Instructions:
In this section, you will be presented with a definition or description of a word for each question. Your task is to select the correct meaning or definition from the four options provided. By answering these questions, you’ll not only improve your understanding of common vocabulary words but also enhance your verbal ability. It’s worth noting that these questions are frequently encountered in various exams, making them an excellent resource for exam preparation.
Vocabulary Mcqs Most Frequently Asked Questions in Exams Set-1
1. What is the meaning of the word “abate”?
a. Give up power
b. Chronologically misplaced
c. Become less in amount or intensity
d. Shelter from danger
Answer: c. Become less in amount or intensity
2. Which term refers to “giving up power, duties, or obligations”?
a. Abate
b. Aberration
c. Abdicate
d. Aesthetic
Answer: c. Abdicate
3. What does “asylum” mean?
a. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall
b. A shelter from danger or hardship
c. Characterized by friendship and goodwill
d. Chronologically misplaced
Answer: b. A shelter from danger or hardship
4. Which word indicates “a state or condition markedly different from the norm”?
a. Adversity
b. Abstain
c. Aberration
d. Amicable
Answer: c. Aberration
5. What does the term “adversity” signify?
a. State of misfortune or affliction
b. Appreciation of beauty or good taste
c. Refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
d. Characterized by an appreciation of beauty
Answer: a. State of misfortune or affliction
6. Which word represents “lacking sufficient water or rainfall”?
a. Abate
b. Arid
c. Aesthetic
d. Abstain
Answer: b. Arid
7. What does the term “abstain” mean?
a. Chronologically misplaced
b. Refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
c. State of misfortune or affliction
d. Characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
Answer: b. Refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
8. Which word characterizes “appreciation of beauty or good taste”?
a. Abdicate
b. Asylum
c. Amicable
d. Aesthetic
Answer: d. Aesthetic
9. Which term signifies “characterized by friendship and goodwill”?
a. Aberration
b. Amicable
c. Asylum
d. Abdicate
Answer: b. Amicable
10. Which term signifies “chronologically misplaced”?
a. Aberration
b. Abate
c. Anachronistic
d. Adversity
Answer: c. Anachronistic
11. What does “benevolent” mean?
a. Large in the amount that can be contained
b. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
c. Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
d. Surrender under agreed conditions
Answer: b. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
12. Which term refers to “a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue”?
a. Bias
b. Boisterous
c. Brazen
d. Camaraderie
Answer: a. Bias
Recommended: Vocabulary Practice Test 1
13. What does the word “boisterous” signify?
a. Surrender under agreed conditions
b. Large in the amount that can be contained
c. Marked by exuberance and high spirits
d. Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
Answer: c. Marked by exuberance and high spirits
14. Which term means “unrestrained by convention or propriety”?
a. Brusque
b. Canny
c. Capacious
d. Brazen
Answer: d. Brazen
15. What does “brusque” imply?
a. Someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
b. Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
c. Large in the amount that can be contained
d. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
Answer: b. Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
16. Which word represents “the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability”?
a. Camaraderie
b. Canny
c. Capitulate
d. Clairvoyant
Answer: a. Camaraderie
17. What is the meaning of “canny”?
a. Large in the amount that can be contained
b. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
c. Someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
d. Surrender under agreed conditions
Answer: b. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
18. Which term denotes “large in the amount that can be contained”?
a. Capitulate
b. Clairvoyant
c. Benevolent
d. Capacious
Answer: d. Capacious
19. What does the word “capitulate” mean?
a. Surrender under agreed conditions
b. Marked by exuberance and high spirits
c. Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
d. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
Answer: a. Surrender under agreed conditions
20. Which term refers to “someone who can perceive things not present to the senses”?
a. Bias
b. Boisterous
c. Clairvoyant
d. Brazen
Answer: c. Clairvoyant
21. What does “collaborate” mean?
a. A difficult problem
b. Work together on a common enterprise or project
c. An accommodation with concessions from both sides
d. A deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering
Answer: b. Work together on a common enterprise or project
22. Which term refers to “a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering”?
a. Compassion
b. Conditional
c. Conformist
d. Condescending
Answer: a. Compassion
23. What does the word “compromise” imply?
a. Harmful to living things
b. Imposing or depending on an assumption
c. An accommodation in which both sides make concessions
d. The act of coming closer
Answer: c. An accommodation in which both sides make concessions
24. Which term is characteristic of “those who treat others with arrogance”?
a. Deleterious
b. Demagogue
c. Convergence
d. Condescending
Answer: d. Condescending
25. What does “conditional” signify?
a. Someone who follows established standards of conduct
b. Harmful to living things
c. Imposing or depending on or containing an assumption
d. The act of coming closer
Answer: c. Imposing or depending on or containing an assumption
26. Which word represents “someone who follows established standards of conduct”?
a. Conformist
b. Deleterious
c. Demagogue
d. Conundrum
Answer: a. Conformist
27. What is the meaning of “conundrum”?
a. A difficult problem
b. The act of coming closer
c. Harmful to living things
d. An accommodation in which both sides make concessions
Answer: a. A difficult problem
28. Which term denotes “the act of coming closer”?
a. Compassion
b. Conditional
c. Collaborate
d. Convergence
Answer: d. Convergence
29. What does the word “deleterious” mean?
a. Work together on a common enterprise or project
b. Harmful to living things
c. An accommodation with concessions from both sides
