Vocabulary Questions with Solution (Test 1)

Directions for questions 1 to 5: For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given, that is most inappropriate in the given context.

Q1 Specious : A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of

Q2. Obviate : The new mass transit system may obviate the need for the use of personal cars. 

Q3. Disuse : Some words fall into disuse as technology makes objects obsolete. 

Q4. Parsimonious : The evidence was constructed from very parsimonious scraps of information. 

Q5. Facetious : When I suggested that war is a method of controlling population, my father remarked that I was being facetious. 

Directions for questions 6 to 10 : For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given, that is closest in meaning in the given context.

Q6. Opprobrium : The police officer appears oblivious to the opprobrium generated by his blatantly partisan conduct.

Q7. Portends : It appears to many that the US “war on terrorism” portends trouble in the Gulf. 

Q8. Prevaricate : When a videotape of her meeting was played back to her and she was asked to explain her presence there, she started prevaricating. 

Q9. Restive : The crowd became restive when the minister failed to appear even by 10 p.m. 

Q10. Ostensible : Manohar’s ostensible job was to guard the building at night.