Tuesday, 30 July 2013

English - Vocabulary

English – Vocabulary

In the following 10 questions, each has four options as answer. The options are also marked as Noun (n), Verb(v) and Adjective(Adj). Mark your answers and check the same with the correct answers provided at the end.

1.       soldier

a)        n. increase of amount, size, scope, or the like
b)        n. a person engaged in military service
c)         v. to rouse to activity or to quickened action 
d)        n. a settled course or manner of progress

2.       commitment

a)        adj. intermeddling with what is not one's concern 
b)        n. an unprincipled politician 
c)         v. to bring together or give fixed shape to 
d)        n. the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping

3.       volatile

a)      v. to regain
b)      adj. changeable
c)       adj. toilsome
d)      v. to blend

4.       qualify

a)        v. to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions 
b)        n. a title of Jesus 
c)         n. a quack 
d)        n. passion for getting and keeping riches


5.       transition

a)      n. passage from one place, condition, or action to another
b)      n. a person of rank or importance
c)       v. to remove the inhabitants from
d)      n. angry or violent difference of opinion

6.       devilry 

a)        v. to deny oneself 
b)        n. malicious, mischief 
c)         v. to make more sharp, severe, or virulent 
d)        n. the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command 
  

7.       mileage

a)        n. a distance in miles 
b)        adj. having six angles 
c)         v. to introduce, as a fluid, by injection 
d)        v. to surpass

8.       prowess

a)        n. the whole range or sequence 
b)        adj. low-priced 
c)         n. strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle 
d)        adj. heedless 

9.       assassinate

a)        v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person 
b)        v. to inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox 
c)         n. permanence 
d)        n. a spiritual advisor

10.   generalize

a)        n. a person to whom a donation is made 
b)        v. to draw general inferences 
c)         n. ease 
d)      n. a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits

Answers:     1. (b)       2. (d)        3. (b)          4. (a)        5. (a)         6. (b)      7. (a)
                     8. (c)      9. (a)         10.  (b)      

                        

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