Daily Vocabulary Test – 25 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. What does the term ‘prequalification’ precisely refer to in the context of the WHO and vaccines?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The process of evaluating a product against specified standards before formal approval or global procurement
💡 Explanation: Prequalification is an initial screening or preliminary assessment prior to formal approval.
2. What does ‘structural transformation’ signify in economic terms?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. The reallocation of economic activity across the broad sectors of an economy
💡 Explanation: It involves fundamental economic shifts, such as moving from agriculture to manufacturing or services.
3. Which of the following defines ‘unremunerated’ work?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Work that is not paid or rewarded; uncompensated
💡 Explanation: Unremunerated refers to unsalaried, free, or uncompensated labor, such as unpaid family work.
4. What does an ‘exogenous’ shock refer to?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A disruption developing or originating from outside an organism or system
💡 Explanation: Exogenous means external, outside, outward, or extrinsic, such as a global geopolitical crisis.
5. A ‘vigilante’ is best described as:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement without legal authority
💡 Explanation: Vigilantes operate outside the legal framework to enforce their own version of justice.
6. In public health policy, having “no cause for complacency” implies:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. There is no reason to be smug, self-satisfied, or uncritical about one’s achievements
💡 Explanation: It means there is no room for being overly relaxed, and continued vigilance is required.
7. In virology, what does Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) denote?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A phenomenon where binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, increasing severity
💡 Explanation: ADE leads to increased viral replication and disease severity, often complicating vaccine development.
8. What does ‘infiltrate’ mean in the context of political protests?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To enter or gain access to an organization or place surreptitiously and gradually
💡 Explanation: Infiltrate means to penetrate, slip into, sneak into, or invade secretly.
9. In nutritional terminology, ‘stunting’ refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Low height for age, typically indicating severe malnutrition
💡 Explanation: Stunted children have short heights for their age group due to dietary deficiency.
10. A ‘dengue-naïve’ individual is someone who:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Has never been infected with the dengue virus before
💡 Explanation: Dengue-naïve means uninfected, previously unexposed, or virus-free regarding dengue.
11. What does ‘cross-country’ evidence mean in economic research?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Evidence involving or comparing different countries; international or trans-national
💡 Explanation: Cross-country implies multinational, global, or involving different countries.
12. To ‘leer’ at someone means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Look or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way
💡 Explanation: Leering involves staring or looking lasciviously or maliciously.
13. What is a ‘serotype’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. A distinct variation within a species of bacteria or virus
💡 Explanation: A serotype is a virus strain, viral variant, or microorganism subtype.
14. ‘Mechanisation’ in agriculture primarily refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The introduction of machines or automatic devices into a process or activity
💡 Explanation: Mechanisation means automation, computerization, or machine dependency.
15. In pediatric health, ‘wasting’ refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Low weight for height due to acute malnutrition
💡 Explanation: Wasting (or thinness) denotes children who are dangerously thin for their height.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the closest synonym for ‘brutality’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Savagery
💡 Explanation: Brutality means savage physical violence; cruelty, savagery, viciousness.
17. Choose the closest synonym for ‘reluctance’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Disinclination
💡 Explanation: Reluctance means unwillingness, hesitation, resistance, disinclination.
18. Choose the closest synonym for ‘distress-driven’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Hardship-induced
💡 Explanation: Distress-driven means motivated or caused by financial or situational hardship.
19. Choose the closest synonym for ‘conventional’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Traditional
💡 Explanation: Conventional means traditional, standard, ordinary, or normal.
20. Choose the closest synonym for ‘sustain’ (as in prolonging an effort).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Prolong
💡 Explanation: Sustain means to maintain, prolong, keep up, or continue.
21. Choose the closest synonym for ‘crackdown’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Quelling
💡 Explanation: A crackdown is a series of severe measures; clampdown, suppression, repression, quelling.
22. Choose the closest synonym for ‘immense’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Colossal
💡 Explanation: Immense means vast, massive, huge, enormous, or colossal.
23. Choose the closest synonym for ‘uptake’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Acceptance
💡 Explanation: Uptake refers to the action of making use of something; utilization, consumption, acceptance.
24. Choose the closest synonym for ‘heartening’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Uplifting
💡 Explanation: Heartening means encouraging, cheering, uplifting, or reassuring.
25. Choose the closest synonym for ‘insecure’ (relating to employment).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Precarious
💡 Explanation: Insecure means precarious, unstable, uncertain, unprotected.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the antonym for ‘exogenous’.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Endogenous
💡 Explanation: Exogenous means originating from outside. Endogenous means internal or intrinsic.
27. Choose the antonym for ‘unremunerated’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Compensated
💡 Explanation: Unremunerated means not paid or rewarded. Compensated is the exact opposite.
28. Choose the antonym for ‘affordable’.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Exorbitant
💡 Explanation: Affordable means reasonably priced. Exorbitant means unreasonably high in price.
