GATE Electrical Engineering

'The shopkeeper sells lemons.' In this sentence, the word 'lemons' is the _________.

Match the words in Column I with their synonyms in Column II. Column I (i) Lonely (ii) Literal (iii) Lousy (iv) Lethal Column II (p) Verbatim (q) Solitary (r) Deadly (s) Terrible

In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)-(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks. Following a row ____ (i) ____ the shopkeeper ____ (ii) ____ the price of a frying pan...

Rafi told Mary, "I am thinking of watching a film this weekend." The following reports the above statement in indirect speech: Rafi told Mary that he ________ of watching a film th...

Permit : ________ :: Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)

Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it? We tend to think of cancer as a 'modern' illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a diseas...

I am not sure if the bus that has been booked will be able to ________ all the students.

The passengers were angry ________ the airline staff about the delay.

Newspapers are a constant source of delight and recreation for me. The ________ trouble is that I read ________ many of them.

The man who is now Municipal Commissioner worked as ______________.

"Since you have gone off the ________, the ________ sand is likely to damage the car." The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

"A common misconception among writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought; the more ________ the structure, the more complicated the ideas." The word that best fills the bla...

Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia. Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the underlin...

Find the odd one in the following group of words. mock, deride, praise, jeer

Choose the option with words that are not synonyms.

After Rajendra Chola returned from his voyage to Indonesia, he ________ to visit the temple in Thanjavur.

Saturn is ________ to be seen on a clear night with the naked eye.

Research in the workplace reveals that people work for many reasons ________.

"We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. Thi...