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Q.13069·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow. The writer was against shooting the elephant because

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Q.13070·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word that is furthest in meaning (i.e. antonym) to the word in capital letters.   LAUDATORY

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Q.13071·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. AFFECTATION

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Q.13072·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. ODIUM

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Q.13073·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. PORTEND

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Q.13074·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. MOMENTOUS

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Q.13075·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. DISCREET

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Q.13076·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

I was very fond of the old soldier in our little town. He had only one leg, having lost the other somewhere in Assam in 1942. He used to tell me about his adventures. He told me that he had run away from home to join the army. He had experienced his first battle in the Libyan desert. Out of his dozens of war stories, the one I liked best was the one of his escape from a Japanese prison-of-war camp in Burma. He told me again and again how he walked two hundred miles in two weeks. On the way he was bitten on the toe by a poisonous snake and he had to cut off part of the toe in order to survive. But by the time he got to an Indian camp the wound had turned septic and the leg had to be amputated. He is, however, quite contented with his lot. The author was very fond of the old soldier because

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Q.13077·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow. The elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow because

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Q.13078·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow. The author compares the elephant to a costly machine because

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Q.13079·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

The area of an isosceles triangle ABC with AB = AC and altitude AD = 3 cm is 12 square cm. What is its perimeter?

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Q.13080·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

Brown and his men, huddling round a fire, ate the last of the food. Kassim had brought them that day. Cornelius sat among them, half-asleep. Then one of the crew remembered some tobacco had been left in the boat, and said he would go and fetch it. He didn’t think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. He disappeared down the hillside, and a moment later he was heard climbing into the boat and then climbing out again. What does the word "huddling" imply?

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Q.13081·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

Brown and his men, huddling round a fire, ate the last of the food. Kassim had brought them that day. Cornelius sat among them, half-asleep. Then one of the crew remembered some tobacco had been left in the boat, and said he would go and fetch it. He didn’t think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. He disappeared down the hillside, and a moment later he was heard climbing into the boat and then climbing out again. "He didn’t think...in the dark". This sentence actually implies that he

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Q.13082·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

Brown and his men, huddling round a fire, ate the last of the food. Kassim had brought them that day. Cornelius sat among them, half-asleep. Then one of the crew remembered some tobacco had been left in the boat, and said he would go and fetch it. He didn’t think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. He disappeared down the hillside, and a moment later he was heard climbing into the boat and then climbing out again. One of them disappeared down the hill implies that

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Q.13083·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

Brown and his men, huddling round a fire, ate the last of the food. Kassim had brought them that day. Cornelius sat among them, half-asleep. Then one of the crew remembered some tobacco had been left in the boat, and said he would go and fetch it. He didn’t think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. He disappeared down the hillside, and a moment later he was heard climbing into the boat and then climbing out again. Consider the following statements: 1.Brown and Cornelius sat round the fire. 2.Cornelius lay half-asleep at a little distance from the fire. 3.All the people sat round the fire. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Q.13084·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

Nationalism is only a curse when it becomes narrow and fanatical. Like so many other things available to man, say, religion, it can easily lead men astray. Nationalism can lead people into thinking only of themselves, of their own struggles. of their own misery. It can also cause a nation to become suspicious and fearful of its neighbours. to look upon itself as superior, and to become aggressive. And it is when nationalism impels a state to become expansionist and seek domination over others that it becomes a positive curse and harmful internationally. From the passage which of the following statements can be assumed to be most likely to be true?

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Q.13085·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. PUNCTILIOUS

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Q.13086·Miscellaneous·2013·Easy

In this question each items consists of a word in capital letters, followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. REPRIMAND

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