Direction (1 -10): In each question below, some words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (a), (b), (c), and (d). One of these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of words is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (e) i.e. 'No error', as your answer.
1. To find a villain outside oneself for one's spiritual and psychological afflictions is another manner of denying responsibility and finding excuses and pretexts for one's acts.
(a) afflictions (b) denying
(c) villain (d) pretexts
(e) No error
2. In the lab, we use our proprietary KAALINK prototype to capture particulate matter emitted from direct and ambient sources.
(a) emitted (b) proprietary
(c) ambient (d) particulate
(e) No error
3. He illustrates the plight of the artist in America, an opposition of deft embellishment on the one hand and rigid and uncomprehending censure and censoriousness on the other hand.
(a) plight (b) censure
(c) censoriousness (d) embellishment
(e) No error
4. Standing in the fifth most polluted city in the world, where a passing bus's exhaust is more to make you change your shirt midday, he thought there had to be something that could be done with all that soot being released into the air.
(a) soot (b) polluted
(c) more (d) exhaust
(e) No error
5. In his own mind there lingered elements of the irrational, unknowns and inexplicable which remained to the end obscurely.
(a) lingered (b) obscure
(c) inexplicable (d) irrational
(e) No error
6. Sharma's solution was a device called Kaalink, a cylinderical metal unit that retrofits the exhaust pipe of vehicles to capture soot before it reaches the air.
(a) vehicles (b) retrofits
(c) cylindrical (d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) No error
7. Arguably the book is not so much symbollical as it is a study of how people compulsively symbolize the realities around them, and then act on the assumption that their symbolic interpretations are identical with those realities.
(a) compulsively (b) interpretations
(c) symbolical (d) assumption
(e) No error
8. Operating at full scale requires the coperation of major companies who agree to affix the device to their vehicles, trucks, cranes, and another types of engines.
(a) affix (b) coperation
(c) another (d) Both (b) and (c)
(e) No error
9. He achieves a sympathy for his congregation that more upright and irrapproachable proselytizers like the Reverend Wilson do not appear to achieve.
(a) irrapproachable (b) irrapproachable
(c) proselytizers (d) Reverend
(e) No error
10. All his works have a speculative strain and he frequently conjuctures on the consequence of sin and its attendent suffering on human personality.
(a) conjuctures (b) speculative
(c) attendent (d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) No error
Answers With Explanation:
Ans1. Option(c) is the correct answer as 'villian' should be replaced with 'villain'.
Ans2. Option(b) is the correct answer as 'propreitary' should be replaced with 'proprietary'.
Ans3. Option(d) is the correct answer as 'embelishment' should be replaced with 'embellishment'.
Ans4. Option(c) is the correct answer as 'more' should be replaced with 'enough'. More is used only when there is some comparison and in the given sentence there is no comparison. So, 'enough' is more suitable than 'more'.
Ans5. Option(e)
Ans6. Option(c) is the correct answer as 'cylinderical' should be replaced with 'cylindrical'.
Ans7. Option(c) is the correct answer as 'symbollical' should be replaced with 'symbolical'.
Ans8. Option(d) is the correct answer as 'coperation' should be replaced with 'cooperation'. And 'another' should be replaced with 'other' as we use 'other' when we talk about more than one thing, we use 'another' when we talk about only one thing.
Ans9. Option(b) is the correct answer as 'irrapproachable' should be replaced with 'irreproachable'.
Ans10. Option(d) is the correct answer as 'conjucture' should be replaced with 'conjecture' and 'attendent' should be replaced by 'attendant'.
