R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | ECAT ECAT English MCQs Part 4

Synonym of GAUNT

1. Weighty
2. Bony
3. Fatty
4. Big statement

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the Synonym of Sham?

1. Fake
2. Deplorable
3. Purse
4. Robust

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Synonym of Persecuter is _____________?

1. Oppressor
2. Hasty
3. Patient
4. Tycoon

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Find the correct spelling for the word below.

1. Harrass
2. Harass
3. Harras
4. Herrass

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Change narration: You said, “They were busy the whole day.”

1. You said that they had busy the whole day.
2. You said that they were busy the whole day.
3. You said that they had been busy the whole day
4. You said that they have been busy the whole day.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

I am sick _____ job.

1. from
2. with
3. of
4. by

✅ Correct Answer: 3

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven” is said by?

1. Hitler
2. Sadam hussain
3. Milton
4. Bush

✅ Correct Answer: 3

To make clean breast of means?

1. To gain prominence
2. To praise oneself
3. To confess without of reserve
4. To destroy before it blooms

✅ Correct Answer: 3

To have an axe to grind means?

1. A private end to serve
2. To fail to arouse interest
3. To have no result
4. To work for both sides

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To cry wolf means?

1. To listen eagerly
2. To give a false alarm
3. To turn pale
4. To keep off starvation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

To end in smoke means?

1. To make completely understand
2. To ruin oneself
3. To excite great applause
4. To overcome someone

✅ Correct Answer: 2

To put one’s hand to plough means?

1. To take up agricultural farming
2. To take a difficult task
3. To get entangled into unnecessary things
4. Take interest in technical work

✅ Correct Answer: 2

To leave someone in the lurch means?

1. To come to a compromise with someone
2. A constant source of annoyance to someone
3. To put someone at ease
4. To desert someone in his difficulties

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To pick holes means?

1. To find some reason to quarrel
2. To destroy something
3. To criticize someone
4. To cut some part of an item

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A man of straw means?

1. A man of no substance
2. A very active person
3. A worthy fellow
4. An unreasonable person

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To hit the nail right on the head means?

1. To say something that is completely true or exactly right
2. To destroy one’s reputation
3. To announce one’s fixed views
4. To teach someone a lesson

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To smell a rat means?

1. To see signs of a plague epidemic
2. To get bad small of a bad dead rat
3. To suspect foul dealings
4. To be in a bad mood

✅ Correct Answer: 3

To set one’s face against ?

1. To oppose with determination
2. To judge by appearance
3. To get out of difficulty
4. To look at one steadily

✅ Correct Answer: 1

He gave me “the cold shoulder” meaning is:

1. Scolded me
2. Insulted me
3. Abused me
4. Ignored me

✅ Correct Answer: 4

He “passed himself off” as a noble man meaning?

1. Was regarded as
2. Pretended to be
3. Was thought to be
4. Was looked upon

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the meaning of “die in harness” idiom?

1. Die on a horseback
2. Die in the battlefield
3. Die while still working
4. Die with honor

✅ Correct Answer: 3

He “let the grass grow under his feet” means?

1. Loitered around
2. Stayed out
3. Sat not moving
4. Moved away

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A man who “blows his own trumpet”?

1. Flatters
2. Praises others
3. Admonishes others
4. Praises himself

✅ Correct Answer: 4

He “put a spoke in my wheel” means?

1. Tried to cause an accident
2. Helped in the execution of the plan
3. Thwarted in the execution of the plan
4. Destroyed the plan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

I met a man who lived in USA. What is ”who” according to grammar here?

1. Interrogative Pronoun
2. Distributive Pronoun
3. Relative Pronoun
4. Reciprocal Pronoun

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Mother said, “Where are you going”?

1. Mother said me where I am going.
2. Mother said to me where are you going
3. Mother asked where I was going.
4. Mother asked me where I am going.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which form of verb is usually used in ”Passive Sentences“?

1. First Form
2. Second Form
3. Third Form
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

My father said to me, ” You must work hard”.

1. My father said to me that I must work hard.
2. My father said to me that you must work hard.
3. My father said to me that I had to work hard.
4. My father said to me that I have to work hard.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Try to be polite _____ others.

1. with
2. to
3. for
4. on

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Like a sitting duck” meaning?

1. Lazy
2. Fat
3. Sleepy
4. Ignorant

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A bitter pill meaning ?

1. Anything causing trouble, discord, or jealousy B.
2. A controversial issue or situation that is awkward or unpleasant to deal with
3. A situation or information that is unpleasant but must be accepted
4. When an attempt fails, and it’s time to start planning all over again

✅ Correct Answer: 3

“Ace in the hole” meaning ?

