Daily Vocabulary Test – 06 July 2026
✓ Editorials Covered: 3
✓ Total Questions: 80
✓ Difficulty: Moderate–Advanced
✓ Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Covers:
✓ Vocabulary MCQs
✓ Synonyms
✓ Antonyms
✓ Idioms & Phrases
✓ One Word Substitution
✓ Fill in the Blanks
✓ Word Formation
✓ Spotting the Error
✓ Spelling Test
✓ Cloze Test
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SECTION A/10: VOCABULARY MASTERY
1. What does the term “ring-fence” mean in the context of geopolitical agreements?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To protect from outside influences or reserve for a specific purpose
💡 Explanation: “Ring-fence” refers to insulating or safeguarding ties from external geopolitical uncertainties.
2. Identify the correct meaning of the word “resilience” based on the provided text.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The ability to bounce back quickly from difficulties
💡 Explanation: Resilience indicates strength, toughness, and hardiness in adverse situations.
3. How is the word “subsume” used in the context of the Code on Social Security, 2020?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. To include, incorporate, or absorb
💡 Explanation: The Code on Social Security subsumes or incorporates nine existing central labour laws.
4. Which of the following defines a “red herring”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A piece of information intended to be misleading or distracting
💡 Explanation: A red herring serves as a distraction, diversion, or smokescreen away from the real issue.
5. What does the adjective “plenary” imply when referring to Parliament’s power?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Unqualified, absolute, or full
💡 Explanation: Plenary power means absolute, comprehensive, and unrestricted authority.
6. Select the appropriate meaning of the verb “adduce”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. To cite as evidence or present for consideration
💡 Explanation: To adduce is to quote, present, or propose proof or evidence.
7. What does “construal” refer to in the debate on citizenship laws?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. An interpretation, reading, or understanding
💡 Explanation: Construal refers to a specific explanation, analysis, or interpretation of a text.
8. Choose the definition that best fits the word “expedite”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. To speed up, accelerate, or quicken
💡 Explanation: Expedite means to make a process, such as claim settlements, happen faster.
9. In geopolitics, what is a “strategic” approach?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Relating to the gaining of overall or long-term military/political advantage
💡 Explanation: Strategic implies a calculated, deliberate, and crucial long-term game plan.
10. Identify the meaning of “menacing” as used to describe a clarification.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Threatening, intimidating, or frightening
💡 Explanation: Menacing indicates an alarming or hostile undertone.
11. What does the word “conclusive” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Decisive, indisputable, and undeniable
💡 Explanation: Conclusive evidence settles a matter completely without leaving room for argument.
12. What does “heft” refer to in the context of official statements?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Weight, heaviness, or importance and influence
💡 Explanation: Heft denotes significance, weight, and substantial influence in an argument or statement.
13. Which definition best suits the word “stipulation”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A condition, prerequisite, or requirement
💡 Explanation: A stipulation is a specific provision, clause, or condition demanded in an agreement.
14. What does the verb “prompt” mean in the phrase “prompt us to ask”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To cause or bring about an action or feeling
💡 Explanation: Prompt means to induce, generate, or provoke a specific response or action.
15. How is “substantive” used to describe EPFO decisions?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Significant, important, and meaningful
💡 Explanation: Substantive decisions are those that are considerable and carry real, impactful weight.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the synonym for “frankly”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Candidly
💡 Explanation: Frankly means speaking honestly, candidly, directly, and plainly.
17. Choose the synonym for “prevailing”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Widespread
💡 Explanation: Prevailing refers to conditions that are existing, present, current, or widespread.
18. Choose the synonym for “radical”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Sweeping
💡 Explanation: Radical signifies thorough, comprehensive, fundamental, and sweeping changes.
19. Choose the synonym for “sequel”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Consequence
💡 Explanation: A sequel is a development, result, follow-up, or consequence of an event.
20. Choose the synonym for “startling”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Staggering
💡 Explanation: Startling means very surprising, astonishing, remarkable, or staggering.
21. Choose the synonym for “ominous”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Sinister
💡 Explanation: Ominous describes something threatening, foreboding, inauspicious, or sinister.
22. Choose the synonym for “outright”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Absolutely
💡 Explanation: Outright means altogether, completely, entirely, totally, or absolutely.
23. Choose the synonym for “forthright”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Candid
💡 Explanation: Forthright means direct, outspoken, straightforward, honest, frank, and candid.
24. Choose the synonym for “consign”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Relegate
💡 Explanation: To consign is to assign, commit, send, or relegate.
25. Choose the synonym for “primacy”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Pre-eminence
💡 Explanation: Primacy denotes priority, precedence, supremacy, or pre-eminence.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the antonym for “accessible”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Unavailable
💡 Explanation: Accessible means reachable or available; thus, unavailable is its opposite.
