Monday, 14 May 2012

ENGLISH PRACTICE TEST-8 FOR SBI AND IBPS BANK EXAM

Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the alternative which best
Expresses the meaning of the word FOR in the sentence.

1. Vanity is often noticeable in a great leader.
(a) Desirable
(b) Admirable
(c) Remarkable
(d) Visible


2. It was pure fabrication with an eye for a sensation.
(a) Observation
(b) Wish
(c) Desire
(d) Aim


3. Public opinion will pillory these agents of crime.
(a) Scorn
(b) Sub serves
(c) Recall
(d) Declare


4. His adulatory remarks surprised us.
(a) Discreet
(b) Insulting
(c) Appreciate
(d) Funny


5. The rapacious plunderers did not spare even the people living in the slums.
(a) Warlike
(b) Barbarous
(c) Avaricious
(d) Nomadic


6. Indian economy has always shown enough resilience in crisis
(a) Diversity
(b) Strength
(c) Elasticity
(d) Adjustment


7. Long illness has macerated his body. So much so that he is reduced to flesh and bones.
(a) Affected
(b) Eaten into
(c) Devastated
(d) Wasted away


8. We walked down a precipitous slope.
(a) Precarious
(b) Steep
(c) Precise
(d) Gradual


9. Some of the members of the Board indulged in highly scurrilous talk at the meeting.
(a) Irrelevant
(b) Superfluous
(c) Abusive
(d) Objectionable


10. Decay is an immutable factor of human life.
(a) Important
(b) Unique
(c) Unchangeable
(d) Awful


11. The cordial talks between the two foreign ministers cover the entire
gamut of their relations.
(a) Territory
(b) Range
(c) Sphere
(d) Scope


12. We heard him asseverate his good intentions but his actions belied his words.
(a) Affirm
(b) Incite
(c) Defy
(d) Cancel


13. The medicine was aperients.
(a) Bitter
(b) Sweet
(c) Giddy
(d) Laxative


14. There must be lively discussion of Indian authors if we are to foster our national literature.
(a) Promote
(b) Cherish
(c) Nourish
(d) Nurture


15. The problem of unemployment is emasculating our youth from making concrete innovations.
(a) Hindering
(b) Pressurizing
(c) Encouraging
(d) Making weak


16. The speech was filled with rigmarole.
(a) Nonsense
(b) Details
(c) Quotes
(d) Examples


17. The boy gave a vivid description of gall that happened.
(a) Brilliant
(b) Fresh
(c) Explanatory
(d) Picturesque


18. He was the most disputatious student I ever had.
(a) Scandalous
(b) Argumentative
(c) Uncertain
(d) Opinionated


19. Most of the staff is restive under the new managers rule.
(a) Relaxed
(b) Friendly
(c) Uneasy
(d) Obstinate
(e) Discontented


20. They knew by his sophomoric remarks that he was still knave in the field.
(a) Casual
(b) Unpalatable
(c) Immature
(d) Ignorant


21. His impertinence and his salacious remarks spoke voliably of his degradation
(a) Rude
(b) Indecent
(c) Distraught
(d) Poor


22. They all shunned him because he was a lecherous man always looking for an
Opportunity to cheat others.
(a) Cunning
(b) Deceptive
(c) Lustful
(d) Dishonest


23. After the severe riots, the police continued the curfew lest there was
no recrudescence of disorder.
(a) New outburst
(b) Spread
(c) Exaggeration
(d) Aggravation



24. The army has laid out an entire web of secret agents to detect the surreptitious
activities of the enemy.
(a) Hostile
(b) Secret
(c) Intriguing
(d) Foppish


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