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Today's Vocab word

Astute /əˈstuːt/ (adjective)

Meaning: Having sharp judgment; being able to assess situations or people accurately for one’s advantage.

Examples:

1. She made an astute observation about the market trends.
2. His astute decision-making helped the company thrive.
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Synonym of Ostentatious
(SSC CGL 2022)
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46%
Showy
34%
Tasteful
12%
Quick
8%
Sudden
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Antonym of Ornamental
(SSC CGL)
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31%
Genuine
25%
Unseemly
26%
Argumentative
18%
Turgid
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73%
Foreign
12%
Eddition
6%
Forrward
9%
Enfluence
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56%
Extravagant
5%
Extrawagant
35%
Extravagent
4%
Extrevagant
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Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate expression

Be out for the count
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24%
Sleeping deeply
17%
Counting money carefully
36%
To count each step one takes
22%
To be very happy
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Select the segment of the sentence that contains a grammatical error.

He was gone by the time the doors/ (A) opened and the pallbearers shuffled/(B) from church with the casket/(C) No error(D)
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51%
He was gone by the time the doors
24%
Opened and the pallbearers shuffled
18%
From church with the casket
8%
No error
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Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

Parul is / ten years / elder than / her sibling.
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14%
Her siblings
20%
Ten years
63%
Elder than
3%
Parul is
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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

The possible results of an action
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23%
Implementation
12%
Decision
52%
Ramification
13%
Causation
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Choose the word that can substitute the given sentence.

An act of remembering or telling about past experiences
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8%
Indictment
9%
Blockade
16%
Vengeance
66%
Reminiscence
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Nasa Spacecraft "Parker Solar Probe" attempts closest ever approached to the Sun

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory: Mission operations manager at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Synonym of Oracular
(SSC CGL 2018)
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24%
Lucid
23%
Distinct
28%
Cryptic
25%
Unambiguous
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Synonym of opaque
(SSC CHSL 2023)
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13%
Unadulterated
41%
Translucent
24%
Clear
22%
Arcane
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select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
Don't speak until someone speaks to you.
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32%
Don't speak until you are spoken to
36%
Don't speak until someone is spoken to
22%
Don’t speak until you have been spoken to
10%
Don't speak until someone has been spoken to
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14%
Jelousy
9%
Corupt
17%
Intrest
60%
Miniature
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4%
Peirce
13%
Indevidual
80%
Extract
3%
Luxeurius
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