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English - 01 (Vocabulary Test): Word Meaning, Synonyms & Antonyms [A to L]
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Choose the word most similar in meaning to the given word:
'Valediction'
  1. ক) Radical
  2. খ) Farewell
  3. গ) Salutation
  4. ঘ) Welcome
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The correct answer is option: B) farewell.
Valediction (Noun)
English Meaning: the action of saying farewell.
Bangla Meaning: বিদায়সম্ভাষণ।
Synonym: farewell, goodbye, adieu, leave-taking, parting, send-off vale
Antonym: salutation, welcome

Source: Oxford Dictionary
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Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the given word:
Subtle
  1. ক) Devious
  2. খ) Precise
  3. গ) Beguiling
  4. ঘ) Plain
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Subtle ( Adjective)
English Meaning: (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe.
Example Sentence: his language expresses rich and subtle meanings.
Synonym for subtle: artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious.
Near antonym for subtle: obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed.

Source: Merriam-webster Dictionary
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Choose the option which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Coherence
  1. ক) The quality of being impartial
  2. খ) The quality of being logical
  3. গ) The quality of being honest
  4. ঘ) The quality of being quick
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Coherence (Noun)
Meaning: The quality of being logical and consistent.
Example Sentence: This raises further questions on the coherence of state policy.
Synonym: consistency, logicality, good sense, soundness, organization, orderliness, unity
clarity, articulacy
Source: Oxford Dictionary
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Which one is the best opposite meaning word to the underlined word:
This tonic serves to vitalise your hairs.
  1. ক) Shorten
  2. খ) Enfeeble
  3. গ) Repress
  4. ঘ) Clamour
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Vitalise (adjective):
Meaning: Give strength and energy to.
Bengali meaning: প্রাণশক্তিতে পূর্ণ করা; প্রাণিত করা।

Synonym: Strengthen, Energize, Enliven, Liven up.
Antonym: burn out, debilitate, do in, drain, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust.

The Bengali meaning of the following words:
Enfeeble: দুর্বল করা।
Shorten: ছোট/সংক্ষিপ্ত হওয়া বা করা; খাটো করা; খর্ব করা।
Repress: দমিয়ে রাখা; চেপে রাখা।
Clamour: উচ্চ কলরব (বিশেষত নালিশ, দাবি প্রভৃতি জানানোর জন্য)।

Question Sentence: This tonic serves to vitalise your hairs.
বাক্যের অর্থঃ এই টনিকটি আপনার চুলকে প্রাণবন্ত করে তোলে।

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam-webster Dictionary & Bangla Academy Dictionary.
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Choose the word which is closest in meaning to the underlined word:
He decided to deceive the tax authorities.
  1. ক) Puzzle
  2. খ) Confuse
  3. গ) Bamboozle
  4. ঘ) Target
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Deceive (Verb)
Meaning: Deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain.
Near Synonym:
- bamboozle,
- beguile,
- bluff,
- buffalo,
- burn,
- delude,
- dupe,
- fake out

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam-webster Dictionary
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What would be the right synonym for ''serendipity''?
  1. ক) Tranquility
  2. খ) Emancipation
  3. গ) Apathy
  4. ঘ) Fortuity
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Serendipity (NOUN)
Meaning: the fact of something interesting or pleasant happening by chance.
Bengali Meaning: দৈবক্রমে শুভ ও অপ্রত্যাশিত আবিষ্কার; দৈবপ্রাপ্তিযোগ
Synonym: fluke, happy chance, happy accident, fortuity, happy coincidence

