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Thursday, May 19, 2022

SSC Previous year Vocabulary 301-400 - Important word meanings from ssc

 Here I am providing SSC Previous year word meaning. I have collected them from the SSC previous year papers while attempting them, I have highlighted the words those meaning was asked in the exam and idioms also. 

301 Grostesque :- strange or ugly in a way that is not natural

302 Enticement 

303 Millionaire (spelling) 

306 Unruly:- difficult to control without discipline

an unruly crowd


307 To paddle ones own canoe (idiom) :- Be independent and self-reliant, as in It's time Bill learned to paddle his own canoe. This idiom alludes to steering one's own boat. 


308 Aggression (spelling)


309 Juvenile :- of, for or involving young people who are not yet adults juvenile crime 


310 Dejected :- very unhappy, especially because your are disappointed

The fans went bome dejected after watching their team lose

311 Cordial :-  pleasant and friendly a cordial greeting/smile politely pleasant and friendly two nations maintaining cordial relations


312 Stringent :-  (of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting "stringent guidelines on air pollution"


313 Stern :- very serious, not smiling  a stemn expression/warning 


314 Lenient :- used about a punishment or person who punishes) not as strict as expected


315 Severe :- causing somebody to suffer, be upset or have difficulties Such terrible crimes deserve the severest punishment


2.extremely bad or serious severe financial difficulty/injuries/ weather conditions


316 Itinerary (spelling) :- a plan of a journey, including the route and the places that you will visit


317 Inapt :- not suitable or appropriate in the circumstances. "a more inapt name I cannot imagine" 

318 Insatiable :-  that cannot be satisfied; very great


an insatiable desire for knowledge an insatiable desire for knowledge 


319 Repulsive :- that causes a strong feeling of disgust


320 Malevolence 


325 Guardian(spelling)


324 Guilty (spelling)

 325 Guidance(spelling)


 326 Weary :- very tired, especially after you have been doing something for a long time

 He gave a weary smile. 


327 Look down upon :-  look down upon is defined as to consider someone or something lesser or inferior in some way. An example of look down upon is to consider someone less intelligent than you are to be dumb or stupid. verb.


328 Rustic :-  typical of the country of of country people, simple 


The whole area is full of rustic charm 329 Native connected with the place where you were bom or where you have always  lived

your native language/country/city


2. connected with the people who originally lived in a country before. other people, especially white people, came to live there native art/dance noun a person who was born in a particular place

a native of New York 


2 OLD-FASHIONED the people who were living in Africa, America, etc. originally, before the Europeans arrived there


330 Across (spelling)


331 Already (spelling)


332 Awful (spelling) very bad or unpleasant


We had an awful holiday. It rained every day 


2. terrible, very serious


I'm afraid there's been some awful


333 Alien (spelling)

334 Sacred :- connected with God, a god or religion

 The Koran is the sacred book of Muslims.

2. too important and special to be changed or harmed

 a sacred tradition

335 At large (idiom) 1 as a whole, in general 


He is well known to scientists but not to the public at large

2. (used about a criminal, animal, etc.) not caught free


336 Elucidate :- make something clearer by explaining it

I will try to elucidate what think are the problems. 

337 Illuminate :-  shine light on something or to decorate something with lights 


The palace was illuminated by spotlights The palace was illuminated by spotlights

2.to explain something or make something clear


336 Commission (spelling)


337 Colleague (spelling)


338 Alibi :- statement by somebody that says you were in a different place at the time of a crime and so cannot be guilty of the crime 


339 Assault :- (sudden attack on somebody/ something


 He was charged with assaulting a police officer.


340 Languish :- be forced to stay somewhere or suffer something unpleasant for a long time

 During her illness, the languished in bed for five years. 

2. to lose strength or energy and not make any progress in something


341 Forty(spelling)


342 Goodwill :- friendly, helpful feelings towards other people 

The visit was designed to promote friendship and goodwill


345 Foul :-


346 Cut and dried (idiom) Badly hurt 


347 Make off with :- carry something away illicitly "burglars made off with all their wedding presents

348 Persevere (spelling) :- continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure. or opposition: the action or condition or an instance of persevering. steadfastness

349 Pamphlet (spelling)

 350 Pageant(spelling) 

351 Portrait (spelling)

 352 Rear :- the back part Smoking is only permitted at the rear of the bus

353 Furious (spelling)

354 Delicious(spelling)

355 Failure (spelling)

356 Journey (spelling)

357 Dissuade :- persuade somebody not to do something (कसक कई बाम करने स) मन करन, स्कन I tried to dissuade her from spending

the money, but she insisted. tried to dissuade her from spending the money, but she insisted.

