10 Questions with Answers & Explanations
Set 32 of 38
hostile
unconventional
sinister
unfriendly
unconventional
'Bohemian' describes a person (often an artist) who lives in a very informal and unconventional way, ignoring standard rules of behavior. Thus, 'unconventional' is the closest synonym.
There I am
There am I
Here am I
Here I am
Here I am
"Here I am" is the correct idiomatic phrase used to announce one's present location to someone else.
demanded two additional increments
decided to go on paid holidays
requested the management to implement new welfare schemes
offered to work overtime without any compensation
offered to work overtime without any compensation
Working overtime without compensation directly contributes to reducing costs and increasing company profit, making it the most logical completion for the stem.
Context: Question No. (12-16) based on the following passage: Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord, causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is Why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
polio victims
foreign children
children in the family
Indian Children
children in the family
The context indicates the narrator is comparing himself to his siblings, thus 'brood' refers to the group of children in the family.
Abdicate
Renounce
Possess
Deny
Possess
'Relinquish' means to voluntarily give up or surrender a claim or possession. 'Possess' means to have or own, which is the direct opposite.
Resurrection
Retrieval
Restoration
Resumption
Restoration
The term 'restoration' refers specifically to the repair and conservation of works of art, like paintings, to return them to their original state.
Context: In the world today we make health and end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. a lot of modern medicine and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers. the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work does the work that good health possible.
his work which good health makes possible
looking after his health
his health which makes work possible
talking about health
his work which good health makes possible
The final sentences of the passage emphasize that a healthy man should use his health to get work done.
barren
reckless
shallow
profound
barren
'Prolific' refers to producing many offspring or works. 'Barren' means being unproductive or unable to produce, serving as the antonym.
length
piece
section
stretch
stretch
The collocation 'a stretch of countryside' is the standard English idiom used to describe an expanse of land.
up
down
in
out
out
The phrasal verb 'put out' means to extinguish or turn off, which is the correct action for a light before sleeping.
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