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Q: 76 – Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. SSC CHSL Previous Year Paper-19

Practically (every) part of the coconut tree is used by man.

Options:
1) each
2) all
3) most
4) no improvement

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Q: 77 – Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Imagine what this can do

P-the news industry in our part of the world
Q-for trust in, and engagement
R-with, professional journalism and

Options:
1) RQP
2) QRP
3) PRQ
4) PQR

Q: 78 – In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.

Tanish has(A)/changed a lot(B)/since then.(C)/No error(D)

Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

Q: 79 – Select the synonym of

deviance

Options:
1) accordance
2) compliance
3) alliance
4) aberrance

Q: 80 – Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

Truth was

P-to lead to a breach of peace as a false one
Q-no defence since
R-a true defamatory statement was as likely

Options:
1) QPR
2) RQP
3) PQR
4) PRQ

Q: 81 – Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I gave her the book that I (won) as a prize.

Options:
1) will win
2) had won
3) am winning
4) no improvement

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Q: 82 – Select the synonym of

alleviate

Options:
1) irritate
2) aggravate
3) allay
4) agitate

Q: 83 – Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) mixible
2) dialects
3) venerete
4) pluging

Q: 84 – In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Unchecked industrial effluents discharging into the rivers has caused ______________ damage to the environment.

Options:
1) uncontrollable
2) disproportionate
3) infinite
4) incalculable

Q: 85 – In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.

I express my gratitudes(A)/to all those who(B)/have voted for me.(C)/No error(D)

Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

Q: 86 – In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

I am sorry I am late, I was __________ up in traffic.

Options:
1) held
2) delayed
3) detained
4) stucked

Q: 87 – In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

whole nine yards

Options:
1) love someone blindly
2) euphemism for an Indian dress called sari
3) a small area but sufficient
4) everything possible

Q: 88 – Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) erasable
2) nuerones
3) ignomminy
4) trouncees

Q: 89 – Select the antonym of

steadfast

Options:
1) staunch
2) pliant
3) ardent
4) rigid

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Q: 90 – In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.

Options:
1) crucify
2) ignify
3) vilify
4) basify

Q: 91 – In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

under the weather

Options:
1) changing moods like weather
2) a situation changes so fast that it leaves one unprepared
3) slightly unwell
4) raining heavily

Q: 92 – In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

‘Don’t you know the way to the station?’ father said to Anjali.

Options:
1) Father asked Anjali if she did not knew the way to the station.
2) Father asked Anjali that if she did not knew the way to the station.
3) Father asked Anjali whether she did not know the way to the station.
4) Father asked to Anjali if she did not know the way to the station.

Q: 93 – Select the antonym of

sibilate

Options:
1) whiz
2) boo
3) exalt
4) rasp

Q: 94 – In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

The manager must look into this problem.

Options:
1) This problem shall be looked into by the manager.
2) Into this problem must take a look the manager.
3) This problem must be looked into by the manager.
4) This problem could be looked at by the manager.

Q: 95 – In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

A feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness.

Options:
1) slag
2) declivity
3) prolapse
4) discomfiture

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Directions 96 to 100: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

Q: 96 – All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism.

Options:
1) well
2) nice
3) good
4) fine

Q: 97 – A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us

Options:
1) infinite
2) innumerable
3) incalculable
4) multiple

Q: 98 – which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter,

Options:
1) nurtured
2) nurturing
3) nurtures
4) nurture

Q: 99 – respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial

Options:
1) who
2) whom
3) whose
4) whoever

Q: 100 – ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

Options:
1) partnerships
2) alliances
3) clans
4) affiliations

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