Daily Vocabulary Test – 09 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
Start Test ↓
SECTION A/10: VOCABULARY MASTERY
1. In the context of the caste census, what does the word “ossify” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. To harden, rigidify, or fossilize
💡 Explanation: Ossify means to harden or rigidify, often referring to abstract ideas becoming rigid.
2. How is the “creamy layer” defined in the context of reservations?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Relatively wealthier and better-educated members of the OBCs
💡 Explanation: The creamy layer refers to wealthier, better-educated OBC members ineligible for certain benefits.
3. What is the meaning of the word “dire” when describing prison conditions?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Extremely serious, urgent, or terrible
💡 Explanation: Dire means extremely serious or urgent; dreadful, appalling, or critical.
4. The term “underworld” refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The criminal world or organized crime networks
💡 Explanation: The underworld is the criminal fraternity, gangland, or organized crime networks.
5. Which of the following best defines “resurgence”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. An increase or revival after a period of little activity
💡 Explanation: Resurgence denotes a revival, recovery, return, or comeback.
6. What does “geopolitics” entail?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Politics influenced by geographical factors
💡 Explanation: Geopolitics involves international relations and world politics as influenced by geography.
7. If something is “indispensable,” it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Essential, crucial, or vital
💡 Explanation: Indispensable means something is absolutely necessary and cannot be discarded.
8. What does “apathy” signify in the context of management?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern
💡 Explanation: Apathy means indifference, unconcern, unresponsiveness, or detachment.
9. A “windfall” is best described as:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A piece of unexpected good fortune, typically involving money
💡 Explanation: A windfall is an unexpected gain, bonus, or jackpot.
10. “Empirical” data is based on:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Observation, facts, and practical experience
💡 Explanation: Empirical means observed, factual, actual, or practical rather than purely theoretical.
11. “State custody” refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The protective care or imprisonment of someone by a public authority
💡 Explanation: State custody implies imprisonment, detention, or confinement by the government.
12. What does “monetisation” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. The action or process of earning revenue from an asset
💡 Explanation: Monetisation is the commercialization or capitalization of an asset to generate money.
13. If data is described as “unwieldy”, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Unmanageable, cumbersome, or awkward
💡 Explanation: Unwieldy means something is bulky and difficult to manage or organize.
14. A “rival” gang implies that the gang is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Competing for the same objective or superiority
💡 Explanation: Rival means competing, opposing, conflicting, or contending.
15. Being “resilient” means being able to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
💡 Explanation: Resilient describes being tough, hardy, strong, and adaptable.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the closest synonym for “corroborate”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Confirm
💡 Explanation: Corroborate means to confirm, verify, endorse, or ratify.
17. Choose the closest synonym for “abolish”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Eliminate
💡 Explanation: Abolish means to eliminate, put an end to, eradicate, or scrap.
18. Choose the closest synonym for “assault”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Attack
💡 Explanation: Assault refers to a physical attack, strike, hit, or beating.
19. Choose the closest synonym for “thorough”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Comprehensive
💡 Explanation: Thorough means complete with regard to every detail, exhaustive, or comprehensive.
20. Choose the closest synonym for “shatter”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Destroy
💡 Explanation: Shatter means to break violently, smash, splinter, or destroy.
21. Choose the closest synonym for “jubilant”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Exultant
💡 Explanation: Jubilant means feeling great happiness and triumph; exultant or overjoyed.
22. Choose the closest synonym for “delegitimise”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Discredit
💡 Explanation: Delegitimise means to invalidate, undermine, discredit, or weaken.
23. Choose the closest synonym for “menace”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Threat
💡 Explanation: A menace is a person or thing likely to cause harm; a threat or danger.
24. Choose the closest synonym for “prolonged”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Protracted
💡 Explanation: Prolonged means continuing for a long time; lengthy, extended, or protracted.
25. Choose the closest synonym for “prominent”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Eminent
💡 Explanation: Prominent means important, well-known, leading, or eminent.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the antonym for “abstract”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Concrete
💡 Explanation: Abstract means theoretical or non-concrete. Concrete is its direct opposite.
27. Choose the antonym for “irrational”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Logical
💡 Explanation: Irrational means illogical or unreasonable. Logical is the correct antonym.
28. Choose the antonym for “prevent”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Allow
💡 Explanation: Prevent means to stop something from happening. Allow is the opposite.
29. Choose the antonym for “uncontrolled”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Restrained
💡 Explanation: Uncontrolled means unchecked or unhindered. Restrained means kept under control.
