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This quiz consists of questions from various Banking
entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
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Directions (Q. 1-10):  In each of the following sentences a word is
printed in bold. From the four choices given for each, pick the one that is
most nearly the same in meaning as the word in bold and can replace it without
altering the meaning of the sentence.

1.  The bullet
wound proved to be fatal and the
soldier died immediately

(a) grievous      (b) dangerous           (c) serious            (d) deadly

2. Whatever opinion he gives is sane. 

(a) rational            (b) obscure             (c)
wild         (d) arrogant                

3.  He corroborated the statement of his
brother.

(a) confirmed         (b) disproved       (c)
condemned            (d) seconded           

4.  Whatever be the verdict of history, Chaplin will
occupy a unique place in its pages.

(a) judgement    
  (b) voice         (c) outcome           (d) prediction       

5.  The attitude
of the Western countries towards the third world countries is callous to say the least.

(a) passive           (b)  arrogant              (c)
cursed              (d)
unfeeling

6.  The story is
too fantastic to be credible.

(a) believable        
   (b) false           (c) readab          (d) praiseworthy

 7.  Catching
snakes can be hazardous for people
untrained in the art.

(a) tricky           (b) harmful           (c) difficult             (d) dangerous                   

8.  The small
boy was able to give a graphic description of the thief.

(a) picture         
    (b) drawing                (c) vivid         (d) broad

9.  The prisoner
has been languishing in the jail for
many years.

(a) convicted        (b) suff             (c)
attempting              (d) avoiding

10.  Some of the
Asian countries have been enmeshed in an inescapable debt trap.

(a) entangled             (b) hit             (c)
struck                   (d) ensured

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Answers 

 1(d)    2(a)    3(a)   
4(a)    5(d)      6(a)    
7(d)      8(c)     9(b)     
10(a)