29. Choose the antonym for ‘complacency’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Vigilance
💡 Explanation: Complacency means being uncritical or overly relaxed. Vigilance requires active alertness.
30. Choose the antonym for ‘reluctance’.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Eagerness
💡 Explanation: Reluctance means unwillingness. Eagerness denotes enthusiastic readiness.
31. Choose the antonym for ‘unidentified’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Recognized
💡 Explanation: Unidentified means unknown or unnamed. Recognized means identified and known.
32. Choose the antonym for ‘massive’.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Minuscule
💡 Explanation: Massive means huge or immense. Minuscule means extremely small.
33. Choose the antonym for ‘seronegative’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Seropositive
💡 Explanation: Seronegative indicates the absence of specific antibodies. Seropositive indicates their presence.
34. Choose the antonym for ‘informal’ (as an employment sector).
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Regulated
💡 Explanation: Informal work is officially unrecognized or unorganized. Regulated or formal work is its opposite.
35. Choose the antonym for ‘slowdown’.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Acceleration
💡 Explanation: A slowdown is a decline or deceleration in economic activity. Acceleration is an increase in pace.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What does the phrase ‘fall through the cracks’ mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Being missed, neglected, or ignored by a system that is supposed to provide care
💡 Explanation: It refers to being overlooked, neglected, slipping through the net, or being forgotten.
37. If something is ‘on public display’, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Clearly shown or exposed for everyone to see; in plain view
💡 Explanation: It means manifested publicly, out in the open, and visible to all.
38. The phrase ‘head back home’ signifies:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To return to one’s residence or place of origin; retreat
💡 Explanation: It simply means to go back, retreat, or return to origin.
39. To be ‘at greatest risk’ means to be:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Highly vulnerable, most susceptible, or in extreme danger
💡 Explanation: It denotes being highly exposed and highly susceptible to harm or danger.
40. What does the phrasal verb ‘shift away from’ indicate?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To change focus or movement from one thing to another; transition
💡 Explanation: To shift away from means to move from, transition from, divert from, or turn away from.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. The act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender; currency invalidation is termed:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Demonetisation
💡 Explanation: Demonetisation is the act of stripping a currency of its legal tender status (note ban).
42. A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority is a:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Vigilante
💡 Explanation: A vigilante undertakes law enforcement without legal authority.
43. Domestic fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, are collectively referred to as:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Poultry
💡 Explanation: Poultry refers to domestic birds kept for eggs or meat.
44. A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases is a:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Vaccine
💡 Explanation: A vaccine is an inoculation, immunization, or jab.
45. A lack of proper nutrition; undernourishment or dietary deficiency is known as:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Malnutrition
💡 Explanation: Malnutrition is dietary deficiency or underfeeding.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. Women’s employment is essential for growth, _________, and achieving Viksit Bharat goals.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. productivity
💡 Explanation: ‘Productivity’ reflects the effectiveness of productive effort, heavily influenced by female labor.
47. The _________ of the total amount spent by families on the NEET examination coaching alone is as much as the Modi government invests in public education.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. proportion
💡 Explanation: ‘Proportion’ accurately indicates a fraction or amount of the total spending.
48. The CDSCO’s approval of the Qdenga dengue vaccine is evidence of better _________ as well.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. surveillance
💡 Explanation: ‘Surveillance’ indicates close observation or monitoring of the disease.
49. In 2019, personnel of the Delhi Police entered the library of Jamia Millia Islamia and _________ students during the protests.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. beat up
💡 Explanation: ‘Beat up’ means to assault or attack someone violently, matching the context of police brutality.
50. A similar _________ persists among Millennials regarding job opportunities.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. disparity
💡 Explanation: ‘Disparity’ means a great difference, inequality, or imbalance.
51. Many rural women _________ from the workforce due to mechanisation and reduced demand for manual labour.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. withdrew
💡 Explanation: ‘Withdrew’ implies pulling out, retreating, or leaving the workforce.
52. Instead of _________ with understanding to our future doctors and engineers, it unleashed the repressive power of the state on them.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. reaching out
💡 Explanation: ‘Reaching out’ means trying to communicate, contact, or engage with someone constructively.
53. The four antigenically _________ dengue serotypes pose a massive challenge for vaccine development.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. distinct
💡 Explanation: ‘Distinct’ signifies that the serotypes are separate, different, and dissimilar.
54. To ensure sufficient _________ among the populations at greatest risk, the government must negotiate a lower price.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. uptake
💡 Explanation: ‘Uptake’ means the action of taking up or making use of something, such as accepting a vaccine.
55. Some protesters have sustained _________ injuries that the police and the authorities have yet to explain.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. pellet
💡 Explanation: ‘Pellet’ refers to the small projectiles fired by crowd-control guns used by authorities.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. What is the noun form of the adjective ‘vulnerable’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Vulnerability
💡 Explanation: Vulnerability is the noun form indicating susceptibility or defenselessness.
