SSC CHSL 25th May Shift 1 - English

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
Ravi got the job easily because he speaks many languages.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Loathe

From among the words given in bold, select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the following sentence.
The popular ridikule of Puritanism in burlesque and doggerel is best exemplified in Butler’s Hudibras.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
A snake in the grass

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline segment in the given sentence.
During the war, the comedian proved to be a man of music.

Select the denotation of the highlighted word.
The archer doesn’t get perturbed easily.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the given sentence.
All his bones could be counted because his body was totally shrivelled and wrinkled with age.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Asha was ___________ made a fool by her friend.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
You never hear of a happy billionaire.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The most recent studies on the human body are likely to alter the face of health sciences.

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The river / flowed besides / the hillock / in our village.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Tit for tat

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the following sentence.
Eventually the patient succumbed to her illness.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Show me the better dress in the shop.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Their brother, John, is more blatantly hostile to Jane, reminding her that she is a poor dependent of his mother.
B. Orphaned as an infant, Jane Eyre lives at Gateshead with her aunt, Sarah Reed, as the novel opens.
C. Her female cousins, Georgiana, and Eliza, tolerate, but don't love her.
D. Jane is ten years old, an outsider in the Reed family.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
At the end of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Perilous

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Serendipity

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.