General Knowledge: English

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Sunday, 25 June 2017

Friday, 23 September 2016

English Literature Solved MCQs for CSS

(1) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
A tragedy

(2) Earnest Hamingway has written

Old Man and the Sea

(3) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

Jonathan Swift

(4) Which of the following is not a dramatist?

Byron

(5) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

Dr. Faustus

(6) E. M. Foster is a
Novelist

(7) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:

Charles Dickens

(8) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?

Charlotte Bronte

(9) After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?

Elizabeth-I

(10) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?

The Prelude

(11) A poem mourning someone’s death is called:

Elegy

(12) Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?

Merchant of Venice

(13) Who wrote “The Second Coming”?

W. B. Yeats

(14) What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?

Early 18th Century

(15) Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?

Pygmalion

(16) Which one of the following writers is not woman?

Robert Browning

(17) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?

Claudius

(18) Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?
Macduff

(19) Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

King Lear

(20) Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?

Ophelia

English Idioms MCQs

a) As cool as a cucumber

If someone is as cool as a cucumber, they don't get worried by anything.

b) Have your cake and eat too

If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes are contradictory
c) In a Pickle

If you are in a pickle, you are in some trouble or a mess.

d) Take a cake

Be the most outstanding in some respect, either the best or the worst.That advertising slogan really took the cake.
What a mess they made of the concert—that takes the cake!

This expression alludes to a contest called a cakewalk, in which a cake is the prize. Its figurative use, for something either excellent or outrageously bad, dates from the 1880s.

e) Sell like hot cakes

If something is selling like hotcakes, it is very popular and selling very well.

f) As flat as a Pancake

It is so flat that it is like a pancake- there is no head on that beer it is as flat as a pancake.
g) Take something with a grain of salt / pinch of salt

If you should take something with a grain of salt, you shouldn't necessarily believe it all.
h) Like two peas in a pod

Things that are like two peas in a pod are very similar or identical.

Important pair of words

Mitigate:
Meaning: to make something less harmful, unpleasant or bad
Use in sentence: It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island.

Alleviate:
Meaning: to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe
Use in sentence: The drugs did nothing to alleviate her pain/suffering.

Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Use in sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.

Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Use in sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.

Popular:
Meaning: liked, enjoyed or supported by many people
Use in sentence: She's the most popular teacher in school.

Populace:
Meaning: the ordinary people who live in a particular country or place
Use in sentence: Some studies show that workers in the nuclear industry are more likely than the general populace to get cancer.

Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Use in sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.

Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
Use in sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly. (Pair Repeated: 1)

Excite:
Meaning: to make someone have strong feelings of happiness and enthusiasm
Use in sentence: Nothing about my life excites me at present.

Incite:
Meaning: to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent
Use in sentence: She was expelled for inciting her classmates to rebel against their teachers.

Voracity:
Meaning: excessive desire to eat
Use in sentence: On reaching the ship they were offered some bread, which they devoured with a voracious appetite.

Veracity:
Meaning: the quality of being true, honest or accurate
Use in sentence: The veracity of the second claim can be tested against the findings of archeology.

Virtuous:
Meaning: having good moral qualities and behavior
Use in sentence: He described them as a virtuous and hard-working people.

Virtual:
Meaning: describes something that can be done or seen using a computer and therefore without going anywhere or talking to anyone
Use in sentence: In tests, we have found the virtual machine runs at a reasonable speed.

Exceptional:
Meaning: much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc
Use in sentence: The Company has shown exceptional growth over the past two years.

Exceptionable:
Meaning: offensive or upsetting
Use in sentence: This action is normally only taken in exceptionable circumstances

PPSC PAST PAPER SOLVED MCQs with Answers Latest

1. Wool gathering
meaning- indulgence in aimless thoughts and dreamy imagination; absent minded.
usage: Mother advised to her son to not wool gather and be serious
2. Under the harrow
meaning: in difficult situation; distress
usage:After giving divorce to her wife he is under the harrow now.
3. Cold comfort
meaning: little comfort or encouragement.
usage: After getting job Aslam is in cold comfort.
4. A gold digger
meaning: a relationship mad by women with a man to seek his money or gift.
usage: The new secretary seem to be gold digger.
5. Walk with God
meaning: to live in accordance with the commandments of God.
usage: He is very pious person because he walk with god.
6. On the thin ice
meaning: in a risky and dangerous situation.
usage: Aslam made many mistakes in the Essay paper and now his is on the thin ice
7. A queer fish
meaning: a person of old habits
usage: Aslam father in law is a queer fish
8. Unearthly hour
meaning: at a very earlier time of morning
usage: it is midnight what brought you to come here.

English MCQs for 9th and 10th

Noun
A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A "concrete noun" is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An "abstract noun" is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. A "countable noun" is something that you can count (for example: bottle, song, dollar). An "uncountable noun" is something that you cannot count (for example: water, music, money).

Object
In the active voice, a noun or its equivalent that receives the action of the verb. In the passive voice, a noun or its equivalent that does the action of the verb.

Participle
The -ing and -ed forms of verbs. The -ing form is called the "present participle". The -ed form is called the "past participle" (for irregular verbs, this is column 3).

Part Of Speech
One of the eight classes of word in English - noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

Passive Voice

In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb (eg The President was killed). See also Active Voice.

Phrase
A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress).

Predicate
Each sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate is what is said about the subject.

Preposition
A word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction.

Pronoun
A word like I, me, you, he, him, it etc. A pronoun replaces a noun.

Sentence
A group of words that express a thought. A sentence conveys a statement, question, exclamation or command. A sentence contains or implies a subject and a predicate. In simple terms, a sentence must contain a verb and (usually) a subject. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!).

Subject
Every sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main noun (or equivalent) in a sentence about which something is said.

Tense
The form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). Note that the name of a tense is not always a guide to when the action happens. The "present continuous tense", for example, can be used to talk about the present or the future.

Sunday, 25 June 2017

Most Popular Synonyms part 2

31- This was her maiden performance and she did very well.

32- He wrote a scathing review of the prize wining novel.

33- She is meticulous about her appearance.

34- The cancer of domestic misery corroded his whole existence.

35- He suffered from excruciating pain after he got home from hospital.

36- His candid opinions have won him many friends.

37- I am disgusted by our outrageous behavior.

38- We repeatedly asked the girl why she was crying but she said that did not want to entangle us in her affairs

39- His performance in the examination stunned his friends.

40- More effective measures should be adopted for the conservation for forest.

41- Will you please rectify the mistake?

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42- Death is inevitable.

43- Some people try to spread anarchy in the country

44- The meeting came to an abrupt end.

45- He is very impulsive in everything he does.

46- Because of his haughty temperament, he cannot have many friends.

47- He is often accused of having a vindictive attitudes towards his critics.

48- The travel agent will confirm my reservations for next week's flight to London.

49- H kept his eyes peeled and his ears pricked for some important clue.

50- Weird noises came from the haunted house.

51- The guests were offended by his uncouth manners.

52- His dress was immaculate

53- The man Vehemently denied all the charges of corruption that were leveled against him.

54- Synonyms of Pleasure:

55- Rival:

56- Generate:

57- Acute:

58- Latent:

59- Robust:

60- Lenient:

61- Destruction:

63- Irrelevant

64- Ugly:

66- Reluctant:

67- False:

68- Liberal:

d) Tolerant

70- Cite:

72- Affluent: