Directions: Below are given some statements each of which is capable of being expressed by one word only. Each statement is followed by four such words of which only one is correct.
Out of the given alternatives A, B, C and D choose the correct word which very closely fits each definition.
1. A set of papers giving information about a person or event:
A. editorial
B. agenda
C. dossier
D. clippings
See Answer
Answer:- C
2. List and explanations of technical, difficult, etc. terms:
A. preface
B. glossary
C. bibliography
D. appendix
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Answer:- B
3. One who pays too much care to his clothes and personal appearance:
A. conscious
B. dandy
C. cynosure
D. leer
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Answer:- B
4. A child born after death of father:
A. effeminate
B. immature
C. fatherless
D. posthumous
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Answer:- D
5. A person who is hard to please:
A. insensible
B. hypocrite
C. egoist
D. fastidious
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Answer:- D
6. Complete failure in something attempted:
A. fiasco
B. vain
C. falsies
D. flop
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Answer:- A
7. A word which can be interpreted in any way:
A. confusing
B. misnomer
C. ambiguous
D. precise
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Answer:- C
8. A group of persons united by common interests:
A. society
B. class
C. clique
D. coterie
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Answer:- C
9. A person who is inexperienced and easily deceived:
A. fool
B. immature
C. blackhorn
D. greenhorn
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Answer:- D
10. Instruction by question and answer:
A. interrogatory
B. catechism
C. bulletin
D. alibi
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Answer:- B
11. Record of events by someone with first hand knowledge:
A. novice
B. report
C. memoir
D. itinerary
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Answer:- C
12. A mode of talk familiar to a particular group or profession:
A. jargon
B. colloquial
C. slang
D. abuses
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Answer:- A
13. Person who is crazy:
A. lackadaisical
B. tarter
C. scrupulous
D. loony
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Answer:- D
14. A person who readily believes others:
A. hasty
B. immature
C. credulous
D. credible
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Answer:- C
15. One who eats human flesh:
A. beast
B. cannibal
C. maneater
D. carnivorous
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Answer:- B
16. Intentional destruction of racial groups:
A. genocide
B. homicide
C. fratricide
D. communal riot
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Answer:- A
17. One with weakness of mind caused by old age:
A. dastard
B. dotard
C. fop
D. philanderer
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Answer:- B
18. Study of insects:
A. zoology
B. philology
C. entomology
D. etymology
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Answer:- C
19. A critical judge of any art particularly fine arts:
A. connoisseur
B. veteran
C. philistine
D. dilettante
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Answer:- A
20. One who introduces items of an entertainment:
A. consort
B. compere
C. director
D. introducer
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Answer:- B
21. A combination of business firms:
A. enterprise
B. franchise
C. cartel
D. autonomous
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Answer:- C
22. Freeing of suppressed emotions:
A. catastrophe
B. catharsis
C. epilogue
D. chagrin
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Answer:- B
23. One who believes in the power of fate:
A. optimist
B. pessimist
C. fearful
D. fatalist
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Answer:- D
24. The murder of brother:
A. genocide
B. homicide
C. salvage
D. fratricide
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Answer:- D
25. Additional to proper payment:
A. premium
B. overtime
C. ex-gratia
D. fringe
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Answer:- D
26. A person or thing used to tempt somebody into a position of danger:
A. decoy
B. provocateur
C. jinx
D. scapegoat
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Answer:- A
27. Custom of having more than one husband at the same time:
A. polygamy
B. polyandry
C. bigamy
D. sexagenary
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Answer:- B
28. A person of refined taste in food and drink:
A. emeritus
B. epicure
C. glutton
D. gourmand
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Answer:- B
29. A tombstone inscription:
A. epithet
B. encomium
C. epistle
D. epitaph
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Answer:- D
30. An office which has no work but high salary:
A. fortuitous
B. gratuitous
C. sinecure
D. ceremonial
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Answer:- C