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Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 1

I don't know the price. You'd better see the person _________________.

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Since the question is in present tense, 'In Charge' should be used here.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 2

It is said that achievement _________________ the best in a person.

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"It is said that achievement brings out the best in a person”.

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Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 3

Bill has been absent for 3 weeks so he'll have to _________________ his work.

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Bill has been absent for 3 weeks so he'll have to CATCH UP ON his work.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 4

You should _________________ the opportuity to travel with a guide.

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'Seize' should be used here. Seize: to take hold of something.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 5

The company is _________________ to admit that its profits are decreasing steadily.

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In this context, the company is "loath" to admit that its profits are decreasing steadily. The word "loath" means being unwilling or reluctant to do something, which fits the context of the sentence. The company is reluctant or unwilling to admit that its profits are decreasing steadily.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 6

Sophie doubts if she'll manage to ____________ him __________ to her way of seeing things.

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'bring round' is a phrase which means to persuade someone to agree to something. Hence, it should be used in the sentence. 

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 7

The situation has become difficult to _________________.

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COPE WITH - Handle it
The situation has become difficult to COPE WITH

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 8

The train station is ____________ located near the offices.

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'Conveniently' should be used here.

Conveniently: a way that is suitable for your purposes or needs.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 9

Permanent damage can be caused by prolonged ___________ to the sun.

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Permanent damage can be caused by prolonged exposure to the sun. 
Long-term, unprotected exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun can damage the retina. The retina is the back of the eye, where the rods and cones make visual images, which are then sent to the visual centers in the brain. Damage from exposure to sunlight can also cause the development of cloudy bumps along the edge of the cornea, which can then grow over the cornea and prevent clear vision. UV light is also a factor in the development of cataracts.
 

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 10

Each of the following questions has a sentence with two blanks. Given below each question are five pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.

Exhaustion of natural resources, destruction of individual initiative by governments, control over men’s minds by central __________ of education and propaganda are some of the major evils which appear to be on the increase as a result of the impact of science upon minds suited by _________ to an earlier kind of world.

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Answer: Option A

The first blank can have ‘institutions’, ‘departments’, ‘organs’ or ‘tenets’. ‘Aspects’, compared to other options can be eliminated.
The second blank has the key to the answer. The phrase ‘suited by’ can be best followed by ‘fixated’, to make the sense complete- minds which were suited by ‘fixation’ or a preoccupation with one subject, issue, an obsession “to an earlier kind of world”. Also, ‘fixation’ flows perfectly with the idea of ‘an earlier kind of world’.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 11

Each of the following questions has a sentence with two blanks. Given below each question are five pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.

As navigators, calendar makers, and other_________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to _________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth.

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Answer: Option D

The first blank can have any of the three words mentioned in the options - ‘scrutinizers’, ‘observers’, ‘students’.
‘Scrutinizer’ means ‘one who examines or observes with great care; inspects critically’.
‘Observer’ means ‘a person who watches, views or notes for a scientific, official, or other special purpose.’
‘Student’ means ‘an individual formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil’
Out of these three, the part of the sentence prior to the first blank clearly suggests that the people involved in the exercise were experts in the subject under consideration. This eliminates the possibility of ‘students’ fitting into the first blank, and thus option 5.
The second blank has four possible alternatives.
‘Believe’ means ‘to have confidence in the truth, the existence or the reliability of something’.
‘Agree’ means ‘to have the same views’.
‘Suggest’ means ‘to mention or introduce’.
‘Concede’ means ‘admit; surrender or yield’.
The verb prior to the second blank denotes that the action is not voluntary but performed under duress.
It is not possible to be forced to place confidence in something. Therefore, it is difficult to be forced to ‘believe’ in something. This eliminates option 1.
The first part of the sentence makes it clear that contrary evidence was being gathered. If evidence opposite in nature or character is being gathered then it cannot be said that the ancient astronomers had the same view.
This removes ‘agree’ from further consideration as fitting into the second blank. This eliminates option 2.
The very element of force or compulsion eliminates ‘suggest’ as an appropriate fit for the second blank.
Therefore, option 3 is eliminated.
Both ‘observers’ and ‘concede’ fit in correctly.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 12

Each of the questions below contains a number of sentences. Each sentence has pairs of word(s)/phrase(s) that are highlighted. From the highlighted word(s)/phrase(s), select the most appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one.

The cricket council that was[A]/were[B] elected last March is[A]/are[B] at sixes and sevens over new rules. The critics censored[A]/censured[B] the new movie because of its social inaccessibility. Amit’s explanation for missing the meeting was credulous[A]/credible[B].  She coughed discreetly[A]/discretely[B] to announce her presence.

