Synonyms – Find the MOST SIMILAR MEANING for the underlined words in the questions given below – Tnpsc General English Questions

Synonyms

Find the MOST SIMILAR MEANING for the underlined words in the questions given below

1. Spread your wings to discover now horizons in the promising journey of your life.

A) prospects

B) outlook

C) view

D) proception

Answer : A) prospects

2. While doing so, do not get disheartened by the impediments and challenges you may have come across

A) affected

B) pained

C) frightened

D) dejected

Answer : D) dejected

3. Challenges transform you from ordinary to extraordinary beings.

A) change

B) alter

C) remodel

D) renew

Answer : A) change

4. Each one of you has an indispensable role to play in the world.

A) requirement

B) pressing

C) requisite

D) crucial

Answer : D) crucial

5. This world will be short of one person and his/her contribution.

A) supplication

B) provision

C) input

D) participation

Answer : C) input

6. Develop a passion for your goal.

A) fervor

B) enthusiasm

C) intensity

D) depth

Answer : B) enthusiasm

7. Once a village was afflicted by drought.

A) distressed

B) oppressed

C) tormented

D) struck

Answer : A) distressed

8. The king summoned his subjects for a mass prayer.

A) called

B) mobilized

C) gathered

D) ordered

Answer : C) gathered

9. The young lion gave a ferocious roar.

A) weak

B) feeble

C) fierce

D) confused

Answer : C) fierce

10. He leaped about in joy upon realizing his true nature.

A) walked

B) jumped

C) town

D) lie down

Answer : B) jumped

11. Many of the rarest of species have become extinct.

A) antiquated

B) obsolete

C) outmoded

D) non-existent

Answer : D) non-existent

12. Some animals are on the verge.

A) border

B) brim

C) limit

D) brink

Answer : D) brink

13. Who is responsible for this pathetic state of affairs?

A) pitiful

B) distressing

C) intense

D) moving

Answer : A) pitiful

14. The harmful UV rays of the Sun is depleting.

A) deleting

B) decreasing

C) emitting

D) vanishing

Answer : B) decreasing

15. Don’t you have the wherewithal to bring back the glorious past?

A) resources

B) means

C) reserves

D) funds

Answer : B) means

16. Even your own scientists concur with my views.

A) mingle

B) mix

C) unite

D) agree

Answer : D) agree

17. How can a mother afford to be indifferent?

A) bear

B) provide

C) give

D) supply

Answer : A) bear

18. Scientists are peering through their telescope.

A) spying

B) watching

C) grazing

D) staring

Answer : C) grazing

19. When there were just plants growing and animals wandering all over the world, life was peaceful.

A) loitering

B) walking

C) wondering

D) waiting

Answer : A) loitering

20. Gayathri with all her inquisitiveness entered the village school.

A) interest

B) nosiness

C) officiousness

D) curiosity

Answer : D) curiosity

21. In villages, it is considered an unruly behavior to speak against parents.

A) rebellious

B) lawless

C) wild

D) obedient

Answer : A) rebellious

22. Yet Rathi begged, pleaded and persuaded her parents.

A) moved

B) enticed

C) prompted

D) urged

Answer : D) urged

23. She was ridiculed for trying her hand at bee-keeping.

A) mocked

B) scolding

C) affected

D) praised

Answer : A) mocked

24. Undeterred by the pain and inconveniences, she continued to perfect the art of bee-keeping.

A) Helped

B) Perused

C) Undaunted

D) Discourage

Answer : C) Undaunted

25. Everything must yield to the paramount duty of finishing this war.

A) submit

B) agree

C) admit

D) most important

Answer : D) most important

26. Colonel Scott heard a rap at the door.

A) tap

B) blow

C) slap

D) pat

Answer : A) tap

27. I had a regretful night and now come to beg your forgiveness

A) remorseful

B) guilty

C) shameful

D) sad

Answer : A) remorseful

28. The rules are made to be enforced.

A) important

B) imposed

C) neglected

D) diverted

Answer : B) imposed

29. Speaking of germs, there are germs and grime, under our fingernails.

A) sand

B) dirt

C) mud

D) day

Answer : B) dirt

30. Krithi looked repulsed and gave a wriggle of disgust.

A) disgusted

B) offended

C) vile

D) hateful

Answer : A) disgusted

31. Prithi grinned and went on.

A) smiled broadly

B) snarled

C) laughed

D) rejoiced

Answer : A) smiled broadly

32. We obtain more oxygen and purge ourselves of the excess carbon dioxide.

A) cleanse

B) clear

C) remove

D) wash

Answer : A) cleanse

33. He listened to Lakshmi Das recital of the last interview.

A) recitation

B) repetition

C) narration

D) statement

Answer : C) narration

34. He wash perplexed.

A) puzzled

B) doubted

C) disbelieved

D) startled

Answer : A) puzzled

35. An old man was walking through the town drawing his tattered cloak closer to shield his body from the cold.

A) poor

B) turn

C) piece

D) ragged

Answer : D) ragged

36. Raising his head, Cabuk gave a long moan.

A) whimper

B) sob

C) groan

D) wail

Answer : C) groan

37. When she saw Kumar slumped his seat, she grabbed his arm and tried shaking him awake.

A) drooped

B) collapsed

C) crashed

D) fell

Answer : B) collapsed

