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Antonym Tech M
1. Antonym for Pygmy
a. Short b. Giant
2. Imitation
a. Artificial b. Original
3. Pervasive
a. Occasional b. widespread
4. Diffident
a. Anxious b. bold
5. Imperil
a. Hazard b. secure
6. Cogent
a. Rational b. weak
7. Scrupulous
a. Careful b. dishonest
8. Discord
a. Conflict b. harmony
9. Munificent
a. Mean b. Generous
10.Depreciation
a. Increase b. decline
11.Phlegmatic
a. Eager b. Tame
12.Destitute
a. Vacant b. rich
13.Imprison
a. Release b. confine
14.Imbecility
a. Intelligence b. dullness
15.Mutinous
a. Defiant b. obedient
16.Discordant
a. Compatible b. harsh
17.Descent
a. Improvement b. decline
18.Asperity
a. Good humor b. displeasure
19.Agile
a. Graceful b. Dull
20.Blunt
a. Abrupt b. gentle

21.Lucrative
a. Productive b. unproductive
22.Vagabond
a. Aimless b. responsible
23.Literate
a. Cultured b. Ignorant
24.Lucent
a. Opaque b. brilliant
25.Peril
a. Danger b. security
26.Illegal
a. Permitted b. prohibited
27.Paradise
a. Hell b. bliss
28.Malevolent
a. Kind b. hateful
29.Relevant
a. Beside the point b. related
30.Gorgeous
a. Ugly b. pretty
31.Resentment
a. Anger b. forgiveness
32.Sumptuous
a. Simple b. extravagant
33.Greed
a. Generosity b. desire
34.Esoteric
a. Deep b. literal
35.Vigorous
a. Weak b. intense
36.Versed
a. Skilled b. ignorant
37.Diversity
a. Uniformity b. Variety
38.Domestic
a. Foreign b. native
39.Concord
a. Agreement b. dissent
40.Meager
a. Sparse b. generous
41.Celibate
a. Virgin b. married
42.Betray
a. Support b. abandon
43.Corpulent
a. Ample b. thin
44.Affluent
a. Poor b. loaded
45.Taciturn
a. Talkative b. distant

46.Giant
a. Dwarf b. vast
47.Glacial
a. Hostile b. cordial
48.Laconic
a. Talkative b. concise
49.Languid
a. Passive b. active
50.Pinnacle
A. base b. zenith

1. The sentences below represent Direct/Indirect speech. From the below options, choose which one is
the best example for the mentioned sentence:
She told her, I know where the dog is
a. She told her that she knew where the dog is.
b. She told her that she knows where the dog was.
c. She told her that she knew where the dog was.
d. She told that she knew where the dog is.
Answer C
Choose the synonym:
2. FULSOME:
a. Thorough
b. Trivial
c. Eager
d. Excessive
Answer D
3. GABBLE:
a. Consume Rapidly
b. Jump around
c. Identify
d. Bring together

Answer: A
4. The boy at the river was not eating _________ food.
a. a
b. nothing
c. any
Answer: C
5. Choose one word which resembles the sentence:
Study of skin and skin diseases
a. Orthopaedics
b. Dermatology
c. Gynaecology
d. Endocrinology
Answer: B
6. Rearrange the following to make a meaningful sentence:
1. Except, we all contributed in the beginning days.
2. Manohar has just joined his office, he has been transferred.
3. At first, he could not get hold of the city culture.
4. Chandrapur is basically a rural area.
5. Currently, Manohar feels proud of his partners.
6. Before being transferred he worked in the chandrapur office.
Which is the third and second sentence in correct order?
Answer: 4 and 6
7. The paragraph represents jumbled sentences. Arrange the paragraphs in correct order:
a. A pact where a new government is being formed
b. The Liberals and the NDP commented that their plan is to end the reign of Harper Conservative
government by coming Monday.

c. If the present one falls apart as a result of lack of confidence

d. The opposition leaders of Canada have signed
1. ADCB
2. DACB
3. DABC
4. ABCD
Answer: 2
8.A part of the below mentioned sentence has been underlined. Choose a better word to use, in place of
the underlined:
Can you open this knot?
a. Break
b. Loose
c. No improvement
d. Untie
Answer: A
For Question 9 -12, write down the antonym
9. Comic
a. Fearful
b. Tragic
c. Painful
d. Emotional
Answer: B