Source: Oxford Dictionary and Bangla Academy Dictionary
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Amendments have been added to ___ local pressure groups.
  1. ক) exasperate
  2. খ) ruffle
  3. গ) appease
  4. ঘ) antagonize
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Appease (Verb)
Meaning: Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands.
Example Sentence: amendments have been added to appease local pressure groups.
Bangla Meaning: স্থানীয় চাপ গোষ্ঠীকে তুষ্ট করার জন্য সংশোধনী যুক্ত করা হয়েছে।
Synonym: assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate
Antonym: aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, cross, exasperate.
Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam-webster Dictionary
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Which one is the correct antonym of ''Impound''?
  1. ক) Stimulate
  2. খ) Incarcerate
  3. গ) Imprison
  4. ঘ) discharge
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Impound (Verb)
Meaning: Lock up (someone)
Bengali meaning: আইন বা ক্ষমতাবলে দখল করা; আটক/ক্রোক করা।
Example Sentence: Almost forgotten were the poor unfortunates impounded in the prison.
Synonym: Lock-up, Incarcerate, Imprison.
Antonym: emancipate, enfranchise, manumit, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter
discharge, free, liberate, release.

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary & Bangla Academy Dictionary.
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Select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Discreet
  1. ক) Described
  2. খ) Careful
  3. গ) Rash
  4. ঘ) Mundane
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Discreet ( Adjective)
Meaning: Careful and prudent in one's speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment.
Synonym:
- careful,
- circumspect,
- cautious,
- wary,
- chary,
- guarded,
- close-lipped,
- close-mouthed
Source: Oxford Dictionary
১০.
Policies have to be reformulated and alliances rebuilt in a serious, transparent and sober manner.
What is the synonym of the underlined word?
  1. ক) Frantic
  2. খ) Solemn
  3. গ) Unruly
  4. ঘ) Generous
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Sober (Adjective)
Meaning: Serious, sensible, and solemn.
Synonym: serious, sensible, solemn, thoughtful, grave, sombre, severe, earnest, sedate, staid, dignified, steady, level-headed, serious-minded, businesslike, down-to-earth, commonsensical, pragmatic, self-controlled, restrained, conservative.

Source: Oxford Dictionary and Accessible Dictionary by Bangla Academy.
১১.
Which word has the opposite meaning of ‘defiance’?
  1. ক) disobedience
  2. খ) subservience
  3. গ) contumacy
  4. ঘ) insubordination
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Defiant (adjective)
Meaning: Open resistance; bold disobedience.
Synonyms: balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination
Antonym: agreeability, amenability, amiability, slavishness, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, trainability
deference, docility, dutifulness

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary 
১২.
Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word in question.
Cessation
  1. ক) Extension
  2. খ) Arrestment
  3. গ) Closedown
  4. ঘ) Interruption
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Cessation (Noun)
Meaning: The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.
Synonyms: arrest, arrestment, cease, check, close, closedown, closure, conclusion
Near Antonyms for cessation: extension, persistence, prolongation

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
১৩.
Choose the word which best expresses nearly the same meaning of the given word.
PROLIFIC
  1. ক) Profane
  2. খ) Idle
  3. গ) Repudiate
  4. ঘ) Productive
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Prolific (Adjective)
Meaning: (of an artist, author, or composer) producing many works.
Example Sentence: He was a prolific composer of operas.
Synonym: productive, creative, inventive, fertile.

Source: Oxford Dictionary
১৪.
Don’t eat just any innocuous looking mushroom you see around.
The antonym word of the underlined word is -
  1. ক) Innocent
  2. খ) Venomous
  3. গ) Harmless
  4. ঘ) Conspicuous
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Innocuous (adj):
Meaning: Not harmful or offensive.
Bengali meaning: অনপকারী; নির্বিষ
Synonym: anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, inoffensive, safe
Antonym: poisonous, venomous, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling.
Source: Oxford Dictionary & Bangla Academy Dictionary.
১৫.
Select the most appropriate antonym of the word.
Confront
  1. ক) Oppose
  2. খ) Evade
  3. গ) Encounter
  4. ঘ) Meet
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Confront (Verb)
Meaning: Come face to face with (someone) with hostile or argumentative intent.
Synonym: challenge, square up to, oppose, resist, defy, beard, tackle, attack, assault, approach
Antonym:  avoid, eschew, escape, evade, shake

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
১৬.
Choose the word which best expresses nearly the same meaning of the given word.
SARDONIC
  1. ক) Waggish
  2. খ) Threatening
  3. গ) Mocking
  4. ঘ) Bland
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Sardonic (Adjective)
Meaning: Grimly mocking or cynical.
Synonym: mocking, satirical, sarcastic, ironical, ironic, cynical, scornful, contemptuous, derisive, derisory,
Near Antonyms for sardonic: amusing, droll, merry, playful, sportive, waggish.