38. She hollered for Maggie, but there was not room in the cramped cockpit.

A) cried

B) howled

C) wailed

D) screamed

Answer : D) screamed

39. Terri struggled to lift Devi’s body herself, then gave up.

A) worked

B) battled

C) strained

D) toiled

Answer : C) strained

40. The girls were still huddled, holding hands.

A) met

B) nestled

C) curled

D) hunched

Answer : B) nestled

41. He liked to help the workers when they renovated a house on his own streets.

A) repaired

B) constructed

C) decorated

D) destroyed

Answer : A) repaired

42. These companies are convinced that his accomplishments is the best that is available in the city.

A) skill

B) achievement

C) establishment

D) work

Answer : B) achievement

43. Hughie was wonderfully good looking with his crisp brown hair, his clear cut profile and his grey eyes.

A) shape

B) sketch

C) features

D) contour

Answer : C) features

44. A delightful ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession.

A) barren

B) futile

C) ineffective

D) useless

Answer : D) useless

45. Hari looked very glum and he cursed himself for his inability.

A) blue

B) low

C) dejected

D) melancholic

Answer : C) dejected

46. Gopi was a strange rough fellow with a freckled face and a red ragged beard.

A) broken

B) crude

C) poor

D) untidy

Answer : D) untidy

47. His pictures were eagerly sought after.

A) cordially

B) readily

C) intently

D) earnestly

Answer : D) earnestly

48. Helen was a wizened old lady with a face like wrinkled parchment.

A) shriveled

B) exhausted

C) dried

D) reduced

Answer : A) shriveled

49. Over his shoulders was flung a coarse brown cloak.

A) rude

B) rough

C) dirty

D) unrefined

Answer : B) rough

50. He held out his battered hat for alms.

A) collided

B) punched

C) demolished

D) ruined

Answer : D) ruined

51. Sekar looked so forlorn that Gopi could not help him.

A) abandoned

B) deserted

C) forsaken

D) renounced

Answer : C) forsaken

52. Hughie could not help pitying her.

A) sympathizing

B) pardoning

C) consoling

D) forgiving

Answer : A) sympathizing

53. All he could find was a sovereign.

A) majestic

B) royal

C) crown

D) currency

Answer : D) currency

54. He extended a sealed envelope on which was written ‘A written present to Hugh and Laura’.

A) stopped

B) closed

C) isolated

D) shut

Answer : B) closed

55. One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect is that society would not properly value me as a musician.

A) distrust

B) fear

C) feeling

D) apprehension

Answer : A) distrust

56. My mother’s remark when I announced my decision to apply to business school.

A) determination

B) resolution

C) verdict

D) idea

Answer : A) determination

57. One of the first cultures to articulate how music really works was that of the ancient Greeks.

A) pronounce

B) enunciate

C) unite

D) express

Answer : D) express

58. This is going to fascinate you.

A) repel

B) allure

C) obsess

D) delight

Answer : D) delight

59. Music helping us figure out the position of things inside us.

A) make out

B) think out

C) work out

D) act out

Answer : A) make out

60. One of the most profound musical composition of all time is the ‘Quarter for the End of Time’.

A) heartfelt

B) hearty

C) thoughtful

D) serious

Answer : A) heartfelt

61. He was fortunate to find a sympathetic prison guard who gave him paper and place to compose.

A) lucy

B) favored

C) happy

D) encouraged

Answer : A) lucy

62. It wasn’t just this one fanatic Messiaen ; many, many people created art.

A) zealot

B) addict

C) devotee

D) freak

Answer : A) zealot

63. Why? Well in the place where people are only focused on survival on the bare necessities.

A) existence

B) endurance

C) persistence

D) constancy

Answer : A) existence

64. Playing the piano right now, given what happened in the city, seems absurd.

A) ridiculous

B) insensible

C) comical

D) crude

Answer : A) ridiculous

65. In fact I contemplated briefly whether I would ever want to play the piano again.

A) medicated

B) viewed

c) aimed

D) reflected

Answer : D) reflected

66. The first organized public expression of our grief our first communal response to that historic event.

A) affliction

B) sorrow

C) ache

D) woe

Answer : B) sorrow

67. The US military secured the air space, but recovery was led by the arts, and music in particular that very night.

A) compensation

B) rescue

C) retrieval

D) restoration

Answer : D) restoration

68. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets.

A) extravagant

B) wild

C) wasteful

D) opulent

Answer : A) extravagant

69. I expect you not only to master music ; I expect you to save the plant.

A) be skillful

B) excel in

C) transcend

D) be able

Answer : B) excel in

70. If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end of war, of mutual understanding of equality of fairness.

A) agreement

B) amicableness

C) balance

D) empathy

Answer : B) amicableness

71. My first duty on rising is to tender my most sincere and grateful thanks to the students for their address, which they have presented to me.

