Dear Aspirants,
Reading Comprehension for IBPS PO Prelims Exam
IBPS PO Prelims is in its way and lot of aspirants are heading towards new hopes with this upcoming opportunity. Thus, English Language can be an impetus for their success by saving time and scoring well. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on English Language being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions for upcoming IBPS PO exam.
Directions (1-8): Choose, out of the given five options, (in each question) the word which is not the synonym of the given bold word
Q1. INCHOATE
amorphous
inceptive
mature
elementary
embryonic
Solution:
Meaning: just begun and so not fully formed or developed
Antonym: mature
Antonym: mature
Q2. PROFLIGACY
superfluity
luxury
folly
extravagancy
frugality
Solution:
Meaning: recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant, profligate behavior
Antonym: frugality
Antonym: frugality
Q3. AUSTERITY
sternness
inclemency
gentility
acerbity
gravity
Solution:
Meaning: severe and morally strict; the quality of being austere, having no pleasures or comforts
Antonym: gentility
Antonym: gentility
Q4. PROFLIGATE
abandoned
debauched
promiscuous
careful
libertine
Solution:
Meaning: using money, resources, etc., in a way that wastes them
Antonym: careful
Antonym: careful
Q5. APOPLECTIC
quiescent
lively
torpid
spellbound
becalmed
Solution:
Meaning: sudden loss of the ability to feel or move; adj: suffering from apoplexy; easily made angry
Antonym: lively
Antonym: lively
Q6. OPPROBRIUM
esteem
humiliation
degradation
disrepute
debasement
Solution:
Meaning: harsh criticism, contempt
Antonym: esteem
Antonym: esteem
Q7. APOSTATES
backslider
adherent
heretic
recreant
renegade
Solution:
Meaning: a person who abandons a belief or principle
Antonym: adherent
Antonym: adherent
Q8. SOLIPSISTIC
egoist
egocentric
singular
empathetic
self-reliant
Solution:
Meaning: the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist
Antonym: empathetic
Antonym: empathetic
Directions (9-15): Choose, out of the given five options, (in each question) the word which is not the antonym of the given bold word
Q9. OBDURACY
amenability
flexibility
indetermination
irresolution
contumacy
Solution:
Meaning: refusing to change in any way; contumacy
Q10. INTERNECINE
domestic
bloodless
external
alien
foreign
Solution:
Meaning: causing destruction to both sides; domestic
Q11. SOPORIFIC
invigorating
stimulating
opiate
awake
conscious
Solution:
Meaning: causing sleep; opiate
Q12. PERIPATETIC
firm
settled
fixed
robust
vagrant
Solution:
Meaning: going from place to place; vagrant
Q13. NASCENT
developed
amorphous
grown
mature
ripened
Solution:
Meaning: beginning to exist, not fully developed; amorphous
Q14. DESULTORY
organized
systematic
unmethodical
methodical
stable
Solution:
Meaning: going from one thing to another, without a definite plan or purpose; unmethodical
Q15. HUBRIS
audacity
humility
modesty
timidity
respect
Solution:
Meaning: excessive pride; audacity
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