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
১৭.
Which has the opposite meaning of ‘meticulous’?
  1. ক) Careful
  2. খ) Cursory
  3. গ) Thorough
  4. ঘ) Vigilant
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Meticulous (Adjective)
Meaning: Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
Synonyms: careful, conscientious, diligent, ultra-careful, scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking.
Near Antonyms for meticulous: cursory, halfhearted, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, regardless.

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
১৮.
Choose the closest meaning of underlined words:
The attacking army has closed off all the exits so no one could leave the beleaguered city.
  1. ক) Destroyed
  2. খ) Besieged
  3. গ) Exhausted
  4. ঘ) Haphazard
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beleaguered (Adjective)
Meaning:
- (of a place) surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender; besieged.
- He led a relief force to the aid of the beleaguered city.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
১৯.
In the following question, out of the four given alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Evanescent
  1. ক) Brief
  2. খ) Deciduous
  3. গ) Ephemeral,
  4. ঘ) Everlasting
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Evanescent (Adjective)
Meaning: mainly literary soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
Synonyms: brief, deciduous, ephemeral, flash
Antonyms: ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
২০.
Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
FLIMSY
  1. ক) Funny
  2. খ) Irrational
  3. গ) Fragile
  4. ঘ) Partisan
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Flimsy (Adjective)
Meaning: A succession of great waves had carried away all the flimsy wooden buildings.
Synonym: insubstantial, slight, light, fragile, breakable, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery.

Source: Oxford Dictionary
২১.
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
To get into a university, he had to take an assessment.
  1. ক) Test
  2. খ) Approval
  3. গ) Accommodation
  4. ঘ) Flight
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Assessment means the action of evaluating or estimating the nature, ability, or quality of.
Test - take measures to check the quality, performance, or reliability of something.
Approval - the action of officially agreeing to or accepting as satisfactory.
Accommodation - the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something.
Flight - an act of flying; a journey made through the air or in space; an action of fleeing.
Out of these, only Test expresses the meaning intended by Assessment.
২২.
Select the one which is opposite in the meaning of the given word.
Heed
  1. ক) Follow
  2. খ) Listen
  3. গ) Watch
  4. ঘ) Neglect
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Heed (Verb)
Meaning: Pay attention to; take notice of.
Example Sentence: He should have heeded the warnings.
Synonym: follow, listen (to), mind, note, observe, regard, watch
Antonym: brush (aside or off), discount, dismiss, gloss (over), gloze (over), neglect, pass over

Source: Oxford Dictionary, Merriam - Webster Dictionary
২৩.
Choose the correct meaning of the underlined word:
Steps are being taken to expedite the process of selecting good officers.
  1. ক) Accelerate
  2. খ) Produce
  3. গ) Predict
  4. ঘ) Reduce
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Expedite: To speed up the process; more quickly.
Accelerate: Begin to move more quickly.
Thus, it is clear that both words have a similar meaning and are synonyms.
২৪.
Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined words in the sentence.
He is a very hard working man.
  1. ক) Diligent
  2. খ) Desirous
  3. গ) Ridiculous
  4. ঘ) Dominant
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Hard working means tending to work with energy and commitment.
Diligent means having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties.
Thus, diligent is nearest in meaning to hard working.
২৫.
Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word given below.
POSSESSED
  1. ক) Insane
  2. খ) Accompanied
  3. গ) Attracted
  4. ঘ) Infuriated
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Possessed (Adjective)
Meaning: (of a person) completely controlled by an evil spirit.
Example: She ran like a possessed person.
Synonym: mad, demented, insane, crazed, maddened, berserk, out of one's mind
bewitched, enchanted, under a spell, obsessed, haunted.
Source: Oxford Dictionary