Quiz no.631

🏓🏓The lockdown

Quiz no.631

Cut off= 17/ 20

Time= 12min.

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

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

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

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

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

6.What is the synonym for SPUME?

a.FOAM b.LAVA c.POISON d.SPIT

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

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

8.Spot the error:

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

9.Spot the error:

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

10.Spot the error:

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

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

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

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