English Grammar For Class 12 GSEB Nearest Meanings

Select and write the nearest meaning

SECTION A: QUESTION 5,6,7 (BOARD EXAM)

1.(A) survive  :supreme, timid, excite, exist

(B) endeavour : entire, definite, effort, effect

(C) motivation : inspire, monotony, acquire, initiate

(D) give up      : give in, give out, live, leave

2.(A) opportunity: opposite, occasion, achieve, acquire

(B) hardship      : hard, trouble, highship, lowship

(C) inclination   : incamation, entire, desire, decision

(D) expensive  : expire, costly, cost, high

3.(A) gazed at : kept looking, looking sharply, looking at,nice gazing

(B) pleasure  : please, happiness, happy, praise

(C) alter         :enter, entire, change, charge

(D) sight        : night, vision, season, reason

4.(A) courage : encourage, discourage, daring, darling

(B) vigorous   : vital, dynamic; power, poverty

(C) intense     : extreme, intribe, nonsense, regain

(D) reward      : award, compensation, prize, pray

5.(A) anticipation : expectation, impression, antibiotic, antimissile

(B) withdraw       : opposed, quit, drawing, witty

(C) conquer        :consite, console, overcome, overwrite

(D) eleminate    : remove, elegant, traffic, regain

6.(A) moderate : examine, write, gentle, modern

(B) optimistic.   : obsession, spectacles, operative, hopeful

(C) establish    : aggressive, introduce, organize, publish

(D) ecstasy      :bliss, curse, crime, escape

7.(A) energetic :energy, power, aggressive, reality

(B) amazed  :great, tribe, active, surprise

(C) awesome.  : amazing, good, fine, little

(D) unimaginable : incredible, impressive, ordinary, simple

8.(A) condemn : console, cry, blame, bliss

(B) fierce          :fire, fierce, violent, vigor

(C) conceal      : concert, compromise, hide, ride

(D) trivial.         : minor, major, limited, try on

9.(A) deposite :  direct, debit, invest, interest

(B) scary          :dairy, scalar, terrifying, terrible

(C) commit.      : credit, combe, entrust, comity

(D) facilitate.    : fabricate, help, trouble, fashion

10.(A) ambitious : determined, ambiguity,ample, terrific

(B) access  :exit, excite, appear, approach

(C) wonderous.   : wander, vendors, fascinating, fashionable

(D) sigh              :sing,sign, whisper, whishper

11. (A) heatedly : hateful, hater, hardly, strongly

     (B) detain         :declare, arrest, rest, determine

    (C) subsided     : descended, subtended, subscribed,  demanded

    (D) dispute     :inpur, repute, conflict, concern

12.(A) smash    : dash, rash, crash, brush

(B) influence    : impact, inflame, inflate, impair

(C) impose       : impale, depose, force, very high

(D) barrier       : berate, obstacle, bars, oppose

13. (A) admire. :admit, retreat, appreciate, scolding

   (B) deliberately : debate, doubtfully, knowingly, rigidly

   (C) peak.           : beak, stick, summit, hight

   (D) rebel           : comply, yield, resist, rebate

14.(A) forbidden : forfeit, prohibited, forb, hidden

   (B) hym               : rym, buzz, fly, drag

  (C) uproar.           : yell, roar, chaos, cry

  (D) anxious.         : angry, taxi, worried, hurried

15.(A) crawl     :crown, drag, hate, sleep

  (B) manipulate : explore, creative, exploite, correction

 (C) propaganda : proper, publicity, promote, proportion

 (D) despair     :depression, impression, happiness, joy

16.(A) collapse   : open, fall down, get down, up down

    (B) mutter           :potato, butter, whisper, despair

   (C) remedy         :damage, treatment, harm, comedy

   (D) frustrated      :upset, happy, angry, addict

17.(A) temper.     : calm, peace, anger, bumper

(B) tease             :case, angry, annoy, praise

(C) confess         :admit, contrast, connect, confose

(D) conquer        : loss, equal, win, together

18.(A) equivalent :  inquiern,equire, similar, different

(B) primeval        :primary, private, ancient, new

(C) magnificent.  : elegant, eligible, magnetic, major

(D) tedious         : tedious, monotonous, best, pleasure

19.(A) devotee    : advocate, dedicated, honest, god

(B) enhance        :impart, eject, improve, chance

(C) disappoint      : appointment, sadden, dishonest, update

(D) rotten            : nasty, rotted, encircle, round

20.(A) integral  : integral internal, external, essential, outstanding

   (B) tilt                :build, suit, lean, dean

  (C) disapproval:  approval, refusal, disappoint, regain

  (D) deceptiv      :active, rapid, stupid, illusory

21.(A) invoke : appeal, grants, invite

  (B) fillip          : employment, peppermint, punishment, excitement

 (C) languidly : fast, rapid, slowly, quickly

 (D) linger     :remains, leaves, turns, gives up

22.(A) place :  authority ,drive, put, install

(B) anticipate: participate, terminate, foresee, regret

(C) conjured  :created, destroyed, entangled, mixed

(D) tranquility : adjustability, restlessness, anxiety, calmness

23.(A) hilltop :  mountain, top, summit, hill

(B) preposterous: absurd, well shaped, nice, amazing

(C) stony             : stunning ,critical, stormy, rocky

(D) ambush       : knock, kill, attack, enter

24.(A) extravagance : wastefulness, over weighted, simple, modest                                                            (B) bànk.        :account, money, river, shore