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Answer: Option D

The first sentence is the easiest to decide. Since the ‘cricket council’ is singular, singular verbs (was and is) are required. Hence, the answer choice should begin with A. This eliminates options 1, 3, and 5.
Comparing options 2 and 4, the difference is in the third choice – censored versus censured. Censored means examined in order to delete anything that is objectionable. Censured means criticised. Critics would criticise or censure a movie because of its social inaccessibility - hence, B. This eliminates option 2.
Credulous means ready to believe easily and credible means offering reasonable grounds for being believed. Hence, Amit’s explanation is credible – B.
Discrete means distinct; discreet means modest, unnoticeable.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 13

Each of the questions below contains a number of sentences. Each sentence has pairs of word(s)/phrase(s) that are highlighted. From the highlighted word(s)/phrase(s), select the most appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one.

Regrettably[A]/Regretfully[B] I have to decline your invitation. I am drawn to the poetic, sensual[A]/sensuous[B] quality of her paintings. He was besides[A]/beside[B] himself with rage when I told him what I had done. After brushing against a stationary[A]/stationery[B] truck my car turned turtle. As the water began to rise over[A]/above[B] the danger mark, the signs of an imminent flood were clear.

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Answer: Option B

In this set, the last two sentences are the easiest to decide: stationary truck and to rise above are correct uses. The answer choice has to end with AB. Options 1 and 3 are eliminated.
Beside oneself with rage is the correct idiom. Hence, third sentence is B.
Sensuous implies gratification of the senses for the sake of aesthetic pleasure- the sensuous delights of great music. Sensual tends to imply the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of the physical appetites as ends in themselves- a life devoted to sensual pleasures. Poetry is sensuous rather than sensual. Hence, the second sentence is B.
When we decline something we do it regretfully, when someone else has declined we find it regrettable. Hence, the first sentence is B.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 14

In each of the questions, a word/phrase has been used in sentences in five different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word/phrase is incorrect or inappropriate.

Run

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Answer: Option C

Option 1 uses the verb ‘run’ appropriately with “fast” as an adverb qualifying it.
The phrase, ‘against the run of play’ is used in sports to describe an event or action against the flow of the game.
For example, if Soccer team A has all the possession, all the chances and dictates the game, and team B has one chance and scores from it, then that goal is against the run of play. The term is used correctly in option 2.
Option 3 is incorrect. A person cannot “run over” someone. It can be a vehicle that can run over someone.
A person can ‘run after‘ (chase) someone, ‘run with‘, ‘run up to‘ or ‘run around‘ someone.
In option 4, a book can have a “popular run”, if a great number of copies of that book are getting sold.

Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 15

In each of the questions, a word/phrase has been used in sentences in five different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word/phrase is incorrect or inappropriate.

Buckle

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Answer: Option B

“Beginning to buckle” in option 1 indicates that their knees were ready to collapse or that they were extremely tired.
“Buckle” is inappropriately used in option 2. The horse can break into a trot or a gallop. It may buck or it may even break into somebody’s garden, but not “into a buckle”.
Option 3 uses “buckle” in the sense of ‘collapse’ or ‘surrender’.
In option 4, “buckle” again refers to ‘bend’ or ‘collapse’, even ‘break’.

Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 16

In each of the questions, a word/phrase has been used in sentences in five different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word/phrase is incorrect or inappropriate.

File

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Answer: Option D

“File” can be defined as ‘a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.’ Another definition is ‘a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order’. Option 1 uses the word in this sense.
In option 2, “to file” means ‘to apply’. The usage is correct.
In option 3, “file” refers to ‘a line of persons or things arranged one behind another’. Marching in a single file is similar to marching in a single column.
There is no phrase or idiom “broke the file” as mentioned in option 4. A soldier can break ‘rank’ but not a “file”.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

Test: Vocabulary- 2 - Question 17

Each of the following questions has a sentence/paragraph with one italicized word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the paragraph.

Or there is the most fingummy diplomatic note on record: when Philip of Macedon wrote to the Spartans that, if he came within their borders, he would leave not one stone of their city, they wrote back the one word - "If".

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Answer: Option D

Terse means pointed and concise. What controls the replacement in the context is the word ‘if’ as used at the end of the sentence. We are looking for a word which would classify this word in the context of the threat and the counter threat.
Option 1 (witty) is eliminated first since it does not fit in, in the context of the “threats” in the paragraph.
Then we have rude and simple as options 2 and 3. Rude and simple are poor descriptions of the profound ‘if’ in the context.
Option 4 (terse) is the best choice.
Hence, the correct answer is option D.

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