Daily Vocabulary Test – 23 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. In the context of the political landscape, what does the term ‘precarity’ refer to?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The state of having insecure employment or income
💡 Explanation: Precarity means insecurity, instability, or vulnerability regarding employment and income.
2. What does the verb ‘cannibalise’ imply when applied to political entities?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. To take support away from an existing entity by introducing a competing one
💡 Explanation: To cannibalise is to eat into, siphon off, deplete, or erode support from an existing entity.
3. Which definition best explains ‘coalesce’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To come together to form one mass or whole
💡 Explanation: Coalesce means to merge, unite, join together, or combine into one mass.
4. The phrase “unceremonious dismissal” uses ‘unceremonious’ to mean:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Abrupt, sudden, undignified, or discourteous
💡 Explanation: Unceremonious describes an action that is abrupt, sudden, undignified, or lacking proper courtesy.
5. “A litany of grievances” refers to a list that is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A tedious recital or repetitive series
💡 Explanation: A litany is a tedious recital or repetitive series of something, such as complaints.
6. What does ‘insolvency’ mean in a business or project context?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A condition of financial ruin where debts cannot be paid
💡 Explanation: Insolvency is a condition of bankruptcy, liquidation, or financial ruin due to unpaid debts.
7. The term ‘counter-consolidation’ describes the act of:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Forming a unified opposition against an existing consolidated power
💡 Explanation: Counter-consolidation means opposing unification by forming a reactive consolidation or opposing coalition.
8. What does ‘apoliticism’ entail?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The state of being apathetic to or uninterested in political matters
💡 Explanation: Apoliticism is political neutrality, non-partisanship, lack of political interest, or political indifference.
9. “The intensity of the protests owes much to the government’s disinclination.” What is ‘disinclination’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A reluctance or lack of enthusiasm
💡 Explanation: Disinclination means reluctance, unwillingness, hesitation, or aversion to doing something.
10. If an outcome is described as ‘consequential’, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Having significant consequences; important, major, impactful
💡 Explanation: Consequential means following as a result or effect, or having major, impactful consequences.
11. A ‘perilous’ environment is one that is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Full of danger or risk; hazardous
💡 Explanation: Perilous means full of danger or risk; dangerous, hazardous, risky, unsafe.
12. When a movement begins to ‘crystallise’, it:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Makes or becomes definite and clear; solidifies
💡 Explanation: To crystallise means to solidify, materialize, take shape, or become definite and clear.
13. The word ‘psyche’ in a collective sense refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The human soul, mind, spirit, or subconscious
💡 Explanation: Psyche refers to the human soul, mind, spirit, subconscious, or inner self.
14. If an event is ‘reminiscent of’ a past occurrence, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Tending to remind one of something; evocative of
💡 Explanation: Reminiscent of means suggestive of, comparable to, evocative of, or tending to remind one of something.
15. What does ‘erosion’ refer to in the phrase “erosion of public trust”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. The gradual destruction or diminution; weakening
💡 Explanation: Erosion is the gradual destruction, wearing away, weakening, deterioration, or decline of something.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the closest synonym for ‘diametrically’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Fundamentally
💡 Explanation: Diametrically means completely or directly (e.g., diametrically opposite); absolutely, entirely, fundamentally.
17. Choose the closest synonym for ‘galvanise’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Stimulate
💡 Explanation: Galvanise means to stimulate, spur, inspire, electrify.
18. Choose the closest synonym for ‘avert’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Stave off
💡 Explanation: Avert means to prevent or ward off an undesirable occurrence; stave off, prevent, avoid.
19. Choose the closest synonym for ‘disgruntled’.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Aggrieved
💡 Explanation: Disgruntled means angry or dissatisfied; aggrieved, resentful, unhappy.
20. Choose the closest synonym for ‘expansive’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Comprehensive
💡 Explanation: Expansive means extensive, broad, wide-ranging, comprehensive.
21. Choose the closest synonym for ‘unprecedented’.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Unequalled
💡 Explanation: Unprecedented means never done or known before; unparalleled, unequalled, unmatched.
22. Choose the closest synonym for ‘stagnant’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Sluggish
💡 Explanation: Stagnant means showing no activity; dull and sluggish, inactive, static.
23. Choose the closest synonym for ‘lethal’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Mortal
💡 Explanation: Lethal means deadly, fatal, mortal, life-threatening.
24. Choose the closest synonym for ‘dynamism’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Vigor
💡 Explanation: Dynamism is the quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress; energy, vigor, vitality.
25. Choose the closest synonym for ‘deflect’.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Divert
💡 Explanation: Deflect means to divert, avert, turn away, sidetrack.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the antonym for ‘fragile’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Robust
💡 Explanation: Fragile means easily damaged or broken. Robust (sturdy, strong) is its opposite.
27. Choose the antonym for ‘sporadic’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Continuous
💡 Explanation: Sporadic means occasional, infrequent, irregular. Continuous is its antonym.
28. Choose the antonym for ‘intact’.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Impaired
💡 Explanation: Intact means not damaged or impaired in any way. Impaired is the direct antonym.
