ENRICHING VOCABULARY – BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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Enriching Vocabulary - Business Communication

1 / 18

An ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning is :

(a) Jargon

(b) Pedantry

(c) Verbosity

(d) Vocabulary.

2 / 18

There are several pairs or group of words that are similar but are different in spelling and meaning.

(a) Antonyms

(b) Homonyms

(c) Synonyms

(d) None of the above.

3 / 18

Agnostic means:

(a) One who perform gymnastic frets

(b) The action of attacking with provocation

(c) Science of production, transmission

(d) None of the above.

4 / 18

WWW stands for:

(a) World wide web

(b) Wide word web

(c) Web world wide

(d) None of the above.

5 / 18

The proverb “To rob peter to, pay paul” means:

(a) Things take time to complete and to mature

(b) To harm one person in order to benefit the other

(c) You judge a man’s worth by his clothes

(d) A man is judged by sort of friends he has.

6 / 18

Alma mater means:

(a) A school or college which one has to attend

(b) A public apology

(c) Preliminary matter

(d) None of the above

7 / 18

VAT stands for:

(a) Value Added Tax

(b) Value Addition Tax

(c) Value Abstract Tax

(d) Value Added Text

8 / 18

BCC stands for:

(a) Blind copy carbon

(b) Before carbon copy

(c) Blind carbon copy

(d) Before copy carbon

9 / 18

The Latin word “bonafide” means:

(a) Strange

(b) Good faith

(c) Colleague

(d) None of the above

10 / 18

To transform into a purer or idealized form means.

(a) Sublimate

(b) Ransack

(c) Vandal

(d) Revive

11 / 18

Find out the antonym of the word “Meager”

(a) Empty

(b) Plentiful

(c) Both (a) or (b)

(d) None of the above

12 / 18

Which word explains the following group of words “Coming at the right time”.

(a) Opportune

(b) Benefactor

(c) Quisling

(d) Panacea

13 / 18

Which word explains the following sentence “To search thoroughly”.

(a) Vandal

(b) Genocide

(c) Ransack

(d) Amnesty

14 / 18

What does the idiom mean “To scatter to the winds”

(a) To waste

(b) Prove of something

(c) To prejudice another person

(d) To deteriorate badly

15 / 18

Which is not a proverb:

(a) Sweet are the uses of adversity

(b) to scatter to the winds

(c) A rose would smell as sweet by any other name

(d) A closed mouth catches no flies

16 / 18

Which of the following is not a French Abbreviation?

(a) Lit

(b) Orig

(c) U.S.

(d) N.B.

17 / 18

Which of the following is not a Latin Abbreviation?

(a) vs.

(b) a.v.

(c) Bez

(d) i.a.

18 / 18

Which of the following is not a German Abbreviation?

(a) S.d.

(b) WWE

(c) P.S.

(d) N.N.

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