single fillers Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ibps clerk prelims

Answer: (b)

Options (a) and (c) do not make sense here. Option (d) may seem correct, but can one be so sure of what 'will' happen in the future? It would have been the correct option if the sentence read 'the train arrived'. 'Barring' is exactly the word required here, as it means 'unless the thing mentioned happens'.

Answer: (b)

Antithesis (n.) is contrast or opposition in idea, etc. between two things. Antagonism (n.) is active opposition to or against person, thing, etc., or between two things. For instance, The communalist represents the antithesis of everything noble we have traditionally inherited but There is an antagonism between the communalist and the secularist. Antidote means something totally different: it is something (medicine) that counteracts disease or evil.

Answer: (d)

'Stationary' is 'not moving'. 'Static' and 'immobile' carry a similar meaning but are not the same as 'stationary'. 'Static' means 'passive', 'not acting' or 'changing' (static pressure, static electricity). 'Immobile' is 'immovable' or 'motionless'. It may be noted that stationary is used to describe a thing temporarily standing without moving, like a vehicle, or troops, or things temporarily at a standstill (population, temperature) whereas immobile means that which cannot be moved at all (immobile property like a house) or a person, etc. who does not exhibit the slightest movement ( an immobile figure).

Answer: (b)

'To cough up something' (slang) is to produce it or bring it out reluctantly, as, for instance, money

Answer: (d)

To 'respect' a thing is not just to regard it with esteem but also to avoid degrading it or corrupting it. Respecting another's privacy or freedom is used mostly in the latter sense.