Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held from 1st August 2017 to 20 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely.
Directions (1-15): In these questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.
Q1. Something having many skills
(a) Versatile
(b) Projectile
(c) Cyclostyle
(d) Anglophile
Q2. To officially take private property away to seize.
(a) Offer
(b) Confiscate
(c) Annex
(d) Hijack
Q3. Giving of special favor to one’s kith and kin
(a) Favoritism
(b) Solecism
(c) Pantheism
(d) Nepotism
Q4. One who collects and studies coins
(a) Philatelist
(b) Nuncio
(c) Bibliophile
(d) Numismatist
Q5. Words or lines written on the tomb of a person
(a) Epitaph
(b) Anecdote
(c) Calligraphy
(d) Cenotaph
Q6. Study of the origin and history of words
(a) Etymology
(b) Epilogue
(c) Menology
(d) Dictionary
Q7. The practice of eating human flesh
(a) Solipsism
(b) Narcissism
(c) Cannibalism
(d) Mysticism
Q8. Someone who works only for personal profit
(a) Materialistic
(b) Mercenary
(c) Greedy
(d) Mercantile
Q9. A heavy unnatural slumber
(a) Nap
(b) Stupor
(c) Insolvent
(d) Common sense
Q10. A deep dislike of foreigners
(a) Acrophobia
(b) Xenophobia
(c) Claustrophobia
(d) Hydrophobia
Q11. That cannot be overcome
(a) Irrevocable
(b) Reparable
(c) Insolvable
(d) Insurmountable
Q12. To walk slowly, wasting time
(a) Stumble
(b) Strike
(c) Dawdle
(d) Ply
Q13. One who is appointed to deal with complaints made by common people against banks companies, etc.
(a) Jurist
(b) Arbiter
(c) Ombudsman
(d) Magistrate
Q14. The profession of writing dictionaries
(a) Typography
(b) Biography
(c) Cartography
(d) Lexicography
Q15. A small, flowing waterfall.
(a) Cascade
(b) Ascend
(c) Break flow
(d) Tickle
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