Verbal Section Most Important Questions and Answers Part 14
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16. FERVID
(a) undistinguished
(b) unexpected
(c) stubborn
(d) restrained
(e) discouraged
Ans: (d)
17. VACUITY
(a) quality
(b) certainty
(c) plenitude
(d) stability
(e) incontinence
Ans: (c)
18. RAVEL
(a) knit
(b) omit
(c) remain silent
(d) measure
(e) increase in value
Ans: A
19. PERSISTENCE
(a) irrelevance
(b) inconstancy
(c) inequality
(d) intemperance
(e) incompetence.
Ans: B
20. SUBROSA
(a) openly
(b) fashionably
(c) under the owes
(d) simply
(e) clandestinely
Ans: A
21. PREFATORY:
(a) intelligent
(b) outstanding
(c) predatory
(d) conclusive
(e) magnificent
Ans: (e)
22. CONCILIATE:
(a) arrive
(b) appeal
(c) retaliate
(d) estrange
(e) lie
Ans: (b)
23. SUBSERVIENT:
(a) fawning
(b) obsequious
(c) miserly
(d) omnipresent
(e) haughty
Ans: (c)
24. VAUNTED:
(a) berated
(b) belittled
(c) lauded
(d) wicked
(e) worried
Ans: (c)
25. QUOTA:
(a) Anonymous remark
(b) decisive action
(c) debatable issue
(d) unlimited number
(e) irrelevant topic
Ans: (d)
26. CONTENTIOUS:
(a) satisfied
(b) pacific
(c) hungry
(d) bellicose
(e) dissatisfied
Ans: (d)
27. OBLOQUY:
(a) fame
(b) name
(c) inquiry
(d) shame
(e) collogue
Ans: (d)
28. PENCHANT:
(a) distaste
(b) scabbard
(c) agreement
(d) earring
(e) beginning
Ans: (c)