1. A hidden or secret strength, or unrevealed advantage
2. A metaphor for a fatal weakness in spite of overall strength
3. Anything causing trouble, discord, or jealousy
4. Without any hesitation; instantly

✅ Correct Answer: 1

“A hot potato” meaning ?

1. The one tiny drawback that ruins it
2. To go to bed to sleep
3. To find fault with something that has been received as a gift or favor
4. A controversial issue or situation that is awkward or unpleasant to deal with

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The synonym of “Perpetual” is?

1. Garrulous
2. Sneak
3. Everlasting
4. Liberal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The synonym of “Colossal” is?

1. colorful
2. gigantic
3. fantastic
4. bias

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The synonym of “Panacea” is?

1. Morbidity
2. Cure-all
3. Portray
4. Insight

✅ Correct Answer: 2

“Apple of discord” meaning ?

1. Anything causing trouble, discord, or jealousy
2. A person that is not too smart; a person that acts stupid
3. To further a loss with sarcasm or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation
4. To speak the truth, even to the point of being blunt and rude

✅ Correct Answer: 1

“Basket case” meaning ?

1. An area of vulnerability
2. Narrowly; barely. Usually used in regard to a narrow escape from a disaster
3. To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally or to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant
4. One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic, or stress

✅ Correct Answer: 4

“Best of both worlds” meaning ?

1. A phrase implying that a person is never satisfied with their current situation; they think others have it better
2. People’s intentions can be judged better by what they do than by what they say
3. A situation wherein someone has the privilege of enjoying two different opportunities
4. Just the information I have on the subject

✅ Correct Answer: 3

“Beating a dead horse” meaning ?

1. To uselessly dwell on a subject far beyond its point of resolution
2. An obvious, pressing issue left unaddressed due to its sensitive nature.
3. To speak the truth, even to the point of being blunt and rude
4. To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting

✅ Correct Answer: 1

“Chew the fat” meaning ?

1. To action a task; to initiate work
2. To become silent; to stop talking
3. To take offense; to get worked up, aggravated, or annoyed
4. To chat idly or generally waste time talking

✅ Correct Answer: 4

“Bird Brain” meaning ?

1. A person that is not too smart; a person that acts stupid
2. A person that is too smart; a person that acts Sharp
3. A person that is too lazy; a person that acts dull
4. A person that too angry; a person that acts hastly

✅ Correct Answer: 1

“Drop a dime” meaning?

1. To be an informant
2. Almost free. Very cheap
3. To stop something at an early stage
4. To leave

✅ Correct Answer: 1

“Get your goat” meaning?

1. To pacify someone
2. To irritate someone
3. To soothe someone
4. To Hug someone

✅ Correct Answer: 2

“Spill the beans” meaning?

1. Frivolously performing a simple task
2. Reveal someone’s secret
3. To stop something at an early stage
4. Frivolously performing a simple task

✅ Correct Answer: 2

“Wild goose chase” meaning?

1. A foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit of something unattainable B. D.
2. To take credit for something someone else did
3. To not take what someone says too seriously; to treat someone’s words with a degree of skepticism
4. A phrase implying that one is not proficient at performing a particular task and that they should not try to perform the task professionally

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Meaning of “Far cry from” ?

1. To present a counter argument
2. To take on a task that is way to big
3. The show has come to an end. It’s all over
4. Very different from

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Meaning of “Your guess is as good as mine” ?

1. Join a popular trend or activity
2. To hear something from the authoritative source
3. To know the answer
4. To have no idea

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Meaning of “At the drop of the hat” ?

1. As soon as it was spoken
2. Done easily, without any preparation
3. Done in an instant
4. After something is done

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Meaning of “At the drop of the hat” ?

1. As soon as it was spoken
2. Done easily, without any preparation
3. Done in an instant
4. After something is done

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A person who is unable to pay his debts is called?

1. Borrower
2. Insolvent
3. Lender
4. Allen

✅ Correct Answer: 2

He is good at ________ English.

1. spoken
2. speaking
3. speak
4. spoke

✅ Correct Answer: 2

It will rain soon, _________?

1. will it
2. won’t it
3. would it
4. wouldn’t it

✅ Correct Answer: 2

She always keeps on _________ dramas.

1. watch
2. watched
3. watching
4. watches

✅ Correct Answer: 3

I did not know where he _________ from.

1. has come
2. had come
3. have come
4. comes

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The synonym of “Perpetual” is?

1. Garrulous
2. Sneak
3. Everlasting
4. Liberal

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The synonym of “Colossal” is?

1. colorful
2. gigantic
3. fantastic
4. bias

✅ Correct Answer: 2

I feel sorry _______ his kids.

1. to
2. at
3. for
4. over

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The synonym of ” Irreverenced” is ?

1. Honor
2. Wrong
3. Disrespect
4. Appease

✅ Correct Answer: 4