57. Which of the following is the adjective form of the noun ‘mechanisation’?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Mechanised
💡 Explanation: Mechanised is the adjective form describing something equipped with machinery.
58. What is the noun form of the adjective ‘affordable’?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Affordability
💡 Explanation: Affordability is the noun referring to the quality of being cheap enough to be paid for.
59. What is the base verb form of the noun ‘participation’?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Participate
💡 Explanation: Participate is the base verb meaning to take part in an action or event.
60. What is the abstract noun form of the adjective ‘productive’?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Productivity
💡 Explanation: Productivity represents the abstract concept of effectiveness of productive effort.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Read the following sentence to find if there is any grammatical error:
The four antigenically distinct dengue serotypes and the possibility of a second infection by a different serotype producing more severe disease through antibody-dependent enhancement means that an effective shot has to induce strong immunity against all four at once.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. through antibody-dependent enhancement means that
💡 Explanation: The compound subject connected by ‘and’ (“serotypes” and “possibility”) is plural, so it should be ‘mean’, not ‘means’.
62. Spot the error:
Instead of reach out with understanding to our future doctors and engineers, it unleashed the repressive power of the state on them.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Instead of reach out
💡 Explanation: The preposition ‘of’ must be followed by a gerund, so it should be ‘reaching out’.
63. Spot the error:
The share of such works were falling from 1983 to 2012, as was the absolute number of women in such work.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. such works were falling
💡 Explanation: The main subject is ‘The share’, which is singular. Thus, it must be ‘was falling’.
64. Spot the error:
With high-quality, affordable public education inaccessible, families in India has been forced to spend out of pocket to educate their children.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. families in India has been forced to spend
💡 Explanation: ‘Families’ is plural and requires the plural auxiliary verb ‘have been forced’.
65. Spot the error:
Following the brutal crackdown on the university campus, no serious investigation or arrests has followed.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. arrests has followed.
💡 Explanation: In an “or” construction, the verb agrees with the closest subject (‘arrests’). It should be ‘have followed’.
66. Spot the error:
The old toolkit of labelling any and every dissent as anti-national have been repurposed to tar the student agitation.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. have been repurposed to tar
💡 Explanation: The true subject is ‘toolkit’, which is singular, requiring ‘has been repurposed’.
67. Spot the error:
To ensure sufficient uptake among the populations at greatest risk, the government must negotiates a lower price.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. the government must negotiates
💡 Explanation: A modal auxiliary (‘must’) is always followed by the base form of the verb (‘negotiate’).
68. Spot the error:
However, this trend begun to decline as economic growth and structural transformation led to a shift away from agriculture.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. However, this trend begun
💡 Explanation: ‘Begun’ is a past participle. The simple past tense ‘began’ is required here.
69. Spot the error:
The proportion of the total amount spent by families on the NEET examination coaching alone are as much as the Modi government invests in public education in total.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. are as much as the Modi government invests
💡 Explanation: The subject ‘The proportion’ is singular, therefore the verb must be ‘is’, not ‘are’.
70. Spot the error:
This is a critical question, especially since women are now much more better educated than earlier.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. much more better educated than earlier.
💡 Explanation: ‘More better’ is an incorrect double comparative. It should simply be ‘much better educated’.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Prequalification
💡 Explanation: Prequalification is the process of evaluating a product against specified standards.
72. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Mechanisation
💡 Explanation: Mechanisation (or mechanization) is the introduction of machines into a process.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Surveillance
💡 Explanation: Surveillance refers to close observation or monitoring, especially of disease outbreaks.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Unremunerated
💡 Explanation: Unremunerated refers to labor that is unpaid or not rewarded.
75. Choose the correctly spelled word.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Commercialisation
💡 Explanation: Commercialisation is the process of running something principally for financial gain.
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 massive (76)______ by the Delhi Police, and unidentified people, on student protesters in the national capital clearly breached all known (77)______ of crowd control. After its initial (78)______, the Supreme Court of India has now agreed to hear complaints of police (79)______ on Monday, July 27. Meanwhile, multiple video clips that have (80)______ online show personnel, both in uniform and in normal clothes, using violence…”
76. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (76).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. use of force
💡 Explanation: ‘Use of force’ fits contextually with the deployment of violence by police mentioned.
77. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (77).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. protocols
💡 Explanation: ‘Protocols’ refer to accepted rules or standard operating procedures for crowd control.
78. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (78).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. reluctance
💡 Explanation: ‘Reluctance’ means unwillingness or hesitation, indicating the Court’s initial delay.
79. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (79).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. excesses
💡 Explanation: ‘Excesses’ refers to outrageous behavior or abuses of power by the police.
80. Choose the most appropriate word for blank (80).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. surfaced
💡 Explanation: ‘Surfaced’ means to emerge, appear, or come to light, which fits video clips appearing online.
Test Completed
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