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This section includes 112 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
A community of people smaller than a village |
| A. | hamlet |
| B. | aviary |
| C. | apiary |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. aviary | |
| 2. |
The action or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats is known as _________? |
| A. | Coercion |
| B. | Conviction |
| C. | Confession |
| D. | Cajolement |
| Answer» B. Conviction | |
| 3. |
One who eats everything indiscriminately is known as _________? |
| A. | Albumen |
| B. | Adept |
| C. | Omnivorous |
| D. | Amphibian |
| Answer» D. Amphibian | |
| 4. |
A part of a word that can be pronounced separately ? |
| A. | Particle |
| B. | Sibilant |
| C. | Syllable |
| D. | Letter |
| Answer» D. Letter | |
| 5. |
One who is present everywhere is known as ____________? |
| A. | Omnipotent |
| B. | Omniscient |
| C. | Omnipresent |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 6. |
The original inhabitants of a Country. |
| A. | Aborigines |
| B. | Citizens |
| C. | Natives |
| D. | Primitive |
| Answer» B. Citizens | |
| 7. |
One who lacks knowledge ________ ? |
| A. | Intelligent |
| B. | Ignorant |
| C. | Credulous |
| D. | Colleague |
| Answer» C. Credulous | |
| 8. |
A Group of birds or a flock flying together in hundreds or even in thousands is called _______ ? |
| A. | Startling |
| B. | Murmuration |
| C. | Both A and B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Both A and B | |
| 9. |
Something which is capable of being seen through is known as _____________? |
| A. | Opaque |
| B. | Coarse |
| C. | Ambiguous |
| D. | Transparent |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
Something that is hard but liable to break easily is known as _______? |
| A. | Brittle |
| B. | Flexible |
| C. | Resilient |
| D. | Supple |
| Answer» B. Flexible | |
| 11. |
An emolument over and above fixed income or salary is? |
| A. | honorarium |
| B. | sinecure |
| C. | prerogative |
| D. | perquisite |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
Something which is incapable of being seen through is known as _____________? |
| A. | Non-transparent |
| B. | Blurred |
| C. | Opaque |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
A sad poem usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead is known as ________? |
| A. | Elegy |
| B. | Oad |
| C. | Sestina |
| D. | Epic |
| Answer» B. Oad | |
| 14. |
Government by a small group of all powerful persons is known as _________? |
| A. | Dictatorship |
| B. | Monarchy |
| C. | Oligarchy |
| D. | Anarchy |
| Answer» D. Anarchy | |
| 15. |
A narrow piece of land connecting two large masses of land is known as _________? |
| A. | Gulf |
| B. | Isthmus |
| C. | Peninsula |
| D. | Continent |
| Answer» C. Peninsula | |
| 16. |
A person fluent in two languages is known as _________? |
| A. | Bilingual |
| B. | Bigot |
| C. | Bigamy |
| D. | Brittle |
| Answer» B. Bigot | |
| 17. |
A form of written language for blind people is known as __________? |
| A. | Braille |
| B. | Elysium |
| C. | Epicure |
| D. | Arson |
| Answer» B. Elysium | |
| 18. |
A disease that is liable to be transmitted to people through the environment is known as ___________? |
| A. | Contagious |
| B. | Infectious |
| C. | Fatal |
| D. | Incurable |
| Answer» C. Fatal | |
| 19. |
A person who helps another commit a crime is known as __________? |
| A. | Accomplice |
| B. | Amateur |
| C. | Cuckold |
| D. | Changeling |
| Answer» B. Amateur | |
| 20. |
A long poem narrating achievements of a hero or legendary figures is known as ___________? |
| A. | Epic |
| B. | Elegy |
| C. | Ode |
| D. | Sestina |
| Answer» B. Elegy | |
| 21. |
One who travels from place to place ? |
| A. | Itinerant |
| B. | Mendicant |
| C. | Journeyman |
| D. | Tramp |
| Answer» B. Mendicant | |
| 22. |
A large enclosure for confining birds is known as _________? |
| A. | Aviary |
| B. | Columbary |
| C. | Volary |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Columbary | |
| 23. |
A medicine taken or given to counteract a particular poison is known as ___________? |
| A. | antidote |
| B. | antitoxin |
| C. | Adderall |
| D. | A & B |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
The offence of marrying someone while already married to another person is known as _________? |
| A. | Bigamy |
