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Direction (1-5): The following questions consist of a sentence. Four of the words of the sentences are marked in bold, which may or may not be correctly spelled. Option corresponding to misspelt word is your answer. If there is no misspelled word in the sentence then choose (d), i.e., ‘All are correct’ as your answer.
1) Family-controlled companies surpass their peers because they focus on resilience, not short-term results. During economic booms, this approach leads them to forego some opportunities, but it puts them in a position of strength during downturns, when they shine
A) Surpass
B) Peers
C) Resilience
D) Forego
E) All are correct.
2) Meanwhile, a spate of new magazines, conferences, and websites were jockying to serve an unprecedented appetite for management ideas.
A) Spate
B) Jockying
C) Unprecedented
D) Appetite
E) All are correct.
3) Not only has the editorship never reverted to faculty hands, but the entire faculty editorial advisory board was disbanded and in 1994 HBR was established as a wholly owned subsidairy of Harvard University
A) Editorship
B) Reverted
C) Disbanded
D) Subsidairy
E) All are correct.
4) Associated with the successes-and perhaps the exccesses-of the previous generation, it didn’t seem to speak to the new one. In the midst of a business world being overturned by web-based enterprises, it seemed strictly “old economy” – the preferred reading of the sitting-duck incumbent.
A) Successes
B) Exccesses
C) Overturned
D) Incumbent.
E) All are correct.
5) The new operating system continually assesses the business, the industry, and the organization, and reacts with greater agility, speed, and creativity than the existing one. It complements rather than overburdens the traditional hierarechy, thus freeing the latter to do what it’s optimized to do.
A) Continually
B) Assesses
C) Complements
D) Hierarechy
E) All are correct.
Directions (6-10): In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One these words printed in bold might either is wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. ‘All Correct’, as your answer.
6) Earlier in the day, the health ministry announced(A) / that a double mutant strain(B) / has been found(C) / in the country apart(D) / from other mutant strains. All correct (E)
A) Announced
B) Strain
C) Found
D) Apart
E) All correct
7) In a press breifing, (A) / the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday shared (B) / a list of 13 states and Union territories along with the share of doses administered (C) / in private facilities (D). / All correct (E)
A) Breifing
B) Shared
C) Administrated
D) Facilities
E) All correct
8) Congress is looking into (A) / last month’s massive and dead (B) / power outages across Texas and questioning officials (C) / who oversee the state’s (D) / energy industry and electric grid. All correct (E)
A) Looking into
B) Dead
C) Officials
D) State’s
E) All correct
9) This is an extension (A) / to the protest which took place (B) / in Pune last week, after Amazon India introduced (C) / a delivery free region (D) / for all delivery partners pan-India. All correct (E)
A) Extension
B) Place
C) Introduced
D) Region
E) All correct
10) The Central Board of Secondary Education has rolled out (A) / a new assessment framework for (B) / Classes 6-10 in English, Maths and Science in collaboration (C) / with the British Counsel. (D) / all correct (E)
A) Rolled out
B) Framework
C) Collaboration
D) Counsel
E) All correct
Answers :
1) Answer: D
From the given words, spelling of ‘forego’ is incorrect instead it should be ‘forgo’ which means to abandon.
2) Answer: B
From the given words, spelling of ‘Jockying’ is incorrect instead it should be ‘jockeying’.
3) Answer: D
From the given words, spelling of ‘subsidairy’ is incorrect instead it should be ‘subsidiary’ which means secondary.
4) Answer: B
From the given words, spelling of ‘exccesses’ is incorrect instead it should be ‘excesses’ which means plenty.
5) Answer: D
From the given words, spelling of ‘hierarechy’ is incorrect instead it should be
‘hierarchy’ which means ranks.
6) Answer: E
All given words are correct
7) Answer: A
Briefing is used instead of Breifing
Briefing: – instructions or information that you are given before something happens
8) Answer: B
deadly is used instead of Dead because adverb will appear there.
9) Answer: D
Regime is used instead of region
Regime: – a method or system of government, especially one that has not been elected in a fair way
Region: – a part of the country or the world; a large area of land
10) Answer: D
Council is used instead of counsel
Counsel: – to give professional advice and help to somebody with a problem
Council: – a group of people chosen to give advice, manage affairs, etc. for a particular organization or activity
Directions (11-15): In each question below, some words printed in bold are given. These are numbered (a), (b), (c), and (d). One of these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of words is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (e) i.e. ‘No error’, as your answer.
