "Envy" directed by Barry levionson.


9544. "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" -- Will Rogers.


9545. I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things. --Mike Tyson


9546. Some countries levy cess on sugar.


9547. Let us leave our worries in a sweet cesspool.


9548. Levying cess on salt is abominable.


9549. 'Fess up," Obama said as the audience burst into laughter. "Coach (Urban Meyer) is going to talk to you about not turning off your phone." ... (Obama's speech, source; Whitehouse.Gov.)


9550. Is Obama clearing out the mess made by George Bush?

Saturday, August 29, 2009

#954 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 9531 TO 9540- Four letter words ending in 'iss'

English has six four-letter-words ending in 'iss'.

Here are the answers to the small quiz based on these six words.

Your usage need not tally with my usage. Click to see the original quiz: Click

diss hiss kiss miss piss wiss
The word 'wiss' is slang. It is not found in dictionaries. Hence, I am not using. WISS is an acronym.


9531. Stardom may not be worth a pitcher of piss for persons of steady wisdom.


9532. Snakes hiss. Angry men and women hiss. Can we say that angry men and women are snakes?


9533. Lovers agitate when their partners diss them.


9534. Salute one another with an holy kiss.
-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans16:16.


9535. Did Edward Kennedy miss the Presidential Bus?


9536. Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. --Samuel Johnson.


9537. If you are going to piss off powerful people, you might not want to break the law. (attributed to Dr. Samuel Johnson).


9538. The person I miss most is the one I could have been. -- George Bernard Shaw.


9539. Kiss me Kate. We shall be married on Sunday. -- Shakespeare in 'Taming of the Shrew'.


9540. Sibilants like 'S' make hissing sounds while pronouncing.