Test: Vocabulary (June 22) - CAT MCQ

The word 'counselor' means a person who provides advice.
'Councilor' means a member of a council.
'Adopted' means legally take another's child and bring it up as one's own.
'Adoptive' means of a child or parent in that relationship by adoption.
'Venal' means showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt.
'Venial' means of a fault or offence slight and pardonable
'Further' is used for metaphorical or figurative distance.
'Farther' is used for physical distance.
So the correct answer is Option (d). ABAAB

'Precedence' means the condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance.
'Precedent' means an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar consequences.
'Alternately' means set up or following by turns, one after the other. 'Alternatively' refers to or implies a choice between two things.
'Noticeable' is worthy of note; significant
'Notable' is useful or profitable. "Discrete' means individually separate and distinct.
'Discreet' means careful and prudent in one's speech or actions.
So the right answer is Option (d). ABBAA

In Statement 1, the word 'pull' implies to take something out of or away from a place, especially using physical effort.
In Statement 3, the word 'pull' implies to attract a person or people.
In Statement 4, the word 'pull' implies to remove or stop something because it is found to be offensive or not accurate.
The correct answer is Statement 2, as the usage of word 'pull' here is inappropriate. Since 'pull away' implies to physically move away; however the statement implies metaphorical moving away.

Statement 1 is correct, the word 'shade' here implies a colour, especially with regard to how light or dark it is or as distinguished from one nearly like it.
Statement 2 is also correct; the word 'shady' here implies something/someone of doubtful honesty or legality.
Statement 3 is also correct; the word 'shade' here implies the comparative darkness and coolness caused by shelter from direct sunlight.
The correct answer is Statement 4 as the word 'shade' here is incorrect as 'fear' is an emotion/feeling, that does not have a shade.

Leech refers to bloodsucking parasites that feed on others while leach means to drain away from soil, ash, or similar material. Gulled means fooled while culled means slaughtered. Abrasion means process of wearing down by friction and aberration means deviation or abnormality. To attenuate means to lessen the intensity of something and to accentuate means to intensify or emphasize. Amorphous means shapeless while amorous means passionate and lustful. The correct answer is AAABB. So option (c) is the correct answer.

Bellow means to roar or shout while billow means to puff, swell or fill with something. Blandish means to coax someone with kind words and brandish means to exhibit something aggressively. Credence means belief in something and cadence means rhythm or beat.
Delirious means to be in a disturbed state of mind while deleterious means harmful. To decry means to denounce or criticize someone while descry means to catch sight of something. The correct answer is AAAAB. So option (d) is the correct answer.

Diffident means lack in g self-confidence while dissident means a rebel or a non-conformist.
Conflagrate means to inflame or incite and conflate means to mix different types of elements together.
Immiseration means economic impoverishment and commiseration means pity or sympathy. Secede means to withdraw or disaffiliate from an organization while cede means to yield or surrender. Beacon means a shining example or a guiding light while beckon refers to a gesture to summon someone. The correct answer is BAABB. So option (b) is the correct answer.

To stick one's neck out means to take a risk. If someone is described as a pain in the neck, it means he/she is an annoyance. If something is an albatross around your neck, it's something that keeps causing you problems.
The correct idiom in option (d) should be 'neck and neck' which is used if two persons are competing very closely. So option (d) is the correct answer.

A bird's eye view means a view from a very high place which allows one to see a large area. Roving eye refers to people who are sexually attracted to persons other than their partner. The idiom 'stars in one's eyes' means to be dazzled or enraptured. Option (a) is incorrect as the correct phrase is 'to cry one's eyes out' not 'to cry one's eyes after'. So option (a) is the correct answer.

Gauche means unsophisticated or socially awkward and blandness means the quality of being boring, plain or insipid. So option (b) is the correct answer.