English Questions For IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains 2017

Q1. Perseverance: His perseverance was rewarded: after many rejections, he finally found a job.
(a)prime
(b)preserve
(c)dedication
(d)precaution
(e) preface

Q3. Impudent: The boy was punished for his impudent behavior.
(a) pendant
(b) prevailed
(c) prepared
(d) impertinent
(e) condemned

Q4. Innocuous: Some mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact poisonous.
(a) harmless
(b) cannibal
(c) careless
(d) capable
(e) discord.

Q5. Eschew: We won’t have discussions with this group unless they eschew violence.
(a) chew
(b) avoid
(c) estate
(d) explain
(e) pleasant

Q6. Ameliorate: Foreign aid is badly needed to ameliorate the effects of the drought.
(a) amicable
(b) particular
(c) quarrelsome
(d) exhibiting
(e) improve

Q7. Archetype: Some historians tried to say he could not be real, but was an archetype assembled from idealized attributes.
(a) donor
(b) factors
(c) prototype
(d) flattering
(e) impossible

Q8. Insalubrious: He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.
(a) illiterate
(b) brisk
(c) charitable
(d) unpleasant
(e) incapable

Q9. Benevolent: He belonged to several benevolent societies and charitable organizations.
(a) violent
(b) volition
(c) benign
(d) beguile
(e) bereft

Q10. Expound: The article expounds the virtues of a healthy diet.
(a) bitter
(b) integrity
(c) explicit
(d) entirely
(e) present

Q11. Righteous: a righteous man can be trusted to act honorably regardless of the circumstances
(a) veronica
(b) prefunds
(c) upright
(d) equations
(e) impressed

Q12. Abrupt :There was an abrupt change in the weather.
(a) erupt
(b) monopoly
(c) clear
(d) exercise
(e) sudden

Q13. Disparity: This disparity in premium value led to great opportunities.
(a) dependent
(b) particular
(c) shoot
(d) discrepancy
(e) polarity

Q14.Heresy: It’s heresy in my family to not love baseball.
(a) excited
(b) blasphemy
(c) point
(d) gainsay
(e) gear

Q15. Affiliate : Their group does not affiliate itself with any political party.
(a) Filler
(b) affix
(c) affluent
(d) fluctuate
(e) branch