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TCYonline.com Sample Questions (Verbal) 1
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Specimen Questions (Graduate/ Under-graduate Level): Topic Wise
Note: The incorrect options need to be logical. These may represent correct meanings as per dictionary but 
incorrect meanings in context. 
Type 1: Vocabulary in Context: Synonyms
Directions: The sentence below has a word in capitals. Select the synonym of the word as per the context.
1. Even if you disagree on both COUNTS, the current approach is also flawed technologically.
(1) Numbers (2) Matters (3) Values (4) Attributes
Explanation: Counts here means 'taking account of' something'. The nearest word is 'attributes'.
2. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our chase for that ELUSIVE dream.
(1) Terrifying (2) Unusual (3) Unachievable (4) Haunting
Explanation: Elusive could be something mysterious, inaccessible or unachievable. Here only the last one fits 
the context. 
Type 2: Vocabulary in Context: Antonyms
Directions: The sentence below has a word in capitals. Select the antonym of the word as per the context.
Difficulty: Graduate Level
3. More money is spent in saving a few lives in the distant future, than in COMBATING malnutrition, 
malaria, or communicable diseases today.
(1) Holding (2) Befriending (3) Curing (4) Supporting 
Explanation: Combat is to fight. The opposite that fits the context is supporting. Either you are fighting 
malnutrition, or you are supporting it.
4. There lies a deeper and DELIBERATE 'backlash'.
(1) Voluntary (2) Abrupt (3) Accidental (4) Unforeseen
Explanation: Deliberate is purposeful; the opposite in context is accidental. 
Type 3: Sentence Completion (Vocabulary in context)
Note: The incorrect options need to be logical. Different payment structure for questions with one/two blanks
Directions: Choose the correct alternative out of the four suggested to fill in the blank and complete the 
sentence. 
5. The human mind seems to have built-in __________________ against original thought. 
(1) prejuduces (2) ideas (3) interests (4) safeguards
Explanation: 'Original thought' is something good. So, we need a negative word 'against' it. TCYonline.com Sample Questions (Verbal) 2
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6. If strict ___________ measures had been taken, the tragedy might have been ________________. 
(1) safety, restrained (2) security, averted (3) safety, evaded (4) controlling, controlled
Explanation: Both 'safety' and 'security' may well have been used, but we evade a responsibility (something 
positive), but avert a crisis/clash (something negative).
Type 4: Sentence Completion (Grammar Based)
Note: The incorrect options need to be logical. The questions will test a variety of grammatical concepts like 
preposition, conjunction, article, verb, auxiliary, modal, adjective, adverb etc.
Directions: Choose the correct alternative out of the four suggested to fill in the blank and complete the 
sentence. 
7. A child is the future of a family __________________ nation. 
(1) just as (2) as a (3) like a (4) as well as of a
Explanation: Family is the smallest unit of human society; nation is among the largest. A child is the future of 
both.
Type 5: Reading Comprehension
Note: The incorrect options need to be logical distracters. Each passage shall have 5 questions. One 
question will check words/phrases in context. Explanations needed for the right answer as well as for the 
wrong ones. All passages will be in Indian or general contexts. 
Directions for questions 8 to 12: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Wealth should not be an end in itself but only a means of satisfying one’s as well as others’ needs. It should 
be a means of creating a happy and humane society. Riches can be profitably spent in removing the wants of 
the poor and the needy, by providing them with food and clothing, by establishing hospitals for the sick, 
shelters for children who have none to look after them, and old-age homes to provide comfort and company to 
the growing number of old and helpless people. Wealth can also be put to public use by establishing trusts to 
open up more and more educational institutions, to finance research work for promotion of science, health
care and agriculture. When used only as a means of creating more and more luxuries and procuring objects 
of sensual gratification, it leads to corruption and sin. Even wealth used only to generate more wealth loses its 
intrinsic worth. We should not forget that wealth came into existence to facilitate the fulfilment of human needs 
and development of society.
8. By saying ‘Wealth should not be an end in itself’ the writer means that
(1) One should not stop creating wealth
(2) Creating more and more wealth should not be one’s object
(3) Wealth should not be used for personal use
(4) Wealth is exhausted if not used in different tasks
9. In Riches can be profitably spent’ the word ‘profitably’ in this context means
(1) Riches can be used in manifold ways
(2) Riches can be used for financial gains
(3) Riches can be used in beneficial way
(4) Riches can be used to acquire fame TCYonline.com Sample Questions (Verbal) 3
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10. The central idea of the passage is
(1) Wealth should not be used for personal comfort but for comfort of others
(2) Personal use of wealth leads to sin 
(3) Wealth should be judiciously used for personal as well as social and humanitarian purposes
(4) Wealth should be used for others only after fulfilling one’s needs
11. The intrinsic worth of wealth lies in
(1) its use for charitable purposes
(2) its use for enjoyment of life
(3) its use for fulfilment of human needs and development of society
(4) its use for self-aggrandizement
12. ........................

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