Practice Word Usage Questions and Answers

• Impasse (i) Negotiations have reached an impasse . (ii) Our impasse response to the attack was sheer horror. (iii) The proposal offered both sides a way...
• Deterrent (i) The speech has strengthened our faith and deterrent . (ii) They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent . (iii) I admire h...
• Subtle (i) The evidence is not detailed enough to subtle his argument. (ii) The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle . (iii) Her book displays ma...
• Select the correctly spelt word.
• Select the correctly spelt word.
• Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.  The date on which an event took place in a previous year
• Disproportionate
• Issue I. Politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. II. I found an old issue of Othello in...
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PERPETRATE
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. EXPOSE
• Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. Something that cannot be avoided
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. ADVERSARY
• Select the wrongly spelt word.
• Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. A person belonging to a foreign country
• Select the wrongly spelt word.
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. MINISCULE
• Evince
• Pernicious
• Eulogy
• Accumulated
• Diffident
• Fickle
• One who is not easily pleased by anything
• Head of monks in an abbey
• The word is no longer in use.
• A person unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others.
• Inscription on a gravestone
• Violation of that which is holy and sacred
• One who believes in many Gods.
• One who lends money on high rates of interest
• A post with little work but high salary.
• A person, especially a young one, with exceptional abilities.
• Mastermind
• A new word coined by an author.
• Parley (i) When Abraham won the war, there ensued a brief parley between himself and the king of Sodom. (ii) Raven had little desire to parley with their e...
• Subsume (i) To subsume malnutrition, we grow maize, beans, soya beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, pumpkins and many others. (ii) Charitable organisations and...
• Scaled (i) These blennies are cryptically coloured or transparent, heavily scaled, and small. (ii) An ideal location would be where the core slightly overl...
• Tamper (i) To tamper with a constitution that had so proved its quality seemed not so much a sacrilege as a folly. (ii) At least he was trying to control h...
• Stamp (i) The contractor got the agency’s stamp of approval. (ii) We all desire to leave our stamp on the world. (iii) Sealing the letter, she took a sta...
• Hatch (i) The chief engineer of the submarine went down through the hatch. (ii) Only the embryos of Leptodora are known to hatch out in the nauplius stage....