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IBSAT exam Verbal Ability Questions

Directions: Each of the questions consists of a word followed by five words or phrase as choices. Choose the word or phrase which is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capitals and shade the alphabets marked in the grid on your answer sheet.

1. ABOMINATE :

a. loathe
b. despise
c. adore
d. abhor
e. attach

2. OBSEQUIOUS :

a. servile
b. first
c. fawning
d. supercilious
e. improper

3. OROTUND :

a. not resonant
b. not reddish
c. not eager
d. pompous
e. loud

4. RECANT :

a. entangle
b. rescue
c. fail
d. assert
e. predict

5. UPBRAID :

a. defer
b. vacillate
c. sever
d. conjoin
e. laud

6. PLENITUDE :

a. luxury
b. magnificence
c. richness
d. contentment
e. scarcity

7. SCURRILOUS :

a. decent
b. savage
c. major
d. volatile
e. scabby

8. FULMINATION :

a. praise
b. repetition
c. escape
d. ratification
e. addition

9. DISTEND

a. deteriorate
b. weaken
c. constrict
d. concentrate
e. fold

10. TOUT

a. cast aspersions on
b. deny the relevance of
c. placate
d. withhold consent
e. misrepresent

11. That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from
a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not - eyewitness reports of its commander's extraordinary
- in deploying his forces.
(a) invalidate - brutality
(b) gainsay - cleverness
(c) underscore - ineptitude
(d) justify - rapidity
(e) corroborate -determination
Ans : (b)
12. No longer - by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity,
many people try to find intellectual - for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
(a) satisfied - reasons
(b) reassured - justifications
(c) restricted - parallels
(d) sustained - substitutes
(e) hampered - equivalents
Ans : (d)
13. In eighth-century Japan, people who - wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of
an effort to overcome the shortage of - fields.
(a) cultivated - domestic
(b) located - desirable
(c) conserved - forested
(d) reclaimed - arable
(e) irrigated - accessible.
Ans : (d)
14. Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but
that it also does exactly what the theory- it should do.
(a) assumed - deducted
(b) estimated - accepted
(c) supposed - asserted
(d) doubted - warranted
(e) demonstrated - predicted.
Ans e)
15. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue
and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a
world - of -
(a) deprived - polarity
(b) full - circumstantiality
(c) bereft - theatricality
(d) devoid - neutrality
(e) composed - adversity.
Ans : (d)
16. Sponsors of the bill were-because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until
after the measure had been signed into law.
(a) well-intentioned
(b) persistent
(c) detained
(d) unreliable
(e) relieved.
Ans : (b)
17. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable - through a complex
network of producers and consumers.
(a) nutrients
(b) dividends
(c) communications
(d) artifacts
(e) commodities.
Ans : (c)
18. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government
by - the leaders of the movement have recently - most of their previous statements supporting
totalitarianism.
(a) proclamation - codified
(b) coercion - repudiated
(c) participation - moderated
(d) intimidation - issued
(e) demonstration - deliberated.
Ans : (b)
19. It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must
disregard race, color and creed.
(a) tolerant
(b) democratic
(c) broadminded
(d) emotional
(e) intolerant.
Ans : (e)
20. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical
newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on - essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
(a) insolent - sociability
(b) trivial - decorum
(c) belligerent - fallibility
(d) serious - propriety
(e) deliberate - affectation.
Ans : (b)
21. The - tones of the flute succeeded in - his tense nerves.
(a) rhapsodic - minimising
(b) blatant - enhancing
(c) hovendous - calming
(d) vibrant - portraying
(e) mellifluous - soothing.
Ans : (e)
22. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is - and the patient's
communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in thercopy,
moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to - it.
(a) lost - forget
(b) implicit - extend
(c) impaired - sacrifise
(d) ambiguous - apply
(e) assumed - examine.
Ans : (c)
23. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look
-they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the -
of natural beauty and human glory.
(a) great - immutability
(b) joyful - mortality
(c) conventional - wildness
(d) cheerful - transitoriness
(e) colorful - abstractness.
Ans : (d)
24. Despite the - of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop
culture'' as a key for - the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society. (a) pedantry -
reinstating
(b) enthusiasm - symbolizing
(c) skepticism - deciphering
(d) antipathy - involving
(e) discernment - evaluating.
Ans : (c)
25. If duty is the natural - of one's the course of future events, then people who are powerful
have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
(a) outgrowth - control over
(b) arbiter - responsibility for
(c) correlate - understanding of
(d) determinant - involvement in
(e) mitigant - preoccupation with .
Ans : (a)
26. Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but
that it also does exactly what the theory - it should do.
(a) supposed - asserted
(b) voubted -warranted
(c) assumed - deduced
(d) demonstrated - predicted
(e) estimated - accepted
Ans
27. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant
fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the
- of creation.
(a) variety
(b) economy
(c) profusion
(d) clarity
(e) precision.
Ans : (b)
28. It is a great - to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible,
because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with -
