Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
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SSC CHSL 30th May 2022 Shift-2
For the following questions answer them individually
Select the most appropriate synonym of the highlighted word.
This is credible information provided by the informer.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The thief / entered the house, / in the middle of the night, / quiet.
Parts of the given sentence have been given as options. One of them contains a grammatical error. Select the option that has the error.
He is such an untruthful man, that no one will believing him.
Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.
The sweet and bitter memories of her past make her weak and sad.
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Have a soft spot for someone
In the following passage, a word has been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
In a ________ move, the robbers chose their next place of attack over 255 km away from the locations they had earlier ________ in Dewas.
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Reconnoitre
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Rescind
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
The thieves were caught by the police.
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Pull the plug
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
One expects better behaviour from a senior student.
Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music.
B. Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement. “I believe the Spring has come at last,” said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.
C. It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.
D. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by.
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
At loggerheads
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the highlighted word.
Let’s ascertain whether his claims have any truth.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration or research.
Select the correct homonym from the given options to fill in the blank.
She couldn’t eat the________ pizza by herself
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
I am watching a movie, when my mother came into the room.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The notice / that the office / posted over the wall / is very appropriate.
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
For the following questions answer them individually
In a certain code language, ‘PULSE’ is written as ‘QTMRF’ and ‘HEART’ is written as
‘IDBQU’. How will ‘LIVER’ be written in that language?
If 13 September 2003 is a Saturday, then what will be the day of the week on 14 February 2005?
In a certain code language, 'GRAPES' is written as 'EPYNCQ' and ‘ROSE’ is written as ‘PMQC’. How will 'SAGE' be written in that language?
Select the option that is related to the third number in the same way as the second number is related to the first number and the sixth number is related to the fifth number.
9 : 17 :: 22 : ? :: 30 : 59
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
67, 79, 64, ?, 61, 85
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
2, 26, ?, 170, 290, 442
Two different positions of the same dice are shown. What is the number of dots on the face opposite to the one with four dots?
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
12,37,114,347,1048,?
Select the option that is related to the fifth term in the same way as the second term is related to the first term and the fourth term is related to the third term.
ABILITY : ITYLABI :: INSTEAD : EADTINS :: ENGLISH : ?
If I denotes ‘$$\div$$’, J denotes ‘$$\times$$’, K denotes ‘−’ and L denotes ‘+’, then what will come in place of ‘?’ in the following equation?
15 L (3 J 9) K (12 J 2) L (189 I 9) L 29 = ?
How many triangles are there in the given figure?
Select the option that is embedded in the given figure as its pan (rotation is NOT allowed).
Select the option that represents the letters that, when placed from left to right in the blanks, will complete the letter series.
D _ R X E C M R _ E _ M R X _ A M _ X E
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
2168,1979,1790,1601,1412,?
Select the option that is related to the fifth word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word and the fourth word is related to the third word. (The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must NOT be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word)
Bear : Cub :: Owl : Owlet :: Deer : ?
Select the option that is related to the fifth number in the same way as the second number is related to the first number and the fourth number is related to the third number.
4 : 31::7 : 223::6 : ?
A pa per is folded and cut as shown. How will it appear when unfolded?
Select the correct combination of mathematical signs to sequentially replace the * signs and to balance the given equation.
16*4*8*10*2*16
Which letter-cluster will replace the question mark (?) to complete the given series?
RJGZ, NQWM, ?, FECM, BLSZ
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given number series?
209, 318, 427, 536, ?, 754
Select the option figure which is embedded in the given figure as its part (rotation is NOT allowed).
Select the correct mirror image of the given combination when the mirror is placed at MN as shown.
Select the correct combination of mathematical signs to replace the * signs and to balance the given equation.
48*6*17*3*12*5*1
Select the correct option that indicates the arrangement of the following words in a logical and meaningful order.
1.Solar System
2.Earth
3.India
4.Asia
5.Milky way
Three statements are given, followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III.
Assuming the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts, decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements.
Statements:
Some rains are cyclones.
Some cyclones are draughts.
No draught is a thunder.
Conclusions:
I. Some cyclones are rains.
II. No thunder is a cyclone.
III. No draught is a rain.
A can do a piece of work in 15 days, but with the help of B, he can do it in 9 days. In what time can B do it alone?
The following bar charts provides information on the income and the expenditure of a company in five consecutive years from 2014 to 2018.
Find the difference between the profits made by the company in the years 2015 to 2017 .
The value of $$\sin 18^{\circ}$$ is given as $$\frac{\sqrt{5}-1}{4}$$ Using this value, find the value of $$\cos 18^{\circ}$$.
On buying 24 bangles Isha gets 6 bangles free of cost. What percent does Isha get as a discount?
The following table shows the marks of four students in four different subjects in an examination. Who among the four students scored the lowest aggregrate marks, when marks obtained in all the four subjects were taken together?