27. Choose the antonym for “effectively”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Unproductively
💡 Explanation: Effectively implies acting successfully and productively, making unproductively the antonym.
28. Choose the antonym for “continuity”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Instability
💡 Explanation: Continuity signifies stability and persistence; instability represents disruption.
29. Choose the antonym for “voluntary”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Mandatory
💡 Explanation: Voluntary refers to doing something of one’s own free will, whereas mandatory means it is required.
30. Choose the antonym for “conclusive”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Indecisive
💡 Explanation: Conclusive means undeniable and decisive. Indecisive is the direct opposite.
31. Choose the antonym for “absurd”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Reasonable
💡 Explanation: Absurd means wildly unreasonable or illogical. Reasonable is the correct opposite.
32. Choose the antonym for “secular”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Religious
💡 Explanation: Secular means not connected with religious matters, ensuring state neutrality. Religious is the antonym.
33. Choose the antonym for “neutral”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Partisan
💡 Explanation: Neutral means unbiased and impartial. Partisan refers to strong, biased support.
34. Choose the antonym for “endless”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Limited
💡 Explanation: Endless implies limitless or infinite bounds. Limited implies restricted parameters.
35. Choose the antonym for “quietly”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Obtrusively
💡 Explanation: Quietly means silently and unobtrusively. Obtrusively means acting in a noticeable, intrusive way.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What is the meaning of the phrase “old wine in a new bottle”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. An already existing idea or concept offered as if it were a new one
💡 Explanation: The idiom denotes presenting an old concept in a newly repackaged format.
37. In the sentence, “coordination _____ global uncertainties”, which phrase fits best?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. in the face of
💡 Explanation: “In the face of” means when confronted with; despite or notwithstanding.
38. What does “paint a vast canvas” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To outline a broad scope and present a comprehensive picture of a situation
💡 Explanation: It means to describe, create, or outline a wide vision and extensive plan.
39. What does the phrasal verb “set off” imply?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. To trigger, spark, ignite, or provoke
💡 Explanation: “Set off” means to provoke or spark a reaction, like setting off a storm of controversy.
40. What does the phrase “in a vacuum” mean in a legal context?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. In isolation, independently, separately, or out of context
💡 Explanation: Operating “in a vacuum” means acting separately or isolated from broader context.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. A person who does not legally belong to or have citizenship in a particular country.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Non-citizen
💡 Explanation: A non-citizen is an alien, foreigner, outsider, or expatriate without legal citizenship status.
42. The state or quality of being socially acceptable or legitimate.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Respectability
💡 Explanation: Respectability refers to legitimacy, acceptability, and honorableness in society or law.
43. An event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Accident
💡 Explanation: An accident is a chance event, coincidence, fluke, or serendipity.
44. A confusing network of interconnecting paths or passages.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Maze
💡 Explanation: A maze describes a labyrinth, web, tangle, or complex puzzle.
45. An official announcement, order, circular, or declaration.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Notification
💡 Explanation: A notification is a formal and official government circular or declaration.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s first official visit to India _____ to be an occasion to signal enhanced bilateral coordination.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. turned out
💡 Explanation: “Turned out” means to happen, transpire, or conclude, matching the editorial text.
47. Both sides have to manage multiple other relations effectively to ensure _____ outcomes.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. optimal
💡 Explanation: Optimal signifies the best, most favourable, or ideal results.
48. With around eight crore _____, changes to the PF legal framework have wide implications for members and their families.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. subscribers
💡 Explanation: Subscribers refer to contributors or members investing in the Provident Fund.
49. Of the government’s _____ of ₹11,000-odd crore towards the EPS for the current year, most of its provision goes for the component of its contribution.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. outlay
💡 Explanation: Outlay represents expenditure, expenses, spending, or cost.
50. Paperwork cannot _____ personhood in a constitutional democracy.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. outweigh
💡 Explanation: Outweigh means to be more significant than something else; superseding it.
51. The MEA’s statement takes on an _____ heft when set against the milieu in which it was made.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. ominous
💡 Explanation: Ominous describes the threatening or sinister weight of the statement.
52. Parliament can decide the _____ of citizenship, but it cannot make religion a condition for entry.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. modalities
💡 Explanation: Modality refers to the method, procedure, process, or approach.
53. Running through all these exercises to establish citizenship is a common _____ over the burden of proof.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. thread
💡 Explanation: A “common thread” implies a unifying theme or shared element pervading a situation.
54. In a constitutional order where personhood _____, the rules that determine who qualifies as a citizen must rest on more than the accident of paperwork.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. comes first
💡 Explanation: “Comes first” implies taking priority or being of paramount importance.
