In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
A large sleeping room with many beds.
Answer: B
It is a dormitory.
A dormitory is a large room with many beds, from the Latin dormire, to sleep. A hostel is a building providing lodging, which may contain dormitories but is not one.
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Continuing fighting between parties, clans, families and the like.
Answer: B
It is a feud.
A feud is a long-running hostility between families or groups, often passed down the generations. A skirmish is a brief clash and a quarrel a single dispute; enmity is the feeling rather than the fighting.
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A building for storing threshed grain.
Answer: D
It is a granary.
A granary stores threshed grain, from the Latin granum. A hangar houses aircraft and a dockyard ships; store is too general.
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Policemen riding motorcycles as guards to a VIP.
Answer: A
They are outriders.
Outriders escort a vehicle on motorcycles or horseback. The word dates from the days when mounted attendants rode beside a carriage.
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One who is determined to exact full vengeance for wrongs done to him.
Answer: B
It is vindictive.
Vindictive means bent on revenge, from the Latin vindicta, vengeance. A vindicator defends or justifies someone, virulent means bitterly hostile or highly poisonous, and a usurer lends at excessive interest.
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The murder of a king.
Answer: D
It is regicide.
Regicide is the killing of a king, from the Latin rex. Matricide is the killing of one's mother, infanticide of an infant, and genocide of a whole people.
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An expression of mild disapproval.
Answer: D
It is a reproof.
A reproof is a mild rebuke. A warning looks forward to what may happen, denigration blackens a reputation, and impertinence is rudeness rather than criticism.
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One absorbed in his own thoughts and feelings rather than in things outside.
Answer: C
It is an introvert.
An introvert turns inward, from the Latin for turning within - the opposite of an extrovert. A recluse withdraws physically from society, which is a different thing.
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One who dabbles in fine arts for the love of it and not for monetary gains.
Answer: B
It is an amateur.
An amateur does something for love rather than money, from the Latin amare. A dilettante dabbles superficially, and the word carries a slight, which amateur need not; a connoisseur judges expertly without necessarily practising.
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A schoolboy who cuts classes frequently.
Answer: C
It is a truant.
A truant stays away from school without leave. A martinet is a strict disciplinarian, a sycophant a flatterer and a defeatist one who expects failure.
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