(a) gauche (b) skillful

ANTONYMS
(c) dexterous (d) ambidextrous
Directions: Each item in this section consists of 6. The earthquake destroyed thousands of
a sentence with an underlined word followed by
people’s lives but I was struck by the incredible
four words. Select the option that is opposite in
meaning to the underlined word and mark your resilience of the survivors I met.
response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. (a) potency (b) tenacity
(c) weakness (d) obstinate
1. The nation was gaining ground at this time as 7. This process taught me the importance of
the acceptable and legible idiom of collective being a ruthless editor. I learnt that if a piece of
political demands. information can be deleted without impacting
(a) incomprehensible (b) intelligible the narrative flow, then it didn't belong there.
(c) decipherable (d) readable (a) compassionate (b) boorish
(c) acrimonious (d) callous
2. Among its distinctive features is a conflation 8. With little access to medical care, many of
between land, a national(ised) language, and a them succumbed to exhaustion, starvation and
people. disease.
(a) amalgamation (b) meld (a) capitulate (b) battle
(c) constituent (d) emulsion (c) defeated (d) sonorous
3. The partners maintained an amicable relation 9. A frugal lifestyle doesn’t have to mean a
ship after selling the business. deprived lifestyle.
(a) amiable (b) gracious (a) parsimony (b) niggardly
(c) mellow (d) surly (c) spendthrift (d) thrifty
4. For clinicians under the occupation, whose
patients were dying from hunger, this presented 10. A sedentary lifestyle could increase your levels
an ethical quandary and a personal dilemma. of exhaustion.
(a) quagmire (b) predicament (a) dormant (b) apathetic
(c) certainty (d) tranquility (c) somnambulant (d) animated
5. The CEO has been praised for his adroit
SYNONYMS
management of the company's financial
recovery. Directions: Each item in this section consists of
a sentence with an underlined word followed by status in the company to sweet talk him into
four words. Select the option that is similar in signing off on the deal.
meaning to the underlined word and mark your (a) elevate (b) perigee
response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
(c) abase (d) aeon
11. Recently, 23 of Watauga’s best math students 17. Seven plenteous years brought enough food to
met virtually to test their mettle against their feed the people during the famine.
peers in the annual Math Counts competition. (a) scarcity (b) niggardly
(a) caliber (b) resolution (c) abundant (d) fecund
(c) placidity (d) adore 18. The indictments against the company and its
12. Since the callow baker was new to cake deco chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, will
rating, she did not know how to properly frost remain sealed until Thursday.
the multi-layer cake. (a) exoneration (b) arraignment
(a) puerile (b) childish (c) praise (d) rhythm
(c) immature (d) seasoned 19. The student was procrastinating writing the
13. The magazine article provided ideas for report; however, the tutor provided the needed
activities designed to shake off the torpor of a guidance and motivation.
rainy day. (a) diatonic (b) diminutive
(a) naive (b) dispassionate (c) loiter (d) lackadaisically
(c) tepidity (d) fervent 20. The facts of the unsolved mystery were
14. The incumbents for the Fayetteville and Rogers intriguing, but the author’s conclusion was
school boards all secured their seats for another facile.
term. (a) simple (b) arduous
(a) vehemence (b) azure (c) torrid (d) dally
(c) entrant (d) officeholder SPOTTING ERROR
15. The pole vaulter reached the apogee of height
Directions: In this section, each question has
in the competition, catapulting him into first a three parts labelled (a), (b), and (c). Read each
place. sentence to find out whether there is any error in
(a) inane (b) apex the underlined part and indicate your response in
(c) heyday (d) accommodate the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter,
16. I attempted to aggrandize the CEO’s high i.e., (a), (b), (c), or (d). If you find “No error’, your
response should be indicated as (e). Epidemiology of Disasters,
(b) the number of catastrophic
21. (a) Despite of the simplicity (c) events have more than
(b) of production both Oldowan and Acheulian (d) doubled since the 1980s.
(c) tool-making process activate (e) No error.
(d) different parts of the brain. 27. (a) The landlord
(e) No error. (b) requested that John
22. (a) The later tend to play (c) comes out of
(b) like an intro to his benighted (d) the apartment immediately.
(c) Celebrity Apprentice: stolid, explicit (e) No error.
