This section can be easy as pie if your basics are clear. Sometimes, even those who can communicate very well in English, fail to perform to the best of their ability in the banking exams. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions.
Directions (1-5): In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word and click the button corresponding to it.
Q1. Equivocate
(a) Prevaricate
(b) intimate
(c) strangulate
(d) implicate
(e) agree
Q2. Nom de plume
(a) Pen-name
(b) dessert
(c) desert
(d) deserting
(e) bellicose
Q3. Platitude
(a) Philanderer
(b) punctilious
(c) pyrotechnic
(d) Truism
(e) adage
Q4. Rendezvous
(a) Merry-making
(b) appointment
(c) incorrigible
(d) emissary
(e)missionary
Q5. Recondite
(a) Erudite
(b) reconstitute
(c) abstruse
(d)epitomize
(e) rat race
Directions (6-10): In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word and click the button corresponding to it.
Q6. Promiscuous
(a) Chaste
(b) dissipated
(c) immoderate
(d) masque
(e) Dissolute
Q7. Juxtaposed
(a) Exposed
(b) revealed
(c) distanced
(d) martyred
(e) appose
Q8. panegyrical
(a) adulatory
(b) eulogistic
(c) paramour
(d) disparaging
(e) tergiversation
Q9. Recapitulate
(a) epitomize
(b) recount
(c) protract
(d) wrap up
(e) finish
Q10. boorish
(a) coarse
(b) sophisticated
(c) churlish
(d) unladylike
(e) boring
Directions (11-15): The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.
Q11. She ___ that she had acted irresponsibly.
(a) Refuted
(b) refused
(c) denied
(d) declined
(e) postponed
Q12. He treated me ____
(a) good
(b) nice
(c)well
(d) fine
(e) bad
Q13. The largest teaching union yesterday ____to the Government, threatening strikes if their demands are not met.
(a) threw down the gauntlet
(b) reconciled themselves
(c) subjected
(d) suited
(e) reproached
Q14. The only _______ in an otherwise perfect wedding day was the fact that the bride tripped when walking down the aisle.