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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Jump the gun

1. Start something too soon or act hastily

2. Watch a person carefully

3. There is always a cost to do something

4. Intentionally raise a false alarm
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65%
A
7%
B
15%
C
13%
D
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Play for time

1. To do something in the stipulated time

2. To make excuses or do things to gain time

3. To play something for the sake of old times

4. To play music in the time provided
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39%
A
39%
B
17%
C
5%
D
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A big clumsy often slow-witted person.

1. Slouch

2. Chump

3. Oaf

4. Ape
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30%
A
25%
B
36%
C
9%
D
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given one word substitution.

1. Prudent

2. Tremulous

3. Corpulent

4. Hysterical
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29%
A
26%
B
20%
C
25%
D
Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’.

By lowering rooftop surface (1)/ temperatures, green roofs (2)/ can be kept cooler (3)/. No error (4)

A. 3

B. 1

C. 4

D. 2
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24%
A
33%
B
16%
C
27%
D
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

There is some monkeys / on the roof of the / carriage but Madhav / does not see them.

1. on the roof of the

2. There is some monkeys

3. carriage but Madhav

4. does not see them.
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25%
A
56%
B
10%
C
9%
D
Select the mis spelt word.
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5%
Height
11%
Anxiety
13%
Believe
71%
Peity
✅️ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 06 June 2025.

1. INEVITABLY (ADVERB): (अनिवार्य रूप से): unavoidably
Synonyms: automatically, necessarily
Antonyms: avoidably
Example Sentence:
Inevitably some details are already out of date.

2.FRIVOLOUS (ADJECTIVE): (क्षुद्र): flippant
Synonyms: glib, waggish
Antonyms: serious
Example Sentence:
At bottom the man was frivolous, selfish and unstable.

3.CONTEMPT (NOUN): (अपमान): disrespect
Synonyms: disregard, slighting
Antonyms: respect
Example Sentence:
This action displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority.

4.DRENCH (VERB): (भिगाना): soak
Synonyms: saturate, wet through
Antonyms: dry
Example Sentence:
I fell in the stream and was drenched.

5.PROPRIETY (NOUN): (शिष्टाचार): decorum
Synonyms: respectability decency
Antonyms: impropriety
Example Sentence:
She always behaves with the utmost propriety.

6. FRAUGHT (ADJECTIVE): (बेचैन): anxious
Synonyms: worried, upset
Antonyms: calm
Example Sentence:
There was a fraught silence in the cabin.

7.COLLOQUIAL (ADJECTIVE): (बोल-चाल की शैली): informal
Synonyms: conversational, everyday
Antonyms: literary
Example Sentence:
His colloquial talents were indeed of the highest order.

8.BEWILDER (VERB): (भरमाना): baffle
Synonyms: mystify, bemuse
Antonyms: enlighten
Example Sentence:
She was bewildered by his sudden change of mood.

9.HAPLESS (ADJECTIVE): (अभागे): unfortunate
Synonyms: unlucky, luckless
Antonyms: lucky
Example Sentence:
I met the hapless victims of the disaster.

10.INHIBIT (VERB): (रोकना): impede
Synonyms: hinder hamper
Antonyms: assist
Example Sentence:
Too much cold inhibits plant growth.
Antonym of Dearth
(SSC CHSL 2024)
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5%
Lacunae
72%
Abundance
15%
Brevity
9%
Paucity
Antonym of Enemy
(SSC CHSL 2024)
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4%
Attacker
22%
Colleague
6%
Combatant
68%
Friend
Select the correct active form of the given sentence.

Has the villa been occupied by them?
Anonymous Quiz
11%
Did they occupied the villa?
24%
Had they occupied the villa?
56%
Have they occupied the villa?
8%
Do they occupied the villa?