A) offer

B) propose

C) advance

D) submit

Answer : A) offer

72. The life of a student is comparatively speaking a sheltered life.

A) nearly

B) generally

C) roughly

D) clearly

Answer : B) generally

73. Gentlemen, this is the happy part of your life, because no privilege in life is worth having, unless it is attended by corresponding duties.

A) advantage

B) claim

C) due

D) benefit

Answer : D) benefit

74. You have first of all to lay by a stock of knowledge that will suffice you not sincerely for your examinations but will be helpful to you in later life.

A) will satisfy

B) do

C) be enough for

D) server

Answer : C) be enough for

75. Knowledge is an exacting mistress.

A) demanding

B) fussy

C) rigid

D) careful

Answer : A) demanding

76. Such whole-hearted devotion is possible only in the days of student hood.

A) abiding

B) serious

C) enduring

D) sincere

Answer : D) sincere

77. It is almost truism to say that more depends for success in life on character than on knowledge.

A) motto

B) cliché

C) axiom

D) law

Answer : C) axiom

78. It is an invidious thing to distinguish between comparative values of knowledge and character.

A) unjust

B) hateful

C) immoderate

D) critical

Answer : A) unjust

79. As both are indispensable, I would urge you to attach as much importance to character aa to knowledge.

A) urgent

B) inevitable

C) essential

D) crucial

Answer : C) essential

80. Students with their generous mind and unsophisticated hearts naturally fall an easy prey to stirring up emotion.

A) childlike

B) plain

C) simple

D) unspoiled

Answer : C) simple

81. While they are students their attitude towards the Government of the country such as it may be good, bad or indifferent, should be one of acquiescence, loyal acquiescence.

A) gain

B) acceptance

C) achievement

D) agreement

Answer : B) acceptance

82. Chaya offers a taste of what the depletion of Tibet’s water and ice portends.

A) forecasts

B) reads

C) announces

D) promises

Answer : A) forecasts

83. Her five children fanned out in the darkness, armed with plastic jugs of every size.

A) spread out

B) ran out

C) rushed out

D) climbed out

Answer : A) spread out

84. Suddenly cries erupt – a water truck has been spotted.

A) break out

B) explode

C) burst

D) flare up

Answer : A) break out

85. The tension already seethes, in the clogged alleyway around one of Nehru camp’s last functioning tabs.

A) passage

B) back street

C) mall

D) pathway

Answer : B) back street

86. A man punches woman who cut in line, leaving a purple welt on her face.

A) mark

B) sore

C) swelling

D) rash

Answer : A) mark

87. This one dissolves into shouting and finger-pointing but the brawls can be deadly.

A) fights

B) combats

C) contests

D) debates

Answer : A) fights

88. For the people geopolitical concerns are lost in the frenzied pursuit of water.

A) wild

B) excited

C) frantic

D) agitated

Answer : C) frantic

89. Chaya, smiling triumphantly, hauls back a full, ten gallon jug on top of her head

A) draws back

B) pulls back

C) transports back

D) drags back

Answer : B) pulls back

90. The Brihadeeswarar temple is an architectural marvel of immense glory that has astounded the world.

A) baffled

B) astonished

C) confounded

D) dazed

Answer : B) astonished

91. With its stupendous proportions and grandeur, the temple was world fame.

A) colossal

B) wonderful

C) enormous

D) prodigious

Answer : C) enormous

92. Is this the might and valour of the Cholas I heard of?

A) bravery

B) heroism

C) spirit

D) gallantry

Answer : A) bravery

93. A scantily lit room with drums, urns, perfume, bottles, wooden boxes, manuscripts of the Marathas.

A) insufficiently

B) excessively

C) meagerly

D) imperfectly

Answer : A) insufficiently

94. The magnificent monolithic statues evince energy and life.

A) exhibit

B) manuscript

C) demonstrate

D) show

Answer : D) show

95. The shipi and the sthapathi came together to create their fanciful abode for Shiva.

A) fantastic

B) quaint

C) whimsical

D) imaginary

Answer : D) imaginary

96. The shrine of Lord Muruga is an integral part of the temple.

A) essential

B) fundamental

C) main

D) indispensable

Answer: D) indispensable

97. I saw a walled fortress inside – a standing testimony of the Chola’s opulence and vision.

A) affirmation

B) attention

C) indication

D) proof

Answer : D) proof

98. The enormity of the deities reflect the staunch reverence of the King to Lord Shiva.

A) constant

B) steadfast

C) reliable

D) truthful

Answer : B) steadfast

99. The huge Shiva Linga in the Sanctum Sanctorum and Nadhi statue reflect the munificence of the Cholas.

A) generosity

B) lavishness

C) hospitality

D) richness

Answer : A) generosity

100. In its magnificent idea, its grandiose vision, its display of the Herculean effort in construction of the temple.

A) ambitious

B) imposing

C) majestic

D) impressive

Answer : D) impressive