11) To get a villian outside yourself for your spiritual and psychological afflictions is another type of denying responsibility and finding excuses and pretexts for one’s acts.
A) afflictions
B) denying
C) villian
D) pretexts
E) No error
12) In the laboratory, we use our propreitary SPUTNIK prototype to capture particulate matter emitted from direct and ambient sources.
A) emitted
B) propreitary
C) ambient
D) particulate
E) No error
13) He highlights the plight of the artist in India, an opposition of deft embelishment on the one hand and rigid and uncomprehending censure and censoriousness on the other hand.
A) plight
B) censure
C) censoriousness
D) embelishment
E) No error
14) Standing in the sixth most polluted city in the country, where a passing bus’s exhaust is more to make you change your shirt midday, he thought there had to be something that could be done with all that soot being released into the air.
A) soot
B) polluted
C) more
D) exhaust
E) No error
15) In her own mind there lingered elements of the irrational, unknowns and inexplicable which remained to the end obscurely.
A) lingered
B) obscure
C) inexplicable
D) irrational
E) No error
Directions (16-20): In each of the questions given below, a sentence is divided into four parts with a bold word in each part. These four words may be misspelt or grammatically incorrect. Find the incorrect word in the sentence. If all the words are correct, select ‘E’ i.e. ‘All are correct’ as your option.
16) In a politically charged country, we (A)/have chosen to air a part of ourselves as prove that (B)/we’ve been responsible, like pictures of the indelible (C)/ ink marked pointing finger on voting day.(D)
A) Charged
B) Prove
C) Pictures
D) Pointing
E) All are correct
17) Dr. Yadav conforms an increase (A)/in the number of sleep disruption or (B)/deprivation cases, which could also (C)/ be attributed to factors such as anxiety. (D)
A) Conforms
B) Disruption
C) Could
D) Factors
E) All are correct
18) People often spent their (A)/energy trying to be someone else (B)/or trying to live up to (C)/someone else’s definition of success. (D)
A) Spent
B) Someone
C) Live
D) Definition
E) All are correct
19) The Centre has reconstituted an (A)/advisory committee to chalk out a plan (B)/for studying the mythicsSarasvati River for (C)/the next two years, after the earlier panel’s term ended in 2019.(D)
A) Reconstituted
B) Chalk
C) Mythics
D) Earlier
E) All are correct
20) We will work together, closer than (A)/ ever before on advancing our (B)/shared values and promoting a (C)/secure, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific. (D)
A) Together
B) Advancing
C) Promoting
D) Prosperous
E) All are correct
Answers :
11) Answer: C
is the correct answer as ‘villian’ should be replaced with ‘villain’.
12) Answer: B
is the correct answer as ‘propreitary’ should be replaced with ‘proprietary’.
13) Answer: D
is the correct answer as ’embelishment’ should be replaced with ’embellishment’.
14) Answer: C
is the correct answer as ‘more’ should be replaced with ‘enough’. More is used only when there is some comparison and in the given sentence there is no comparison. So, ‘enough’ is more suitable than ‘more’.
15) Answer: E
16) Answer: B
Here, ‘Prove’ is inappropriate and grammatically incorrect and ‘proof’ should be used instead of it to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually correct. Hence, option B is the right answer choice.
17) Answer: A
Here, ‘Conforms’ is inappropriate and grammatically incorrect and ‘Confirms’ should be used instead of it to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually correct. Hence, option A is the right answer choice.
Confirm: state with assurance that a report or fact is true.
Conform: comply with rules, standards, or laws
18) Answer: A
Here, ‘Spent’ is inappropriate and grammatically incorrect and ‘spend’ should be used instead of it to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually correct. The sentence is in simple present tense. Hence, option A is the right answer choice.
19) Answer: C
Here, ‘Mythics’ is inappropriate and grammatically incorrect and ‘Mythical’ should be used instead of it to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually correct. Hence, option C is the right answer choice.
20) Answer: E
Here, all the highlighted parts are grammatically correct and fit into the context of the sentence. Hence, option E is the right answer choice.
Direction (21-25): In each question below, four words printed in bold are given. One of these words printed in bold might be misspelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word whichis misspelt or inappropriate.
