Friday 6 May 2016

General English - Questions & Answers - 34

496. ‘Bona fide’ is:
(a) In good faith                                                        (b) Birth place
(c) Cheating                                                                (d) Stealing
Answer: (a)

497. Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others.
(a) Masochism                                                           (b) Redemption
(c) Sadism                                                                   (d) Psychopathy
Answer: (c)


498. Choose the correctly spelt word:
(a) Audeo                                                                     (b) Video
(c) Telivision                                                               (d) Radeo
Answer: (b)

499. He has a habit of ‘building castles in the air’ (Choose the word nearest in
meaning of the underlined words)
(a) Building huge castles                                        (b) Dreaming
(c) Doing hard work
(d) To have plans that are unlikely to be fulfilled
Answer: (d)

500. The antonym of ‘Barren’ is:
(a) Fertile                                                                    (b) Dry
(c) Uncultivated                                                        (d) Wet
Answer: (a)

501. She told____ me an interesting story.
(a) to                                                                   (b) by
(c) with                                                               (d) no preposition needed
Answer: (d)


502. The sound made by jackals:
(a) Howl                                                             (b) Bray
(c) Low                                                               (d) Trumpet
Answer: (a)

503. ‘To bring to book’ means:
(a) To praise                                                     (b) Confused
(c) To punish                                                    (d) To suspect
Answer: (c)

504. The ship waited till the storm ____ before sailing out to sea.
(a) evaporated                                                 (b) consolidated
(c) abated                                                          (d) normalized
Answer: (c)

505. The boy was unwilling to part ____his toys.
(a) for                                                                 (b) at
(c) on                                                                  (d) with
Answer: (d)

506. ‘Eulogistic’ is the antonym of:
(a) Critical                                                       (b) Cowardly
(c) Affluent                                                      (d) Logistic
Answer: (a)

507. The firm progressed ______
(a) ways and means                                     (b) heart and soul
(c) hue and cry                                               (d) by leaps and bounds
Answer: (d)

508. The opposite of the word ‘Arrogant’:
(a) Flexible                                                     (b) Proud
(c) Polite                                                         (d) Humble
Answer: (d)

509. John usually goes to work ____ bus.
(a) by                                                               (b) in
(c) on                                                               (d) with
Answer: (a)

510. She proved herself very ____ in Chess.
(a) adopt                                                             (b) adapt
(c) adept                                                              (d) None of these

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