Directions (1-15): For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word/phrase from the alternatives that is most the appropriate substitute in the given context and mark its number as your answer.
Q1. Solemnize: That marriage had been solemnised in 1978 according to the Islamic religion.
(a) celebrate
(b) conception
(c) Sole
(d) alone
(e) despise
Q2. Paradigm: Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
(a) despite
(b) respective
(c) retrograde
(d) confusion
(e) model
Q3. Somersault: He flew off his bike and somersaulted over the bushes.
(a) better
(b) summary
(c) sovereign
(d) spiritual
(e) bounce
Q4. Consolidate: The first phase of the project is to consolidate the outside walls
(a) conjure
(b) combine
(c) date
(d) sense
(e) solid
Q5. Cognizance: Her younger brother has a powerful cognizance of law.
(a) convert
(b) connivance
(c) giant
(d) awareness
(e) thinking
Q6.proviso: He let his house with the proviso that his own staff should remain to run it.
(a) perjury
(b) pretext
(c) condition
(d) luxury
(e) instructions
Q7. Edifice: Scalia’s entire legal edifice is built not upon words, but upon a single understanding of a word.
(a) fix
(b) structure
(c) experience
(d) vision
(e) sole
Q8.Invigorated: A brisk walk in the cool morning air always invigorates me.
(a) enquire
(b) energise
(c) divert
(d) variable
(e) insult
Q9. Rejuvenation: Summer is a time when we all seek opportunity for refreshment and rejuvenation.
(a) leave
(b) juvenile
(c) enjoyment
(d) renewal
(e) reconsideration
Q10. Arbitrary: The basic aim of a democratic regime is to curb the use of arbitrary powers against its citizens.
(a) betray
(b) better
(c) capricious
(d) emotional
(e) track
Q11. Patriarch: He has friends and influence—the Patriarch of Lisbon and many of the nobility will be on his side.
(a) arch
(b) elder
(c) prayer
(d) renewal
(e) pile
Q12. Transgress: The boundaries of the State were defined, and it engaged not to transgress them.
(a) deviate
(b) follow
(c) cancel
(d) grass
(e) infringe
Q13. Endeavour: Despite my shortcomings, I am endeavouring to use all of the resources at my disposal to improve my abilities.
(a) demean
(b) seeking
(c) attempt
(d) endanger
(e) prone
Q14. Ostensibly: The party secretary resigned, ostensibly from ill health.
(a) interaction
(b) obesity
(c) negligence
(d) apparently
(e) ensuring
Q15. Pluralism: We live in the days of pluralism, when all faiths and religions are of equal worth.
(a) doubt
(b) energise
(c) diversity
(d) hate
(e) forgiveness
English Questions For IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains 2017(solutions)
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