10. Annoy
a. Please
b. Rejoice
c. Admire

d. Reward
Answer: A

11. Hapless
a. Consistent
b. Shaped
c. Cheerful
d. Fortunate
Answer: D
12. Niggardly
a. Generous
B. Stingy
C. Thrifty
D. Frugal
Answer: D
13. Join the following words to make up a meaningful sentence.
1. Suddenly
2. left
3. the
4. He
5. House
What is the correct order of these words to be arranged?
a. 12345 B. 14235 C. 32415 D. 53421
Answer: B
Fill the blanks with appropriate words:

14. I can have ____ a pizza __ a chicken dish for lunch.

a. Whether, or
b. As, whereas
c. Either, or
Answer: C
15. ___ my father __ my mother are from Mumbai.
a. Both, and
b. Either, or
c. Both, with
Answer: A
Read the following passage and answer Q 16- Q 19
At a stage like this in human civilisation, it is of utmost interest that nations coarse ignorance towards one
another decreases, people should start understanding a bit of histories of other cultures, other countries
and the resulting mentality developed. It is really fault of Englishmen because they expected people to run
the world as they wanted to, to international as well as political situations. We many a times expect people
to be the way we are and because of that nothing is made out of our actual kindness and good intents.
This could be corrected, not to be a very wide extent but to a certain limit if we knew global history, even
outlines of it, about the conditions, social and political, which have lead the country to shape up as it has
currently.
16. Author wants the people of his country to:
a. Read other nations policies
b. Have a better perceptive of other countries
c. Not to react with war
d. Have close contacts with all the countries
Answer: B
17. A better understanding among countries:
a. Has always been present
b. There is no need of that
c. Is now needed more than ever

d. Will always remain

Answer: C
18. The character that a country develops is mainly because of its:
a. Mentality
b. Gross Ignorance
c. Socio-Political Conditions
d. Cultural Heritage
Answer: C
19. The fault of Englishmen was that they expected others to react to social and political situations like
________.
a. Everyone
b. Themselves
c. Others
d. Us
Answer: B
20. Find the word that has been spelt correctly:
a. Voguei
B. Equestrain
C. Asspersion
D. Voluptuous
Answer: D

IRECTIONS

for

questions

1-4: Answer

the

questions

that

follow

each

passage.

All men by nature, desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses: for even
apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others, the sense of sight. For
not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one
might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and
brings to light many differences between things. By nature, animals are born with the faculty of
sensation, and from sensation, memory is produced in some of them, though not in others. And
therefore, the former are more intelligent and apt at learning than those which cannot remember;
those which are incapable of hearing sounds are intelligent though they cannot be taught, e.g., the
bee, and any other race of animals that may be like it; and those which besides memory, have this
sense

of

hearing

can

be

taught.

The animals other than man live by appearances and memories, and have but little of connected
experience; but the human race lives also by art and reasoning. Now from memory, experience is
produced in men; for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single
experience. And experience seems pretty much like science and art, but really, science and art come
to men through experience; for 'experience made art', as Polus says, 'but inexperience luck.'
Now art arises, when from many notions gained by experience, one universal judgment about a class
of objects is produced. For to have a judgment that when Callias was ill of this disease that did him
good, and similarly, in the case of Socrates and in many individual cases, is a matter of experience;
but to judge that it has done good to all persons of a certain constitution, marked off in one class,
when they were ill of this disease, e.g., to phlegmatic or bilious people when burning with fevers this
is a matter of art. With a view to action, experience seems in no respect inferior to art, and men of
experience succeed even better than those who have theory without experience. (The reason is that
experience is knowledge of individuals, art of universals, and actions and productions are all concerned
with the individual; for the physician does not cure man, except in an incidental way, but Callias or
Socrates or some other called by some such individual name, who happens to be a man. If, then, a
man has the theory without the experience, and recognizes the universal but does not know the
individual included in this, he will often fail to cure; for it is the individual that is to be cured.)
But yet we think that knowledge and understanding belong to art rather than to experience, and we
suppose artists to be wiser than men of experience (which implies that wisdom depends in all cases
rather on knowledge); and this because the former know the cause, but the latter do not. For men of
experience know that the thing is so, but do not know why, while the others know the 'why' and the
cause. Hence we think also that the master-workers in each craft are more honourable and know in a
truer sense and are wiser than the manual workers, because they know the causes of the things that
are done (we think the manual workers are like certain lifeless things which act indeed, but act without
knowing what they do-, as fire burns, but while the lifeless things perform each of their functions by a
natural tendency, the labourers perform them through habit); thus we view them as being wiser not in
virtue of being able to act, but of having the theory for themselves and knowing the causes.
And in general, it is a sign of the man who knows and of the man who does not know, that the former
can teach, and therefore, we think art more truly knowledge than experience is; for artists can teach,
and men of mere experience cannot. Again, we do not regard any of the senses as Wisdom; yet surely
these give the most authoritative knowledge of particulars. But they do not tell us the 'why' of
anything e.g., why fire is hot; they only say that it is hot. At first, he who invented any art whatever

