English: Word Usage Questions Set 50

Directions: In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

1. Aversion
   
   
   I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me.
   She had a deep aversion to getting up early in the morning.
   They were averse to the very idea of going out on a rainy day.
   He seems to be aversing to hard work.
   All are correct
   Option D
   Replace aversing by averse
   
    



2. Resentment
   Many urbanites would resent additional competition for school places.
   I resent the way he sneers at our efforts.
   She was filled with deep resentment at being passed over for promotion.
   I resent paying extra for my drink just because it’s in a posey bottle.
   All are correct
   Option E
   
   
    



3. Relent
   The heat was unrelenting.
   The committee rewarded employees for their relentless pursuit to excellence.
   Her face remained unrelenting severe.
   We will not relent until justice is done to the aggrieved.
   All are correct.
   Option C
   Replace unrelenting by unrelentingly.
   
    



4. Redundant
   Try to reduce redundancies in your writings.
   The company was losing money and it had to make people redundant.
   The reduntic lyrics made the song unpalatable.
   The illustration had too much redundant details.
   All are correct
   Option C
   Replace reduntic by redundant
   
    



5. Pervade
   Cruel wars pervade history.
   The consistency and pervasiveness of this effect is startling, perhaps even disconcerting.
   The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient’s health.
   A sense of social change is pervasive in her novels.
   All are correct
   Option E
   
   
    



6. Enervating
   Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
   A long and serious illness is an example of something that would be described as enervating.
   A hot climate enervates people who are not used to it.
   Enervate by the heat, we rested under a shady tree until our strength was restored.
   All are correct
   Option D
   Replace enervate by enervating.
   
    



7. Gullible
   He must have been pretty gullible to fall for that old trick.
   The newspaper relies on the gullibility of its readers.
   There are so many ingullible students seeking admission to rare courses.
   He’s so gullible that he’ll believe anything.
   All are correct
   Option C
   Ingullible is an incorrect word
   
    



8. Facile
   He proposed a facile solution to a complex problem.
   And, like all popular ideas, it is unthinkingly accepted and facilely claimed.
   It is facile to attribute all childhood problems to poor parenting or social circumstances.
   The imperative that man exercise mastery over technical development is facile accepted by everyone.
   All are correct
   Option D
   Replace facile by facilely
   
    



9. Insinuating
   He was gentle and insinuating in manner, and possessed a calm, graceful and winning delivery.
   I deeply resent the insinuation that I’m only interested in the money.
   Are you insinuating that the money was stolen?
   The spy insinuated himself into the confidence of important officers.
   All are correct
   Option E
   
   
    



10. Reminiscence
    His style of painting is reminiscent of Da Vinci’s.
    In reminiscence, you build up from past life to the present.
    My grandfather used to reminiscence about his years in the navy.
    Paramedics tended the wounded in scenes reminiscent of wartime.
    All are correct
    Option C
    Replace reminiscence by reminisce.