Daily Vocabulary Test – 15 July 2026
✓ Editorials Covered: 3
✓ Total Questions: 80
✓ Difficulty: Tough–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 political change, what does the word “disruptive” signify?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Causing a major and fundamental change in the existing system or structure
💡 Explanation: Disruptive implies a game-changing, revolutionary, or transformative impact on the established order.
2. How is the term “untangled” used in the context of international rivalries?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Freed from a twisted, complicated, or entangled state
💡 Explanation: Untangled means to be clear, uninvolved, separated, or detached from complex disputes.
3. What does the word “superlative” mean when describing a sports performance?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Of the highest quality or degree
💡 Explanation: Superlative means outstanding, excellent, magnificent, or unsurpassed in quality.
4. Which definition best fits the word “inheritor” in a political context?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A successor or recipient entitled to take over a legacy
💡 Explanation: An inheritor is an heir, successor, or the next in line to receive something.
5. What does the term “turmoil” indicate about the global economic environment?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. A state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty
💡 Explanation: Turmoil denotes disorder, turbulence, chaos, and instability.
6. If questions are said to be “aplenty”, it means they are:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Available in large amounts or in abundance
💡 Explanation: Aplenty means occurring in abundance, plentiful, or numerous.
7. To “recalibrate” political communication means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Re-examine or reassess something, and make adjustments accordingly
💡 Explanation: Recalibrate means to reassess, re-evaluate, adjust, or modify an existing approach.
8. What does “interoperability” signify among armed forces?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The ability of military forces or systems from different countries to operate together effectively
💡 Explanation: It refers to operational compatibility and seamless coordination between different forces.
9. A “compatriot” in the context of international sports refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A fellow citizen or national of the same country
💡 Explanation: A compatriot is a fellow countrywoman, countryman, or national.
10. In governance, “transparency” refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The condition of being open, clear, and accountable
💡 Explanation: Transparency ensures openness, clarity, straightforwardness, and accountability in actions.
11. What is the goal of supply-chain “diversification”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The act of creating or sourcing a variety of things to reduce reliance on a single source
💡 Explanation: Diversification means spreading out or branching out to minimize dependency risks.
12. The term “resilience” in a competitive context describes:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties
💡 Explanation: Resilience is the toughness, hardiness, or fighting spirit needed to bounce back.
13. In political science, a “hierarchy” is defined as:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A system in which members are ranked according to relative status or authority
💡 Explanation: A hierarchy involves ranking, order, or a class system determining authority levels.
14. If a decision is described as “consequential”, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Having significant or important consequences
💡 Explanation: Consequential means significant, important, major, or momentous in its impact.
15. Data that is “indicative” of a trend is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Serving as a sign or indication of something
💡 Explanation: Indicative means suggestive, expressive, or representative of a larger reality.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the closest synonym for “consolidate”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Strengthen
💡 Explanation: To consolidate means to make physically stronger or more solid; to reinforce or stabilize.
17. Choose the closest synonym for “wilt”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Languish
💡 Explanation: To wilt means to lose energy or weaken under pressure, similar to fade or languish.
18. Choose the closest synonym for “entrust”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Delegate
💡 Explanation: To entrust is to assign responsibility to someone, synonymous with delegate or authorize.
19. Choose the closest synonym for “lingering”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Persisting
💡 Explanation: Lingering means lasting for a long time or slow to end; enduring or persisting.
20. Choose the closest synonym for “fetch”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Yield
💡 Explanation: To fetch in this context means to bring or secure as a result; to yield or earn.
21. Choose the closest synonym for “frivolous”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Superficial
💡 Explanation: Frivolous means not having any serious purpose; silly, trivial, or superficial.
22. Choose the closest synonym for “manifest”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Exhibit
💡 Explanation: To manifest is to display or show a quality; demonstrate or exhibit.
23. Choose the closest synonym for “culminate”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Climax
💡 Explanation: To culminate is to reach a point of highest development; peak, end, or climax.
24. Choose the closest synonym for “insulated”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Shielded
💡 Explanation: Insulated means protected from outside influences; sheltered, isolated, or shielded.
25. Choose the closest synonym for “vital”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Crucial
💡 Explanation: Vital means absolutely necessary or important; essential, indispensable, or crucial.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “steady”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Unstable
💡 Explanation: Steady means firmly fixed or balanced. Unstable is the direct opposite.
27. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “top-notch”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Inferior
💡 Explanation: Top-notch means of the highest quality. Inferior denotes lower quality.
28. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “decentralised”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Centralized
💡 Explanation: Decentralised spreads power across nodes, while centralized concentrates it in one authority.
29. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “certainty”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Unpredictability
💡 Explanation: Certainty means firm conviction. Unpredictability or doubt represents the opposite state.
30. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “inclusive”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Exclusive
💡 Explanation: Inclusive contains all groups; exclusive or restrictive leaves certain groups out.
31. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “preceding”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Subsequent
💡 Explanation: Preceding means coming before in time. Subsequent means coming after.
32. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “anti-establishment”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Conventional
💡 Explanation: Anti-establishment opposes ruling principles. Conventional or pro-establishment supports them.
33. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “open” (adjective).
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Restricted
💡 Explanation: Open means allowing access. Restricted implies barriers or limits to access.
34. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “distinguished”.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Obscure
💡 Explanation: Distinguished means successful and respected. Obscure implies being unknown or unremarkable.
35. Choose the most appropriate antonym for “confrontational”.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Cooperative
💡 Explanation: Confrontational means dealing aggressively. Cooperative implies working together peacefully.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What does it mean to “keep someone on tenterhooks”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To keep someone in a state of suspense or anxiety
💡 Explanation: The phrase means keeping someone anxious, edgy, or in suspense about what will happen.
37. If a competitor can “hold one’s head high”, they:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Remain proud and dignified, especially after a failure or defeat
💡 Explanation: It means to maintain one’s self-respect and dignity despite losing or failing.
38. To be “in the limelight” means to be:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. At the center of public attention or interest
💡 Explanation: Being in the limelight means being in the public eye or taking center stage.
39. A “fresh turn” in bilateral relations signifies:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A new direction or new phase in a process
💡 Explanation: A fresh turn implies taking a novel approach or starting a new phase.
40. To be “at the forefront of” an initiative means to be:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. In the leading or most important position
💡 Explanation: It means spearheading, pioneering, or being at the helm of an activity.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. A fellow citizen or national of a country is known as a:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Compatriot
💡 Explanation: A compatriot is a fellow countryman, countrywoman, or national.
42. The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Logistics
💡 Explanation: Logistics refers to the organization, planning, and coordination of complex operations.
43. A continuous period of specified success or luck in a sporting event:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Streak
💡 Explanation: A streak is a run, spell, or continuous period of success or luck.
44. The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and handle interpersonal relationships empathetically:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Emotional intelligence
💡 Explanation: Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage emotions and interpersonal relationships judiciously.
45. A temporary agreement to stop fighting or arguing:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Truce
💡 Explanation: A truce is a ceasefire, armistice, or suspension of hostilities.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. The visits ________ an increased emphasis on strategic aspects of the Indo-Pacific alliance.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. underscored
💡 Explanation: To underscore means to emphasize or highlight that something is important.
47. The success was also Sinner’s tenth ________ victory over Zverev.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. consecutive
💡 Explanation: Consecutive means following each other continuously in a row.
48. Political leaders who fail to recognise this shift increasingly risk ________.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. irrelevance
💡 Explanation: Failing to adapt risks irrelevance, meaning becoming insignificant or unimportant.
49. India has to manage the uncertainties and ________ well to be able to protect its vital interests.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. volatility
💡 Explanation: Volatility refers to instability and rapid, unpredictable changes.
50. It was no different this year as Linda Noskova became the tenth different women’s singles winner at SW19 in as many ________.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. years
💡 Explanation: The phrase “in as many years” means over the same span of years just mentioned.
51. Young citizens are no longer waiting quietly at the ________ of democracy.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. edges
💡 Explanation: “At the edges of” means on the periphery or margins of mainstream society.
52. An immediate and consequential ________ was Australia’s decision to allow uranium exports.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. outcome
💡 Explanation: Outcome denotes the result or consequence of a diplomatic event or discussion.
53. Alexander Zverev in the final, the World No. 1 ________ the doubters in the best possible fashion.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. silenced
💡 Explanation: To silence doubters means to cause them to stop criticizing by proving them wrong.
54. The problem is not ________ — it is institutional distrust among the youth.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. apathy
💡 Explanation: Apathy is a lack of interest; the youth are not apathetic, but rather they distrust institutions.
55. India shares with Australia and New Zealand a concern about maintaining ________ and predictability.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. stability
💡 Explanation: Stability refers to the state of being steady and free from drastic change.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. What is the noun form of the adjective “disruptive”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Disruption
💡 Explanation: Disruption is the noun form denoting a significant interruption or structural change.
