English Language (Words and Phrases) Quiz # 3

Choose the closest meaning of the underlined word in the below mentioned phrase:
Agile climber

Lively

Tired

Skillful

Careful

Choose the correct answer from the choices given below:
Which of the following is NOT a synonym for "greedy"?

Avaricious

Covetous

Gluttonous

Rapacious

Precocious

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Vacillate continuously

Avoid

Inject

Treat

Waver mentally

Choose the closest meaning of the underlined word in the below mentioned phrase:
Repulsive personality

Hateable

Loveable

Attractive

Confused

In the sentences given below, choose the correct meaning of word in quotation marks from the options given.
Cancer, if widespread, is a stubbornly "recalcitrant" disease.

Painful

Difficult to treat

Tough to manage or control

Severe or harsh

Wretched

Each question below consists of two words that are related to one another in some way. From the possible answers, you must choose the set that denotes a relationship most similar to the relationship expressed in the original set.
Fallacious:Truth ::

Erroneous:fault

Anxious:perception

Ornery:scorn

Distraught:thought

Diminutive:bulk

Choose the closest meaning of the underlined word in the below mentioned phrase:
A confirmed atheist

Believer in God

Disbeliever in God

Believer in life after death

Believer in Christ

Choose the closest meaning of the underlined word in the below mentioned phrase:
A magnanimous action

Puzzling

Anticipated

Hidden

Generous

From the options given, choose the word that would best fit the sentence to make it meaningful.
The discovery of the new planet can only be described as ________; the astronomers were actually trying to study the comet.

Preposterous

Superlative

Serendipitous

Erudite

Incomprehensible