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Q1
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb. These factors (1) ________ the expenses associated with peace-building.
Comprehension
Q2
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verb-noun pair. Several nations (2.a) ________ their ownership over this crucial maritime area, resulting in a progressively growing military presence in the (2.b) ________.
Comprehension
Q3
Fill in the blank with the appropriate participle. In addition to the substantial defence expenditures, there exists an intangible expense associated with the (3) ________ tension.
Comprehension
Q4
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate nouns. The (4.a) ________ of violent extremism, intercommunal conflicts, and food insecurity has resulted in a significant (4.b) ________ in displacement, with millions compelled to abandon their residences.
Comprehension
Q5
At night the factories struggle awake, wretched uneasy buildings veined with pipes attempt their work.
Comprehension
Q6
Personal and spiteful as a neighbor's child, thunder began to bang and bump the roof.
Comprehension
Q7
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth; I tried to put Truth in a cage!
Comprehension
Q8
“In that case you’d defend me if I killed him, right?” she asked affirmatively, pushing José’s enormous pig head with a movement of brutal coquettishness.
Comprehension
Q9
And the soul, O ganders, being lonely, flies Beyond your chilly chariots, to the skies.
Comprehension
Q10
“Magical realism” is an example of paradox. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q11
In the following lists of words, identify the word most likely to be an adjective based on word endings. Music, musical, musician, muse
Single correct
Q12
Why does the essayist refer to lord Timon?
Comprehension
Q13
Which of the following is NOT true?
Comprehension
Q14
Study the nouns given below. On the basis of your reading of the passage, choose the option that correctly matches the noun to its fitting adjective. i. Usurpation ii. Person iii. Business iv. Trick
Comprehension
Q15
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. Which of the following options can replace the well without greatly altering the sense of the statement?
Comprehension
Q16
"Walking dream!" is an example of oxymoron. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q17
"Cool as a cucumber" is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q18
"Time is money" is an example of a metaphor. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q19
"The city never sleeps" is an example of personification. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q20
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb. These factors (1) ________ the expenses associated with peace-building.
Comprehension
Q21
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verb-noun pair. Several nations (2.a) ________ their ownership over this crucial maritime area, resulting in a progressively growing military presence in the (2.b) ________.
Comprehension
Q22
Fill in the blank with the appropriate participle. In addition to the substantial defence expenditures, there exists an intangible expense associated with the (3) ________ tension.
Comprehension
Q23
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate nouns. The (4.a) ________ of violent extremism, intercommunal conflicts, and food insecurity has resulted in a significant (4.b) ________ in displacement, with millions compelled to abandon their residences.
Comprehension
Q24
“Cool as a cucumber” is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q25
“Biting cold.” What is the figure of speech used here?
Single correct
Q26
Spot the adjective from the following options.
Single correct
Q27
Given below are combinations of words used by the essayist to influence and persuade the reader's viewpoint. Match the adverb/adjective with the word that it describes.
Comprehension
Q28
Consider the italicized words/phrases used by the essayist in the following sentences to influence the reader. Choose the option that correctly classifies the italicized words/phrases. • Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are (i) usually, and all governments are (ii) sometimes, inexpedient. • (iii) After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. • This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself (iv) unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? • It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of (v) conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Comprehension
Q29
Telling a rude customer to "have a nice day" is an example of irony. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q30
"Blind as a bat" is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q31
“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes” is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q32
“Free as a bird” is an example of?
Single correct
Q33
“He is a pilot who’s afraid of heights” is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q34
“The city never sleeps” is an example of personification. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q35
In the following lists of words, identify the words most likely to be adjectives based on word endings. Foliage, farcical, fraternity, finance
Single correct
Q36
If the rehabilitation measures (a.) prescribed by the 2013 Act, which include a scholarship allowance for the children of manual scavengers, the allotment of a residential plot, and training in an alternate livelihood skill with a monthly stipend, were (b.) implemented in the case of Kotaiah, his death may well have been (c.) prevented. Study the given concluding statement and replace the italicised words with the most fitting substitutes.
Comprehension
Q37
'Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man' is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q38
'Blind as a bat' is an example of ________.
Single correct
Q39
'The city never sleeps' is an example of personification. This statement is ________.
Single correct
Q40
'Pretty ugly.' What is the figure of speech used here?
Single correct
Q41
Adding "-able" to "drink" changes it from ________.
Single correct
Q42
Joyless is an adjective formed by adding a ________.
Single correct
Q43
Identify the number of prefixes in the following sentence. The anticlimax was that the amoral politician, who was known for his illegal ways, got decorated in the end.
Single correct
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