Previous Year Questions : SSC CHSL
English section is an integral part of SSC Exams.This is also a section that is feared by most of the candidates.Though the sheer number of concepts and rules may seem intimidating at first, with discipline and the right approach, it is not difficult to master these concepts and their application to questions. SSC CHSL Exam is the next target for the aspirants.You need to gird up your loins to score maximum marks.Today, in this English quiz we are providing 15 Synonyms Questions asked in any govt exam. To make you learn vocabulary effectively is the motive behind the provided quiz. Attempt this quiz and prepare yourself flawlessly. We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Directions (1-15): Four alternatives are given for the Idioms/Phrase printed in bold. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of Idiom/Phrase
Q1. Take up the cudgels.
(a) Save someone
(b) Flee away
(c) Make fortune
(d) Aim at
Q2. Suppress query
(a) Find fault
(b) Hide facts
(c) Look angrily
(d) Laugh secretly
Q3. Of the first water
(a) Coming close
(b) Of rare excellence
(c) Out of spirits
(d) Gradually declining
Q4. Lock stock and barrel
(a) Entirely
(b) Rarely
(c) Likely
(d) Forever
Q5. Come Cropper
(a) To waste money
(b) Fall heavily
(c) Fight desperately
(d) Repeat tediously
Q6. Hear someone out
(a) Avoid listening
(b) Listen with one ear
(c) Listen to the end
(d) Make Less
Q7. While away
(a) Spend time uselessly
(b) Hard test of patience
(c) Be at the peak of
(d) Destroy
Q8. At hand
(a) Opposite
(b) Neat
(c) Free
(d) In one time
Q9. On one’s mettle.
(a) To do the best possible thing
(b) Govern
(c) Come out in large quantities
(d) Bring peculiar phrase into use
Q10. Rate soundly
(a) Revive old quarrel
(b) Criticize strongly
(c) General sense
(d) To praise someone
Q11. A green harm
(a) A new fellow
(b) Contrary to inclination
(c) Genuine
(d) A happy person
Q12. Stand in
(a) Resist
(b) Substitute
(c) Secured
(d) To pay
Q13. At the drop of a hat
(a) At once
(b) To be paid
(c) To be attracted
(d) To reserve
Q14. Make a pile
(a) Make fortune
(b) To be arrogant
(c) To provoke
(d) Supply with enough space
Q15. Run in the same groove
(a) Challenge with contempt
(b) To maintain a group or company in good spirits
(c) To participate in a race
(d) Lamentation
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