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🔍 Throw in the Towel (idiom)

📝 Meaning: To give up or admit defeat; to stop trying because you believe you cannot succeed.

📌 Examples:

1. After several failed attempts to fix the car, he decided to throw in the towel and call a mechanic.
2. She didn't want to throw in the towel on her dreams, despite the challenges.
3. The team refused to throw in the towel, even when the odds were against them.
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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct indirect speech.
We said, “We go for a walk every day.”
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12%
They said that they had gone for a walk every day.
56%
We said that we went for a walk every day.
9%
We went for a walk every day, is what we said.
23%
They said that they went for a walk every day.
Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word.

Exemplary (SSC MTS 2024)
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6%
Bad
35%
Ordinary
57%
Excellent
2%
Average
Select the incorrectly spelt word.
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73%
ecstacy
11%
edition
7%
effect
10%
efficient
Select the incorrectly spelt word.
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39%
eighth
7%
either
10%
reliable
43%
eloquantly
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Amplify (SSC MTS 2024)
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38%
Contract
29%
Enlarge
9%
Exert
24%
Defy
Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.

What is the price of this fancy dress pink?

1. fancy dress pink?

2. No error

3. price of this

4. What is the
1
Options
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73%
A
16%
B
10%
C
2%
D
Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.

I am unable (1)/to make an (2)/connection with her (3)/. No error (4)

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4
Options
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7%
A
80%
B
10%
C
3%
D
1
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

To go red in the face

1. To feel embarrassed

2. To shout at someone for doing something wrong

3. To feel very happy and proud

4. To feel extremely irritated
Options
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36%
A
37%
B
8%
C
20%
D
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Her face was __ after seeing the house in such condition.

1. bedew

2. blue

3. brew

4. blew
2
Options
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8%
A
49%
B
18%
C
25%
D
Find the best one-word substitution for the below description.

A person whose trade is fitting glass into windows and doors.

1. Patisserie

2. Welder

3. Sculptor

4. Glazier
Options
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25%
A
21%
B
16%
C
38%
D
Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words.

The policy of racial discrimination

1. Inequality

2. Apartheid

3. Segregation

4. Supremacy
Options
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24%
A
50%
B
22%
C
4%
D
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UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)

Lucknow has been added to the list of UNESCO creative cities for its rich and diverse culinary heritage.

The Network Covers Seven Creative Fields - Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, literature and Music.

1) Jaipur - Crafts and Folk Arts (2015)

2) Varanasi - Creative City of Music (2015)

3) Chennai - Creative City of Music (2017)

4) Mumbai - Film (2019)

5) Hyderabad - Gastronomy (2019)

6) Srinagar - Craft and Folk Arts (2021)

7) Gwalior - Music (2023)

8) Kozhikode - Literature (2023)

9) Lucknow - Gastronomy (2025)