358 Persuade :- make somebody do something by giving him/her good reasons It was difficult to persuade Leela to change her mind 359 Protagonist literature) the main character in a play film or book


360 Baits :- food or something that looks like food that is put onto a hook to catch fish, animals or birds 

2. something that is used for persuading or attracting somebody

361 Kill two birds with one stone (idiom) do one thing which will achieve two results.

362 Induction :- process of introducing somebody to a new job, skill, organization, etc., an event at which this takes place

an induction day for new students

2. a method of discovering general rules and principles from particular facts: and examples


363 Indignation :-  shock and anger commuters indignation at the rise in fares

 364 The acid test :- way of testing if something is successful, true or good enough 

The acid test of a good teacher is whether he or she can teach the weakest student in the class

365 Suzerainty :- Suzerainty in a relationship in which one state or other polity controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state, while allowing the tributary state to have internal autonomy The dominant state in called the "suzerain

366 Soldier (spelling)

367 Beginning  (spelling)

368 Shining  (spelling)

369 Emerge :- appear or come out from somewhere  A man emerged from the shadows,

2. to become known.

370 Blind alley (idiom) fruitless or mistaken course or direction something that leads you nowhere or is of no use 

371 Dilema 

372 Convenience  (spelling)

373 Athlete  (spelling)

374 Mellow :- used about colours or sounds) soft and pleasant

2. (used about people) calm and relaxed

My dad's grown mellower as he's got older 375 Taste for To have interest in Sita has ni taste for classical music

376 Surrogate :- person or thing) that takes the place of somebody/something else

 a surrogate mother la woman who has o baby and gives it to another woman who cannot have children] 


377 Surplus :-amount that is extra or more than you need

the food surplus in Western Europe

They sell their surplus grain to other countries 

373 Abort :- end something before it is complete

The company aborted the project suddenly.

to end a pregnancy early in order to prevent a baby from developing and being born alive गरभपत करवन भरणहतय करन 

374 Indulgent :- allowing somebody to have or do whatever he/she wants indulgent parents

375 Diligent :- showing care and effort in your work or duties a diligent student/worker 

376 Dilatory:-  slow to act

"he had been dilatory in appointing a solicitor Similar slow

unhumed tardy unpunctual slack sluggish sluggardly tortoise-like idle indolent slothful lollygagging Opposite: fast prompt  indolent slothful lollygagging Opposite fast prompt intended to cause delay "they resorted to dilatory tactics, forcing a postponement of peace talks 

377 Dignified :- behaving in a calm, serious way that makes other people respect you  dignified behaviour 

378 To bark up the wrong tree :- Barking up the wrong tree is an idiomatic expression in English, which is used to suggest a mistaken emphasis in a specific context. phrase is an allusion to the mistake made by dogs when they believe they have chased a prey up a tree, but the game may have escaped by leaping

The from one tree to another.

379 essence (spelling) It was the quintessence of an Indian palace.

380 Presence(spelling) 

381 Laboratory(spelling) 

382 Extol :-  praise enthusiastically The extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples" 383 To take a back seat allow somebody to play a more important or active role than you do in a particular situation

384 Dilute :-  make a liquid weaker by adding water or another liquid

385 Abroad aboard (spelling) 

387 Humane :-having or showing kindness or understanding, especially to a person or animal that is suffering Z

Zoo animals must be kept in humane conditions.

388 Grate :- rub food into small pieces using a metal tool grated cheese/carrot grated cheese/carrot

2. to annoy or irritate

noun

the metal frame that holds the wood.

coal, etc. in a fireplace 

389 Grandstand :-rows of seats, usually covered by a roof, from which you get a good view of a sports competition, etc.

 390 Granary :- large building for storing grains.

391 Tandem:-  bicycle with seats for two people, one behind the other

392 Aeons :- extremely long period of time, thousands of years

393 Fathom :- understand something.can't fathom what he means.

noun a measure of the depth of water, 6 feet (1.8 metres) 

394 Get the green light (idiom) permission to start or continue something (such as a project) His boss finally gave him the green light to start the new project.

395 Lantern (spelling) 

396 Labour(spelling) 

397 Laboratory (spelling)

398 Looking for needle in a haystack (idiom) someone or something that is very hard to find Searching for your earring at the park will be like looking for a needle in a haystack 

399 Pacifist

400 Ridiculous (spelling) 


SSC Previous year Vocab 1 - 100


Sunday, May 15, 2022

SSC CLG Previous year paper set 1 2015 Answer key

Directions (1-5): In the following five questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

1.He usually goes to bed very early and rises with the lark.

