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Vocabulary Questions For IELTS

VOCABULARY QUESTIONS 101-102

Given below are vocabulary questions that can help you increase your vocabulary.
Question 101-FIND THE WORD THAT IS THE BEST OPPOSITE

  1. CABALISTIC

    • artistic
    • exoteric
    • cryptic
    • acrylic
  2. TENEBROUS

    • unilateral
    • melodious
    • light
    • harsh
  3. IMBECILIC

    • fundamental
    • regular
    • populous
    • precocious
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  4. IMPUISSANT

    • potent
    • poignant
    • prevalent
    • placable
  5. SETACEOUS

    • barbed
    • disputations
    • unarmed
    • contagious

QUESTION 102
Knowing just the word is not going to help you in IELTS. You need to know their synonyms as well.
In the given sentences, find out the best synonym-:

  1. MAUNDER
    1. mishandle
    2. insult
    3. wander
    4. assault
  2. EXIGUOUS
    1. scanty
    2. irrelevant
    3. healthy
    4. proximate
  3. GOSSAMER
    1. filmy
    2. intractable
    3. snake-like
    4. wild
  4. CARTEL
    1. decoration
    2. syndicate
    3. official
    4. knowledge
  5. FEINT
    1. obscure
    2. feeble
    3. swear
    4. dodge
  6. MOROSE
    1. amiable
    2. sullen
    3. gorgeous
    4. jumbled
  7. INDITE
    1. accuse
    2. jumble
    3. compose
    4. arouse
  8. BRASH
    1. resonant
    2. plausible
    3. impetuous
    4. fragmented
  9. PRIVATION
    1. want
    2. privacy
    3. alienation
    4. eccentricity
  10. TENUOUS
    1. mushrooming
    2. slight
    3. vicious
    4. unlimited

ANSWERS 101-:
1-b
2-c
3-d
4-a
5-c
ANSWERS 102
1-c
2-a
3-a
4-b
5-d
6-b
7-c
8-c
9-c
10-b
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Words Explained

English is like an ocean. There are so many words. Some of them have the same meaning as others and some different. Lets look into some of the words explained below.

  1. ABSOLVE
    Meaning-: to free from guilt or duty.
    Synonyms-: pardon, exonerate
    Antonyms-: accuse, inculpate
  2. ABHOR
    Meaning-: hate
    Synonyms-: loathe, detest
    Antonyms-: enjoy relish
  3. ACCOLADE
    Meaning-: honor, award
    Synonyms-:laurels
    Antonyms-: disgrace
  4. ACCOMPLICE
    Meaning-: a partner in crime
    Synonyms-: confederate, attribute, endure
    Antonyms-: deny, reject
  5. ACCREDIT
    Meaning-: to approve, rectify
    Synonyms-: appoint, approve, authorize, certify, commission, empower, enable, endorse, entrust, guarantee, license, okay, recognize, sanction, vouch for
    Antonyms-: deny, disapprove, reject

  6. CONDUIT

    Meaning-: a similar natural passage
    Synonyms-: duct, pipe, pipeline,conductor, main, sewer
    Antonyms-:

  7. ADULTERATE

    Meaning-: to debase or make impure by adding impure materials into it
    Synonyms-: contaminate, pollute
    Antonyms-: purify, expurgate

  8. AMBIDEXTROUS

    Meaning-: to be able to use both hands efficiently
    Synonyms-: deceptive, hypocritical, left-handed
    Antonyms-: clumsy, maladroit

  9. AUGMENT

    Meaning-: to make larger or increase the size
    Synonyms-:enhance, enlarge, expand
    Antonyms-:decrease, diminish

  10. GIBE

    Meaning-: to taunt or utter mocking words
    Synonyms-:sarcasm, swipe, joke
    Antonyms-:compliment, praise

Remember, sometimes it is not just about what you know, but more about how you express.

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Do As Directed Questions

Given below are questions wherein what has to be done is given in the question itself. So, go on and

Do As Directed

in the question-:

    1. They should help him. (choose the sentence closest in meaning)
      1. They should be helped.
      2. He shall be helped
      3. He should be helped.
      4. He would be helped.
    2. We could hear a strange noise in the dark. (choose the sentence closest in meaning)
      1. A strange noise could be heard in the dark.
      2. No noise could be heard in the dark.
      3. A strange noise was heard in the dark.
      4. It’s a strange noise.
    3. It is __________ film I have never seen. (fill it up with the most appropriate option)
      1. worse
      2. The worse
      3. The worst
      4. worth
    4. Ten years ago, I _____________ in Scotland. (fill it up with the most appropriate option)
      1. Have worked
      2. worked
      3. Had worked
      4. Will work
    5. I __ quietly ________ when the fire started.
      1. Have been reading
      2. Had read
      3. Was reading
      4. read


ANSWERS

1-c
2-c
3-c
4-c
5-c

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Explanations 101

Knowing the right answers is not enough. Explanations make learning better.

Explanations 101

  1. The clue in the question is threatening. While there is no indicator to fit illicit, cosmic is irrelevant. Only D is correct choice.
  2. The blank is followed by the words even revolutionary, which clearly point at A as the right choice.
  3. The correct word should be a synonym of domestic activates. Hence, d is the correct option.
  4. The right choice should be similar to resistant or reluctant. The clue is but followed by more seriously and this makes C as the right choice.
  5. The key part of the question is ‘although.. in an orderly sequence’. Hence we have to check and option which is opposite to orderly. Hence the right option is varies.

Don’t cram, understand it. The better you comprehend, the higher you achieve.
EXERCISE
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