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IMPORTANT SYNONYMS
Book – II (Modern Prose and Heroes Part -II)
ALL BOARD PAPERS - 2013
1. The writer used to live waiting for the ominous treat.
a) Light
b) Clear
c) Soft
d) Gloomy
ANSWER: GLOOMY
2. The writers face was ghastly pale.
a) Clearly
b) Lovely
c) Constantly
d) horribly
ANSWER: HORRIBLY
3. The universe is entirely frightening.
a) Fully
b) Partially
c) Quietly
d) Carefully
ANSWER: FULLY
4. Such is the littleness of our home in the universe.
a) Reality
b) Smallness
c) Bigness
d) Existence
ANSWER: SMALLNESS
5. The writer was living in a heaven - kissing flat.
a) Lowly
b) Attic
c) Miserable
d) Funeral
ANSWER: ATTIC
6. It is Mao's famous saying ‘rely on your own forces’.
a) Machines
b) Tools
c) Resources
d) Methods
ANSWER: RESOURCES
7. The occidental countries launched a warm hug to China.
a) Eastern
b) Western
c) Northern
d) Southern
ANSWER: WESTERN
8. Many students have native ability to pass the examination.
a) Hidden
b) Ready-made
c) Great
d) Inborn
ANSWER: INBORN
9. We are more critical in our thinking than our ancestors.
a) Friends
b) Tribes
c) Forefathers
d) Teachers
ANSWER: FOREFATHERS
10. For eight years he sought to find he means to aid leucocytes.
a) Enjoyed
b) Searched
c) Planning
d) Helped
ANSWER: SEARCHED
11. He knew he was going to collapse.
a) Fall
b) Drag
c) Break
d) Strike
ANSWER: FALL
12. To his Villa he brought water and introduced exotic plants.
a) Fragrant
b) Huge
c) Unusual
d) Fruit
ANSWER: UNUSUAL
13. The boy must cultivate boys and calm that smothers the fidgets.
a) Do away with
b) Reject
c) Promote
d) Detest
ANSWER: PROMOTE
14. The policeman acquitted the writer.
a) Fettered
b) Detained
c) Arrested
d) Let go
ANSWER: LET GO
15. Abdul Rahman head sharp, aquiline features.
a) Equalized
b) Eagle like
c) Dull
d) Unbalanced
ANSWER: EAGLE LIKE
16. Many people were reluctant to throw away their books.
a) Willing
b) Happy
c) Sad
d) Unwilling
ANSWER: UNWILLING
17. Only learning is not of much value unless he possesses the physical vigor to bring it.
a) Show
b) Strength
c) Habit
d) Ordinary
ANSWER: STRENGTH
18. Nine and a half million people perished in a single Famine.
a) Penalized
b) Suffered
c) Died
d) Deserted
ANSWER: DIED
19. It is difficult to find the scaffold for the books.
a) Classes
b) Gallows
c) Place
d) Solution
ANSWER: GALLOWS
20. The manager was a grave calm man.
a) Funny
b) Bold
c) Brave
d) Serious
ANSWER: SERIOUS
21. Science has improved the way we spend our leisure time.
a) Busy
b) Spare
c) Common
d) Important
ANSWER: SPARE
22. Outside these belts life would be frozen.
a) Areas
b) Dips
c) Strings
d) Bolts
ANSWER: AREAS
23. Friday night was positively Rose coloured.
a) Surely
b) Probably
c) Normally
d) Initially
ANSWER: SURELY
24. He initiated the intellectual movement.
a) Supported
b) Introduced
c) Pad
d) Established
ANSWER: INTRODUCED
25. It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is printed.
a) Waste
b) Preciousness
c) Praise
d) Exaltation
ANSWER: WASTE
26. Famine has been a problem since the very beginning of time.
a) Food shortage
b) War
c) Tussle
d) Population
ANSWER: FOOD SHORTAGE
27. The boy himself can eradicate his nervous habits.
a) Compose
b) Hate
c) Praise
d) End
ANSWER: END
28. The lamps threw their gleams across the road.
a) Oil
b) Rays
c) Smell
d) Stink
ANSWER: RAYS
29. Her voice sounded like a summons to damnation.
a) Fair
b) Paradise
c) Hell
d) Pleasure
ANSWER: HELL
30. Such nervous habits are not easy to uproot.
a) Plant
b) Cultivate
c) Eradicate
d) Adopt
ANSWER: ERADICATE
31. The ascetic militant Chinese has uprooted the problem.
a) Hermit
b) Money oriented
c) Prosperous
d) Rich
ANSWER: HERMIT
32. There was a cold nip in the air.
a) Coldness
b) Nappy
c) Napkin
d) Novel
ANSWER: COLDNESS
33. Today we can eat variety of food.
a) In large quantity
b) Of fine quality
c) Dirty
d) Many kinds
ANSWER: MANY KINDS
34. A few lazy bluffer force drifts into college and usually drift out again.
a) Pass by
b) Go aimlessly
c) Move up
d) Go down
ANSWER: GO AIMLESSLY
35. Tremendous population explosion is taking place.
a) Mild
b) Monstrous
c) Simple
d) Plain
ANSWER: MONSTROUS
36. Gradually the pieces became cooler.
a) Soon
b) Generally
c) Slowly
d) Slightly
ANSWER: SLOWLY
37. I could look forward to A period of permanent felicity.
a) Sue
b) Sadness
c) Intense happiness
d) Illness
ANSWER: INTENSE HAPPINESS
38. Al Hakam set aside the endowment for the salaries of teachers.
a) Debt
b) Gift
c) Debit
d) Loan
ANSWER: GIFT
39. My face was ghastly pale.
a) Beautifully
b) Brightly
c) Deplorable
d) Wisely
ANSWER: DEPLORABLE
40. Science has improved the way we spend our leisure time.
a) Pleasure
b) Spare
c) Precious
d) Fad
ANSWER: SPARE
41. I read out the treatment for some slight ailment.
a) Ordinary
b) Special
c) Bright
d) Dangerous
ANSWER: ORDINARY
42. It is always to the detriment of their health.
a) Gain
b) Loss
c) Benefit
d) Good
ANSWER: LOSS
43. So, I shambled in and looked timidly at the Clarks.
a) Happily
b) Sadly
c) Cowardly
d) Certainly
ANSWER: COWARDLY
44. The Chinese regime has maintained minimum subsistence level.
a) Progress
b) Forbearance
c) Intelligence
d) Livelihood
ANSWER: LIVELIHOOD
45. All this when in Christian Europe only the rudiments of learning were known.
a) Books
b) Stories
c) Basics
d) Orders
ANSWER: BASICS
46. Each star makes Its Voyage In complete loneliness.
a) Journey by road
b) Germany by space
c) Journey by land
d) Journey through space
ANSWER: JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE
47. The writer leaned against the parapet.
a) Edge
b) Field
c) Ground
d) Plot
ANSWER: EDGE
48. The only malady I could conclude, I had not got Was housemaid's knee.
a) Melody
b) Disease
c) Medicine
d) Result
ANSWER: DISEASE
49. Pimples join together to make blotches.
a) Flashes
b) Rashes
c) Patches
d) Troubles
ANSWER: PATCHES
50. Two thousand million years ago this rare incident took place.
a) Important
b) Great
c) Disturbing
d) Unusual
ANSWER: UNUSUAL