29. Choose the antonym for ‘outright’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Concealed
💡 Explanation: Outright means open and direct, not concealed. Concealed is its opposite.
30. Choose the antonym for ‘unceremonious’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Dignified
💡 Explanation: Unceremonious means abrupt, undignified, discourteous. Dignified is its antonym.
31. Choose the antonym for ‘disillusionment’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Enchantment
💡 Explanation: Disillusionment is a feeling of disappointment. Enchantment or satisfaction serves as the antonym.
32. Choose the antonym for ‘concede’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Resist
💡 Explanation: Concede means to surrender or yield under pressure. Resist is the antonym.
33. Choose the antonym for ‘orderly’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Chaotic
💡 Explanation: Orderly means neatly and methodically arranged. Chaotic represents the opposite.
34. Choose the antonym for ‘untidy’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Organized
💡 Explanation: Untidy means disorganized, messy, chaotic. Organized is its antonym.
35. Choose the antonym for ‘fizzle out’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Escalate
💡 Explanation: Fizzle out means to end in a weak or disappointing way; taper off. Escalate (snowball) is the antonym.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What does the phrase ‘stare someone in the face’ mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To be glaringly obvious or unavoidable; loom over
💡 Explanation: It means to be glaringly obvious or unavoidable, confronting directly.
37. If an individual has to ‘bear the brunt’ of a situation, they:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Suffer the worst part of an unpleasant or problematic situation
💡 Explanation: To bear the brunt means to suffer, endure, take the impact, or shoulder the burden.
38. What does it mean to ‘play second fiddle’?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. To take a subordinate or supporting role to someone or something else
💡 Explanation: It means to take a back seat, play a supporting role, be subordinate, defer to.
39. The phrase ‘wait out’ means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Patiently delay action until a specific event or situation comes to an end
💡 Explanation: ‘Wait out’ means to endure, sit out, ride out, or wait for the end of a situation.
40. “The Union Education Minister must own the failures on his watch.” What does ‘on one’s watch’ mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. During the time someone is in charge of or responsible for something
💡 Explanation: ‘On one’s watch’ means during one’s tenure, under one’s command, or in one’s term.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. A condition in which the financial difficulties of an organisation are such that it is unable to pay its debts is called:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Insolvency
💡 Explanation: Insolvency refers to bankruptcy, liquidation, or financial ruin due to unpaid debts.
42. A sudden and violent release of energy, often causing damage, is an:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Explosion
💡 Explanation: An explosion is a sudden and violent release of energy; blast, blowout, detonation.
43. The Sinhalese word referring to the mass public protests in Sri Lanka in 2022 that led to the resignation of the government is:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Aragalaya
💡 Explanation: Aragalaya is the Sinhalese word for ‘struggle’, referring to the 2022 Sri Lankan mass protests.
44. A sweeping movement, or the overarching storyline and trajectory of an event is known as an:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Arc
💡 Explanation: An arc represents a trajectory, curve, path, progression, or sweeping movement.
45. A set of resources, strategies, or tools designed to be used for a particular purpose is a:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Toolkit
💡 Explanation: A toolkit is a strategy kit, set of guidelines, resource pack, or action plan.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. The government is dealing with a new generation and its collective _______, requiring nuance rather than force.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. psyche
💡 Explanation: ‘Psyche’ refers to the human soul, mind, spirit, or subconscious of the generation.
47. Can the Congress do to the BJP what the BJP has done to the Congress over the years through _______ protests?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. apolitical
💡 Explanation: ‘Apolitical’ means not ostensibly interested or involved in politics; non-partisan.
48. The scenes from Delhi on July 20, when mostly young _______ were chased, highlight the crisis.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. demonstrators
💡 Explanation: ‘Demonstrators’ are protesters, marchers, or agitators.
49. The _______ of the protests also owes much to the Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s disinclination to address genuine concerns.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. intensity
💡 Explanation: ‘Intensity’ means strength, power, severity, or ferocity of the protests.
50. The NHPC has announced a _______ investigation into the Teesta Stage-VI hydroelectric project.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. detailed
💡 Explanation: ‘Detailed’ means comprehensive, exhaustive, thorough, or extensive investigation.
51. Underground work in India’s difficult _______ has always been perilous, demanding strict safety protocols.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. terrain
💡 Explanation: ‘Terrain’ is a stretch of land regarding its physical features; landscape, topography.
52. Dharmendra Pradhan must own the failures on his watch and resign. The alternative is an unceremonious _______.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. dismissal
💡 Explanation: ‘Dismissal’ implies removal, firing, sacking, or discharge from office.
53. The protests have _______ into a wider discontent over joblessness, stagnant wages, and rising prices.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. crystallised
💡 Explanation: ‘Crystallised’ means they have become definite and clear; solidified into wider discontent.
54. They represented sectional interests that the BJP could _______ as the other and amplify its own politics.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. isolate
💡 Explanation: ‘Isolate’ means to separate, detach, alienate, or segregate.