(a) very late (c) very early

(b) after sunrise (d) at midnight

2. Their attempt to get back the stolen necklace proved to be a wild-goose chase.

(a) wise decision (c) useless search

(b) timely action  (d) delayed action

3. At his wit's end, he turned to his old trade. 
(a) After careful thinking 
(b) Overjoyed
(c) Not knowing what to do
(d) Confidently 

 4. When it comes to dancing, he is all-thumbs.

(a) a trainer       (c) an expert

(b) clumsy          (d) lazy

5. The day the new product was launched, people made a beeline to purchase it. 
(a) were doubtful (c) refused

(B) rushed           (d) went online

Directions (6-10): In the following seven questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and indicate it by blackening the appropriate circle in the Answer Sheet.
 6. A recurrent compulsive urge to steal

(a) Pneumonia (c) Kleptomania

(b) Nymphomania (d) Insomnia

7. Act of injuring others' reputation by any slanderous communication

(a) Orchestration

(b) Misrepresentation

(d) Defamation

(c) Aberration

the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.
"she sued him for defamation"

8. Not suitable for eating
(a) Uneatable   (b) inedible
(c) Tasteless     (d) Spicy

 9. Medical study of skin and its diseases

(a) Endocrinology (c) Dermatology

(b) Orthopaedics (d) Gynaecology

10. A person who enters without any invitation

(a) Burglar (c) Intruder

(b) Vandal  (d) Thief

11. A story in which animals or objects speak and give wholesome moral lesson

(a) Legend   (b) Fable 

(d) Parable  (c) Allegory

12. A process involving too much official formality 

(a) Bureaucracy   (b) Diplomacy
(c) Red tapism     (d) Nepotism

Directions (13-22): In the following ten questions, a sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed blacken the circle corresponding to "No improvement".

13. Mumbai is famous because of its textiles.

(a) No improvement

(c) at  
if you are good at something, you are skilful and successful at doing it. He was very good at his work. [ + at] I'm not very good at singing.

(b) for  
used to express approval of someone "I passed the exam!" "Good for you!""He got the job." "Good for him!" 2 : resulting in something good or desirable for (someone or something) Regular exercise is good for you. Hot soup is good for a cold.

(d) in

14. He lives far from the station. 

(a) No improvement

(b) away from the station

(c) off the station

(d) a long way from the station 

15. Water and soil pollutants find their entry into the body through ingestion of contaminated water or food.

(a) injection of contaminated 

(b) No improvement
  1. the process of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
    "vomiting after ingestion of contaminated food
    • "the quiet ingestion of information"
  2. the process of absorbing information.

(c) digestion of contaminated

(d) passage of contaminated

16. Drinking tea is an English habit.

(a) custom
 
traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.
"the old English custom of dancing round the maypole"
(b) no improvement 
(c) convention
(d) tradition

17. Mr. Mukherjee knows ten languages, isn't it?

(a) doesn't Mukherjee 

(b) No improvement

(c) hasn't he

(d) doesn't he 

18. They spoke about the weather.

(a) said

(b) talked

(c) expressed 

19. He is wanting in a little common sense.

(a) No improvement
(b) is lacking in 
(c) lacks
(d) needs some

 20. The second pigeon flew just as the first pigeon had flown 

(a) No improvement
(b) had done
(c) one had done 
(d) one had flown away 

21. Its high time that you go home.
(a) No improvement    (b) are going
 (c) went                        (d) gone

22. The old man has acquired experience through age.

(a) No improvement 
(b) experienced
(c) developed experience 
(d) got experience 

Directions (23-24): In the following two questions, f words are given in each question, out of which only one w is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark y answer in the Answer Sheet.

23. (a) Fasimmile (c) Fasimile
         (b) fasimile (d) facsimilee

24. (a) Aquarim (c) Acquariam

       (b) Aquarium (d) Acquerium

Directions (25-27): In the following three questions, ch the word opposite in meaning to the given word and mark the Answer Sheet.


(a) Joyous         (b) unprejudiced

 (c) Prominent   (d) thankful


(a) Healthy (b) obese
(c) Young  (d) steady 

27. FAKE

(a) Real  
(b) Unprejudiced
not having or showing a dislike or distrust based on fixed or preconceived ideas.
"an unprejudiced reading of the New Testament"
Similar:
objective 
impartial
unbiased

(c) Ideal    (d) Thankful

Directions (28-32): Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and mark it by blackening the appropriate circle in the Answer Sheet.

PASSAGE

The instinctive natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats; it inspires powerful, often aggressive feelings and behaviours, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. On the other hand, we can't physically lash out at every person or object that irritates or annoys us. Laws, social norms and common sense place limits on how far our anger can take us. People use a variety of both conscious and unconscious processes to deal with their angry feelings. The three main approaches are expressing, suppressing and calming. Expressing your angry feeling in an assertive - not aggressive manner is the healthiest way to express anger. Being assertive doesn't mean being pushy or demanding; it means being respectful of yourself and others. Anger can be suppressed, and
then converted or redirected. This happens when you hold in your anger, stop thinking about it, and focus on something positive. 

