1.

Abusing his wife is / worse than any sin / a man can commit in all
his life. / no error.
2. Jazz is often a musical style that originated / at the beginning of
the 20th century in / black communities in the Southern United
States./ no error.

3. I retained this boy/ at the strength / of his honesty./ no error.

4. Computers give us/ an easier access/ to information/ no error.

5. Although I enjoyed my stay/ in the USA / ,but I was still glad to

come home.
6. The glass dolls are arranged/ on second rack / of the show-case./ no
error

7. He tries very hard/ but he can’t / get to grips with English grammar. / no
error

8. The standard of living in India/ is still lower / than most of the other
developed countries / no error

9. This custom has been / prevalent in India/ since immemorial time. / no

error.

10. Few people learn/ anything easily/ that is worth learning . / no error
1. The boat( was drowned)
a) was drown b) had drowned
C) was sunk d) no improvement
2. He secured the first position in (a hundred metres race.)
a) a hundred metre race b) hundred metres race
c) one hundred metres race d) no improvement
3. Ranita is tallest of the two sisters.
a) most tall of the two sisters. b) the tall girl of the two sisters
c) the taller of the two sisters d) no improvement
4. No body believed Galileo’s theory initially but it( came out to be
right)
a) worked out b) turned out
c) carried out d) no improvement

5. Military instructions are always clear and (terse.)

a) verbose b) circumlocutory
c) tense d) no improvement
Cacophony – sound soliloquy- single
Cacophonophilist- love somniloquist- sleep
Cacography- writing Elocution- speech
Cacology- study bureaucracy - officials
Cacoethes- character gerontocracy- elderly man
Cacoderma- skin matriarchy- only women
Caconym- name oligarchy- a small group
Cacodorous- smell stratocracy- the army
Malfeasance- wrong doing patriarchy- only men
Maladroit- skilled plutocracy/ timocracy- the rich ppl
Agromania – to be alone or out in the open
Anthomania- flowers
Bibliomania- book collection
Cynomania – dogs
Demomania- crowd
Dipsomania- alcohol
Entheomania- religion
Hedomania- pleasure
kleptomania- stealing things
Logomania- talking
megalomania- music
Pyromania- set things on fire
Xenomania- foreigners/ foreign things
Mythomania- telling lies
Run down – to criticize, to crush , to lose power
Run into (problem)- to face
Run into- to meet by chance
Run over – to crush by a vehicle
Run against- to compete with , to meet accidently
Run up (against)- to face a tough situation
Make for- to result in , to cause
Make of – understand
Make off with- to run away with
Make out – to manage to see or understand
Make the most of – to get maximum
Make away with- to flee away taking something
Christina said , “ I wouldn’t have come had you not called me last
night.”
a) Christina said that she would not have been coming had you not
called her the night before.
b) Christina said that she would not have come had I not called her
the night before.
c) Christina said that she would not have come had you not called her
last night.
d) Christina said that she would not have come had I not called her
last night.
It has been declared in the Preamble to the Indian constitution that
India is a secular republic.
a) The Preamble to the Indian constitution is declaring India to be a
secular republic.
b) The Preamble to the Indian Constitution has been declaring India a
secular republic.
c) The Preamble to the Indian Constitution had declared India as a
secular republic.
d) The Preamble to the Indian Constitution has declared India as a
secular republic.
The most well-known of the octopus’ defence mechanisms is its
ability to squirt clouds of ink into the water.
P. Some octopi use this cloud of ink as camouflage.
Q. Other octopi use the ink cloud as decoy.
R. A large, intelligent predator might attack the ink cloud blindly.
S. However, some octopi will release the ink cloud in one direction
and scurry away in another direction.
6. In addition, these ink clouds also confuse the predator’s sense of
smell.
a) SRQP b) PQRS
c) SRPQ d) QPRS
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic
policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined with a
_________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues. This
unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze _____________
Central government expenditures, and particularly those relating to social
spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.

1. We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic

policy of India
1) into
2) in
3) of
4) about
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic
policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined with a
_________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues. This
unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze _____________
Central government expenditures, and particularly those relating to social
spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.

2. combined with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax

revenues.
1) doubt
2) objection
3) questioning
4) reluctance
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic
policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined
with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues.
This unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze
_____________ Central government expenditures, and particularly
those relating to social spending that directly ____________ most
people in the country.

3. This unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze

1) juxtaposition
2) nearness
3) contact
4) proximity
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic
policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined
with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues.
This unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze
_____________ Central government expenditures, and particularly
those relating to social spending that directly ____________ most
people in the country.
4. _____________ Central government expenditures
1) onto
2) on
3) upon
4) for
We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic
policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined with
a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues. This
unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze _____________
Central government expenditures, and particularly those relating to
social spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.
5.social spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.
1) effects
2) affected
3) affects
4) affect