MBA CET 2024 Vocabulary Actual Questions

MBA CET 2026: Vocabulary Practice Quiz

MBA CET 2024 Vocabulary Practice Quiz

Instructions: Test your command over high-frequency CET vocabulary. Difficulty levels increase progressively.
1. Which word is a synonym for RECKLESS?
  • A) Cautious
  • B) Careful
  • C) Careless
  • D) Deliberate
  • E) Hesitant
Correct Option: C. Reckless means acting without care for consequences; heedless of danger.
2. If you are asked to RECUPERATE, you are expected to:
  • A) Repeat a task
  • B) Recover from illness
  • C) Recite a poem
  • D) Refuse an offer
  • E) Resign from a post
Correct Option: B. Recuperate means to recover from illness or exertion.
3. What is the meaning of the word DEIFY?
  • A) To challenge authority
  • B) To worship as a god
  • C) To refuse to obey
  • D) To make something complex
  • E) To destroy completely
Correct Option: B. Deify means to worship, regard, or treat (someone or something) as a god.
4. A NIGGARD person is best described as:
  • A) Highly generous
  • B) A miserly or stingy person
  • C) Someone who is very tall
  • D) A person who travels often
  • E) An expert in a field
Correct Option: B. Niggard refers to a stingy or ungenerous person; a skinflint.
5. To OBFUSCATE a situation means to:
  • A) Make it clear
  • B) Make it obscure or unclear
  • C) Solve it quickly
  • D) Ignore it entirely
  • E) Simplify it for others
Correct Option: B. Obfuscate means to intentionally make something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
6. Which word describes someone who is “Easily angered or irritable”?
  • A) Loquacious
  • B) Blithe
  • C) Irascible
  • D) Corpulent
  • E) Canny
Correct Option: C. Irascible means having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.
7. If a person is described as CORPULENT, they are:
  • A) Very thin
  • B) Fat or overweight
  • C) Highly intelligent
  • D) Physically flexible
  • E) Spiritually enlightened
Correct Option: B. Corpulent refers to a person who is large or bulky in body; fat.
8. What is the meaning of SALACITY?
  • A) Salty taste
  • B) Lustful or lewd behavior
  • C) High intelligence
  • D) Extreme speed
  • E) Deep sadness
Correct Option: B. Salacity means indecent or lustful quality/behavior.
9. Choose the word that means “To involve or entangle” someone in a crime or situation:
  • A) Exculpate
  • B) Implicate
  • C) Ostracise
  • D) Impede
  • E) Fetter
Correct Option: B. Implicate means to show someone to be involved in a crime or harmful situation.
10. To IMPEDE progress is to:
  • A) Accelerate it
  • B) Observe it
  • C) Obstruct or hinder it
  • D) Finance it
  • E) Celebrate it
Correct Option: C. Impede means to delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.
11. Which word means “To restrain or shackle”?
  • A) Fetter
  • B) Garish
  • C) Dainty
  • D) Blithe
  • E) Probity
Correct Option: A. Fetter means to restrain with chains or shackles, typically around the ankles.
12. When a group decides to OSTRACISE a member, they:
  • A) Promote them
  • B) Exclude them from the group
  • C) Give them a reward
  • D) Ask them for advice
  • E) Forgive their mistakes
Correct Option: B. Ostracise means to exclude (someone) from a society or group.
13. To EXCULPATE someone means to:
  • A) Accuse them of a crime
  • B) Punish them severely
  • C) Clear them from blame or guilt
  • D) Interview them
  • E) Follow them secretly
Correct Option: C. Exculpate (Ex + Culpa) means to show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.
14. Which word refers to “Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong act”?
  • A) Probity
  • B) Retribution
  • C) Taciturnity
  • D) Harmony
  • E) Salacity
Correct Option: B. Retribution is punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
15. If a dress is described as GARISH, it is:
  • A) Simple and elegant
  • B) Overly bright and showy
  • C) Torn and old
  • D) Dark and gloomy
  • E) Very expensive
Correct Option: B. Garish means obtrusively bright and showy; lurid.
16. A person who is LOQUACIOUS is:
  • A) Very quiet
  • B) Very talkative
  • C) Extremely wealthy
  • D) Often sick
  • E) Hard-working
Correct Option: B. Loquacious means tending to talk a great deal; talkative.
17. What is the meaning of BLITHE?
  • A) Deeply depressed
  • B) Casually cheerful or carefree
  • C) Extremely angry
  • D) Physically strong
  • E) Mentally unstable
Correct Option: B. Blithe means showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper; carefree.
18. TACITURNITY is a quality of being:
  • A) Loud and noisy
  • B) Reserved or not talkative
  • C) Honest and open
  • D) Fast and efficient
  • E) Greedily hungry
Correct Option: B. Taciturnity is the state or quality of being reserved or reticent in conversation.
19. A CANNY businessman is one who is:
  • A) Shrewd and clever
  • B) Easily fooled
  • C) Very lazy
  • D) Highly emotional
  • E) Dishonest
Correct Option: A. Canny means having or showing shrewdness and good judgment, especially in money or business matters.
20. The word PROBITY refers to:
  • A) Scientific exploration
  • B) Integrity and honesty
  • C) A fear of problems
  • D) A type of medical test
  • E) Extreme poverty
Correct Option: B. Probity means the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
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