d. A leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
Answer: b. Harmful to living things
30. Which term signifies “a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions”?
a. Demagogue
b. Compromise
c. Conundrum
d. Compassion
Answer: a. Demagogue
31. What does “digression” imply?
a. Tending to move apart in different directions
b. Quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
c. A message that departs from the main subject
d. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
Answer: c. A message that departs from the main subject
32. Which term denotes “quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness”?
a. Diligent
b. Discredit
c. Disdain
d. Divergent
Answer: a. Diligent
33. What does “discredit” mean?
a. Understanding and entering into another’s feelings
b. The state of being held in low esteem
c. Anything short-lived, like an insect that lives only for a day
d. Causing weakness or debilitation
Answer: b. The state of being held in low esteem
34. Which term implies “lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike”?
a. Empathy
b. Emulate
c. Enervating
d. Disdain
Answer: d. Disdain
35. What does “divergent” signify?
a. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
b. Tending to move apart in different directions
c. Short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
d. Causing weakness or debilitation
Answer: b. Tending to move apart in different directions
36. Which word represents “understanding and entering into another’s feelings”?
a. Emulate
b. Evanescent
c. Ephemeral
d. Empathy
Answer: d. Empathy
37. What is the meaning of “emulate”?
a. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
b. Anything short-lived, like an insect that lives only for a day
c. Causing weakness or debilitation
d. A message that departs from the main subject
Answer: a. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
Recommended: Vocabulary Practice Test 2
38. Which term denotes “causing weakness or debilitation”?
a. Evanescent
b. Enervating
c. Discredit
d. Diligent
Answer: b. Enervating
39. What does the word “ephemeral” mean?
a. Quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
b. lasting for a very short time
c. long-lived
d. Tending to move apart in different directions
Answer: b. lasting for a very short time
40. Which term signifies “short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear”?
a. Abiding
b. Evanescent
c. Terminator
d. Digression
Answer: b. Evanescent
41. What does “exemplary” mean?
a. Lucky; occurring by happy chance
b. Worthy of imitation
c. Partially excusing or justifying
d. Elaborately or excessively ornamented
Answer: b. Worthy of imitation
42. Which term denotes “partially excusing or justifying”?
a. Florid
b. Fortitude
c. Forbearance
d. Extenuating
Answer: d. Extenuating
43. What does the word “florid” imply?
a. A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
b. Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
c. Lucky; occurring by happy chance
d. Elaborately or excessively ornamented
Answer: d. Elaborately or excessively ornamented
44. Which term represents “a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges”?
a. Fortitude
b. Fortuitous
c. Foster
d. Forbearance
Answer: d. Forbearance
45. What does “fortitude” signify?
a. Providing nurture though not related by blood or legal ties
b. Filled with or attended with
c. Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
d. Avoiding waste
Answer: c. Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
46. Which word means “lucky; occurring by happy chance”?
a. Fortuitous
b. Frugal
c. Hackneyed
d. Exemplary
Answer: a. Fortuitous
47. What is the meaning of “foster” in this context?
a. Avoiding waste
b. Providing nurture though not related by blood or legal ties
c. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
d. Suppress
Answer: b. Providing nurture though not related by blood or legal ties
48. Which term signifies “filled with or attended with”?
a. Frugal
b. Hackneyed
c. Fraught
d. Foster
Answer: c. Fraught
49. What does “frugal” mean?
a. Worthy of imitation
b. Elaborately or excessively ornamented
c. Avoiding waste
d. Extravagant
Answer: c. Avoiding waste
50. Which term indicates “repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse”?
a. Hackneyed
b. Exemplary
c. Extenuating
d. Florid
Answer: a. Hackneyed
51. What does “haughty” mean?
a. Lacking worth or importance
b. Having or showing arrogant superiority
c. Incapable of being avoided or prevented
d. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Answer: b. Having or showing arrogant superiority
52. Which term represents “someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures”?
a. Hypothesis
b. Hedonist
c. Impetuous
d. Impute
Answer: b. Hedonist
53. What does the word “hypothesis” imply?
a. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
b. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
c. Attribute or credit to
d. A tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
Answer: d. A tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
54. Which term signifies “characterized by undue haste and lack of thought”?
a. Inconsequential
b. Inevitable
c. Intrepid
d. Impetuous
Answer: d. Impetuous
55. What does “impute” mean?
a. Lacking worth or importance
b. Attribute or credit to
c. A feeling of extreme joy
d. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
Answer: b. Attribute or credit to
56. Which word indicates “lacking worth or importance”?
a. Inevitable
b. Inconsequential
c. Intuitive
d. Jubilation
Answer: b. Inconsequential
57. What is the meaning of “inevitable”?
a. Incapable of being avoided or prevented
b. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
c. A tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
d. Characterized by arrogant superiority
Answer: a. Incapable of being avoided or prevented
58. Which term denotes “invulnerable to fear or intimidation”?
a. Intrepid
b. Intuitive
c. Jubilation
d. Hypothesis
Answer: a. Intrepid
59. What does “intuitive” signify?
a. A feeling of extreme joy
b. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
c. Having or showing arrogant superiority
d. Incapable of being avoided or prevented
Answer: b. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
60. Which term represents “a feeling of extreme joy”?
a. Despondency
b. Impetuous
c. Jubilation
d. Haughty
Answer: c. Jubilation
