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Q.76- In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase. SSC CHSL Previous Year Paper-25

Courteousness and refinement of manner.

Options:
1) plaudit
2) adulation
3) urbanity
4) profanity

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Q.77- In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

to have an axe to grind

Options:
1) sharpening your skills in anticipation of future challenges
2) to have a private reason for doing something
3) preparing for a fight
4) getting ready for work or a new project

Q.78- Select the synonym of precedent

Options:
1) contingent
2) criterion
3) arbitrary
4) fortuitous

Q.79- 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.

Jayesh has sent the email.

Options:
1) The email has had been sent by Jayesh.
2) The email has been sent by Jayesh.
3) The email was sent by Jayesh.
4) The email was send by Jayesh.

Q.80- 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.

Anil says, “I am glad to be here this morning”

Options:
1) Anil says he is glad to be there that morning.
2) Anil says that he is glad to be there that morning.
3) Anil was saying that he was glad to be there this morning.
4) Anil says that he was glad to be here this morning.

Q.81- 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.

Either you’re a mind reader or it’s a __________________ that you called me just as I was keying your phone number.

Options:
1) coincidence
2) correlation
3) union
4) happening

Q.82- In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

great minds think alike

Options:
1) it is said when two people have the same opinion
2) it is said when clever people think rationally
3) since there is only one truth , the great philosophers have reached on similar conclusions
4) scientists and philosophers easily become friends

Q.83- Select the antonym of

to rake

Options:
1) to harrow
2) to scatter
3) to scour
4) to enfilade

Q.84- Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

When I(go) to Paris, I shall visit the Eiffel Tower.

Options:
1) shall go
2) will be going
3) have to go
4) no improvement

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Q.85- Select the synonym of

digression

Options:
1) meandering
2) candid
3) categorical
4) unequivocal

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.

Excusing yourself before standing to leave is part of proper table ____________.

Options:
1) usage
2) etiquette
3) dignity
4) habit

Q.87- Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) deriesion
2) apalled
3) civilian
4) sacluded

Q.88- Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Please pass me that (scissors) .

Options:
1) scissor
2) pair of scissor
3) pair of scissors
4) no improvement

Q.89- Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Do people take

P-rejection of every candidate?
Q-the trouble to go and
R-vote only to register their

Options:
1) RQP
2) RPQ
3) PRQ
4) QRP

Q.90- Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) alackrity
2) refileing
3) bufoons
4) condense

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Q.91- In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives

Options:
1) redoubt
2) scrupulous
3) immaculate
4) sordid

Q.92- Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The reference

P-is simultaneously a matter
Q-to the size of a vulnerable community
R-of legal as well as political and ethical perspective

Options:
1) RPQ
2) QRP
3) QPR
4) PRQ

Q.93- 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’.

To the whale, its(A) /tail is the sole(B) /mean of propulsion.(C) /No error(D)

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

Q.94- 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’.

There was a fine line(A) /between being frugal(B) /and being a miser.(C) /No error(D)

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

Q.95- Select the antonym of

to contend

Options:
1) to comply
2) to oppugn
3) to grapple
4) to vie

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Direction 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.

Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.

Q.96- _______________ to destroy them.

Options:
1) neither
2) nor
3) no
4) not

Q.97- The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term

Options:
1) Constitutions’
2) Constitution’s
3) Constitutions
4) Constitution

Q.98- a court to come along 66 years _________________,

Options:
1) late
2) lately
3) later
4) latest

Q.99- and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights

Options:
1) appropriate
2) appropriately
3) appropriating
4) appropriated

Q.100- entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.

Options:
1) on
2) onto
3) upon
4) within

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