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In the following each question, select the correct alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence, from the given four alternatives.

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Questions : Atonement for one's sins

(a) Incendiary

(b) Elite

(c) Repentance

(d) Ignoramus

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

That which cannot be easily read

a) Unreadable

b) Unintelligible

c) Incomprehensible

d) Illegible

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

An emolument over and above fixed income or salary

a) Perquisite

b) Prerogative

c) Sinecure

d) Honorarium

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

A person in his seventies

a) Centurion

b) Patriarch

c) Septuagenarian

d) Sexagenarian

Answer: (c)

Question : 4

One who hates people.

a) misologist

b) misanthrope

c) misogynist

d) misandrist

Answer: (b)

misanthrope

misanthrope (N.) : one who dislikes people in general

misandrist (N.) : one who hates/ mistrusts men

misologist (N.) : one who hates reason, argument, or enlightenment

misogynist (N.) : one who dislikes women in particular

Question : 5

Usage of an incorrect word in place of the one which is similar in pronunciation

a) malapropism

b) blooper

c) corpsing

d) spoonerism

Answer: (a)

malapropism

malapropism (N.) : an amusing mistake somebody makes when they use a word which sounds similar to the word they wanted to use, but means something different

spoonerism (N.) : a mistake in which you change around the first sounds of two words by mistake when saying them, often with a humorous result, for eg. well-boiled icicle for well-oiled bicycle

blooper (N.) : an embarrassing mistake

corpsing (V.) : spoil a piece of acting by forgetting one’s lines/ laughing uncontrollably

Question : 6

Detaining and confining someone

a) Interment

b) Internment

c) Interrogation

d) Interruption

Answer: (b)

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