Test Your English 101 Knowledge With This Quiz
This quiz contains questions of general english category that can be asked during psc examinations.
- 1.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence"?
- A.
Noticeable
- B.
Continuous
- C.
Efficiency
- D.
Exorbitant
Correct Answer
B. Continuous -
- 2.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "to prevent or obstruct the operation of"?
- A.
Contravene
- B.
Retrospect
- C.
Conjecture
- D.
Prospector
Correct Answer
A. Contravene -
- 3.
What is an 8 letter word meaning "to manage or carry through by some device or scheme"?
- A.
Sediment
- B.
Aerostat
- C.
Contrive
- D.
Allusion
Correct Answer
C. Contrive -
- 4.
What is a 9 letter word meaning "a bruise"?
- A.
Cosmogony
- B.
Physicist
- C.
Contusion
- D.
Accompany
Correct Answer
C. Contusion -
- 5.
What is an 8 letter word meaning "to cause to incline and approach nearer together"?
- A.
Bibulous
- B.
Cosmetic
- C.
Monotony
- D.
Converge
Correct Answer
D. Converge -
- 6.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "tending to one point"?
- A.
Exhilarate
- B.
Statuesque
- C.
Cryptogram
- D.
Convergent
Correct Answer
D. Convergent -
- 7.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another"?
- A.
Meddlesome
- B.
Conversion
- C.
Insentient
- D.
Voluptuous
Correct Answer
B. Conversion -
- 8.
What is a 6 letter word meaning "curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle"?
- A.
Exhale
- B.
Deceit
- C.
Convex
- D.
Domain
Correct Answer
C. Convex -
- 9.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "that by which anything is transported"?
- A.
Conveyance
- B.
Separatist
- C.
Precaution
- D.
Irradiance
Correct Answer
A. Conveyance -
- 10.
What is a 10 letter word meaning "a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body"?
- A.
Involution
- B.
Admittance
- C.
Convulsion
- D.
Imaginable
Correct Answer
C. Convulsion -
- 11.
What is an 8 letter word meaning "a flirt"?
- A.
Unbelief
- B.
Alderman
- C.
Kingling
- D.
Coquette
Correct Answer
D. Coquette -
- 12.
What is a 7 letter word meaning "an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling"?
- A.
Cornice
- B.
Paucity
- C.
Liqueur
- D.
Congest
Correct Answer
A. Cornice -
- 13.
What is a 9 letter word meaning "belonging to a corporation"?
- A.
Exuberant
- B.
Corporate
- C.
Magnetize
- D.
Indicator
Correct Answer
B. Corporate -
- 14.
What is a 9 letter word meaning "obese"?
- A.
Disappear
- B.
Corpulent
- C.
Collusion
- D.
Stimulant
Correct Answer
B. Corpulent -
- 15.
What is a 9 letter word meaning "a minute particle of matter"?
- A.
Paramount
- B.
Tolerable
- C.
Corpuscle
- D.
Fledgling
Correct Answer
C. Corpuscle -
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