UPSC SSC Quiz
07 June 2026 · 10 questions ·
Q1 is a real PYQ · click "Show Answer" to reveal
Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word: Fastidious
A) Discourteous
B) Shabby
C) Ugly
D) Shallow
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✅ B) Shabby
PYQ · SSC Sub Ins. 2012
Which word has a meaning similar to 'Constituency'?
A) Ostracise
B) Intervention
C) Consensus
D) riding
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✅ D) riding
What is the most appropriate meaning of 'Resilience'?
A) A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
B) A district represented by one or more elected officials.
C) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
D) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
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✅ C) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
Identify the antonym of 'Consensus'.
A) dissensus
B) Intervention
C) Ostracise
D) Resilience
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✅ A) dissensus
Identify the antonym of 'Dissent'.
A) Opposition
B) accept
C) Individuals
D) Ostracise
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✅ B) accept
The word 'Intervention' means -
A) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
B) The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
C) A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
D) The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
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✅ D) The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
Which word has a meaning similar to 'Ostracise'?
A) Resilience
B) Environment
C) blackball
D) Constituency
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✅ C) blackball
Also in SSC CGL 2010
Which word has a meaning similar to 'Environment'?
A) umbworld
B) Opposition
C) Ostracise
D) Consensus
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✅ A) umbworld
Which of the following best defines 'Individuals'?
A) A district represented by one or more elected officials.
B) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
C) The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
D) A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
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✅ D) A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to 'Opposition'.
A) Consensus
B) Intervention
C) apposition
D) Environment
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✅ C) apposition