English Language Quiz For IBPS Clerk Prelims 2023 -21st July

Directions (1-5): Choose the word out of five which is not the synonym of the word given in bold in each question.

Q1. CAPTIOUS

(a) acrimonious
(b) crabby
(c) cantankerous
(d) nagging
(e) laudatory

Q2. BIBULOUS

(a) absorptive
(b) permeable
(c) porous
(d) spongy
(e) non-absorbent

Q3. MALAPROPISM

(a) praise
(b) corruption
(c) exploitation
(d) squandering
(e) barbarism

Q4. ESCHEW

(a) abandon
(b) embrace
(c) shun
(d) abjure
(e) abstain

Q5. TENEBROUS

(a) gloomy
(b) murky
(c) obscure
(d) light
(e) somber

Directions (6-10): Choose the word out of five which is not the antonym of the word given in bold in each question.

Q6. DENIZEN

(a) alien
(b) dweller
(c) immigrant
(d) foreigner
(e) tourist

Q7. REGNANT

(a) powerless
(b) weak
(c) reigning
(d) fragile
(e) meek

Q8. PULE

(a) repine
(b) gloat
(c) happy
(d) praise
(e) merry-making

Q9. RECALCITRANT

(a) obedient
(b) amenable
(c) stubborn
(d) passive
(e) yielding

Q10. OSTENSIBLE

(a) improbable
(b) obscure
(c) unlikely
(d) vague
(e) illusive

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(e)
Sol. Meaning: tending to find and call attention to faults
Antonyms: laudatory

S2. Ans.(e)
Sol. Meaning: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Antonyms: non-absorbent

S3. Ans.(a)
Sol. Meaning: misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
Antonyms: praise

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. Meaning: avoid and stay away from deliberately
Antonyms: embrace

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. Meaning: dark and gloomy
Antonyms: light

S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. Meaning: a person who inhabits a particular place; dweller

S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Meaning: exercising power or authority; reigning

S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. Meaning: cry weakly or softly; repine

S9. Ans.(c)
Sol. Meaning: marked by stubborn resistance to authority

S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. Meaning: represented or appearing as such; pretended; illusive