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UPSC Prelims Questions

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Q.6157·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. He could not muster courage to speak the truth before his friend.

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Q.6158·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. He loves doing nasty things.

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Q.6159·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. The Managing Director of the company declared that he is broke and there is a need to seek support from the government.

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Q.6160·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. His language is political and vitriolic .

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Q.6161·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. A human being is always vulnerable to other human beings.

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Q.6162·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. The imagery used in the poem is vivid .

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Q.6163·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. Hitler was a despot .

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Q.6164·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. Ravi loves seclusion . Therefore, he lives in the mountains.

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Q.6165·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. The poems of Kabir are ecstatic in nature.

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Q.6166·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly. He is always anxious .

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Q.6167·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India either on foot or in bullock-carts. They learned one another’s languages and there was no aloofness amongst them. What do you think could have been the intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours who established Setubandha (Rameshwar) in the South, Jagannath in the East and Hardwar in the North as places of pilgrimage ? You will admit they were no fools. They knew that worship of God could have been performed just as well at home. They thought us that those whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganges in their own homes. But they saw that India was one undivided land so made by nature. They, therefore argued that it must be one nation. Arguing thus, they established holy places in various parts of India, and fired the people with an idea of nationality in a manner unknown in other parts of the world. And we Indians are one as no two Englishmen are. Only you and I and others who consider ourselves civilized and superior persons imagine that we are many nations. It was after the advent of railways that we began to believe in distinctions, and you are at liberty now to say that it is through the railways that we are beginning to abolish those distinctions. An opium-eater may argue the advantage of opium-eating from the fact that he began to understand the evil of the opium habit after having eaten it. I would ask you to consider well what I had said on the railways. The paragraph is written in a

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Q.6168·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India either on foot or in bullock-carts. They learned one another’s languages and there was no aloofness amongst them. What do you think could have been the intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours who established Setubandha (Rameshwar) in the South, Jagannath in the East and Hardwar in the North as places of pilgrimage ? You will admit they were no fools. They knew that worship of God could have been performed just as well at home. They thought us that those whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganges in their own homes. But they saw that India was one undivided land so made by nature. They, therefore argued that it must be one nation. Arguing thus, they established holy places in various parts of India, and fired the people with an idea of nationality in a manner unknown in other parts of the world. And we Indians are one as no two Englishmen are. Only you and I and others who consider ourselves civilized and superior persons imagine that we are many nations. It was after the advent of railways that we began to believe in distinctions, and you are at liberty now to say that it is through the railways that we are beginning to abolish those distinctions. An opium-eater may argue the advantage of opium-eating from the fact that he began to understand the evil of the opium habit after having eaten it. I would ask you to consider well what I had said on the railways. What does the author mean when he says that “whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganges in their own homes” ?

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Q.6169·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The areas of three adjacent faces of a cuboid are x, y and z. If V is the volume of the cuboid, then which one of the following is correct?

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Q.6170·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The perimeters of two similar triangles ABC and PQR are 75 cm and 50 cm respectively. If the length of one side of the triangle PQR is 20 cm, then what is the length of corresponding side of the triangle ABC?

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Q.6171·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The sides AD, BC of a trapezium ABCD are parallel and the diagonals AC and BD meet at O. If the area of triangle AOD is 3 cm² and the area of triangle BDC is 8 cm², then what is the area of triangle AOD?

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Q.6172·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The perimeter of a triangle is 22 cm. Through each vertex of the triangle, a straight line parallel to the opposite side is drawn. What is the perimeter of triangle formed by these lines?

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Q.6173·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The rate of interest on two different schemes is the same and it is 20%. But in one of the schemes, the interest is compounded half yearly and in the other the interest is compounded annually. Equal amounts are invested in the schemes. If the difference of the returns after 2 years is ₹482, then what is the principal amount in each scheme?

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Q.6174·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

Let PQRS be a parallelogram whose diagonals PR and QS intersect at O. If triangle QRS is an equilateral triangle having a side of length 10 cm, then what is the length of the diagonal PR?

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