English PYQ — Page 369
31,271 questions across SSC exams.
SSC GD • 2019
Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word. EVERLASTING
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. Last summer I went to my village, the place of my birth, to spend a short holiday.
SSC CGL • 2021
Select the most appropriate meaning of the following idiom. A live wire
SSC CGL • 2025
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: GARRULOUS
SSC CGL • 2023
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Triumph
SSC Selection Post • 2023
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word. Her collection consists of rare stamps.
SSC CPO • 2023
Select the correct spelling of the incorrectly spelt word. They were more often abnoxious than not, impatient with me because my services had been essentially imposed upon them.
SSC CGL • 2025
Fill in the blank with the correctly spelt word. The phenomenon could be explained by ____ fluctuations.
SSC CHSL • 2022
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words. Ravi got the job easily because he speaks many languages.
SSC Stenographer • 2022
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM to replace the italicised word. His extravagant pretensions only served to excite ridicule.
SSC GD • 2019
Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word. MITIGATE
SSC CGL • 2024
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.
SSC CGL • 2022
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Succulent
SSC CGL • 2020
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No Improvement. If he doesn’t score forty percent in all the subjects, he would not be promoted to the next class.
SSC CHSL • 2023
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
SSC CHSL • 2025
Which part of the following sentence contains a spelling error? The prodigious violinist captivated audiences worldwide (1) with performances that were technically precise (2) and emotionally transcendant (3) in every respect (4).
SSC CHSL • 2023
Choose the word that means the same as the given word. Magnanimity
SSC Stenographer • 2024
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Banish
SSC CPO • 2024
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’. The woman to who I sold my house was a criminal.
SSC CPO • 2023
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. The man was repairing the tyres of his car.
SSC Stenographer • 2022
The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. In his character, / I could hardly find…
SSC CGL • 2018
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word. MULTITUDE
SSC CPO • 2023
Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom that can be substituted in the following sentence. Right now, my hands are full.
SSC CPO • 2024
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate conjunction as the correct option. He gazed around the room __ lay hidden a treasure chest.
SSC CPO • 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 required'. Despite of an injury, he won the match.
SSC Stenographer • 2023
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. I could sense the __ between husband and wife.
SSC CPO • 2024
Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word. Ramya is an ardent follower of secularism.
SSC CPO • 2025
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. My grandmother called me to the worship place.
SSC CPO • 2019
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No substitution required. Thirteen miners were trapped inside a coat mine due to flooding from a nearby liver yesterday.
SSC CGL • 2022
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. Do not touch any items displayed on glass shelves.
SSC CGL • 2018
According to the passage, British had a monopoly of producing which of the product?
SSC CPO • 2019
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment. If no substitution is required select 'No substitution'. If you will bring a letter of introduction, I will consider your request
SSC CPO • 2020
Select the wrongly spelled word.
SSC CGL • 2020
Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’. You have not showed any improvement in your handwriting.
SSC Stenographer • 2024
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
SSC Stenographer • 2024
Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. Select the option that contains an error. I shall be cook my favourite dish tonight for the party.
SSC CPO • 2019
Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error' I ordered his dismissal when he flouted the company rules.
SSC CPO • 2020
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. A bird’s eye view
SSC CPO • 2022
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Hang in there
SSC CGL • 2019
If an amateur mountaineer is one who climbs mountains as a hobby, which word in the text, describes an experienced one.
SSC Stenographer • 2022
Which of the following is true according to the above passage?
SSC CGL • 2019
Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words. A dome-shaped shelter built from blocks of solid snow used by Eskimos
SSC Stenographer • 2024
Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. A: lost all his teeth B: cannot eat hard food C: he has D: consequently, he
SSC CPO • 2025
Direction: Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. The rose tried (A)/to movethem (B)/roots away(C)/ from the cactus(D).
SSC CPO • 2022
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Vociferous
SSC CPO • 2022
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
SSC Stenographer • 2022
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. He told his friends / that he is gone/ to visit his parents / in the evening.
SSC CPO • 2023
Select the most appropriate idiom to fill in the blank. All my efforts went in vain. The project on which I was working for the last two months has failed and we are ________ .
SSC CPO • 2024
Select the word from the sentence below, which is an antonym for the word ‘dishearten’. Many of the world’s greatest art pieces are encouraged by kings and are inspired by nature and society.
SSC CPO • 2022
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.