SSC CGL Quiz : English Language | 13-09-2023

Dear Readers,

As SSC  CGL  notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of quizzes are based on the latest pattern of the  SSC  CGL examination. Regular practice of the questions included in the quizzes will boost up your preparations and it will be very helpful in scoring good marks in the examination.

In the questions below, out of the four alternatives, choose the one that can be substituted for the given sentence and mark it as your answer. 

Q.1. Excessively concerned with minor details or rules 

(A) Fatalist 

(B) Heretic 

(C) Pedantic 

(D) Lunatic 

Q.2. The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own 

(A) Plagiarism 

(B) Contemporary 

(C) Ambidextrous 

(D) Anarchist 

Q.3. Safe to drink 

(A) Termagant 

(B) Potable 

(C) Amenable 

(D) Virtuoso 

Q.4. The emblems or insignia of royalty 

(A) Quack 

(B) Squeak 

(C) Screech 

(D) Regalia 

Q.5. Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred 

(A) Abdication 

(B) Almanac 

(C) Whine 

(D) Sacrilege 

Q.6. A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit 

(A) Bohemian 

(B) Debonair 

(C) Cynic 

(D) Sinecure 

Q.7. A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event 

(A) Souvenir 

(B) Henpeck 

(C) Immoral 

(D) Polyglot 

Q.8. An imaginary ideal society free of poverty and suffering 

(A) Caucus 

(B) Hamlet 

(C) Utopia 

(D) Horde 

Q.9. Denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace 

(A) Florist 

(B) Venial 

(C) Rhetoric 

(D) Cannibal 

Q.10. In exactly the same words as were used originally 

(A) Verbatim

(B) Ascetic 

(C) Stoic 

(D) Epicure 

ANSWERS:-

Q.1. (C) 

Q.2. (A) 

Q.3. (B) 

Q.4. (D) 

Q.5. (D) 

Q.6. (D)

 Q.7. (A) 

Q.8. (C) 

Q.9. (B)

 Q.10. (A)