English Questions For IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains 2017

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Directions (1-15): For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word/phrase from the alternatives that is most the appropriate substitute in the given context and mark its number as your answer.

Q1.  Solemnize: That marriage had been solemnised in 1978 according to the Islamic religion.
(a) celebrate
(b) conception
(c) Sole
(d) alone
(e) despise

Q2. Paradigm: Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
(a) despite
(b) respective
(c) retrograde
(d) confusion
(e) model

Q3. Somersault: He flew off his bike and somersaulted over the bushes.
(a) better
(b) summary
(c) sovereign
(d) spiritual
(e) bounce

Q4.  Consolidate: The first phase of the project is to consolidate the outside walls
(a) conjure
(b) combine
(c) date
(d) sense
(e) solid

Q5. Cognizance: Her younger brother has a powerful cognizance of law.
(a) convert
(b) connivance
(c) giant
(d) awareness
(e) thinking

Q6.proviso:  He let his house with the proviso that his own staff should remain to run it.
(a) perjury
(b) pretext
(c) condition
(d) luxury
(e) instructions

Q7. Edifice: Scalia’s entire legal edifice is built not upon words, but upon a single understanding of a word.
(a) fix
(b) structure
(c) experience
(d) vision
(e) sole

Q8.Invigorated:  A brisk walk in the cool morning air always invigorates me.
(a) enquire
(b) energise
(c) divert
(d) variable
(e) insult

Q9. Rejuvenation: Summer is a time when we all seek opportunity for refreshment and rejuvenation.
(a) leave
(b) juvenile
(c) enjoyment
(d) renewal
(e) reconsideration

Q10. Arbitrary: The basic aim of a democratic regime is to curb the use of arbitrary powers against its citizens.
(a) betray
(b) better
(c) capricious
(d) emotional
(e) track

Q11. Patriarch: He has friends and influence—the Patriarch of Lisbon and many of the nobility will be on his side.
(a) arch
(b) elder
(c) prayer
(d) renewal
(e) pile

Q12. Transgress: The boundaries of the State were defined, and it engaged not to transgress them.
(a) deviate
(b) follow
(c) cancel
(d) grass
(e) infringe

Q13. Endeavour: Despite my shortcomings, I am endeavouring to use all of the resources at my disposal to improve my abilities.
(a) demean
(b) seeking
(c) attempt
(d) endanger
(e) prone

Q14. Ostensibly: The party secretary resigned, ostensibly from ill health.
(a) interaction
(b) obesity
(c) negligence
(d) apparently
(e) ensuring

Q15. Pluralism: We live in the days of pluralism, when all faiths and religions are of equal worth.
(a) doubt
(b) energise
(c) diversity
(d) hate
(e) forgiveness

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