57. Which of the following is the adjective form of the noun “strategy”?
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Strategic
💡 Explanation: Strategic is the adjective form relating to long-term advantage or planning.
58. Select the noun form of the verb “consolidate”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Consolidation
💡 Explanation: Consolidation is the act of making something physically stronger or more unified.
59. What is the adverb form of the adjective “steady”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Steadily
💡 Explanation: Steadily is the adverb form meaning in a regular, even, and consistent manner.
60. Identify the verb form corresponding to the noun “emergence”.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Emerge
💡 Explanation: Emerge is the base verb meaning to become apparent or come into existence.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Spot the error in the sentence: “The problem is not apathy — it is institutional distrusts.”
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✓ Correct Answer: D. distrusts.
💡 Explanation: Distrust is an uncountable abstract noun in this context. It should be “institutional distrust”.
62. Spot the error in the sentence: “Consistency marking the men’s draw, and shocks and surprises the women’s.”
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✓ Correct Answer: B. marking the men’s draw,
💡 Explanation: The sentence requires the past tense finite verb “marked” instead of the participle “marking”.
63. Spot the error in the sentence: “India’s relations with both countries have traditionally been large economic and people-centric.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. been large economic
💡 Explanation: The adverb “largely” is needed to modify the adjective “economic”.
64. Spot the error in the sentence: “They respond to accessibility, authenticity, responsiveness, humours, and emotional intelligence.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. responsiveness, humours,
💡 Explanation: In this context, “humour” is an uncountable noun and should not be pluralized as “humours”.
65. Spot the error in the sentence: “This broader shift mirrors development elsewhere in South Asia.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. development elsewhere
💡 Explanation: The text refers to specific multiple events, thus requiring the plural form “developments”.
66. Spot the error in the sentence: “The visits reflected New Delhi’s attempt to strengthens the southern arc.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. to strengthens
💡 Explanation: The infinitive marker “to” must be followed by the base verb form “strengthen”.
67. Spot the error in the sentence: “The women’s game has had a more even spreads of champions.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. even spreads
💡 Explanation: The singular article “a” requires the singular noun “spread”, not “spreads”.
68. Spot the error in the sentence: “Young citizens are no longer waiting quietly at the edge of democracy.”
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✓ Correct Answer: D. edge of democracy.
💡 Explanation: The precise phrase from the editorial context is “at the edges of democracy”.
69. Spot the error in the sentence: “Both countries will also find new avenue of cooperation on critical minerals.”
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✓ Correct Answer: C. avenue of cooperation
💡 Explanation: The plural context implies multiple paths, thus it should be “avenues of cooperation”.
70. Spot the error in the sentence: “But with two superlative performances, the World No. 1 silence the doubters.”
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✓ Correct Answer: D. silence the doubters.
💡 Explanation: Since this refers to a past completed action, the verb must be in the past tense: “silenced”.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. decentralised
💡 Explanation: Decentralised denotes the distribution of power away from a central entity.
72. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. interoperability
💡 Explanation: Interoperability is the ability of different systems to work together effectively.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. pulsating
💡 Explanation: Pulsating means very exciting and thrilling.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. cybersecurity
💡 Explanation: Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting computer networks and data.
75. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. authenticity
💡 Explanation: Authenticity refers to the quality of being genuine and true.
SECTION J/10: CLOZE TEST
Directions: Read the passage below and fill in the blanks (76-80) using the exact vocabulary from the supplied editorial.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to Australia and New Zealand (76) ______ yet another step in India’s efforts to (77) ______ partnerships across the Indo-Pacific. India’s relations with both countries have traditionally been largely economic and (78) ______, but the visits (79) ______ an increased emphasis on (80) ______ aspects.
76. Choose the correct word for blank (76).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. marked
💡 Explanation: “Marked” is used here to signify or indicate a particular phase or event.
77. Choose the correct word for blank (77).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. consolidate
💡 Explanation: “Consolidate” fits the context of making diplomatic partnerships stronger and more solid.
78. Choose the correct word for blank (78).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. people-centric
💡 Explanation: The relations have been “people-centric,” focusing on the public and human connections.
79. Choose the correct word for blank (79).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. underscored
💡 Explanation: To “underscore” means to highlight or emphasize a point, precisely fitting the new shift.
80. Choose the correct word for blank (80).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. strategic
💡 Explanation: The “strategic” aspects relate to long-term political, military, and economic advantages.
Test Completed
You have completed today’s Editorial Words Daily Vocabulary Test.