VOCABULARY QUESTIONS - 13 ABOOTTY

VOCABULARY QUESTIONS - 13

1. I saw a ............ of sheep grazing in the field.
(a) flock
(b) herd
(c) group
(d) pack
A

[a herd of cattle/cows/deer/elephants
a group of girls/houses/trees
a pack of dogs/hounds/wolves]

2. Identify the incorrect group:
(a) ox - oxen
(b) woman student - woman students
(c) thesis - theses
(d) criterion - criteria
B
[_correct_: women students]

3. The murder of a newborn child by or with consent of aparent:
(a) patricide
(b) homicide
(c) genocide
(d) infanticide
D

[patricide : killing of one’s father
homicide : killing of another human being
genocide : the murder of a group of people]

4. The young one of a kangaroo:
(a) joey
(b) baby
(c) calf
(d) pup
A

5. The meaning of “erudite”:
(a) learned
(b) literate
(c) uneducated
(d) bookish
A

6. Choose the exact meaning of the idiom “to give one a long rope”:
(a) to speak ill of
(b) to get into trouble
(c) to dismiss
(d) to allow a man to continue his mistakes or crimes
D

7. Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
(a) refuse
(b) repute
(c) confuse
(d) despute
D

8. The process of involving too much official formality:
(a) nepotism
(b) diplomacy
(c) red-tapism
(d) bureaucracy
C

9. The word opposite in meaning to “obvious”:
(a) obscure
(b) difficult
(c) uncertain
(d) false
A

10. The meaning of “physique”:
(a) medicine
(b) related to physics
(c) bodily structure
(d) financial status
C