28. Which one of the following places limits on how far we can take our anger?
 (a) Behaviour

(b) Law

(c) Feelings

(d) Instinct

29. How, according to the author, can one suppress anger?

 (a) By thinking about one's anger
(b) By holding one's anger 
(c) By redirecting anger 
(d) By converting anger 

30. According to the author, how should people deal with their anger?

 (a) Express it assertively

(b) Expressing unconsciously

(c) Expressing consciously 

(d) Express it aggressively

31. What does the author mean by being assertive?

(a) Being demanding 

(b) Being respectful 

(c) Being pushy 

(d) Being calm

32. How does a person naturally express anger?

(a) By adapting strong behaviour 

(b) By defending oneself

(c) By inspiring powerful feeling

(d) By responding aggressively

 Directions (33-37): In the following five questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to

"No Error" in the Answer Sheet. 

33. I really do regret not to learn to play the violin when I had so many opportunities to learn and practice in school.

(a) No error

(b) I really do regret not to learn to play the violin

(c) when I had so many opportunities

 (d) to learn and practice in school.

34. The government granted relief payment of 5,000 each to those who injured in the fire accident.

(a) The government granted
 (b) to those who injured in the fire accident.
(c) relief payments of 5000 each
(d) No error

35. Everyone of us should realize that any act of negligence will cause a great harm to our countrys security.
 (a) Everyone of us should realize that
(b) any act of negligence will cause (c) No error
(d) a great harm to our country's security.

37. By May next year I have been working in this college for twenty years.

(a) for twenty years.
(b) I have been working in this college (c) No error
(d) By May next years

Directions (38-42): Read the passage carefully the and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and mark it by blackening the appropriate circle in the Answer Sheet.

PASSAGE

The crowd surged forward through the narrow streets of Paris. There was a clatter of shutters being closed hastily by trembling hands - the citizens of Paris knew that once the fury of the people was excited, there was no telling what they might do. They came to an old house which had a workshop on the ground floor. A head popped out of the door to see what it was all about. "Get him! Get Thimonier! Smash his devilish machines!" yelled the crowd. They found the workshop without its owner. M. Thimonier had escaped by the back door. Now the fury of the demonstrators turned against the machines that were standing in the shop, ready to be delivered to buyers. They were systematically infuriated crowd recover their senses broken up and destroyed - dozens of them. Only when the last wheel and spindle had been trampled under foot did the "That is the end of M'Sieur Thimonier and his sewing machines," they said to one another and went home satisfied. Perhaps now they would find work, for they were all unemployed tailors and seamstresses who believed that their livelihood was threatened by that new invention.

38. The people thought that
 (a) Thimonier was mad.
(b) they would be deprived of their livelihood.
(c) the sewing machine was dangerous. 
(d) their lives were in danger.

39. The passage throws light on

(a) how a well-meant invention can be misunderstood.
(b) how dangerous an invention can be. 
(c) what mischief an inventor can do to ordinary people.
(d) why inventions should be avoided.

 40. The aim of the crowd was to
(a) humiliate Thimonier
(b) destroy the sewing machines
(c) kill Thimonier
(d) drive Thimonier away

41. Shutters were being closed because the shopkeepers

(a) wanted to protect Thimonier
(b) feared their shops would be destroyed
(c) wanted to support the crowd 
(d) wanted to attack the crowd 

42. The crowd was protesting against

(a) the closing of workshop 
(b) the newly invented sewing machine
(c) the misdoing of Thimonier 
(d) Thimonier for keeping the invention a secret

Directions (43-47): In the following five questions sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by blackening the appropriate circle in they

43. He went there......

(b) by foot
(a) with foot
(c) wathey  on foot 
(d) on foot

44. After your long illness I am happy to see you...

(a) by and by (c) up and down

(b) up and about (d) up and round

45. Making pies and cakes.... speciality. ..Mrs. Reddy's

(a) is
(b) has 
(c) were
(d) are

46. The deserted garden was infested.. .weeds.

(a) into
(b) with
(c) on
(D) for

47. You must....your career with all seriousness.

(a) pursue (c) follow

(b) complete (d) direct

Directions (48-50): In the following three questions, out of

48. PREDILECTION
(a) Favour 
(b) Prejudice
(C) preference
a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something.
"my predilection for Asian food"
(d) whim

O49. DEVOUT
(a) Dedicated
(B) Solemn
(c) pious
(d) loyal

50. EFFIGY

(a) reflection
(b) organ
(c)Imagery
(a) Dedicated

SSC CPO (PT) set 6 2016 Answer Key

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