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(Paper) CDS: English Synonyms Solved Exam Paper (I) : 2007
Combined Defence Services
CDS General English Solved Paper (I) : 2007
(SYNONYMS)
Directions (For the 17 items which follow): Each of the following 17 items consists of a word or group of words in capital letters, followed by four or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word or group ofwords in capital letters.
1. COUNTERVAILING
(a) Argumentative
(b) Compensating
(c) Crying
(d) Complaining
2. TO DEBILITATE
(a) To outlaw
(b) To support
(c) To weaken
(d) To honour
3. FERRET(a) Steal
(b) Search
(c) Forget
(d) Fight
4. PECUNIARY
(a) Pertaining to money
(b) Pertaining to Politics
(c) Pertaining to Geography
(d) Pertaining to History
5. REPRISAL
(a) Loneliness (b) Retaliation
(c) Remuneration (d) Pleasure
6. PROPRIETY
(a) Rightness
(b) Brand name
(c) Cultivate land
(d) Market share
7. CAVIL
(a) To play
(b) To complain
(c) To prepare
(d) To cut a joke
8. EVINCE
(a) To learn
(b) To exhibit
(c) To resist
(d) To become infirm
9. INCENSE
(a) To become angry
(b) To support someone
(c) To become relevant
(d) To introduce a new topic
10. ATTENUATE
(a) To weaken
(b) To celebrate
(c) To store
(d) To ‘swim
11. ASCETIC
(a) Fashionable
(b) Austere
(c) Articulate
(d) Athletic
12. ARABLE
(a) Tolerable
(b) Suitable for ploughing
(c) Likeable
(d) Ardent
13. SECEDE
(a) To stop
(b) To arrest
(c) To flow
(d) To withdraw
14. PROFFER
(a) To apologize
(b) To appoint
(c) To disappear
(d) To offer
15. PREVARICATE
(a) To evade
(b) To work hard
(c) To steal
(d) To demonstrate
16. SPECULATE
(a) To embezzle
(b) To guess
(c) To study deeply
(d) To store
17. PECKISH
(a) Angry
(b) Impudent
(c) Hungry
(d) Smart