Ans. Quiz no.631

🏓🏓The lockdown

Quiz no.631

Cut off= 17/ 20

Time= 12min.

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1.Mohan always ..... during lectures. 1✅drops off/ 2drop out/ 3drop in/ 4drop over

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Drop off= fall asleep easily, especially without intending to

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2.The terrorists ..... at the crowd. 1fired in/2✅blazed away/ 3shoots/ 4run over

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Blaze away= fire a gun rapidly a number of times

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3.Don't ..... him on. He is already in trouble. 1water/ 2milk/ 3✅egg/4 tomato

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Egg on= provoke

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4.She ..... in mathematics. 1sat/ 2✅stood out/ 3ran off/ 4laid

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Stand out= to be much better than other similar things or people

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5.Sohan's speech ..... for two hours. 1✅dragged on/ 2run on/ 3continue/ 4gone

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Drag on= continue for too long.

6.What is the synonym for SPUME?

a.✅FOAM b.LAVA c.POISON d.SPIT

Expl.

Spume= झाग 

7.Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to that of the word "VACILLATION".

a.RELIEF b.✅STEADFASTNESS c.REMORSE d.RELIEF

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Vacillation= अस्थिर 

8.Spot the error:

She was quite 1/ amusing when ✅2/ she heard what had 3/ happened.4./ NE5

Expl.

Amusing❌

Amused✔

9.Spot the error:

Although he jumped 1/ aside, but ✅2/ the stone hit him.3/ NE4/

Expl.

Although के साथ but का प्रयोग ग़लत है!

10.Spot the error:

He jumped down 1/ after shouted a warning ✅2/ to those standing below.3/ NE4

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After+ v1ing✔

After shouting✔

11.Narration

 I said to my sister, “Where were you this evening?”

(a) I asked my sister where she was that evening.

(b) ✅I asked my sister where she had been that evening.

(c) I asked my sister where she was that evening.

(d) I asked to my sister where she had been that evening.

12.Voice:

The storm destroyed several huts in the village.

(a) Several huts in the village had been destroyed by the storm.

(b) Several huts in the village had destroyed by the storm.

(c) Several huts in the village was destroyed by the storm.

(d) ✅Several huts in the village were destroyed by the storm.

13.Improve the bracketed part:

To ease unrest in our company, the boss made a speech to (aver) policy changes were coming.

(a) repudiate

(b) arraign

(c) confute

(d) ✅No improvement

Expl.

Aver: to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause.

14.Improve the bracketed part:

Our plans for the trip fell (down) because we had no money.

(a) off

(b) out

(c) ✅through

(d) No Improvement

Expl.

Fall through= प्लान चौपट होना 

Idioms/ phrases

15.Thumb one’s nose

(a) An ill-mannered person

(b) To show affection

(c) To hit someone unintentionally

(d) ✅To express scorn

Idioms/ phrases

16.Something that has grown or accumulated slowly

(a) Acidulous

(b) ✅Accretion

(c) Blurt

(d) Bog

17.Idioms/ phrases

Belief that God is in everything and that everything is God.   

(a) Atheism

(b) ✅Pantheism

(c) Scepticism

(d) Animism

18.Find the correctly spelt word:

(a) Ubiqutous

(b) Ubequitous

(c) ✅Ubiquitous

(d) Ubequitus

19. Find the correctly spelt word:

(a) Exonarable

(b) Exonereble

(c) ✅Exonerable

(d) Exenorable

20.The feminine gender of EARL is ............

a.aristocrat 

b.drake

c.✅countess

d.filly