Select the most appropriate word that means the same as the group of words given.

Hard and difficult to bend

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternative given.

Every day for a whole year, all kind of holy men, hermits, scholars and nobles came, and related to the priests their deeds of ___(1)___, and the priests in solemn council heard their calms. At last, they decided that the one who seemed to be the greatest lover of ____(2)_____was a rich man who had that very year given all his ___(3)___to the poor. So they gave him the plate of gold, but when he took it in his hand, it turned into ___(4)___lead; thought, when he dropped it on the floor, to his __(5)___, it become gold again.

Select the most appropriate option that will fill in the blank (5).

In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

STRATAGEM

Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

The medicines made miracles and healed me in two days.

In the following question four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer-Sheet.

To hit the nail right on the head

Which of the phrases given below the sentence should replace the word/phrase given below in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark 'No correction required as the answer.

The transport corporation have been issuing monthly and daily passes with revised fares since August 2019 that have not further been revised.

In the question a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

I said to my brother, "Let us go to some hill station for a change." 

Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

All agog