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mjash4122National Institute of Technology - NIT Calicut

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sermon - n. A form of religious persuasion in which a speaker exhorts listeners to behave in a more spiritual and moral fashion.
abhor - v. To regard with disgust
E.g.: The God that holds you over the pit of hell, abhors you.
abominable - adj. Thoroughly detestable
E.g.: You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.
appease - v. To bring peace, quiet, or calm; to soothe
E.g.: They have done nothing to appease God's anger.
discern - v. To perceive or recognize something
E.g.: The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.
whet - adj. Sharpened
E.g.: The glittering sword is whet, and held over them
 
Which word form correctly completes this sentence?
Sometimes college students have an astonishing lack of especially when it comes to making healthy food choices.
A. discern
B. discerning
C. discernment
D. discerned
Answer: discernmentStep-by-step explanation: discernment-the ability to judge ...
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Answer: red death
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Answer: B Step-by-step explanation:It is considered as symbolic representation...
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Answer: propietary
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melancholy - adj. gloomy, sad, depressed
E.g.: Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it.
avarice - n. insatiable greed for riches or wealth
E.g.: All her avarice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man's terms, and secure what would make them wealthy for life.
usurer - n. one who lends money, at an unusually or unlawfully high rate of interest; a loan shark
E.g.: The devil proposed that Tom turn usurer, the devil being extremely anxious for the increase of usurers.
propitious - adj. helpful or advantageous; favorable
E.g.: At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as usurer in Boston.
ostentation - n. A display meant to impress others; boastful showiness.
E.g.: Tom built himself a vast house, out of ostentation, but left he greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony.
 
Complete the following sentence:
The flu epidemic seemed a _____ time to launch the new super-vitamin campaign.
A. melancholy
B. propitious
C. avarice
D. usurer
Answer: propitious
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Answer: avg speed = 108.67kmphStep-by-step explanation: avg speed = distance/t...
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Answer: balm
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The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door -
6- Only this, and nothing more.'
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore
12- Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now. to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating...
 
Who does the narrator in "The Raven" say is tapping on his chamber door?
A. a visitor and the wind
B. Lenore and the Raven
C. his mother and his sister
Answer: a visitor and the wind
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Vocabulary
lattice - n. A structure of crisscrossed strips forming a pattern of openings
E.g.: "Surely that is something at my window lattice"
beguile - v. to influence by deceit; to trick.
E.g.: "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling by the grave and stem decorum of the countenance it wore..."
placid - adj. calm; peaceful; undisturbed
E.g.: "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."
respite - n. a period of rest or relief, as from work or sorrow
E.g.: "Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore"
balm -n. something that heals or soothes, as an ointment
E.g.: "Is there __ there balm in Gilead?-tell me - tell me, I implore!"
 
Which of the following is the best synonym for "balm"?
A. irritant
B. astringent
C. salve
D. malodor
Answer: astringent
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Answer: gigantic
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I could not stop for Death
     by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just Ourselves
4- And Immortality.
 
We slowly drove - He knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
8- For His Civility -
 
We passed the School, where Children strove,
At Recess - in the Ring -
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
12- We passed the Setting Sun -
 
Or rather - He passed Us
The Dews grew quivering and chill
For only Gossamer my Gown
16- My Tippet - only Tulle -
 
Which poetic device does Dickinson use in the following lines of "Because I could not stop for Death"?
    Line 15: "For only Gossamerr my Gown --"
A. metaphor (the comparison of two unlike things)
B. alliteration (repetition of first consonant sound in a string of words)
C. simile (the comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like")
Answer: metaphor
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Answer: four lines
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Vocabulary
impede - v. to interfere with or slow the progress of
E.g.: In many palaces, however, such suites form a long and straight vista...so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.
cessation - n. a coming to an end; stopping
E.g.: And then the music ceased, as I have told...and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before.
disapprobation - n. disapproval
E.g. : . there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise - then, finally of terror, of horror, and of disgust.
propriety - n. the quality of being proper, appropriate
E.g.: The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed.
blasphemous - adj.. disrespected or offensive,
Eg.: Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?
 
Which of the following is the best antonym for "cessation"?
A. resumption
B. ending
C. finishing
D. termination
Answer: resumption-the action of beginning something again after a pause
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Vocabulary
impede - v. to interfere with or slow the progress of
E.g.: In many palaces, however, such suites form a long and straight vista...so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.
cessation - n.. a coming to an end; stopping
E.g.: And then the music ceased, as I have told...and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before.
disapprobation - n. disapproval
E.g.:...there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise - then, finally of terror, of horror, and of disgust.
propriety - n. the quality of being proper, appropriate
E.g.: The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed.
blasphemous - adj. disrespected or offensive
E.g.: Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?
 
Which of the following is the best antonym for "cessation"?
A. resumption
B. ending
C. finishing
D. termination
Answer: resumptionStep-by-step explanation: resumption-the act of beginning so...
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Answer: a)15.46J b)7.579J
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Answer: C-well after the U.S constitution dictated the separation of church an...
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Answer: Work done = 19.62kN-mStep-by-step explanation: Workdone = F*s F = m*a ...
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Answer: W = qVStep-by-step explanation:Potential difference is defined as the ...
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Answer: a)180N-m b)30.15N-mStep-by-step explanation: work done = f*h a)F = 45N...
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Answer: a)10.29 b)150.94Step-by-step explanation: a)Magnitude =√Ax^2 + Ay^2 M ...
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Answer: -30.06Step-by-step explanation:Vector r = |r|(cos133.9 i + sin133.9 j)...
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Answer: 1lb = 0.454kg
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Answer: 1g = 0.001kg
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Answer: 1 km/h = 5/18 m/s
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Answer: 1m/s = 18/5 km/hr
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Answer: 0.008 km/s*2Step-by-step explanation: 1m/s*2 = 0.001km?s*2
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Answer: 0.0084456 Step-by-step explanation: 1m = 0.000621mile 13.6m = 13.6 * 0...
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