IBPS English Language Quiz: 31st March 2019

Directions (1-7): In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in THREE different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE. 


Q1. ALLIANCE 
(i) Last week, the BJP managed to woo back the Asom Gana Parishad that had quit the alliance in January over differences on the Citizenship Amendment Bill. 
(ii) In order to protect their borders, the two countries formed an alliance. 
(iii) All of the alliance wore matching t-shirts to display solidarity for their cause.

Q2. SCANT 
(i) We have to ration the water because we only have a scant amount. 
(ii) The medium size canvas was not too big or too small but the scant size for the painting. 
(iii) The high density city has a scant of people jampacked into one space.

Q3. OBDURATE 
(i) Sometimes, you are too obdurate for your own good! 
(ii) Despite the defendant’s apology, the judge was obdurate and gave him a thirty-year sentence. 
(iii) The protestors were obdurate and did not move even when the police arrived.

Q4. OBFUSCATE 
(i) The loan contract was filled with legal words meant to obfuscate trusting borrowers. 
(ii) If you want people to read your writing, make it simple and never obfuscate your ideas. 
(iii) Although you keep using that axiom as the basis for your obfuscate, the concept itself is not true.

Q5. CLASSIFYING 
(i) Math students are classifying polygons by the number of sides that each shape has. 
(ii) Many people are classifying congressmen as either republican or democrat. 
(iii) The science students were classifying animals into groups based on whether they were endangered or extinct.

Q6. DISTRACTIVE 
(i) Hobbling up the hill, the old man was distractive that his balky knees wouldn’t bend like they used to. 
(ii) Your distractive decision to skip your final has ensured that you will fail this class and have to take it again. 
(iii) The city planning commission has been mapping the future downtown area and creating visuals of what each street will distractive like.

Q7. SCRUPULOUS 
(i) The baker paid scrupulous attention to making the roses perfect on the wedding cake. 
(ii) If you want to keep your job, you need to be scrupulous about completing your work in the proper fashion. 
(iii) Most detectives are scrupulous individuals who do not let small details escape their notice.

Directions (8-15): In each of the questions given below an incomplete sentence which must be filled/completed with one of the sentences/phrases given below i.e. one of the sentences/phrases can be fit into the given blanks. Choose the correct option and complete the given sentences. 


Q8. The doctor said that you need to apply some palliative medicine ------------------------------------------ any pain.

Q9. When arriving at the realtor’s open house, the potential buyer ---------------------------------------- were selling did not match the description listed online.

Q10. Only neurological examinations and cognitive tests -------------------------------- man was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.

Q11. The boy faked an ailment ------------------------------------- home and not go to school.

Q12. Though owning rental homes can be profitable, the expenses of upkeeping --------------------------------- of the money made.

Q13. Presidential orders and the circumstances ----------------------------------- eroded J&K’s special status.

Q14. The constitutional relationship between J&K and the Indian Union -------------------------------discussions in recent times.

Q15. A 1954 presidential ----------------------------------------------- Indian Constitution to J&K.