English PYQ — Page 192
31,271 questions across SSC exams.
SSC CGL • 2025
Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: The ancient sconce held a flickering torch along the corridor.
SSC CHSL • 2022
Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in bold in the following sentence. For the time being, the liberals seem to have carried the day.
SSC CHSL • 2022
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks. Besides being __ multifaceted artist, he was _ poet, novelist, and a painter.
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. A given space, time or position
SSC CHSL • 2021
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. The gardener said to the children, “Please do not pluck any flowers.”
SSC CHSL • 2020
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. PROVOKE
SSC Selection Post • 2023
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. Jokes and funny remarks amongst friends.
SSC GD • 2024
Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct. The cakes was for her birthday.
SSC CGL • 2024
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
SSC GD • 2023
Select the correct spelling of the underlined word in the following sentence. You can eat anything you like accept the rice pudding.
SSC GD • 2023
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
SSC CPO • 2024
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order forming a meaningful and coherent paragraph. A. A fine carriage with rubber tyres, a fat coachman, and velvet on the seats, rolled up to the house of a landowner called…
SSC GD • 2025
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Her _____ behaviour in the interview revealed her clear state of mind.
SSC CGL • 2023
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'. We all should help each other.
SSC CHSL • 2023
Select the most appropriate synonym for the underlined word in the given sentence. She is painfully introverted, but an intelligent girl.
SSC CGL • 2024
Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. P) once said Q) a wise man R) that action speaks S) louder than words
SSC CGL • 2023
Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word. The case of Vanuatu in 2020 is a clear example of the constant and complex challenges faced by SIDS. It shows how SIDS are dealing with multiple crises at the same time and how COVID-19 has…
SSC MTS • 2022
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Ebullient
SSC CHSL • 2024
Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the following sentence. I can’t begin to talk on this situation right now; I am still wrapping my head around it.
SSC CGL • 2022
Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order. While physical movement P. activities may not require physical Q. is important for children, all learning R. the part of teachers and students S. movement and facial expressions on
SSC CGL • 2022
Select the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word. Adversity
SSC CHSL • 2019
Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. MINISCULE
SSC CHSL • 2025
Choose the correctly spelt word:
SSC CGL • 2022
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
SSC CHSL • 2025
Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech. The interviewer asked me why I had left my previous job.
SSC Selection Post • 2024
Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom. Shah called Saeed a hard nut to crack, and described him as cool, but intelligent.
SSC CGL • 2021
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. A person who thinks that bad things are more likely to happen or who emphasises the bad part of a situation
SSC CHSL • 2024
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence. His opponents viewed him as stubborn, dogmatic, and inflexible.
SSC CGL • 2019
Select the most appropriate idiom (in the context) to fill in the sentence. Factory owners are protesting because they think that the government has __ of plastic manufacturing companies by closing their factories in big cities.
SSC CHSL • 2025
Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech. She said that the documents had to be submitted by the next evening.
SSC CPO • 2019
Select the synonym of the given word. FEIGN
SSC CGL • 2020
Select the SYNONYM of the given word. DEAR
SSC GD • 2024
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase. Play your ace
SSC CPO • 2023
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. It was found that my shoes were cleaned.
SSC GD • 2023
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Bankrupt
SSC CGL • 2024
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. One who eats a lot
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. She was so angry that she __ the door and ran out.
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Catalogue
SSC GD • 2023
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Cramped
SSC CGL • 2020
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. The speaker __ the audience with his fine speech.
SSC CHSL • 2022
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline segment in the given sentence. Some politicians turn up their face at the hard life of downtrodden people.
SSC CGL • 2020
In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. It’s raining heavily, so you should take an umbrella, but you will get wet.
SSC CGL • 2022
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. She said to me, “The charlatan will be breaking into the safe.”
SSC GD • 2023
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Dream
SSC GD • 2025
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Never judge a book by its cover
SSC GD • 2024
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option. On the ____ in the train he talked to his neighbours about politics and the new railways.
SSC Stenographer • 2022
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
SSC CGL • 2018
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase. In the ascendant
SSC CHSL • 2025
One of these words is spelled incorrectly. Which one is it?
SSC CHSL • 2020
In the given sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. Freedom of expression meaning the right to express one’s own convictions and beliefs.