CDS: English Synonyms Solved Exam Paper

 CDS: English Synonyms Solved Exam Paper (II) :

 

 

(SYNONYMS)

Directions (For the 17 items which follow): Each of the following 17 items consists of a word or group of words in capital letters, followed by four or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group ofwords in capital letters.

1. COUNTERVAILING
(a) Argumentative
(b) Compensating
(c) Crying 
(d) Complaining

2. TO DEBILITATE
(a) To outlaw 
(b) To support
(c) To weaken 
(d) To honour

3. FERRET
(a) Steal
(b) Search
(c) Forget
(d) Fight

4. PECUNIARY
(a) Pertaining to money
(b) Pertaining to Politics
(c) Pertaining to Geography
(d) Pertaining to History

5. REPRISAL
(a) Loneliness (b) Retaliation
(c) Remuneration (d) Pleasure

6. PROPRIETY
(a) Rightness 
(b) Brand name
(c) Cultivate land 
(d) Market share

7. CAVIL
(a) To play 
(b) To complain
(c) To prepare 
(d) To cut a joke

8. EVINCE
(a) To learn 
(b) To exhibit
(c) To resist 
(d) To become infirm

9. INCENSE
(a) To become angry
(b) To support someone
(c) To become relevant
(d) To introduce a new topic

10. ATTENUATE
(a) To weaken 
(b) To celebrate
(c) To store 
(d) To 'swim

11. ASCETIC
(a) Fashionable 
(b) Austere
(c) Articulate 
(d) Athletic

12. ARABLE
(a) Tolerable 
(b) Suitable for ploughing
(c) Likeable 
(d) Ardent

13. SECEDE
(a) To stop 
(b) To arrest
(c) To flow 
(d) To withdraw

14. PROFFER
(a) To apologize 
(b) To appoint
(c) To disappear 
(d) To offer

15. PREVARICATE
(a) To evade 
(b) To work hard
(c) To steal 
(d) To demonstrate

16. SPECULATE
(a) To embezzle 
(b) To guess
(c) To study deeply 
(d) To store

17. PECKISH
(a) Angry 
(b) Impudent
(c) Hungry 
(d) Smart

ANSWERS: 1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (d) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (c)

 

 

PART II

which follow): Each of the following 17 items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or groups of words.  Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters.

1. PEDAGOGICAL
(a) Related to evolutionary process
(b) Pertaining to teaching methods
(c) Pertaining to dictatorship
(d) Pertaining to social customs

2. SEMANTIC
(a) Mild-mannered
(b) Pertaining to financial matters
(c) Pertaining to meaning of words
(d) Tenable

3. PHLEGMATIC
(a) Thin 
(b) Even-tempered
(c) Worldly 
(d) Huge

4. EFFRONTERY
(a) Affirmation 
(b) Commentary
(c) Rudeness 
(d) Compliance

5. PREMONITION
(a) Sadness 
(b) Strength
(c) Warning 
(d) Advice

6. RETICENCE
(a) Modesty 
(b) Caution
(c) Cognizance
(d) Tendency to keep silent

7. BANAL
(a) Hostile 
(b) Commonplace
(c) Forbidden 
(d) Genial

8. FRUGAL
(a) Quiet 
(b) Economical
(c) Shy 
(d) Generous

9. QUAGMIRE
(a) Rugged cliff 
(b) Lacking in morals
(c) Quizzical 
(d) Whirlpool

10. CELERITY
(a) Grace 
(b) Fame
(c) Slipperiness 
(d) Speed

11. REPRISAL
(a) Surprise 
(b) Award
(c) Revision 
(d) Retaliation

12. CONGENITAL
(a) Compulsory 
(b) Dating from birth
(c) Official
(d) Pertaining to commerce

13. COMMISERATION
(a) Sympathy 
(b) Simplification
(c) Slip of tongue 
(d) Arrogance

14. INSIDIOUS
(a) Substantial
(b) Unstable
(c) Instantaneous 
(d) Cunning

15. BREATHTAKING
(a) Tiring 
(b) Costly
(c) Spectacular 
(d) Trick

16. PREPOSTEROUS
(a) Predefined 
(b) Obvious
(c) Absurd 
(d) Arduous

17. SLOTHFUL
(a) Fraught with risk 
(b) Lazy
(c) Revengeful 
(d) Lenient

ANSWERS:  1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (d) 11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (b)