Q1: Synonyms and Antonyms (20 MCQs)

Understanding the topic

Part I carries twenty marks and is answered on a separate OMR sheet in the first thirty minutes, with no negative marking, so every question should be attempted.

Part (a): Choose the word most similar in meaning

1. FRABJOUS: (A) Wonderful · 2. ACCUBATION: (B) Reclining · 3. LEVITATE: (B) Float

4. SIBYLLINE: (A) Enigmatic · 5. MACADAMIZED: (A) Graveled · 6. FINAGLE: (B) Manipulate

7. DESIDERIUM: (A) Craving · 8. AMANUENSIS: (A) Secretary · 9. CROMULENT: (A) Acceptable

10. PROPINQUITY: (B) Closeness

Part (b): Choose the word most opposite in meaning

11. PERSPICACITY: (C) Naivety · 12. CONFABULATION: (A) Verification · 13. DILETTANTE: (B) Connoisseur

14. KILTER: (D) Out-of-sync · 15. RHUBARB: (A) Serenity · 16. CORUSCATING: (B) Tenebrous

17. VELLEITY: (B) Passion · 18. BAROQUE: (A) Minimalist · 19. CAVEAT: (A) Guarantee

20. BLUSTER: (D) Meekness

A printing error worth noticing

Question 13 is printed as DILENTTANTE. The word is dilettante, someone who dabbles in a subject without serious commitment, and its opposite is a connoisseur, who knows the subject deeply. Misprints of this kind appear in FPSC papers from time to time. Read past them and answer the word that was meant.

The harder words in this set

Several here are deliberately obscure. FRABJOUS was invented by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky and means delightful. CROMULENT began as a joke word on television and has since entered dictionaries, meaning acceptable. VELLEITY is a wish so faint that it never turns into action, which is why its opposite is passion rather than aversion. You cannot prepare for every such word, but you can learn to read the four options for the one that clearly does not belong with the other three.