For the following questions answer them individually
Choose the grammatically correct version of the sentence given below:
The bouquet of flower was placed on the table.
Five sentences are given below. Four of these when arranged in correct order, form a logical and meaningful paragraph. One of the sentences does not belong to this paragraph. Rearrange the 4 sentences that belong to the paragraph and choose the option that contains the order in which the 4 sentences should be put together:
A. Christopher did not care to learn that trade, but wanted to become a sailor.
B. Seeing the boy's strong liking for the sea, his father sent him to a school where he could learn geography, map-drawing, and whatever else might help him to become some day commander of a vessel.
C. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, was born at Genoa, a seaport of Italy, more than four hundred and fifty years ago.
D. His father was a wool-comber.
E. Columbus jumped from his blazing ship into the sea, and catching hold of a floating oar, managed, with its help, to swim to the shore, about six miles away.
Four of the given sentences can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
1) We call this race the Indo-European race, because it conquered not only Europe but also made itself the ruling class in the country which is now known as British India.
2) Their doom was sealed when a new and more energetic race appeared upon the horizon.
3) Indeed, with such energy did these Indo-European Persians push their triumphant campaigns in the west that they soon found themselves in serious difficulties with certain other tribes.
4) The world of Egypt and Babylon and Assyria and Phoenicia had existed almost thirty centuries and the venerable races of the Fertile Valley were getting old and tired.
5) These Indo-Europeans were white men like the Semites but they spoke a different language which is regarded as the common ancestor of all European tongues.
Choose the synonym of : vicissitude
Choose the set of words that are synonyms of each other:
1. recalcitrant
2. complaisant
3. fractious
4. furtive
In the following questions one word is given followed by some options. You have to find out the synonym/antonym of the word given.
What is the antonym of the word ‘Wanton’?
What is the synonym of the word ‘Culpable’?
Choose the option which is nearest to the meaning of given idioms/phrasal verbs.
Bite off more than you can chew
At the eleventh hour
At sixes and sevens