(C) abduct      : carry in, bring out, carry off, escape

(D) riveted    :fascinated, rejected, accepted, tempted

25.(A) humming : rushing, hurling, hammering, buzzing

   (B) beneath  : over, near, under, besides

   (C) glumly   : gloomily, happily,delightfully. joyfully

   (D) Yarn     : yawn, cover sheet, wool

26. (A) betrayal  :friendly, loyally, cheat, trust

   (B) industrious  : hard working, entrepreneur, businessman, magnate

  (C) suffer.    : journey, travel, pilgrimage, pain

  (D) pit      : hill, bump, ditch, summit

27.(A) stubborn :obstinate, modest, determined, crank

     (B) feeble.   : strong, stout, robust, weak

  (C) optimism.  : nervousness, optimum, hopefulness, agreement

   (D) dissent  :opposition, supportive, decent, recent

28. (A) perceive : observe, see, change, accept

  (B) interlinking    : interacting, communicating, interpolating, linking up

  (C) relish :enjoy, selfless, displease, rubbish

   (D) toil  : laziness, labour, rest, tax

29. (A) ballot : bullet, baton, vote, beckon

   (B) flee         : escape, fly, swim, accept

  (C) valiantly : cowardly, bravely, surprisingly, suddenly

 (D) fellow     : enemy, trustworthy, comrade, companion

30. (A) beneath : under, above, near, between

   (B) crippled       : enabled, handicapped, capable, discouraged

  (C) din.            : murmur, voice, scream, noise

(D) condemn  : criticize, praise, discuss, appreciate

31.(A) depreciate : appreciate, discourage, encourage, make mute

(B) invader       : friend, enemy, infusionist, supporter

(C) harvest.      : farming, produce, give up, plant

(D) safe             : guards police, security measures, wicket keeper,goal keeper

[1] (1) Surly : ________.[March 2018]

(A) ill-natured.   (B) fixed (C) inclined. ( D) decisive

(2) Drizzle_________.

(A) Breeze.   (B) Shivering (C) surprised. ( D) Light rain

(3) Summit:_________.

(A) surrender.  (B) call. (C) peak.    (D) give up

[2] (1) Calamitous :__________.[March 2019]

(A) Tragic.    (B)Augment. (C)Predictable.  (D) Remains

(2) Benign:_______

(A) Stylish.  (B)Kind. (C)Rude.  ( D) Destiny

(3) Dreary:________.

(A) Ever-widening (B) Fragments (C) Struggling. 

(D) Monotonous

Answers : Exercise •

 

 

1. (A) exist.  (B) effort. (C) inspire. (D) leave

 

2. (A) occasion (B) trouble (C) desire (D) costly

 

3.(A) kept looking (B) happiness (C) change (D) vision

 

4.(A) daring (B) dynamic (C) extreme (D) prize

 

5.(A) expectation (B) quit (C) overcome (D) remove

 

6.(A) gentle (B) hopeful (C) organize. (D)bliss

 

7.(A) aggressive (B) surprise (C) amazing (D) incredible

 

8.(A) blame (B) violent (C) hide (D) minor

 

9. (A) invest (B) terrifying (C) entrust (D) help

 

10.(A) determined (B) approach (C) fascinating (D) whisper

 

11. (A) strongly. (B) arrest. (C) descended. (D) conflict

 

12.(A) crash (B) impact (C) force (D) obstacle

 

13. (A) appreciate (B) knowingly (C) summit. (D) resist

 

14. (A) prohibited.  (B) buzz. (C) chaos.  (D) worried

 

15.(A) drag.  (B) exploit. (C) publicity. (D) depression

 

16.(A) fall down. (B) whisper. (C) treatment. (D)upset

 

17.(A) anger. (B) annoy.  (C) admit. (C) win

 

18.(A) similar (B) ancient (C) elegant (D) monotonous

 

19.(A) dedicated. (B) improve (C) sadden (D) nasty

 

20(A) essential (B) lean (C) refusal (D) illusory

 

21. (A) appeal (B) excitement (C) slowly (D) remains

 

22.(A) install (B) foresee (C) created (D) calmness

 

23. (A) summit (B) absurd (C) rocky (D) attack

 

24.(A) wastefulness (B) shore (C)carry off  (D) fascinated

 

25. (A) buzzing (B) under (C) gloomily (D) wool

 

26. (A) cheat (B) hard working (C) pain (D) ditch

 

27. (A) obstinate (B) weak (C) hopefulness (D) opposition

 

28.(A) accept (B) interpolating (C) enjoy (D) labour

 

29.(A) vote (B) escape (C) bravely (D) comrade

 

30. (A) under (B) handicapped (C) scream (D) criticize

 

31. (A) appreciate (B) infusionist (C) farming (D) security measures

 

[1] (1) (A) ill-natured

(2) (D) Light rain

(3) (C) peak

 

[2](1) (A) Tragic

(2) (B) Kind

(3) (D) Monotonous