CDS General English Solved Paper (I) : 2007 (SYNONYMS)

Directions (For the 17 items which follow): Each of the following 17 items consists of a word or group of words in capital letters, followed by four or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group ofwords in capital letters.

1. COUNTERVAILING(a) Argumentative
(b) Compensating
(c) Crying
(d) Complaining

2. TO DEBILITATE(a) To outlaw
(b) To support
(c) To weaken
(d) To honour

3. FERRET(a) Steal
(b) Search
(c) Forget
(d) Fight

4. PECUNIARY(a) Pertaining to money
(b) Pertaining to Politics
(c) Pertaining to Geography
(d) Pertaining to History

5. REPRISAL(a) Loneliness (b) Retaliation
(c) Remuneration (d) Pleasure

6. PROPRIETY(a) Rightness
(b) Brand name
(c) Cultivate land
(d) Market share

7. CAVIL(a) To play
(b) To complain
(c) To prepare
(d) To cut a joke

8. EVINCE(a) To learn
(b) To exhibit
(c) To resist
(d) To become infirm

9. INCENSE(a) To become angry
(b) To support someone
(c) To become relevant
(d) To introduce a new topic

10. ATTENUATE(a) To weaken
(b) To celebrate
(c) To store
(d) To ‘swim

11. ASCETIC(a) Fashionable
(b) Austere
(c) Articulate
(d) Athletic

12. ARABLE(a) Tolerable
(b) Suitable for ploughing
(c) Likeable
(d) Ardent

13. SECEDE(a) To stop
(b) To arrest
(c) To flow
(d) To withdraw

14. PROFFER(a) To apologize
(b) To appoint
(c) To disappear
(d) To offer

15. PREVARICATE(a) To evade
(b) To work hard
(c) To steal
(d) To demonstrate

16. SPECULATE(a) To embezzle
(b) To guess
(c) To study deeply
(d) To store

17. PECKISH(a) Angry
(b) Impudent
(c) Hungry
(d) Smart

ANSWERS: 1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (d) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (c)