21) Falling of at least 71 trees, seven incidents (A) of wall collapse (B) or building damage, and waterloging (C) at three locations were reported after Delhi witnessed strong winds and moderate intensity (D) rainfall in the early hours of Tuesday.
A.Incidents
B.Collapse
C.Waterloging
D.Intensity
E.All correct
22) Non-essential shops opened amid uncertainity (A) in Mumbai on Tuesday as shopkeepers were confused (B) about the system of allowing (C) shops on both sides of the road to function on alternate (D) days.
A.Uncertainity
B.Confused
C.Allowing
D.Alternate
E.All correct
23) The civic body had started converting (A) this building into a DCH after its first dedicated (B) Covid hospital in Baner, set up last year, was not enough to meet the burgeon (C) demand for beds in the city during the peak of the second wave of infections (D).
A.Converting
B.Dedicated
C.Burgeon
D.Infections
E.All correct
24) The amended (A) Delhi excise rules promise to give a boast (B) to microbreweries in the national capital, with the distillery-cum-bars allowed (C) to provide takeaway (D) services and also supply to bars and restaurants.
A.Amended
B.Boast
C.Allowed
D.Takeaway
E.All correct
25) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed (A) a chargesheet (B) against 25 Hyderabad-based jewellers and chartered accountants for investing (C) demonetized notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 amounting (D) to Rs 111 crores in their banks.
A.Filed
B.Chargesheet
C.Investing
D.Amounting
E.All correct
Direction (26-30): In each of the following questions four words have been highlighted in bold which may or may not be correctly spelt or contextually appropriate. You are required to find out which of the following words is incorrect to the context of the sentence or is incorrectly spelt from the given options.
26) Across Rajasthan, more than 90% farmers use this fertiliser in their crops but due to low imports this time by the Central government, there has been an acute shortage in the market.
A.fertiliser
B.imports
C.government
D.acute
E.All correct
27) A viscera examination tests the internal organs of a body to rule out poisoning or any other abnormallity in case of suspicious deaths.
A.examination
B.internal
C.poisoning
D.abnormallity
E.All correct
28) Following the concept of vehicle carrying capacity of road, the state transport department will map out the rootes for public vehicles like autorickshaws, e-rickshaws and buses for faster mobility as well as to free up choked roads and improve the air quality.
A.carrying
B.rootes
C.mobility
D.choked
E.All correct
29) The drop in AQI levels in Delhi is being acredited to the widespread flouting of the Supreme Court’s ban on firecrackers accompanied by other factors.
A.acredited
B.widespread
C.accompanied
D.factors
E.All correct
30) After witnessing all festivals or religious events in a calendar year during their protest on the borders of Delhi, the farmers are now ready to celebrate Diwali at the agitation sites amid paddy harvesting.
A.witnessing
B.protest
C.celebrate
D.agitation
E.All correct
Answers :
21) Answer: C
Correct one: – Waterlogging
Falling of at least 71 trees, seven incidents of wall collapse or building damage, and waterlogging at three locations were reported after Delhi witnessed strong winds and moderate intensity rainfall in the early hours of Tuesday.
22) Answer: A
Correct: – Uncertainty
Non-essential shops opened amid uncertainty in Mumbai on Tuesday as shopkeepers were confused about the system of allowing shops on both sides of the road to function on alternate days.
23) Answer: C
Before noun, adjective is required
Burgeoning is used instead of burgeon
The civic body had started converting this building into a DCH after its first dedicated Covid hospital in Baner, set up last year, was not enough to meet the burgeoning demand for beds in the city during the peak of the second wave of infections.
24) Answer: B
Boost is used instead of boast
Here we talk about an increment to microbreweries, that’s why boast is used instead of boost
Boast: – to talk with too much pride about something that you have or can do
The amended Delhi excise rules promise to give a boost to microbreweries in the national capital, with the distillery-cum-bars allowed to provide takeaway services and also supply to bars and restaurants.
25) Answer: C
Depositing is used instead of investing
Here we talk about depositing, notabout investing for making profits.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against 25 Hyderabad-based jewellers and chartered accountants for depositing demonetized notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 amounting to Rs 111 crores in their banks.
26) Answer: A
The correct spelling is fertilizer.
27) Answer: D
The correct spelling is abnormality.
28) Answer: B
The correct spelling is routes.
29) Answer: A
The correct spelling is accredited.
30) Answer: E
All Correct
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