Tuesday 12 January 2016

General English - Questions & Answers - 21

301. Boswell’s Life of Johnson is considered to be the greatest ____ ever written.
(a) novel (b) essay (c) autobiography (d)  biography
Answer: (d)

302. Find out the mis-spelt word:
(a) Picknic (b) Supersede
(c) Grateful (d)  Relieve
Answer: (a)


303. He takes pride ____ his son.
(a) of   (b) in  (c) about   (d) for
Answer: (b)

304. Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘PHILANTHROPIST’:
(a) Man-hater (b) Cynic (c) Misanthropist (d) Egotist
Answer: (c)

305. Few government officials do their job without a monetary ______.
(a) bribe (b) grant (c) loan (d) inducement
Answer: (d)

306. Having become a mature woman, she began _____ for a husband.
(a) pined (b) yearning
(c) longed (d) wished
Answer: (b)


307. It was his _____ nature which made him continue where the most would have given up.
(a) good (b) ill   (c) divine  (d) stubborn
Answer: (d)

308. community:
(a) Anthropology (b) Demography
(c) Gerentology (d)  Psephology
Answer: (b)

309. The correctly spelt word is:
(a) Encroachment (b) Encrochment
(c) Encroachement (d) Enkroachment
Answer: (a)

310. The correctly spelt word is:
(a) Rapprochment  (b) Raprochement
(c) Rapprochement (d) Rapproachement
Answer: (c)

311. The verb form of the word ‘RICH’:
(a) Richen (b) Enrich
(c) Richened (d) Richness
Answer: (b)

312. Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘WEARY’:
(a) Alert (b) Agressive
(c) Energetic (d)  Quick
Answer: (c)

313. Joint sovereignty exercised over a country by two or more countries.
(a) Pandemonium (b) Colonialism
(c) Enclave (d)  Condominium
Answer: (d)

314. One word for: Incapable of being wounded:
(a) Impregnable (b) Invincible
(c) Infallible (d) Invulnerable
Answer: (d)

315. Pick out the correct group for the single word ‘Spectators’:
(a) People at a solemn meeting
(b) People at a street
(c) People who watches a match
(d) People at a lecture

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