that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because
there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wiser and superior to the
rest.
But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to recreation,
the inventors of the latter were naturally always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former,
because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility. Hence, when all such, inventions were
already established, the sciences which do not aim at giving pleasure or at the necessities of life were
discovered, and first in the places where men first began to have leisure. This is why the mathematical
arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure. We have said in
the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties; but the point
of our present discussion is this, that all men suppose what is called Wisdom to deal with the first
causes and the principles of things; so that, as has been said before, the man of experience is thought
to be wiser than the possessors of any sense-perception whatever, the artist wiser than the men of
experience. The master-worker than the mechanic, and the theoretical kinds of knowledge to be more
of the nature of Wisdom than the productive. Clearly then, Wisdom is knowledge about certain
principles and causes.
1.

2.

What is the relationship between sensation and memory?

All animals have sensation but some animals do not have memory.

Human beings are intelligent as they can reason, whereas animals do not have the
capacity of reasoning.

Human beings have sensation and memory both.

When sensation is remembered, it becomes as memory experience and this leads

to connected experience, which in turn gives rise to reasoning.

What is the difference between art and experience?

Art explains the cause of things together with its effects, whereas experience
gives us just the effect of things, not the cause.

Art does not give the cause and effect of things, whereas experience gives the
cause and effect of things.

Experience and art give rise to one another and they are complementary and
supplementary to each other.

Both experience and art are views of a contradictory time and space and this is
where the difference between the two lies.

3.

4.

Why, according to the author, were the mathematical arts founded in Egypt?

Because they were men of experience and had wisdom and knowledge about
certain principles and causes.

Because the sciences which do not cater to necessities or pleasures develop only
after the previous two have been invented and only then, men have time for
themselves. So was the case in Egypt where the priestly caste had ample leisure
time.

Because the inventors of luxuries were considered more important than the
inventors of necessities and in Egypt, the kingly and priestly class had developed
great standards in luxurious tastes and attitudes.

Because Egyptians were considered to be connoisseurs of art and crafts and had
superior civilization as opposed to the other ancient civilizations.

Which of the following can be considered to be the central idea of the passage?

"Experience made art, but inexperience luck".

Art is superior to experience.

What actually is "Wisdom"?

Knowledge is wisdom.

DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 6: Select the pair of words which exhibits the same relationship
between each other as the capitalized pair of words.
5.

6.

BEWILDERMENT : CONFUSION : :

bursa : sack

fantod : nervousness

bewitched : alliteration

coracle : lodestar

PREAMBLE : STATUTE : :

prologue : novel

sketch : drawing

movement : sympathy

index : book

DIRECTIONS for questions 7-8: Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the
idiom / phrase given in quotes.
7.

8.

The poet "drew on his fancy" not his knowledge of nature, when he wrote his poem
on birds.

used his understanding

used his imagination

used his aptitude

used his skill

Very ambitious people do not like to "rest on their laurels."

be unhappy

be impatient

be motivated

be complacent

DIRECTIONS for the questions 9: Arrange the sentences marked A, B, C, D and E to form a logical
paragraph.
9.

