(i) The police are trying to control the crowd.
(ii) Junk food may have high levels of harmful chemicals.
(A) check
(B) blame.
(C) contain
(D) incorporate
WBCS
Choose the correct option to frame a question from the following sentence, using the appropriate punctuation
I asked him why he wasn’t in class.
(A) I asked him-“Why you not in class?”
(B) I asked him, “Why you are not in class?”
(C) I asked him: ‘Why you are not in class?”
(D) I asked him, “Why are you not in class?”
Choose the word that best replaces the italicized words in the given sentence
In earlier times, rebels were executed for killing the king
(A) homicide
(B) regicide
(C) parricide
(D) fratricide
Pick out the word that is not similar to the others
(A) Pond
(B) Water body
(C) Lake
(D) Stream
Choose the word which is the anonym of ‘Chide’
(A) Scold
(B) Chastise
(C) Praise
(D) Arraign
Lachrymose nature means
(a) Lethargic
(b) Prone to anger
(c) Prone to tear
(d) Energetic
Choose the word from the list which is nearest in meaning to the underlined part of the sentence :
Hike in oil price may mar the future of the trade world.
(a) Harness
(b) Help
(c) Better
(d) Worsen
The concert was a pot-pourri of events.
pot-pourri means
(a) Medley
(b) Lengthy
(c) Badly arranged
(d) Classical
The teacher gave us explicit instructions.
(a) Definable
(b) Resolvable
(c) Demonstrative
(d) Detailed
Choose the word closest to the meaning of the underlined words :
The maiden’s clothes were so bizarre that they created quite a sensation.
(a) Beautiful
(b) Grotesque
(c) Mundane
(d) Lugubrious