Vocabulary and Idioms in Context - Verbal Ability - General Aptitude (GA) Previous Year Questions

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2012 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2012

Choose the most appropriate alternative from the options given below to complete the following sentence:
The administrators went on to implement yet another unreasonable measure, arguing that the measures were already ___ and one more would hardly make a difference.

A

reflective

B

utopian

C

luxuriant

D

unpopular

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2012 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2012

Choose the most appropriate alternative from the options given below to complete the following sentence:
To those of us who had always thought him timid, his ___ came as a surprise.

A

intrepidity

B

inevitability

C

inability

D

inertness

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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2014

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
______ is the key to their happiness; they are satisfied with what they have.

A

Contentment

B

Ambition

C

Perseverance

D

Hunger

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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2014

Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the sentence below?
“As a woman, I have no country.”

A

Women have no country.

B

Women are not citizens of any country.

C

Women’s solidarity knows no national boundaries.

D

Women of all countries have equal legal rights.

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2015

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
The principal presented the chief guest with a ______, as token of appreciation.

A

momento

B

memento

C

momentum

D

moment

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2015

Choose the appropriate word/phrase, out of the four options given below, to complete the following sentence.
Frogs ____________.

A

croak

B

roar

C

hiss

D

patter

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2016 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2016

He turned a deaf ear to my request.
What does the underlined phrasal verb mean?

A

ignored

B

appreciated

C

twisted

D

returned

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2016 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2016

Choose the most appropriate set of words from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
________ ________ is a will, ________ is a way.

A

Wear, there, their

B

Were, their, there

C

Where, there, there

D

Where, their, their

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2017 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2017

If you choose plan P, you will have to________plan Q, as these two are mutually________.

A

forgo, exclusive

B

forget, inclusive

C

accept, exhaustive

D

adopt, intrusive

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2017 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2017

“If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters.”
Which of the following is closest in meaning to ‘cleaving’?

A

deteriorating

B

arguing

C

departing

D

splitting

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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2018

“When she fell down the _______, she received many _______ but little help.”
The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

A

stairs, stares

B

stairs, stairs

C

stares, stairs

D

stares, stares

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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2018

“In spite of being warned repeatedly, he failed to correct his _______ behaviour.”
The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is

A

rational

B

reasonable

C

errant

D

good

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2022 · General Aptitude (GA) · Verbal Ability · Vocabulary and Idioms in Context

Agricultural Engineering (AG) 2022

Inhaling the smoke from a burning ______ could ______ you quickly.

A

tire / tier

B

tire / tyre

C

tyre / tire

D

tyre / tier

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