55. This approach is self-defeating as it will only _______ youth disillusionment with the democratic system itself.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. deepen
💡 Explanation: ‘Deepen’ means to make or become worse or more intense; intensify, exacerbate.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. What is the noun form of the verb ‘politicise’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Politicisation
💡 Explanation: ‘Politicisation’ is the noun representing the act of making an activity or event political in character.
57. Which of the following is the verb form of the noun ‘mobilisation’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Mobilise
💡 Explanation: ‘Mobilise’ is the verb form meaning to organize and encourage a group to take collective action.
58. What is the noun form of the adjective ‘perilous’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Peril
💡 Explanation: ‘Peril’ is the noun form representing serious and immediate danger.
59. What is the adjective form of the noun ‘disinclination’?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Disinclined
💡 Explanation: ‘Disinclined’ is the adjective describing someone who is unwilling or reluctant.
60. Which of the following is the noun form indicating the quality of being ‘lethal’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Lethality
💡 Explanation: ‘Lethality’ is the noun meaning the capacity to cause death or serious harm.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Read the following sentence to find if there is any grammatical error:
The government has sought to reduce the protests to a political duel with the Congress-led Opposition, and to deflecting attention from its failures.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. deflecting attention from its failures.
💡 Explanation: Parallel structure requires the base verb ‘deflect’ following ‘to’ (to reduce… and to deflect).
62. Spot the error:
Underground work in India’s difficult terrains have always been perilous due to fragile geology.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. have always been perilous
💡 Explanation: The singular uncountable subject ‘terrain’ should be used, followed by ‘has’ instead of ‘have’.
63. Spot the error:
The protests, which have drawn support beyond Delhi, is reminiscent of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. is reminiscent of
💡 Explanation: The plural subject ‘protests’ requires the plural verb ‘are’.
64. Spot the error:
It may even seek a counter-consolidation, as it did during the farmer’s and anti-CAA protests.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. it did during the farmer’s
💡 Explanation: The plural possessive ‘farmers” is required when referring to mass protests by many farmers.
65. Spot the error:
This is self-defeating as it will only deepens youth disillusionment with the democratic system itself.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. as it will only deepens
💡 Explanation: The modal auxiliary ‘will’ must be followed by the base form ‘deepen’, not ‘deepens’.
66. Spot the error:
The alternative is an unceremoniously dismissal for those who refuse to fall in line with the new mandates.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. unceremoniously dismissal for
💡 Explanation: The adjective ‘unceremonious’ is required to modify the noun ‘dismissal’, not an adverb.
67. Spot the error:
The success in North America is thus a full-circle moments for the team’s veterans.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. full-circle moments for
💡 Explanation: The article ‘a’ dictates that the singular noun ‘moment’ must be used instead of ‘moments’.
68. Spot the error:
A protest movement can lead to diametrical opposite outcomes depending on the circumstances.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. can lead to diametrical
💡 Explanation: The adverb ‘diametrically’ is needed to modify the adjective ‘opposite’.
69. Spot the error:
The long arcs of such apolitical protests has, so far, bent towards the erosion of public trust.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The long arcs of
💡 Explanation: The singular verb ‘has’ indicates the subject must be the singular ‘arc’ instead of ‘arcs’.
70. Spot the error:
Methane is a well-recognised hazards in underground excavation, and the geology of the Teesta basin makes it a likely one.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. hazards in underground
💡 Explanation: The article ‘a’ requires the singular noun ‘hazard’ rather than the plural ‘hazards’.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Disinclination
💡 Explanation: Disinclination means a reluctance or lack of enthusiasm.
72. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Cannibalise
💡 Explanation: Cannibalise means to take sales or support away from an existing product or entity.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Precarity
💡 Explanation: Precarity is the state of having insecure employment or income.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Unceremonious
💡 Explanation: Unceremonious means abrupt, sudden, undignified, or discourteous.
75. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Vulnerability
💡 Explanation: Vulnerability means susceptibility, weakness, defenselessness, or fragility.
SECTION J/10: CLOZE TEST
Directions (Questions 76-80): Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words from the options provided.
“The violent incidents (76)______ youth protests in Delhi were entirely avoidable. Issue-driven (77)______ by civil society groups tends to remain orderly so long as the government of the day (78)______ that it is willing to listen and engage with genuine concerns. The scenes from Delhi on July 20, when mostly young demonstrators were chased, tear-gassed, and baton-charged within (79)______ of the new Parliament building, with some allegedly struck by (80)______ guns…”
76. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (76).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. following
💡 Explanation: ‘Following’ means coming after or as a result of the youth protests.
77. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (77).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. mobilisation
💡 Explanation: ‘Mobilisation’ refers to the action of organizing and encouraging a group of people to take collective action.
78. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (78).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. signals
💡 Explanation: ‘Signals’ means to indicate, show, communicate, or point out to the public.
79. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (79).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. sight
💡 Explanation: ‘Within sight of’ is a phrase meaning close enough to see or be seen from a specific location.
80. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (80).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. pellet
💡 Explanation: A ‘pellet’ gun is a non-lethal weapon often used by security forces for crowd control.
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