English Bank PO Question Paper

            

                      

English Bank PO Question Paper

Practice English Test Paper

Directions: Choose the most suitable ‘one word’ for the following phrases/expressions. 

1. Act of taking one’s life

(a) Suicide

(b) Slaughter

(c) Homicide

(d) Immolation

ANSWER: (a)

2. A man who dances to the tunes of his wife

(a) Effeminate

(b) Slave

(c) Henpecked

(d) Chum

ANSWER: (c)

3. One who stirs people for personal politics or profit

(a) Pedagogue

(b) Demagogue

(c) Dictator

(d) Hypocrite

ANSWER: (b)

4. Shining, brilliant and magnificent

(a) Luminous

(b) Gleaming

(c) Resplendent

(d) Polished

ANSWER: (c)

5. A heavy unnatural slumber

(a) Nap

(b) Insomnia

(c) Coma

(d) Stupor

ANSWER: (d)

6. A person who travels to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

(a) Hermit

(b) Pilgrim

(c) Saint

(d) Mendicant

ANSWER: (b)

7. One who talks very little?

(a) Reserved

(b) Mute

(c) Phlegmatic

   (d) Stoic

ANSWER: (a)

8. Food which agrees with one’s taste

(a) Pungent

(b) Palatable

(c) Sensuous

(d) Edible

ANSWER: (b)

9 . Informal business communication with a personal signature

(a) Agendum

(b) Corrigendum

(c) Plagiarism

(d) Memorandum

ANSWER: (d)

10. One knowing everything

(a) Learned

(b) Omnipresent

(c) Omnipotent

(d) Omniscient

ANSWER: (d)

11. Plain or self-evident truth

(a) Proverb

(b) Precept

(c) Truism

(d) Formula

ANSWER: (c)

12. Parts of a country behind- the coast or a river’s banks

(a) Swamps

(b) Archipelago

(c) Hinterland

(d) Isthmus

ANSWER: (c)

13. A room leading into a large room or hall

(a) Anteroom

(b) Lounge

(c) Lobby

(d) Pantry

ANSWER: (a)

14. A person who has just started learning

(a) Foreman

(b) Accomplice

(c) Novice

(d) Apprentice

ANSWER: (d)

15. To break off proceedings of a meeting for a time

(a) Convene

(b) Terminate

(c) Adjourn

(d) Procrastinate

ANSWER: (c)

16. One who promotes the idea of absence of government of any kind, when every

man should be a law unto himself

(a) Anarchist

(b) Belligerent

(c) Iconoclast

(d) Agnostic

ANSWER: (a)

17. Person who gives himself upto luxury and sexual pleasures.

(a) Masochist   

(b) Voluptuary 

(c) Debauch

(d) Epicure

ANSWER: (b)

18. Something which 'is not thorough or profound

(a) Superficial

(b) Superstitious

(c) Superfluous

(d) Supernatural

ANSWER: (a)

19. A slow-witted and incompetent person

(a) Nigger

(b) Dud

(c) Snotty

(d) Duffer

ANSWER: (d)

20. Indifference to pleasure or pain

(a) Docility

(b) Stoicism

(c) Patience

(d) Reticence

ANSWER: (b)

21. Equal in rank, merit or quality

(a) Chum

(b) Contemporary

(c) Peer

(d) Colleague

ANSWER: (c)

22. Present opposing arguments or evidence

(a) Rebut

(b) Criticize

(c) Rebuff

(d) Reprimand

ANSWER: (a)

23. A person who makes and sells ladies hats, etc.

(a) Draper

(b) Tinker

(c) Milliner

(d) Ferrier

ANSWER: (c)

24. To mediate between two parties in a dispute

(a) Interfere

(b) Interact

(c) Interrupt

(d) Intercede

ANSWER: (d)

25. The place where bricks are baked

(a) Foundry

(b) Mint

(c) Cemetery

(d) Kiln

ANSWER: (d)