New Pattern English Questions | BOB AND DENA BANK PO 2017 | 28.04.2017

Directions (1-10): For each of the words given below, a contextual usage is provided. From the alternatives given, pick the word that is the most inappropriate as a substitute in the given context and mark its number as your answer.

Q1. Zany: The film succeeded in spite of a zany plot

(a) bizarre

(b) weak

(c) weird

(d) ludicrous

(e) peculiar

Q2. Adjunct: A healthy diet as an adjunct to a regular exercise regimen helps one enjoy good health.

(a) supplement

(b) add on

(c) compliment

(d) accessory

(e) complement

Q3. Lyrical: The lyrical lilt in her voice attracted the listeners.

(a) melodious

(b) rhapsodic

(c) musical

(d) passionate

(e) sumptuous

Q4. Proscribe: At a point of time drinking liquor was completely proscribed.

(a) forbidden

(b) discouraged

(c) prohibited

(d) disallowed

(e) condemned

Q5. Venal: It is wrong to presume that the entire police force is venal.

(a) corrupt

(b) rapacious

(c) avaricious

(d) evil

(e) crooked

Q6. Vanity: There are childlike men in every society who require certain amount of experience of enjoyment to see through the vanity of it and then renunciation will come to them.

(a) pretension

(b) ostentation

(c) affectation

(d) avant-garde

(e) triviality

Q7. Hem: A poor man’s life is hemmed in and bound down by tremendous spiritual and ethical laws for which he has no use.

(a) restricted

(b) repressed

(c) confined

(d) immured

(e) encompassed

Q8. Exhortation: The minister’s exhortation to the small investors to return to the stock market is timely and ought to be welcomed.

(a) plea

(b) persuasion

(c) encouragement

(d) urging

(e) goading

Q9. Manoeuvre: It is becoming increasingly clear that the ruling party is in thrall to its own devious manoeuvres.

(a) schemes

(b) plots

(c) plans

(d) skills

(e) ploys

Q10. Pander: By refusing to come against the political machinations of the ruling party, the opposition party is clearly pandering to the majoritarian political temptation and abdicating its responsibility to defend the pluralist values.

(a) indulging in

(b) accommodating

(c) catering to

(d) following

(e) gratifying

SOLUTIONS

S1. Ans.(b)

S2. Ans.(c)

S3. Ans.(e)

S4. Ans.(b)

S5. Ans.(d)

S6. Ans.(d)

S7. Ans.(b)

S8. Ans.(a)

S9. Ans.(d)

S10. Ans.(d)