Test Level 3: Word Usage - CAT MCQ

A politician should have the probity to lead, but reality gravely falls short of the ideal leaders.

His financial probity never disappointed him in his money matters.

The Secretary-General will spare no effort to continue to ensure that the highest standards of probity are maintained.

The probity of his expenses had led to his downfall.

The book, he was referring to, had great alacrity to it.

He invited us all to visit, and we agreed with alacrity.

During the first three weeks at his new job, Mark worked with such alacrity that upper management knew it would be giving him a promotion.

Immediately after this television programme the riot spread with alarming alacrity.

They rolled a maul in their own half and when Ken Owens lost possession, England counter-attacked with alacrity.

A foolish statement made publicly

A story of an incident witnessed by a child

A counter statement by opposition's lawyer

A politician's speech at a conference

Defamatory article published by a journalist

A gunfire in a peaceful country

Earthquakes in a region

Confusing or boggling ideas

A vehicle's breakdown in a deserted place

An accident in a densely populated location

Two years after graduation, Charlie still lived with his parents and had no job, becoming more feckless with each passing day.

That is an unnecessarily feckless approach to the problem.

His feelings become feckless, when he sees her.

Democrats twisted themselves into pretzels to avoid naming her in their feckless resolution.

Europe is feckless in the face of U.S. pressure, they say, and Iran is wasting its time with negotiations.

After a while, the trio finally got underway and started their penurious journey.

The combination of a pension plan with mandatory retirement benefits protects the worker against a penurious old age.

The county council is necessarily and naturally penurious about investing money in land.

Truly penurious, Mary had nothing more than a jar full of pennies.

Competing titles collide not only with each other, but with low purchasing power in vast areas of the world, with penurious libraries, and with competition from the visual media.

A Chinese delicacy

Hushing up a matter to avoid conflict

Mourning for a friend's death

Being servile to a boss

A person who enjoys Chinese cuisine

Immature behaviour of children

A sketch symbolic of desire and love

Longing for fancy cars, money and comfort

A socialite's charisma and charm

Feeling of domination over the loved ones

Closed for public

Opened for public

Pebbled

Scraped

Wiped out

Book of poems

Literature

Critique

Study

compilation