Q.1 A song sung at a burial

• a) Dirge

• b) Ballad

• c) Hymn

• d) Sonnet

Q.2 Something that cannot be heard

• a) inaudible

• b) audible

• c) irrevocable

• d) infallible

Q.3 A period of ten years

• a) Millennium

• b) Century

• c) Fortnight

• d) Decade

Q.4 One who leaves his own country to settle in another

• a) Foreigner

• b) Tourist

• c) Native

• d) Emigrant

Q.5 Open refusal to obey orders

• a) Compliance

• b) Obedience

• c) Defiance

• d) Adherence

Q.6 Moral that govern one’s behavior

• a) Intuition

• b) Attitude

• c) Psychology

• d) Ethics

Q.7 One who loads and unloads ships

• a) Captain

• b) Rustic

• c) Spinster

• d) Stevedore

Q.8 A sudden rush of a large number of frightened people or animals.

• a) Scapegoat

• b) Stampede

• c) Lunacy

• d) Recluse

Q.9 One who preoccupied with his own interests.

• a) Egoist

• b) Pessimist

• c) Optimist

• d) Atheist

Q.10 A geometrical figure with eight sides

• a) Octagon

• b) Pentagon

• c) Heptagon

• d) Hexagon

Q.11 Bark is worse than his bite

• a) Threat is worse than the action taken

• b) Temper cannot be controlled

• c) Ferocious scolding hurt more than his action

• d) Anger is always justified

Q.12 An action or event that happens before another important one and forms an introduction to it.

• a) Foreword

• b) Predecessor

• c) Prefix

• d) Prelude

Q.13 A computer printout sent out by a bank regarding debits and credits in your account.

• a) Bank draft

• b) Statement

• c) Over draft

• d) Payee

Q.14 A drug which makes one see things that are not really there.

• a) Aphrodisiac

• b) Steroid

• c) Carcinogen

• d) Hallucinogen

Q.15 Providing relief

• a) Reissue

• b) Reprieve

• c) Rejoinder

• d) Refuge

Q.16 The philosophy of putting another’s welfare above one’s own.

• a) Agnosticism

• b) Polytheism

• c) Altruism

• d) Iconoclasm

Q.17 Proposition made as a basis for reasoning without the assumption of its truth

• a) Hypertext

• b) Hypocrisy

• c) Hyperbole

• d) Hypothesis

Q.18 Indifference to pleasure and pain

• a) Perseverance

• b) Tolerance

• c) Stoicism

• d) Radicalism

Q.19 No longer a child, but not yet an adult

• a) Youngster

• b) Adolescent

• c) Juvenile

• d) Yokel

Q.20 A record of one’s own life written by oneself

• a) History

• b) Biography

• c) Bibliography

• d) Autobiography

Q.21 Belong to the same period

• a) Comrades

• b) Contemporaries

• c) Compromises

• d) Renegades

Q.22 One who listens secretly to private conversation

• a) Eavesdropper

• b) Encroacher

• c) Eaves bearer

• d) Listener

Q.23 Stick with a thick end used in a mortar for pounding

• a) Thistle

• b) Stifle

• c) Scepter

• d) Pestle

Q.24 An act when people vote in order to make a decision about a particular subject or policy rather than voting for a person

• a) Election

• b) Exit-poll

• c) By-election

• d) Referendum

Q.25 A self governing country or region

• a) Autonomy

• b) Anarchy

• c) Democracy

• d) Monarchy

Answers

1	a	6	d	11	a	16	c	21	b
2	a	7	d	12	d	17	d	22	a
3	d	8	b	13	b	18	c	23	d
4	d	9	a	14	d	19	b	24	d
5	c	10	a	15	b	20	d	25	a