(d) and exhausting. 28. (a) India needs free,
(e) No error. (b) fair, non-hyphenated and
23. (a) From the moment he arrived (c) questioning journalism even more as
(b) there it’s citizens resented him (d) it faces multiple crisis.
(c) and his Martians and (e) No error.
(d) his youth and his talent. 29. (a) This bank
(e) No error. (b) has been built in
24. (a) Fortunately, global wealth and (c) 1995 by a small group
(b) technology allow us (d) of merchants.
(c) to better prepare and respond (e) No error.
(d) to natural disasters. 30. (a) Since they got late,
(e) No error. (b) it grew late and
25. (a) As global populations have grown (c) they decided to put at
(b) and people have crowded into risk zones (d) a nearby hotel.
(c) — like earthquake areas and flood plains (e) No error.
— the toll of natural
(d) disasters have grown as well. FILL IN THE BLANKS
(e) No error.102 Directions: Each item in this section consists of
Oswaal NDA/NA Year-wise Solved Papers a sentence with a blank followed by four words.
26. (a) According to the Center for Research on Select the option that is aptly fit in the given blank
and mark your response on your Answer Sheet 37. It’s an _________ cloud, a phenomenon occur
accordingly. ring right in our own atmosphere.
31. The plot of the story thickens when the main (a) iridescent (b) azure
character’s ____________ turns out to be a (c) seaweed (d) pandemic
wanted criminal. 38. Famed actor Phylicia Rashad is returning
(a) lugubrious (b) doppelganger to her _____ as the new dean of the Howard
(c) lovelorn (d) woeful University College of Fine Arts.
32. “I’m not willing to___________ my friendship (a) alumni (b) pagan
with Camille by lying to her,” said Luis. (c) baroque (d) alma mater
(a) jeopardize (b) dismayed 39. As people grow older, they begin to _______ on
(c) distraught (d) wriggle the uncertainty of life.
33. Any insect unlucky enough to land on the (a) ruminate (b) vivid
mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant (c) daunt (d) fiasco
will meet a _________ end. 40. He seemed burdened with _________ thoughts
(a) teary-eyed (b) mewling and dark visions as he wrestled with his
(c) grisly (d) grizzly pursuing demons.
34. A number of serious disorders, such as sickle (a) heterodox (b) sonorous
cell anemia and Huntington’s disease are (c) melancholic (d) wacky
caused by genetic________.
IDOMS & PHRASES
(a) anomalies (b) eccentricity
(c) ebullience (d) ecclesiastics Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases
35. At an early age, when grammar school teachers followed by four alternative meanings to each.
were struggling to _________ the lesson that Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), whichever
is most appropriate expression and mark your
effort was the main key to success in school.
response in your answer sheet accordingly.
(a) evade (b) dubious
(c) quaint (d) inculcate 41. Out of the woods
36. She gave him her most_________ smile and (a) Deliberately and without emotion
stepped out of the hallway. (b) Out of the forest
(a) surprising (b) fetching (c) Out of control
(c) irritated (d) confused (d) Out of danger
42. Call a spade a spade 47. Cock and bull story
(a) An important person (a) Ask for the impossible
(b) Blunt and direct (b) Made up story that one should not believe
(c) In a state where one does not know what to (c) Just at the last moment
do (d) Talent for speaking
(d) To tackle a problem in a bold and direct 48. Take a leaf out of one’s book
fashion (a) Just at the last moment
43. At daggers drawn (b) Make money unfairly
(a) Bitterly hostile (c) Desert one in difficulties
(b) To tackle a problem in a bold and direct (d) Imitate one
fashion 49. Smell a rat
(c) Keep one at a distance (a) Suspect something foul
(d) Have a secret plan in reserve (b) Disturb the work
44. Bark up the wrong tree (c) Understand the hidden meaning
(a) Confess – especially when a person has (d) Run away
done a wrong thing 50. Bury the hatchet
(b) Accuse or denounce a person (a) Dwell on the same subject
(c) Waste one’s efforts by pursuing the wrong (b) Destroy in the early stage
thing or path (c) End the quarrel and make peace
(d) To act foolishly or inconsistently (d) Put or do things in the wrong order
45. At one’s wit's end
(a) Completely puzzled or perplexed
(b) Tired
(c) Work or study hard
(d) Without hope
46. Have a card up one’s sleeve
(a) Do or say the exact thing
(b) To make a supreme effort
(c) To act foolishly or inconsistently
(d) Have a secret plan in reserve