30. Choose the antonym for “defiance”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Compliance
💡 Explanation: Defiance is open resistance. Compliance is the act of obeying an order or rule.
31. Choose the antonym for “bankrupt”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Solvent
💡 Explanation: Bankrupt means financially ruined or insolvent. Solvent means having sufficient assets.
32. Choose the antonym for “open-ended”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Restricted
💡 Explanation: Open-ended means without fixed limits. Restricted implies having fixed boundaries or choices.
33. Choose the antonym for “willingness”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Reluctance
💡 Explanation: Willingness means being prepared to do something. Reluctance is the unwillingness to do it.
34. Choose the antonym for “dramatic”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Insignificant
💡 Explanation: Dramatic implies sudden, striking, and significant. Insignificant is its opposite.
35. Choose the antonym for “divided”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Unified
💡 Explanation: Divided means separated into parts. Unified means brought together as a whole.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What does the phrase “the gloves are off” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Ready to fight, playing hardball, getting tough
💡 Explanation: It means people are beginning to behave in a more aggressive or hostile way.
37. If someone has to “bear the brunt,” they must:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Suffer the worst part of a problematic situation
💡 Explanation: “Bear the brunt” means to suffer the worst of, or take the full force of an unpleasant event.
38. To “wipe out” means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Completely destroy or remove something
💡 Explanation: The phrasal verb “wipe out” means to eliminate, eradicate, or abolish entirely.
39. The phrasal verb “crack down on” means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Take severe measures against illegal behavior
💡 Explanation: To crack down on means to clamp down on, eliminate, or eradicate undesirable behavior.
40. To “point to” a better method means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Indicate, suggest, or denote
💡 Explanation: “Point to” is a phrasal verb meaning to show, suggest, or indicate a direction or idea.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. A general vote by the electorate on a single political question is called a:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Referendum
💡 Explanation: A referendum is a popular vote or plebiscite on a specific political question.
42. A person employed in taking a census of the population is known as an:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Enumerator
💡 Explanation: An enumerator is a census taker or pollster employed to collect data.
43. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives is a:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Republic
💡 Explanation: A republic is a constitutional nation or democratic state led by elected representatives.
44. A military force raised from the civil population is a:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Militia
💡 Explanation: A militia is a paramilitary or irregular force raised from the civil population.
45. An organized group of criminals is typically known as a:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Gang
💡 Explanation: A gang is an organized group of criminals, mob, or syndicate.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. An ______ method of counting caste may not yield usable data.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. open-ended
💡 Explanation: Based on the editorial title, an “open-ended” method of counting may not yield usable data.
47. The rehearsal for the second phase of Census 2027, ______ in 16 States…
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✓ Correct Answer: A. underway
💡 Explanation: “Underway” means in progress or going on, correctly describing the rehearsal.
48. Sri Lanka must do more to ______ order, prevent prison crowding.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. uphold
💡 Explanation: “Uphold order” means to maintain lawful behavior and discipline.
49. Authorities have transferred hundreds of remaining ______ to other prisons.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. inmates
💡 Explanation: “Inmates” refers to prisoners or captives transferred to other prisons.
50. A resurgent Iran signals a dramatic ______ in West Asian geopolitics.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. shift
💡 Explanation: “Shift” means a significant change or alteration in geopolitics.
51. The gloves are off and the ______ is in trouble as the US and Iran traded strikes.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. ceasefire
💡 Explanation: A “ceasefire” is a truce that is in trouble due to trading military strikes.
52. Mistakes and ______ will happen, but as the Bihar caste survey revealed…
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✓ Correct Answer: B. mismatches
💡 Explanation: “Mismatches” refers to discrepancies or inconsistencies in survey data.
53. The incident, one of the ______ prison riots in Sri Lanka…
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✓ Correct Answer: A. deadliest
💡 Explanation: “Deadliest” describes the fatal and severe nature of the prison riots.
54. Did the scenes witnessed ______ the image of a nation defeated?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. reflect
💡 Explanation: “Reflect” means to show, display, or demonstrate a specific image.
55. After more than 40 days of ______ attacks by the combined military power…
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✓ Correct Answer: A. sustained
💡 Explanation: “Sustained” attacks are continuous, prolonged, or ongoing military assaults.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. What is the noun form of the verb “escalate”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Escalation
💡 Explanation: “Escalation” is the noun form representing a rapid increase or intensification.