A shopkeeper mixes two qualities of rice, which cost him ₹40 per kg and ₹47.50 per kg respectively, in such a way that he has 15 kg of the blended rice costing him a total of ₹645. What is the weight (in kg) of the rice that cost him ₹47.50 per kg?
A is the average marks of a group of 10 students in a class and A+8 is the average of a group of 15 students which includes the group of 10 students as given. The total marks obtained by the group of 10 students is X and the total marks obtained by the group of 15 students is Y. If X : Y = 3 : 5, then the value of A+X+Y is _________.
Two trains leave Agra for Calcutta at 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., respectively, and travel at 240 km/h and 300 km/h, respectively. How many kilometres from Agra will the two trains meet?
The identity $$4\left(z + 7\right)\left(2z - 1\right) = Az^{2} + Bz + C$$ holds for all real values of z. Find the value of $$A^{2}- B - C$$.
Find the total surface area of a container in cylindrical shape whose diameter is 14 cm and height is 25 cm. [Use $$\pi = \frac{22}{7}$$]
What is the difference between the compound interest on ₹10,000 for $$1\frac{1}{2}$$ years at 4% per annum compounded yearly and half-yearly?
The following table gives the marks scored out of 100 by Amit, Bablu, Cavin and Darshan in 5 subjects.
Who among the following secured an average score of exactly 94%?
A shopkeeper wanted to sell ₹3,000 worth of products. He gave two options — giving three successive discounts of 10% each, or giving a single discount of 30%. If a buyer chooses the former option how much extra/less does he pay as compared to the second option?
At an election there were two candidates. A candidate got 38% of votes and lost by 7200 votes. The total number of valid votes is ________.
If x=9, then the value of $$x^{5} -10x^{4}+10x^{3} -10x^{2}+10x-1$$ is:
The third proportional of 42 and 63 is:
A man travelled by car from city A to city B at a speed of 24 km/h and returned from city B to city A at 16 km/h. Find his average speed over the whole journey
A solid toy is in the shape which is a combination of a cylinder, cone and a hemispherical bowl. The cylinder contributes to 50% of the total volume of the toy, the cone contributes to 20% of the volume. Find the ratio of the contribution (in terms of volume) of the cone, cylinder and hemisphere.
$$\left\{\left(28 - 33 \right) + 99\right\}+ 136 \div 4 \times 5 - \left(44 - 2^{2}\right) =$$ ?
Find the area of the sector of a circle of radius 7 cm with a central angle of $$90^{\circ}$$.
If a company gives a discount of 20% on the marked price of an article and gains 20% on that particular article, then at what percentage above the cost price did the company mark its goods?
The total surface area of a cuboid of length 90 cm, breadth 50 cm and height 4 m is:
The average of the natural numbers divisible by 5 from the integers −10 to 35 is:
If 2x + y = 8 and xy = 6 , then find the value of $$4x^{2} + y^{2}$$.
The length of the longest stick that can be fitted in a cubical vessel having an edge of length 20 cm, is _______.
__________ is a world-renowned exponent of the Bansuri or bamboo flute.
As of March 2021, with a throw of 88.07 m, javelin star Neeraj Chopra set a national record in the third Indian Grand Prix in _________________
Which of the following freedom fighters wrote ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’?
Rajeev Taranath, a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan, is a __________ player
Kum Kum Mohanty received the Padma Shri award for her contribution to which of the following dance forms?
Which of the following angles of the flow of factor payments forms the basis to estimate the national income?
‘Straight from the Heart: An Autobiography’ is the autobiography of which of the following Indian cricketers?
Which of the following cities will be the host of Summer Olympics 2028?
In the case of Vikas KishanRao Gawali vs _________, in January 2021, the Supreme Court observed that OBC reservation cannot exceed 50%.
Famous classical dancer Tanjore Balasaraswati was awarded the _________ in 1977.
How many seats of Rajya Sabha are present in the state of Maharashtra?
Solanum lycopersicum L. is the scientific name of which of the following highly consumed vegetables?
'Third man' is related to which of the following sports?
How is the voltmeter connected across the points between which the potential difference is to be measured?
As of June 2021, India men's football team captain ____________ became the second - highest goal-scorer among the active international footballers.
Who among the following Indian Carnatic musicians received the Padma Vibhushan award in 1991 and established the Academy of Performing Arts and Research in Switzerland?
Which outside layer of the Earth is less dense, thick, and andesitic to granite composition?
Identify the solution extracted from a plant belonging to division Thallophyta.
Titanium dioxide, which is used as a white pigment in products such as toothpaste, is derived from which mineral?
Soorya Classical Dance Festival is held in , __________ for 10 days every year.
Kanaka Raju was awarded Padma Shri in 2021 for contribution to which of the following dance forms?
The electromagnetic spectrum describes the full range of light that is generally divided into ________ regions of wavelength and in the order of increasing energy and frequency.
Which artist’s musical album is titled ‘Land of Gold’?
Who among the following is the author of the famous classic ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?
Sandalwood is found in which type of forests in India?
