FPSC
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN FIA – 2001 Paper
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(SYNONYMS) –
1. DISPASSIONATE
(A) sensual
(B) immoral
(C) inhibited
(D) impartial
(E) scientific
2. EFFACE._(to erase)
(A) countenance
(B) encourage
(C) recognize
(D) blackball
(E) rub out
3. INDOLENCE
(A) sloth
(B) latitude
(C) poverty
(D) aptitude
4. MAWKISH
(A) sentimental
(B) true
(C) certain
(D) devious
(E) carefree
5. MORIBUND
(A) appropriate
(B) leather bound
(C) dying
(D) answering
(E) undertaking
(ANTONYMS)
6. PANDEMONIUM
(A) calm
(B) frustration
(C) efficiency
(D) impishness
(E) sophistication
7. PERTINENT (relevant)
(A) understood
(B) living
(C) discontented
(D) puzzling
(E) irrelevant
8. PRODIGAL
(A) large
(B) thrifty
(C) consistent
(D) compatible
(E) remote
9. PRODIGIOUS
(A) infinitesimal
(B) indignant
(C) indifferent
(E) indisposed
(D) insufficient
10. PROFANE
(A) sanctify
(B) desecrate
(C) define
(D) manifest
(E) urge
Fill in the blanks with suitable option.
11. Lou is a(n) ____ of more parks and open spaces.
(A) multitude
(B) elixir
(C) proponent
(D) juxtaposition
12. Man’s fate is ___
(A) ineluctable
(B) norm
(C) stratification
(D) speculated
13. Maria’s ____ failed her when Mario told such a humorous joke that she spit out her dnnk while laughing.
(A) ostracize
(B) decorum
(C) immutable
(D) conventional
14. Mark carries a(n) ____ to school every day, but I have never seen him open it. I wonder what he has in it.
(A) voila
(B) hue
(C) portfolio
(D) alfresco
15. Azam can be stubborn and refuse to____ from a plan even when it doesn’t make sense to continue
(A) surreal
(B) taboo
(C) deviate
(D) sequential
16. Some ____ never hesitate indulging in anti-soical activities.
(A) beat the air
(B) a brazen face (shameless)
(C) a long face
(D) Jonah’s gourd
17. It is always foolish to ____ when there
is no evident sign of alarm.
(A) laugh in one’s leave
(B) to cry wolf (to raise a false alarm)
(C) leave in the lurch
(D) look askance
18. They agreed to ____ and not to refef to the incident again.
(A) let bygones be bygones (to forgive and.
forget past injuries)
(B) play second fiddle
(C) pull out
(D) nip in the bud
19. We should not ____ of the struggles.Of
life.
(A) swallow the bait
(B) strike the keynote
(C) tremble in the balance of
(D) fight shy (avoid)
20. Some clerks are in the habit of enjoying
on very flimsy grounds
(A) child’s play
(B) curry favour
(C) creature comfort
(D) trench leave