57. What is the adjective form of the noun “perception”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Perceived
💡 Explanation: “Perceived” serves as the adjective form (e.g., perceived attributes).
58. Identify the noun form of the verb “deploy”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Deployment
💡 Explanation: “Deployment” is the noun form indicating the movement or stationing of troops.
59. What is the adverb form associated with the word “apparent”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Apparently
💡 Explanation: “Apparently” is the adverb indicating that something is seemingly or ostensibly true.
60. Select the correct verb form for “enumeration”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Enumerate
💡 Explanation: “Enumerate” is the base verb meaning to count, list, or calculate.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Spot the error in the sentence: “The government says that it will then finalise the methodology for counted caste.”
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✓ Correct Answer: D. counted caste.
💡 Explanation: The preposition “for” must be followed by a gerund (“counting”), not the past participle “counted”.
62. Spot the error in the sentence: “The violence escalate on Monday, leaving more than two dozen dead.”
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The violence escalate
💡 Explanation: The action occurred in the past, so the verb must be in past tense: “escalated”.
63. Spot the error in the sentence: “A resurgent Iran signals a dramatic shift in West Asian geopolitic.”
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Asian geopolitic.
💡 Explanation: The correct noun form referring to the study of politics and geography is “geopolitics”.
64. Spot the error in the sentence: “The pre-test should instead pointed to a better method.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. pointed to a
💡 Explanation: The modal “should” must be followed by the base form of the verb (“point”), not “pointed”.
65. Spot the error in the sentence: “Authorities have linked the immediate triggered for the riots to the drug underworld.”
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✓ Correct Answer: B. the immediate triggered
💡 Explanation: The adjective “immediate” requires a noun, so it should be “trigger” instead of “triggered”.
66. Spot the error in the sentence: “The most prominently change is obviously the security architecture.”
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The most prominently
💡 Explanation: The noun “change” must be modified by an adjective (“prominent”), not an adverb.
67. Spot the error in the sentence: “Unliking the other identities, caste is an abstract identity.”
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Unliking the
💡 Explanation: The correct preposition expressing “in contrast to” is “unlike”, not “unliking”.
68. Spot the error in the sentence: “Some inmates reportedly grabbing arms from the guards.”
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✓ Correct Answer: B. reportedly grabbing
💡 Explanation: The sentence needs a finite past tense verb (“grabbed”) rather than a gerund/participle (“grabbing”).
69. Spot the error in the sentence: “The 1979 revolution was the culminate of a year-long protests.”
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✓ Correct Answer: B. was the culminate
💡 Explanation: The definite article “the” requires a noun (“culmination”), not the verb “culminate”.
70. Spot the error in the sentence: “The only rational is that self-perceived caste identity creates social inequities.”
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The only rational
💡 Explanation: The noun form meaning “underlying reason or logic” is “rationale”, not the adjective “rational”.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. corroborate
💡 Explanation: Corroborate means to confirm or verify.
72. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. resilience
💡 Explanation: Resilience is the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. overcrowded
💡 Explanation: Overcrowded means filled with too many people or things.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. hierarchy
💡 Explanation: Hierarchy refers to a ranking or grading class system.
75. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. assassinate
💡 Explanation: Assassinate means to murder an important person for political or religious reasons.
SECTION J/10: CLOZE TEST
Directions: Read the passage below and fill in the blanks (76-80) with the most appropriate words based on the supplied editorials.
The 1979 revolution was the (76) ______ of year-long protests against the Iranian (77) ______, ignited by multiple factors, mainly political (78) ______ and economic (79) ______. There was also a strong undercurrent to (80) ______ Iran’s cultural and religious legacy which had been suppressed.
76. Choose the correct word for blank (76).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. culmination
💡 Explanation: Culmination means the climax or highest point attained after a long time of protests.
77. Choose the correct word for blank (77).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. regime
💡 Explanation: A regime represents the administration or authoritarian government being protested against.
78. Choose the correct word for blank (78).
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✓ Correct Answer: C. repression
💡 Explanation: Political repression refers to the suppression or subjugation of citizens by the regime.
79. Choose the correct word for blank (79).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. hardships
💡 Explanation: Economic hardships indicate severe suffering, poverty, or privation experienced by the people.
80. Choose the correct word for blank (80).
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✓ Correct Answer: C. reclaim
💡 Explanation: To reclaim means to recover or retrieve the cultural legacy that had been previously suppressed.
Test Completed
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