Test Your Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 07-11-2023

Test Your Vocabulary has been introduced to help students who are preparing for competitive exams to gain confidence. Vocabulary is important for any competitive exam, especially for English Language subjects, whether it is an objective exam or a descriptive exam. Mostly, students get confused with the synonyms and antonyms of a particular word. So, to enhance your vocabulary along with synonyms and antonyms, here is a quiz provided to test your language.

1-Close but no Cigar

1. Verbally scold someone

2. To make someone laugh.

3. To be very near and almost accomplish a goal but fall short

4. When you complain about a loss from the past.

2-Down To The Wire

1. Something outstanding

2. When someone gives you a gift, don't be ungrateful.

3. Something that ends at the last minute or the last few seconds.

4. To drink very heavily.

3-Like a chicken with its head cut off

1. To get someone drunk.

2. Old people (or horses).

3. To act in a frenzied manner.

4. To keep quiet. To say nothing.

4-Scot-free

1. To be very sick (with the flu or a cold).

2. To escape and not have to pay.

3. Riding in the front passenger seat of a car.

4. Saved at the last possible moment.

5-Up a blind alley

1. Use your head. Think smart.

2. Going down a course of action that leads to a bad outcome.

3. Feeling ill or sick.

4. Tone deaf

6-Wine and Dine

1. When somebody is treated to an expensive meal.

2. To openly and freely express your emotions

3. Something that will never ever happen.

4. For certain.

7-Wild and Woolly

1. A long time.

2. After no success the first two times, the third try is a lucky one.

3. To get married.

4. Uncultured and without laws.

8-Pedal to the metal

1. To go full speed, especially while driving a vehicle.

2. To listen very carefully.

3. To eat a lot and eat it quickly.

4. A deal that is made without first examining it.

Q9. Choose the synonym of ‘Streamlined’.

(1) decentralize

(2) disperse

(3) aerodynamic

(4) scatter

Q10. Choose the antonym of ‘Subsumes’.

(1) classify

(2) contain

(3) incorporate

(4) exclude

Answers:-

Q.1 (3)

Q.2 (3)

Q.3 (3)

Q.4 (2)

Q.5 (2)

Q.6 (1)

Q.7 (4)

Q.8 (1)

Q.9 (3)

Q.10 (4)