Practice Word Usage Questions and Answers

• 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....
• Commend (i) I could find no real fault with it so I would heartily commend it for use. (ii) The judges also want to specially commend the runner up, Michae...
• Dearth (i) They were wholly deaf to my arguments, or failed to perceive their force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible. (ii) The ne...
• Select the correctly spelt word.
• Choose the word that roughly means the same as the word highlighted in the sentence. The committee's decision to fund the project was agreed upon by every...
• Select the word that best expresses the meaning of the underlined word. He made some very pertinent comments. They would certainly help us revise the proj...
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. CURSORY
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PERPETUAL
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. LACONIC
• Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words. land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle...
• The country will send its soldiers to solve the extremely confused and complicated situation in Afghanistan.
• He was wrongly blamed for something his friends did, and was upset for over a month.
• She has been described by former co-workers as someone who is determined to achieve what she wants .
• The governor was  charged with a serious crime  and the party didn’t support him.
• The two parties will soon appoint a person to settle the disputes between them .
• Select the option that best expresses the meaning of the highlighted group of words. According to Imperial records a large group of people gathered a...
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Surreptitious
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Emancipate
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Authentic
• Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Imperative
• Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Affliction