Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Hegemony

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Encumbrance

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Surreptitious

Directions: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Insipid

Directions: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Polemic

Directions: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Bizarre

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Have you heard the ........ news?

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

A relief team was sent to ........ food and medicine among the refugees.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Some of our external problems have completely ........ our national leaders.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

He was one of the ........ spirits behind the ‘Quit India’ Movement.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Burglary is a ....... .

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To blaze trail

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To be lost in the cloud

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To flog a dead horse

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Hush money

Directions:  Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To pay one back in the same coin

Directions:  In each sentence, apart of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b) and (c), which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (d).

A lot depends on your early brought up in the family.

Directions:  In each sentence, apart of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b) and (c), which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (d).

The dentist pulled up one of my teeth yesterday

Directions:  In each sentence, apart of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b) and (c), which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (d).

The intruder stood quietly/for few moments.

Directions:  In each sentence, apart of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b) and (c), which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (d).

He gave the IAS examination in all seriousness.

DIRECTIONS:  Read each of the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The art of storytelling is not dead and it will not be allowed to die. The invention of printing, literacy and the average man's increasing enslavement to the visual media in recent decades threaten to stamp out the art altogether. It faces a threat now even in Indian homes, at least in urban areas, where it has been kept alive for centuries by indulgent grandmothers using the tales of princes, princesses and flying horses for lullaby.

'Art' as used in the paragraph refers to

DIRECTIONS:  Read each of the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The art of storytelling is not dead and it will not be allowed to die. The invention of printing, literacy and the average man's increasing enslavement to the visual media in recent decades threaten to stamp out the art altogether. It faces a threat now even in Indian homes, at least in urban areas, where it has been kept alive for centuries by indulgent grandmothers using the tales of princes, princesses and flying horses for lullaby.

Why is it necessary to keep the art alive?

DIRECTIONS:  Read each of the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The art of storytelling is not dead and it will not be allowed to die. The invention of printing, literacy and the average man's increasing enslavement to the visual media in recent decades threaten to stamp out the art altogether. It faces a threat now even in Indian homes, at least in urban areas, where it has been kept alive for centuries by indulgent grandmothers using the tales of princes, princesses and flying horses for lullaby.

Which/Who of the following have kept the art alive for centuries

DIRECTIONS:  Read each of the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The art of storytelling is not dead and it will not be allowed to die. The invention of printing, literacy and the average man's increasing enslavement to the visual media in recent decades threaten to stamp out the art altogether. It faces a threat now even in Indian homes, at least in urban areas, where it has been kept alive for centuries by indulgent grandmothers using the tales of princes, princesses and flying horses for lullaby.

According to the passage, the threat to storytelling is the result of 

DIRECTIONS:  Read each of the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The art of storytelling is not dead and it will not be allowed to die. The invention of printing, literacy and the average man's increasing enslavement to the visual media in recent decades threaten to stamp out the art altogether. It faces a threat now even in Indian homes, at least in urban areas, where it has been kept alive for centuries by indulgent grandmothers using the tales of princes, princesses and flying horses for lullaby.

'Tales' in this paragraph relate to