Directions (1-15): In each of the following questions five options are given, of which one word is most nearly the same or opposite in meaning to the given word in the question. Find the correct option having either same or opposite meaning.
Q1. Precursors
(a)erudite
(b)soporific
(c)harbinger
(d)pragmatic
(e) none of these
Q2. Pilferer
(a)incongruous
(b)skit
(c)foster
(d)cheat
(e)none of these
Q3. Avarice
(a)Arboreal
(b)Lugubrious
(c)greed
(d)Disabuse
(e)none of these
Q4. Pittance
(a)Nonplussed
(b)capital
(c)Disabuse
(d)Don
(e)none of these
Q5. Jingoist
(a)Erudition
(b)Chauvinist
(c)Comeliness
(d)Slake
(e) none of these
Q6. Abstinent
(a) gluttonous
(b)Suborn
(c)Tortuous
(d)Slake
(e) none of these
Q7. Curmudgeon
(a)Platitude
(b)Soliloquy
(c)complainer
(d)Preternatural
(e)none of these
Q8. Reprobate
(a)Adumbrate
(b)Steep
(c)Score
(d)ethical
(e)none of these
Q9. implode
(a)rise
(b)Toady
(c)Veracious
(d)Asperity
(e)none of these
Q10. Splenetic
(a)Limerick
(b)Disingenuous
(c)Cantankerous
(d)Pluck
(e) none of these
Q11. Prevaricate
(a)Foreshadowed
(b)Proximate
(c)assert
(d)Evanescent
(e)none of these
Q12. Cloistered
(a)isolated
(b)Fusillade
(c)Inerrancy
(d)Mince
(e)none of these
Q13. Torrid
(a)Sedulous
(b)Admonitory
(c)frosty
(d)Vicissitude
(e)none of these
Q14. Perennial
(a)Undergird
(b)continuing
(c)Minion
(d)Denigrate
(e)none of these
Q15. Gainsay
(a)Luminary
(b)Empirical
(c)Coterie
(d)contradict
(e)none of these