IB ACIO 18 February 2021 Evening Shift

Select the word that is opposite in meaning (ANTONYM) to the word given below.

Apathetic

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

The national debt ______ at an alarming rate thereby causing concern among economists.

Select the word that is opposite in meaning (ANTONYM) to the word given below.

Clandestine

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences which forms a coherent paragraph.

Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879.

P. It was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary.

Q. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest.

R. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life

S. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis.

Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

"Idle hands are the devil’s tools"

Select the most appropriate 'one word' for the expression given below.

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

The government of India has allowed field trials of two new varieties of indigenous develop GM brinjals in eight states of the country.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

"Hit the nail on the head"

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I would have waited for you ______ you were coming.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

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