Word Usage Quiz – Find Similar Meaning Of Words

Word Usage Quiz – Find Similar Meaning Of Words

Word Usage Quiz - Find Similar Meaning Of Words - AffairsGuru

Directions (1-15): For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word/phrase from the alternatives that is most the appropriate substitute in the given context and mark its number as your answer.

1. Batten: As the economy grows worse, investors need to batten down the hatches and prepare for tough times ahead.

(a)Bereave
(b)Forfeit
(c)Oust
(d)Fix
(e)Drain


2.  ConsecrateThe little company of seven determined to consecrate their union by vows.

(a)Enter
(b)Smear
(c)Desecrate
(d)Dedicate
(e)Rehearse


3. BurlySeveral burly guards bowed to Sirian and Rissa and trailed them into the street.

(a)Scrawny
(b)Sturdy
(c)Frail
(d)Twiggy
(e)Lean


 4. Inured: Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?

(a)Disdain
(b)Familiarize
(c)Laxity
(d)Scorn


5. ChimeraShe notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera.
(a)Delusion
(b)Dope
(c)Verity
(d)Papability
(e)Gospel


6. Jingoism: When the war began many people were caught up in a wave of el
(a)Aloofness
(b)Stoicism
(c)Apathy
(d)Torpor
(e)Nationalism


8.  Hubris: His failure was brought on by his hubris.
(a)Haughtiness
(b)Homage
(c)Compliance
(d)Prizing
(e)Liking


9. DoughtyBut it’s been put back together with doughty resolution, notably up on the volcanic bump of the old town
(a)Skittish
(b)Prissy
(c)Coy
(d)Prim
(e)Brave


10.  FulminateI couldn’t even think up of a word bad enough to insult her with, I was fulminating with so much rage
(a)Rail
(b)Berate
(c)Bluster
(d)Fuming
(e)Menace


11. Delves-The boy delved in his trouser pockets and his face fell.
(a)Eschew
(b)Examine
(c)Scorn
(d)Evade
(e)Evade


12. Embellished: White walls are embellished with black grass wallpaper and surface details are defined in marble, natural stone and tiles
(a)Place
(b)Cover
(c)Mar
(d)Decorate
(e)Revealed


13. Juggernaut: With the reveal of its best-selling innovation, the software company has become a juggernaut in the tech industry
(a)Refers
(b)Nomadic
(c)Grudge
(d)Powerful
(e)Grievance


14. Irascible: It is a very quick and highly irascible beast and even known to turn on its pursuer.
(a)Gelid
(b)Frore
(c)Algid
(d)Hawkish
(e)Grouchy


15. ImbueHis war experiences imbued him with a strong sense of patriotism.
(a)Cloaca
(b)Instil
(c)Culvert
(d)Conduit
(e)Aperture


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