Mix Test - 4...

The following question has a paragraph with one italicized word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the paragraph.

Women squat, heads covered, beside huge piles of limp fodder and blunk oil lamps, and just about all the cows in the three towns converge upon this spot. Sinners, supplicants and yes, even scallywags hand over a few coins for a crack at redemption and a handful of grass.

Find the odd word out from each of the following sets of four word.

Choose the pair which does not exhibit the relationship similar to that expressed in PROGRESS : PROGRESSIVE

Fill in the Blanks: High prices are often the __________ of __________ of goods.

For the word given at the top of each table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (A, B, C, D) with their corresponding usage on the right (E, F, G, H). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usages correctly matched.

INFER

Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

Run

Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

Round

Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

Buckle

Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

File

The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, apart from being mis-described in the most sinister and _______ manner as ‘ethnic cleansing’, were also blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on something dark and interior to _______ and perpetrators alike.