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- The test is designed to check your current vocabulary levels and provide you an assessment of the same.
- Directions for individual questions: For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context
Contextual Usage:Test-1
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Question 1 |
For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Specious: A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of truth.
Deceitful | |
Fallacious | |
Credible | |
Deceptive |
Question 1 Explanation:
Specious means false or misleading. The word that does not fit with this cluster is credible.
Question 2 |
For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Obviate: The new mass transit system may obviate the need for the use of personal cars.
Prevent | |
Forestall | |
Preclude | |
Bolster |
Question 2 Explanation:
Obviate means to ‘Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening’. The word that does not fit in the given context is bolster, which means ‘Support and strengthen’.
Question 3 |
3. For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Disuse: some words fall into disuse as technology makes objects obsolete.
Prevalent | |
Discarded | |
Obliterated | |
Unfashionable |
Question 3 Explanation:
Disuse means something not in use. The opposite of this prevalent.
Question 4 |
For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Parsimonious: The evidence was constructed from very parsimonious scraps of information.
Frugal | |
Penurious | |
Thrifty | |
Altruistic |
Question 4 Explanation:
Parsimonious means thrifty or frugal. The opposite of this is altruistic.
Question 5 |
For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Facetious: When I suggested that war is a method of controlling population, my father remarked that I was being facetious.
Jovian | |
Jovial | |
Jocular | |
Joking |
Question 5 Explanation:
The word that does not fit in the given case is jovian. It means ‘Of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter’.
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