effects.
(a) Disappointment - superfluous
(b) Convenience - exquisite
(c) Advantage - deleterious
(d) Accomplishment - profound
(e) Misfortune - unpredictable.
Ans : (c)
29. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the
manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective - were simply not available. (a)
indeterminable - safeguards
(b) unusual - alternatives
(c) inconsequential - substitutes
(d) proven - antidotes
(e) increasing - procedures.
Ans : (c)
30. Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our
higher moral life is based on the fact that - sensations actually present may have a weaker
influence on our action than do ideas of - facts.
(a) emotional - impersonal
(b) familiar : symbolic
(c) disturbing - ordinary
(d) material - remote
(e) defenitive - controvoisial.
Ans : (d)
31. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on earth
because of the possibility of - resulting from the carbon atom's ability to form an unending series
of different molecules. (a) variety
(b) stability
(c) deviations
(d) invigorations
(e) reproduction.
Ans : (a)
32. It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must
disregard race, color and creed. (a) intolerant
(b) democratic
(c) emotional
(d) patient
(e) broadminded.
Ans : (a)
33. An occasional - remark spoiled the - that made the paper memorable.
(a) colloquial
(b) trite - cliches
(c) urbane - sophisticated
(d) hackneyed - originality
(e) jovial - fun.
Ans : (d)
34. Broadway audiences have become inured to - and so - to be pleased as to make their ready
ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.? (a)
cleverness : eager
(b) condescension : disinclined
(c) sentimentality : reluctant
(d) mediocrity : desperate
(e) histrionics : unlikely
Ans : (d)
35. Nineteenth - century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical
Greek art was not a magical - or a brilliant - blending Egyptian and Assyruin art, but was
independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
(a) conversion - annexation
(b) apparition - amalgam
(c) stratagem - appropriation
(d) paradigm - construct
(e) example - synthesis
Ans : (b)
36. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it
may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in western society
during the current decade is - critical.
(a) archetypally
(b) perennially
(c) disturbingly
(d) uniquely
(e) cautiously
Ans : (d)
37. Even though in today's Soviet union the - Muslim clergy have been accorded power and
privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank - and - file clergy still. Have little - to practice their
religion.
(a) adversaries of - inclination
(b) traditionalists among - incentive
(c) practitioners among - opportunity
(d) leaders of - latitude
(e) dissidents within -obligation
Ans : (d)
38. Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant
to be - rather than -
(a) seen - acted
(b) read - acted
(c) produced - acted
(d) quiet - loud
(e) sophisticated - urbane
Ans : (b)
39. The little - known but rapidly expanding use of computers in mapmaking is technologically
similar to the more - uses in designing everything from bolts to satellites.
(a) ingenuous
(b) recent
(c) secure
(d) publicized
(e) successful
Ans : (d)
40. Although his out numbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to -
defeat and - a retreat.
(a) oversee - reject
(b) acknowledge - order
(c) hasten - suggest
(d) seek - try
(e) overcome - request
Ans : (b)
41. No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death
and the - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.
(a) guide
(b) assent
(c) reverence
(d) fortitude
(e) concern
Ans : (d)
42. The hostess attempted to - a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people
together in -
(a) expand - fealty
(b) present - collusion
(c) simulate - conflict
(d) introduce - cacophony
(e) contrive - matrimony
Ans : (e)
43. Employers who retire people who are willing and able to continue working should realize
that - age is not an effective - in determining whether an individual is capable of working.
(a) intellectual - criterion
(b) Chronological - criterion
(c) Physical - barrier
(d) deteriorating - value
(e) chronological - factor
Ans : (b)
44. As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the - like strands of -
(a) whirlwind - flotsam
(b) wind - cactus
(c) morass - tundra
(d) zephyr - gossamer
(e) holocaust - taffeta
Ans : (d)
45. The playwright was known not for his original ideas that had been propounded by others.
(a) rejection
(b) consideration
(c) invention
(d) reiteration
(e) plagiarism
Ans : (e)
46. The gypsy girl, decked out in - finery, and with her disheveled hair streaming over shoulders,
was indeed a - sight.
(a) verdant - wistful
(b) sartorial - flagrant
(c) specious - poignant
(d) tawdry - bizarre
(e) opulent - debonair
Ans : (d)
47. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so - Memphis,
Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in - in the
western hemisphere. (a) disabled - quarantine
(b) decimated - abeyance
(c) terrorized - contention
(d) ravaged - secret
(e) coupled - quiescence
Ans : (b)
48. The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the
chapel, it was - by the perspective.
(a) embellished
(b) improved
(c) jeopardised
(d) aggrandized
(e) diminished
Ans : (e)
49. We have in America - speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor English but a -
of all three.
(a) motley - miracle
(b) nasal - blend
(c) feigned - patchwork
(d) mangled - medley
(e) hybrid - combination
Ans : (e)
50. Old beliefs die hard, even when jobs become - the long - standing fear that unemployment
could return at a moments notice -
(a) protected - subsided
(b) vacant - perished
(c) available - receded
(d) plentiful - persisted
(e) easier - charged
Ans : (d)



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