A.
A
nation
has
gone
against
its
historical
record
B. Risen above its worst prejudices in one, emotional, incandescent moment.
C. Well, at least partly, and for a while. Americans have voted in larger numbers than they
have
in
decades,
perhaps
ever.
D. Millions of younger voters have been fired by the youthful Senator they have chosen to
send
to
the
White
House.
E. The African-American president-elect did far better with white male voters than fellowDemocrat Johan Kerry did four years ago.

ABCDE

CDABE

DECBA

BCEDA

DIRECTIONS for question 10: Sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate
word. Choose the correct word out of the four.
10.

I have absolutely no doubt .............. the innocence of the accused.

on

with

over

about

Section A- English(35 qs)

1. The young boy was not wearing ___________ cloths

A. a
B. any
C. nothing
Ans-C

2. The following paragraph is made of sentences which are jumbled. Can you unjumble these
paragraphs and sort the sentences in their proper order?

A. A pact to form a new government.

B. the NDP and the Liberals have said they plan to bring down the Harper
next Monday.

Conservative government

C. Should the current one collapse due to lack of confidence,

D. Canadas opposition leaders have signed

1. ADCB
2. DACB
3. DABC
4. ABCD

3. In the question below the sentences have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given
alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
She said to her friend, "I know where is everyone"
A.

She told that she knew where was everyone.

B.

She told her friend that she knew where was everyone.

C.

She told her friend that she knew where is everyone.

D.

She told her friend that she knows where was everyon

Ans-B

4. Choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.

Medical study of skin and its diseases

A.

Dermatology

B.

Endocrinology

C.

Gynealogy

D.

Orthopaedics

Ans-A

Select the most closely related the capital word

5. FULSOME:
A. Excessive
B. Trival
C. Thorough
D. Eager
Ans-A

6. GABBLE:
A. To bring to together
B. Add a proof
C. Take rapidly
D. Jump and skip about
Ans-C

7. Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence so as to for a meaningful paragraph,
then answer the questions given below them.
1.But, we all helped in the first few days.
2.Chandrapur is considered as a rural area.
3.Manohar was transferred to his office recently.

4.Initially he was not getting adjusted to the city life.

5.Now, Manohar is very proud of his colleagues.
6.Before that he was working in chandrapur branch of our office.
I. Which of the following should be the third sentence ?
A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Ans-D

II. Which of the following should be the second sentence ?

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Ans-E

8. In the question given below a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given
alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Will you kindly open the knot?

A.

untie

B.

break

C.

loose

D.

No improvement

Ans-A

Questions (9-10) complete the sentence with appropriate words

9. You can have _ the chicken dish __ the fish dish for dinner tonight.
A. as, as
B. whether, or
C. either, or
Ans-C

10._ my aunt _ my uncle live in India.

A. Either, nor
B.Both, and
C. Whether, or
Ans-B

11. In the question below a sentence broken into five or six parts. Join these parts to make a
meaningful sentence. The correct order of parts is the answer.

1. left
2. the
3. house
4. he

5. suddenly

A.

12435

B.

21354

C.

45123

D.

52341

Ans-C

Questions (12-15), choose the word which is the exact OPPOSITE of the given words.

12. COMIC
A.

Emotional

B.

Tragic

C.

Fearful

D.

Painful

Ans-B

13. HAPLESS
A.

Cheerful

B.

Consistent

C.

Fortunate

D.

Shapely

Ans-C

14. ANNOY
A.

Praise

B.

Rejoice

C.

Please

D.
Reward
Ans-C

15. NIGGARDLY
A.

Frugal

B.

Thrifty

C.

Stingy

D.

Generous

Ans-D

16. In the questions below the sentences have been given in Active/Passive voice. From the given
alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
She makes cakes every Sunday.
A.

Every Sunday cakes made by her.

B.

Cakes are made by her every Sunday.

C.

Cakes make her every Sunday.

D.

Cakes were made by her every Sunday.

Ans-B

Read the passage below and answer the questions (17-20)

At this stage of civilisation, when many nations are brought in to close and vital contact for good and
evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished,
that they should begin to understand a little of one another's historical experience and resulting
mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do, to
political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to
nothing, because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history,
not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to
each nation its present character.

