Verbal Ability - Synonyms

Exercise : Synonyms - Section 2
Directions to Solve

In each of the sentences given below a word is printed in bold. Below it four choices are given. Pick up the one which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word printer in bold and can replaces it without altering the meaning of the sentence.


76.
When I look back over there wartime years I cannot help feeling that time is an inadequate and even capricious measure of their duration at one moment they seem so long, at another so short.
misleading
whimsical
erratic
unpredictable
Answer: Option
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77.
Manish neglected to remit the fees in time and therefore had to pay a fine.
refused
failed
promised
obstructed
Answer: Option
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78.
Some of the Asian countries have been enmeshed in an inescapable debt trap.
entangled
hit
struck
ensured
Answer: Option
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79.
She baffled all our attempts to find her.
defeated
thwarted
foiled
circumvented
Answer: Option
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80.
It is a scandal that the murderer was declared innocent.
silly notion
talk
rumour
disgraceful action
Answer: Option
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