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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: In the question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words/phrases that are italicised and highlighted. Select the most appropriate words or phrases to form grammatically and syntactically correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one.
(a) The crime is of huge proportions and the (A) perpetrators / (B) perpetuators must be brought to justice immediately.
(b) Let us contribute our (A) might / (B) mite to the national cause.
(c) The (A) billowing / (B) bellowing cow is really looking for its calf.
(d) The politician has all along treated the constituency as his pocket (A) burrow / (B) borough.
Explanation
(A) 'Perpetrate' is 'to commit a crime'; 'perpetuate' is 'to continue'.
(B) 'Might' is 'great strength'; 'mite' is 'a very small amount'. It refers to contribution of even a small effort to the national cause.
(B) 'Billow' is 'to surge or swell'; 'bellow' is the howl of an animal.
(B) 'Burrow' is underground dwelling as of a rabbit; 'borough' is a (human) township. 'Pocket borough' is idiomatic. It refers to a borough in which the election of political representatives was controlled by one person or family.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given set of words.
A person who is brief in speech
Explanation
'Laconic' is a person who makes use of few words to convey much information or meaning.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given set of words.
To turn or twist as if from pain
Explanation
The keyword is 'pain'. A person 'writhes' with pain. Other options are incorrect.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given set of words.
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute
Explanation
An arbitrator is a person selected to judge a dispute.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Create a word using all the given jumbled letters in the table and then identify its appropriate meaning.
Explanation
The word is 'instilled.'
'Instilled' means imparted gradually or put in drop by drop.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Create a word using all the given jumbled letters in the table and then identify its appropriate meaning.
Explanation
The word is 'vicarious.'
Vicarious means 'acting or done for another.'
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: In the question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words/phrases that are italicised and highlighted. Select the most appropriate words or phrases to form grammatically and syntactically correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one.
(I) The presidential (A) ordinance / (B) ordnance will simply lapse at the end of six months.
(II) (A) Marshal / (B) Martial your resources and get going without any further delay.
(III) The (A) libertarians / (B) libertines express themselves openly in favor of laissez faire.
(IV) The (A) isle / (B) aisle was cluttered with knickknack and even the rows of chairs were disorderly.
Explanation
(A) 'Ordinance' is an executive order; 'ordnance' is about weapons.
(A) 'Marshal' means 'make ready for action or use'; 'martial' is related to war.
(A) 'Libertarian' is a person who advocates civil liberty; 'libertine' is someone lustful or immoral.
(B) 'Isle' is a tiny island; 'aisle' a passageway.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Create a word using all the given letters from the jumbled letters and then identify its appropriate meaning.
Explanation
The word is 'casually.'
'Casually' means in an unconcerned manner or carelessly.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Create a word using all the given letters from the jumbled letters and then identify its appropriate meaning.
Explanation
The word is 'truculent.'
'Truculent' means 'defiantly aggressive or ferocious.'
The other words mean -
Sinister - giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.
Amiable - having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner.
Reserved - slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
Earnest - resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 2: Vocab Usage
Try yourself:Directions: Match each suffix or prefix with its meaning.
Explanation
Zo- : animal
Poli- : city
Pedo- : child
Pan- : all
-phage: eat
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