17. Englishmen like others to react to political situations like

A.

us

B.

themselves

C.

others

D.

each others

Ans-B

18. According to the author his countrymen should

A.

read the story of other nations

B.

have a better understanding of other nations

C.

not react to other actions

D.

have vital contacts with other nations

Ans-B

19. The character of a nation is the result of its

A.

mentality

B.

cultural heritage

C.

gross ignorance

D.

socio-political conditions

Ans-D

20. The need for a greater understanding between nations

A.

was always there

B.

is no longer there

C.

is more today than ever before

D.

will always be there

Ans-C

21. In the question below, passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence is given in
the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are
labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

S1:

Throughout history man has used energy from the sun.

P:

Today, when we burn wood or use electric current we are drawing an energy.

Q:

However we now have a new supply of energy.

R:

All our ordinary life depends on sun.

S:

This has come from the sun.

S6:

This energy comes from inside atoms.

The Proper sequence should be:

A.

SQPR

B.

RQPS

C.

QSRP

D.

PSRQ

Ans-D

22. Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to
make the grammatically correct?

The man to who I sold my house was a cheat.

A.

to whom I sell

B.

to who I sell

C.

who was sold to

D.

to whom I sold

E.

No correction required

Ans-D

23. Find the correctly spelt words.

A.

Asspersion

B.

Voluptuous

C.

Voguei

D.

Equestrain

Ans-B

24. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
LAUD
A.

Lord

B.

Eulogy

C.

Praise

D.

Extolled

Ans-C

25. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
IMPROMPTU
A.

Offhand

B.

Unimportant

C.

Unreal

D.

Effective

Ans-A

26. The question below contains one or two blanks. These blanks signify that a word or set of words
has been left out. Below each sentence are five words or sets of words. For each blank, pick the word
or set of words that best reflects the sentences overall meaning.

The _____ professor made the students stand in their desks for the rest of the class when they
answered a question _____.
A. conventional wrong
B. enthusiastic truthfully
C. eccentric incorrectly
D. avuncular fleetingly
E. respected doubtfully
Ans-C

27. The questions present a related pair of words linked by a colon. Five lettered pairs of words follow
the linked pair. Choose the lettered pair of words whose relationship is most like the relationship
expressed in the original linked pair

DRIP : GUSH
A. cry : laugh
B. curl : roll
C. stream : tributary
D. dent : destroy
E. bend : angle
Ans-D

28. Find the analogy

TOPAZ : YELLOW
A. diamond : carat
B. jeweler : clarity
C. sapphire : red
D. amethyst : purple
E. amber : blue
Ans-D

29. Complete the sentence with appropriate word(s)

Grandmother was considered the _____ of the family. If she raised one eyebrow like a scepter, her
_____ also known as family would rush to do her bidding.
A. glue subordinates
B. queen peons
C. worker bosses
D. manipulator juniors

E. matriarch subjects
Ans-E

30. Choose the word that best completes the analogy.

INEPT : SKILL :: FLIMSY :
A. Power
B. Weight
C. Strength
D. Thickness
Ans-C

31. Choose the word or set of words that makes the most sense when inserted into the sentence and
that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Many researchers believe that dreamless sleep

is largely a period of physical rest, whereas
dreaming sleep is a period of mental ________
during which the mind ________ and stores
the information acquired during the day.
A. relaxation . . . processes
B. inactivity . . . categorizes
C. fatigue . . . integrates
D. restoration . . . sorts
Ans-D

32. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom

To keeps one's temper
A.

To become hungry

B.

To be in good mood

C.

To preserve ones energy

D.

To be aloof from

E.

None of these

Ans-B

33. Read the each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any
will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer.
A.

I have got

B.

my M.Sc. degree

C.

in 1988.

D.

No error.

Ans-A

34. Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence
meaningfully complete.

The grapes are now ...... enough to be picked.

A.

ready

B.

mature

C.

ripe

D.

advanced

Ans-C

35. In the question below, there is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. Rearrange
these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper
sequence.
Since the beginning of history

P:

have managed to catch

Q:

the Eskimos and Red Indians

R:

by a very difficulty method

S:

a few specimens of this aquatic animal

The Proper sequence should be:

A.

QRPS

B.

SQPR

C.

SQRP

D.

QPSR

Ans-D