| B. | Coupe |
| C. | Bigot |
| D. | Biped |
| Answer» B. Coupe | |
| 25. |
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own is known as ____________? |
| A. | Cuckold |
| B. | Despotism |
| C. | Plagiarism |
| D. | Epicure |
| Answer» D. Epicure | |
| 26. |
One who is unable to pay debts owed is known as __________? |
| A. | Foreclosed |
| B. | Insolvent |
| C. | Bankrupt |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
A person who collects or has a great love of books is known as ________? |
| A. | Bibliophile |
| B. | Pluviophile |
| C. | Cosmopolitan |
| D. | Changeling |
| Answer» B. Pluviophile | |
| 28. |
Forcing someone to make payment for not revealing discreditable secrets is known as ______________? |
| A. | Blackmail |
| B. | Despotism |
| C. | Assassin |
| D. | Elysium |
| Answer» B. Despotism | |
| 29. |
A disease spreading from one person or organism to another by contact is known as ________? |
| A. | Contagious |
| B. | Infectious |
| C. | Unanimous |
| D. | Fatal |
| Answer» B. Infectious | |
| 30. |
secretly listening to a conversation is called ________? |
| A. | Eavesdrop |
| B. | Overhearing |
| C. | Pigeonholing |
| D. | Spying |
| Answer» B. Overhearing | |
| 31. |
Items of business to be considered at a meeting is called __________? |
| A. | Agenda |
| B. | Bulletin |
| C. | Elysium |
| D. | Epicture |
| Answer» B. Bulletin | |
| 32. |
A person who talks in his/her sleep is known as ___________? |
| A. | Bourgeois |
| B. | Insomnist |
| C. | ventriloquist |
| D. | Somniloquist |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
An unexpected piece of good fortune is? |
| A. | windfall |
| B. | philanthrophy |
| C. | benevolence |
| D. | turnstile |
| Answer» B. philanthrophy | |
| 34. |
The doctor known as an eye-specialist is? |
| A. | orthodontist |
| B. | orthopedist |
| C. | ophthalmologist |
| D. | obstetrician |
| Answer» D. obstetrician | |
| 35. |
To run away with a lover is? |
| A. | deceive |
| B. | cheat |
| C. | escape |
| D. | elope |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
The practice of pretending to have feelings that one does not really have is? |
| A. | treachery |
| B. | villainy |
| C. | hypocrisy |
| D. | inundate |
| Answer» D. inundate | |
| 37. |
A person who is unable to pay his debts is called ___________. |
| A. | Borrower |
| B. | Insolvent |
| C. | Lender |
| D. | Allen |
| Answer» C. Lender | |
| 38. |
A disease which spreads by contact: |
| A. | Incurable |
| B. | Infectious |
| C. | Contagious |
| D. | Fatal |
| Answer» D. Fatal | |
| 39. |
A system of government controlled by persons of high intellectual ability is? |
| A. | oligarchy |
| B. | democracy |
| C. | meritocracy |
| D. | theocracy |
| Answer» D. theocracy | |
| 40. |
One who does not follow the usual rules of social life is called ___________? |
| A. | egoist |
| B. | frank |
| C. | bohemian |
| D. | reveille |
| Answer» D. reveille | |
| 41. |
One who has good taste for food: |
| A. | Gourmet |
| B. | Curator |
| C. | Parasite |
| D. | Stoic |
| Answer» B. Curator | |
| 42. |
Young one of horse is? |
| A. | piglet |
| B. | lamb |
| C. | calf |
| D. | colt |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
A person who wastes his money on luxury is__________? |
| A. | Luxuriant |
| B. | Luxurious |
| C. | Extravagant |
| D. | Stingy |
| Answer» D. Stingy | |
| 44. |
One who walks on ropes is called ______. |
| A. | Aviator |
| B. | Acrobat |
| C. | Funambulist |
| D. | Upholsterer |
| Answer» D. Upholsterer | |
| 45. |
Violation of something holy or sacred is? |
| A. | profanity |
| B. | sedition |
| C. | sacrilege |
| D. | slander |
| Answer» D. slander | |
| 46. |
A Game which no one wins called_________? |
| A. | Tie |
| B. | Draw |
| C. | loss |
| D. | toss |
| Answer» C. loss | |
| 47. |
One who cannot easily pleased: |
| A. | Cosmopolitan |
| B. | Frightening |
| C. | Fastidious |
| D. | Feminist |
| Answer» D. Feminist | |
| 48. |
A person who is indifferent to pains and pleasure of life: |
| A. | Stoic |
| B. | Sadist |
| C. | Psychiatrist |
| D. | Aristocrat |
| Answer» C. Psychiatrist | |
| 49. |
One who believes in the power of fate: |
| A. | Fatalist |
| B. | Optimist |
| C. | Pessimist |
| D. | Parsimonious |
| Answer» B. Optimist | |
| 50. |
The murder of Brother: |
| A. | Homicide |
| B. | Regicide |
| C. | Fratricide |
| D. | Suicide |
| Answer» D. Suicide | |