alleryStart learning →Choose the SYNONYM of: VERBOSE
- Silent
- Concise
- Honest
- Wordy
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Correct answer: D. Wordy
**Verbose:** using more words than necessary.
**Synonyms:** wordy, long-winded, prolix.
**Antonyms:** concise, terse, succinct.
Indian Navy AA (Artificer Apprentice) Idioms and Phrases — practice questions
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Choose the SYNONYM of: VERBOSERead the answer and worked solution →Choose the SYNONYM of: TENACIOUSRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the ANTONYM of: VIRTUERead the answer and worked solution →Identify the error: 'The team are playing (A) very well today, (B) and they will likely (C) win the championship. (D)'Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the error: 'If I would have known (A) about the meeting, (B) I would have attended (C) it. (D)'Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in: 'The new evidence _____ all previous conclusions about the suspect's guilt.'Read the answer and worked solution →Fear of confined spaces:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct article: '___ honest student is rare these days.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct preposition: 'He has been working here ___ five years.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: 'By the time we arrived, the movie ___.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: 'If I ___ a millionaire, I would travel the world.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the SYNONYM of: UBIQUITOUSRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the ANTONYM of: GREGARIOUSRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the SYNONYM of: ALTRUISTICRead the answer and worked solution →'Under a cloud' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Break the ice' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Cost an arm and a leg' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Let the cat out of the bag' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'When pigs fly' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Kill two birds with one stone' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Throw in the towel' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Cry over spilt milk' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Pull someone's leg' meansRead the answer and worked solution →'Bend over backwards' meansRead the answer and worked solution →Match each rule to what it governsRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: commas and clausesRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the rule on participial phrasesRead the answer and worked solution →Tap every principle of composition Strunk givesRead the answer and worked solution →Which principle does this illustrate?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading the rules backRead the answer and worked solution →
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Choose the SYNONYM of: TENACIOUS
- Brief
- Lazy
- Weak
- Persistent
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Correct answer: D. Persistent
**Tenacious:** holding firmly, not giving up easily.
**Synonyms:** persistent, determined, dogged, resolute.
**Antonyms:** weak, hesitant, irresolute.
Choose the ANTONYM of: VIRTUE
- Quality
- Morality
- Vice
- Goodness
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Correct answer: C. Vice
**Virtue:** morally good behavior or trait.
**Antonym:** vice (immoral or wicked behavior).
**Examples:** courage, honesty, kindness vs cowardice, lying, cruelty.
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