Grammar Quiz (14 June 2024)

•  The correct answer is option 4 i.e unsociable

•  The word 'convivial' refers to someone that is cheerful and lively

•  The word 'unsociable' refers to someone that does not enjoy or does not take the effort to involve themselves in the company of other people.

•  Hence, the correct answer is option 4

1. Jovial: Refers to someone that is all friendly and cheerful

2. Joyous: Refers to something or someone that is full of joy and happiness

3. Affable: Refers to a person or an atmosphere that is lively and fun

• The correct answer is option 4) i.e. Familiar

• Strange means unusual or unfamiliar.

•  Therefore, familiar is clearly its antonym.

Durable means 'strong and long-lasting."

Delicate means 'something that can be broken easily' (antonym of durable).

Unknown means unfamiliar or unusual (synonym of strange).

• The correct answer is option (2)

• Vacate means to move out of a dwelling, an office or position.

•  Holiday is a day declared free from work.

• To occupy is to fill some place or a position.

• To discharge is to leave a position or to relieve of an office or hospital.

• Abandon means to give up or surrender.

From above explanations we can say that the words vacate and occupy are opposite in meaning.

Option 2 is the right word: Dissimilar.

Equivalent - having the same amount, value, purpose, qualities.

• Comparable - similar.

• Dissimilar - not the same; different.

• Parallel- side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.

• Identical - similar in every detail; exactly alike.

• The antonym of the given word is 'Dissimilar.'.

The correct answer is option 4) i.e. determined.

• Resolute: determined, and unwavering.

• Hesitant: tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.

• Uncertain: not completely confident or sure of something.

• Unsure: not fixed or certain.

The correct answer is flaw.

• Defect- a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack

• Flaw- a mark, fault, or other imperfection that mars a substance or object

• Care- the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something

• Fact- a thing that is known or proved to be true

• Sound-vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear

• Hence from the given meanings, we find that defect and flaw are synonyms.

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. favoured

Preferred: Refers to someone who is recommended

Favoured: Refers to someone who is liked more than others

Thus, it is clear that preferred and favoured are similar words

Let's look at the meaning of the other words:

Compared: Refers to someone who is measured in terms of someone else

Adored: Refers to someone who is loved and admired

Feared: Refers to someone who is scary

Thus, the correct answer is option 4.

The correct answer is FATAL.

• Lethal: A substance that is lethal can kill people or animals.

Example: chemicals lethal to fish and aquatic mammals

• Fatal: A fatal accident or illness that causes someone's death.

Example: A hospital spokesman said she had suffered a fatal heart attack.

• Thus, 'fatal' is the synonym of 'lethal'.

The correct answer is option 2, i.e. Runs away from the increasing problems.

The meaning of the underlined idiom,i.e.

Bury his head in the sand is to ignore unpleasant realities which means to run away from problems.

Option 2 is the correct meaning of this idiom. That is why option 2 is the answer.

The correct answer is option 4)

• The phrase "In the nick of time" means, just before the last moment when something can be changed or something bad will happen.

• Option 3) describes the meaning of the given phrase, so that is the correct answer.