55. They are placed in a vacuum, neither confirmed nor cleared, with their rights being held in _____ suspension.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. indefinite
💡 Explanation: Indefinite means unclear, uncertain, undefined, or unspecified in duration.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. Which of the following is the noun form of the verb “formulate”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Formulation
💡 Explanation: Formulation is the noun form representing the creation, drafting, or construction process.
57. Which of the following is the adjective form of the noun “statute”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Statutory
💡 Explanation: Statutory is an adjective meaning required, permitted, or enacted by statute.
58. What is the verb form of the noun “implementation”?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Implement
💡 Explanation: To implement means to put into practice or make operative.
59. What is the noun form of the adjective “resilient”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Resilience
💡 Explanation: Resilience is the noun form denoting the ability to bounce back.
60. What is the adverb form of the adjective “effective”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Effectively
💡 Explanation: Effectively is the adverb indicating that an action is done successfully or efficiently.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Spot the error in the sentence: The changes to the PF legal framework has wide implications for members and their families.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. has wide implications
💡 Explanation: The subject “changes” is plural, so it should be “have wide implications”.
62. Spot the error in the sentence: Paperwork cannot outweighs personhood in a constitutional democracy.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. outweighs personhood
💡 Explanation: After modal verbs like “cannot”, the base form of the verb “outweigh” must be used.
63. Spot the error in the sentence: The statement takes on an ominous heft when setting against the milieu in which it was made.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. setting against the milieu
💡 Explanation: It should be “set against” (past participle phrase) rather than the active “setting”.
64. Spot the error in the sentence: Parliament can decides the modalities of citizenship, but it cannot make religion a condition.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Parliament can decides
💡 Explanation: The modal “can” must be followed by the base form “decide”, not “decides”.
65. Spot the error in the sentence: They have agreed to build naval platforms to enhanced maritime domain awareness.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. to enhanced maritime
💡 Explanation: The infinitive form is “to enhance”. “Enhanced” is grammatically incorrect here.
66. Spot the error in the sentence: Both sides have to manage multiple other relations effective to ensure optimal outcomes.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. effective to ensure
💡 Explanation: The adverb “effectively” is needed to modify the verb “manage”, not the adjective “effective”.
67. Spot the error in the sentence: The practice of allowing contributions regardless on the wage ceiling is not new.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. contributions regardless on
💡 Explanation: The correct prepositional phrase is “regardless of”, not “regardless on”.
68. Spot the error in the sentence: Efforts to expedite and simplifies claim settlements should continue.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. and simplifies
💡 Explanation: Parallelism rule: “to expedite and simplify” requires the base form.
69. Spot the error in the sentence: A passport can only be issued to a non-citizen in exceptionally circumstances.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. in exceptionally circumstances.
💡 Explanation: Use the adjective “exceptional” to modify the noun “circumstances”, not the adverb.
70. Spot the error in the sentence: The right to life and personal liberty is guarantee to all persons.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. is guarantee to
💡 Explanation: Passive voice requires the past participle: “is guaranteed to”.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Surveillance
💡 Explanation: Surveillance refers to observation, scrutiny, and monitoring.
72. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Nomenclature
💡 Explanation: Nomenclature is a system of naming, classification, or terminology.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Bureaucratic
💡 Explanation: Bureaucratic relates to an official administrative system with complex rules.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Adjudication
💡 Explanation: Adjudication refers to a formal judgment, decision, or ruling.
75. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Constitutional
💡 Explanation: Constitutional refers to the system of fundamental principles and laws.
SECTION J/10: CLOZE TEST
Passage: “Thus, freestanding as the words in Article 11 might be, they must be understood in the [76] of their wider [77]. They have in them an [78] limitation drawn from the Constitution’s most [79] and foundational [80] to secularism, equality, and non-discrimination.”
76. Choose the correct word for blank [76].
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✓ Correct Answer: A. context
💡 Explanation: “In the context of” means considering the specific background or setting.
77. Choose the correct word for blank [77].
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✓ Correct Answer: B. framing
💡 Explanation: “Framing” refers to the broader construction, formulation, or drafting context of the law.
78. Choose the correct word for blank [78].
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✓ Correct Answer: A. implied
💡 Explanation: “Implied” means a limitation that is suggested, indirect, or understood without being directly expressed.
79. Choose the correct word for blank [79].
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✓ Correct Answer: B. cherished
💡 Explanation: “Cherished” indicates ideals that are valued, prized, or lovingly held dear.
80. Choose the correct word for blank [80].
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✓ Correct Answer: B. commitments
💡 Explanation: “Commitments” denote pledges, dedications, or loyalties toward constitutional principles.
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