FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2009
ENGLISH (PRECIS & COMPOSITION)
- Choose the word that is nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. (Do only FIVE) Extra attempt of any Part of the question will not be
- OBSCURE (a) Unclear (b) Doubtful
2_ AMIABLE
(a) Obnoxious (b) Affable
- HOODWINK
(a) Delude (b) Avoid
GUILEFUL
(a) Honourable (b) Disingenuous
OBSESSION
(a) Fixed ideas (b) Delusion
4.. RADICAL
(a) Innate (b) Moderate
“. PRESUMPTIVE
(a) Credible (b) Timid
- Pick the most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized word:
- PRESENTABLE
(a) Unable (b) Scruffy (c) Suitable (d) Personable
SALVATION
(a) Escape (b) Starvation (c) Doom (d) Rescue
- PLAIN
(a) Clean (b) Distinct (c) Ambiguous (d) Frugal
- ODIOUS
(a) Porus (b) Charming (c) Horrid (d) Offensive
- INFLAME
(a) Calm (b) Anger (c) Excite (d) Kindle
Cl Correct the following sentences:
- He swore from God.
- Is your dress different than mine?
- He inquired whether I live in Karachi.
- He spoke these words upon his face.
- They ran direct to their college.
- I shall not come here unless you will not call me.
- They have been building a wall since three days.
- He does not have some devotion to his studies.
Solution:
- He swore to God.
- Is your dress different than that of mine?
- He inquired whether I lived in Karachi.
- He spoke these words to his face.
- They ran directly to their college.
- I shall not come here unless you call me.
- They have been building a wall for three days.
- He does not have any devotion to his studies.
D Use the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
| 1. | Leave in the lurch | 2. | Hard and fast |
| 3. | Weather the storm | 4. | Bear the brunt |
| 5. | Meet halfway | 6. | Turncoat |
| 7. | Where the shoe pinches |
- Leave in the lurch – (Li. L5). 4._)
Meaning: abandon or desert someone in difficult straits
Use in sentence: Where were you Karman, you really left me in the lurch.
- Hard and fast – (il., L … ,4:-% At cr)
Meaning: not to be changed
Use in sentence: We have hard and fast rules for this procedure.
- Weather the storm – (a=… ,:.–1J(.%)
Meaning: wait until situation improves
Use in sentence: She refuses to resign, intending to weather the storm.
- Bear the brunt – (V11:4- K G.)
Meaning: put up with the worst of some bad circumstance
Use in sentence: It was the secretary who had to bear the brunt of the minister’s anger.
- Meet halfway
Meaning: to compromise with someone.
Use in sentence: They settled the argument by agreeing to meet each other halfway.
Turncoat —
Meaning: traitor
Use in sentence: Ahmed is a turncoat and we should not rely upon him
Where the shoe pinches — k’)
Meaning: source of trouble, grief, difficulty, etc.
Use in sentence: That is where the shoe pinches.
Use five of the following pairs of words in sentences:
(i) Persecute, Prosecute (ii) Luxuriant, Luxurious
(iii) Mean, Mien (iv) Observation, Observance
(v) Naughty, Knotty (vi) Ghostly, Ghastly
(vii) Hew, Hue (viii) Hoard, Horde
ii Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Use in sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to bring legal action against for redress or punishment of a crime or violation of law Use in sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
- ii) Luxuriant:
Meaning: growing thickly, strongly and well
Use in sentence: This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
Luxurious:
Meaning: very comfortable and expensive’
Use in sentence: They have a very luxurious house.
till) Mean:
Meaning: to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
Use in sentence: These figures mean that almost 7% of the working population is unemployed.
Mien:
Meaning: a person’s appearance, especially the typical expression on their face Use in sentence: His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out.
- Observation:
Meaning: when you observe something or someone
Use in sentence: The police are keeping the suspect under observation.
Observance:
Meaning: when someone obeys a law or follows a religious custom
Use in sentence: The State must enforce the observance of human rights in its domestic legal order.
- Naughty:
Meaning: not behaving properly; mischievous or disobedient
Use in sentence: Now that’s naughty – you mustn’t throw food on the floor!
Knotty:
Meaning: complicated and difficult to solve Use in sentence: That’s rather a knotty question.
- Ghostly:
Meaning: pale and transparent
Use in sentence: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
Ghastly:
Meaning: unpleasant and shocking
Use in sentence: Today’s newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
- Hew:
Meaning: to cut a large piece out of rock, stone or another hard material in a rough way Use in sentence: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
Hue:
Meaning: a particular shade or tint of a given colour
Use in sentence: In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.