English Language Quiz For SBI PO/Clerk Prelims 2023-24th October

Direction (1-10): In the following passage there are some words highlighted, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. Find out the word that appropriately replaces the highlighted word to make the passage correct. If the word written alongside is correct, choose option ‘e’ (No correction required) as the correct choice.

WOMEN were significant associates (1) in the national movement. Leaders such as Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, Kalpana Dutt Joshi, Bhikaji Cama and Aruna Asaf Ali became designative (2) of the freedom struggle. But even more than their presence, there was widespread intricacy (3) of ordinary women from different walks of life in different regions. Many of them came out of their homes into “public life” for the first time, often inspired (4 ) by Mahatma Gandhi, who made their participation an important part of his own political execution (5) of non-violent non-cooperation.
Inevitably, these women would have had their own intellectual (6) of freedom: their goals would have been somewhat different from those of their male counterparts, and their expectations (7) of living in a newly independent country would be(8) have been coloured by their very unequal and often oppressive social and economic wealth(9). But it may still be safe to say that the writers of the Constitution did manage to predict (10) many of the hopes and dreams of the women of the time.

Q1.
(a) admirers
(b) assistants
(c) participants
(d) competitors
(e) No improvement required
Q2.
(a) particular
(b) evidential
(c) detrimental
(d) emblematic
(e) No improvement required

Q3.
(a) ramification
(b) involvement
(c) captivation
(d) implication
(e) No improvement required

Q4.
(a) frenzied
(b) aspired
(c) frantic
(d) agitated
(e) No improvement required
Q5.
(a) strategy
(b) regulation
(c) supervision
(d) subtlety
(e) No improvement required

Q6.
(a) position
(b) notions
(c) sentimental
(d) philosophical
(e) No improvement required
Q7.
(a) purposeful
(b) conditioned
(c) curtail
(d) abridge
(e) No improvement required

Q8.
(a) is
(b) will
(c) must
(d) was
(e) No improvement required
Q9.
(a) realization
(b) coherence
(c) integral
(d) circumstances
(e) No improvement required

Q10.
(a) coagulate
(b) encapsulate
(c) concentrate
(d) rehash
(e) No improvement required

Solutions

S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Participants is the correct option to be replaced as the paragraph is about women involving themselves in freedom struggle.

S2. Ans. (d)
Sol. Emblematic is the correct word as it has been mentioned that these women took part in the freedom struggle and hence, they are symbolic of freedom struggle.

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. “involvement” is the correct word replacement as it means the fact or condition of being involved with or participating in something.
Intricacy means very complicated or detailed.
Ramification means a complex or unwelcome consequence of an action or event.

S4. Ans. (e)
Sol. “inspired” is the correct word in context of its usage in the sentence. So, it doesn’t require any improvement.

S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. “Mahatma Gandhi has made his own political strategy of non-violent non-cooperation” makes the correct phrase in terms of adding meaning to the sentence. Hence, ‘strategy” is the correct word replacement.

S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. Notion means a conception of or belief about something. Hence it makes a better sense in context of adding meaning to the sentence.

S7. Ans. (e)
Sol. “expectations” is the correct word in terms of its meaning and usage. So, it doesn’t require any correction.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘must’ is the correct verb to make the sentence grammatically correct.

S9. Ans. (d)
Sol. “circumstances” is the correct word replacement as it means a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action. Moreover, “social and economic” in the sentence suggests that the noun it defines should be in plural number. Hence (d) is the correct option.
Coherence means the quality of being logical and consistent.

S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. “encapsulate” is the correct word replacement as it means express the essential features of (something) succinctly.
Coagulate means cause to change.
Rehash means to reuse.