PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-39 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the question given below a phrase/idiom is given in bold which is then followed by five options which try to decipher its meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase/idiom most appropriately in the context of the given sentence.

 

 

Question No : 1

The villagers say the arson attack may have been the result of bad blood between the two families

(1) timidity

(2) jitters

(3) illegitimacy

(4) rage

(5) misunderstandings

Question No : 2

They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else

(1) endured

(2) managed

(3) relaxed

(4) accepted

(5) acknowledged

Question No : 3

After numerous years of drug use, the man’s helter skelter mind would never seem focused and always was in a daze

(1) Organised

(2) perplexed

(3) disorder

(4) accustomed

(5) inferred

Question No : 4

The advisory engineer said only the front body of the truck is smashed and not its engine, but I think that will be cold comfort to her

(1) huge shock

(2) very cozy

(3) great miser

(4) ample distress

(5) inadequate consolation

Question No : 5

If you want to get out of jail, grease the warden’s palm and the guards will let you escape.

(1) lost

(2) gained

(3) bribe

(4) direct

(5) target