MCQ’s (15marks)
1. Ambiguous/Ambiguity: Something that is unclear. Obscure. Vague.
Sentence: The ending of the movie was ambiguous in which the future of the
world was in question.
Sentence: The e-mail messages were too ambiguous to make a news story.
2. Incline/Inclined/Inclination: A willingness/wish to do a particular thing.
Sentence: Bella’s preference of MBBS over Masters in Fine Arts shows her
inclination towards Science. He writes only when he feels inclined to.
Sentence: Nobody felt inclined to argue with Smith.
3. Evacuate/Evacuated/Evacuation: Remove (someone) from a place of danger
to a safer place. To leave a building in a state of emergency or danger.
Sentence: Army helicopters tried to evacuate the injured.
Sentence: Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately.
Sentence: A navy warship was also on its way to the area to help evacuate
refugees.
Sentence: A series of eruptions there in 1999 caused officials to evacuate
hundreds of people.
Sentence: Children were evacuated from London to escape the bombings.
Sentence: The police evacuated the village before the explosion.
Sentence: Residents were evacuated when the fire suddenly broke out in an
apartment.
Sentence: The firemen evacuated the guests from the burning hotel.
Sentence: Police ordered the evacuation of the building.
Sentence: “The evacuation is being organized at the request of the United
Nations Secretary General”, said Katie to her friend Bella
4. Disincline/Disinclined/Disinclination: A reluctance or an unwillingness to do
a particular thing.
Sentence: Bella’s preference of Masters in Fine Arts over MBBS shows her
disinclination towards Science.
Sentence: “There's a good chance that many of your neighbors will be
disinclined to get out and take their dogs for a walk when the weather is bad”,
said Katie to her friend Edward.
Sentence: Augustus was ageing fast, and was more and more disinclined to
appear physically in the senate or in public.
5. Recruit/Recruited/Recruitment: To enlist or select someone for a job and job
in army.
Sentence: The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers.
Sentence: This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.
Sentence: The specialist institutions directly recruit their own staff.
Sentence: “At a minimum, we must recruit two new teachers”, said the principal
to the vice principal.
Sentence: They spotted a local student as a CIA recruit.
Sentence: The football fan club began to recruit new members last week.
6. Pacify: To appease, to make calm to relax and to soothe.
Sentence: “You're right”, Rita said in order to pacify him.
Sentence: “Try to pacify the child, he has been crying for hours” said the nurse
to her fellow worker.
Sentence: More troops were needed to pacify the area.
Sentence: The announcement was designed to pacify the angry crowd.
Sentence: Doctor immediately gave him an injection to pacify the symptoms of
fever.
Sentence: It was difficult for the police to pacify the angry crowd.
7. Calamity: An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a
disaster. A catastrophe, tragedy, a disaster.
Sentence: The earthquake caused great calamity for the people.
Sentence: An earthquake is a natural calamity.
Sentence: The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.
Sentence: His death was the great calamity of Scotland.
8. Worrisome, Worrisomely: Anxious, Bothersome, Distraught. Something that
cause anxiety and distraught.
Sentence: “You seem worrisome Edward, is everything alright?” asked Bella to
her friend Edward.
Sentence: There was something worrisome in her eyes.
Sentence: “What is wrong with you Edward?”, Bella asked worrisomely.
9.Malevolent, Malevolence, Malevolently: Maleficent, malicious, and
malignant. An inclination of someone or something to do evil to others.
Sentence: He is malevolent.
Sentence: She is malevolent.
Sentence: She looked at her friend malevolently.
Sentence: The bombing was an act of great malevolence.
10. Audible, Audibly, Audibility: Able to be heard. In a way that can be heard.
Capable of being heard, loud enough to be heard.
Sentence: The sound was clearly audible in the awful silence.
Sentence: The lecturer spoke so quietly that he was scarcely audible at the back
of the hall.
Sentence: His whisper was clearly audible.
Sentence: “Please ensure the audibility of your recorded lecture”, the head
teacher said to the junior teachers.
Sentence: The third girl answered most audibly than the previous two.
Sentence: He sighed audibly and rubbed the back of his neck again.
11. Anguish, Anguished, Anguishing: Severe mental/psychological pain or
physical pain or suffering. Agony, Torment, Grief, Sorrow.
Sentence: “Anguish, fear and anger filled my heart”, said Katie to her friend
Bella.
Sentence: He was in anguish.
Sentence: “When my husband died, the anguish that I felt was unbearable”, said
Katie to her friend Suzie.
Sentence: Tears of anguish filled her eyes.
Sentence: The loss of her husband anguished her deeply.
Sentence: The victims uttered anguished cries.
Sentence: He was anguished after the death of his grandmother.
Sentence: She left her anguishing in the room.
Sentence: After divorcing his wife, Alice spent the next two weeks anguishing
about whether he made the right decision or not?
12. Falsify, Falsified, Falsification: To alter or change or misrepresent or
misreport especially a document, important information or evidence so as to
mislead.
Falsify, Falsified, Falsification (Another meaning): To prove anything for
example, a statement or a theory to be wrong.
Sentence: The evidences were altered to falsify the results.
Sentence: She falsified a document to get a job.
Sentence: The manager falsified the data to prevent detention.
Sentence: Falsification of data in legal matters is a crime.
13.Malice, Maleficent, Malicious, Maleficence: Someone or something that is
immensely harmful and evil in intent and action and effect. Something or
someone that cause immense harm or destruction, especially by supernatural
means.
Sentence: He bore no malice against his fierce opponent/enemy.
Sentence: Maleficent bacteria can pose serious threats to one’s health.
Sentence: Filled with malice, Bella poisoned her husband.
Sentence: She felt no malice.
Sentence: There was a spark of malice in his remark.
Sentence: Actions that are done in malice produce harmful results.
Sentence: Bob had a maleficent look in his eyes that radiated so much evil that
everybody feared meeting him.
Sentence: John’s family was quarrelsome and malicious.
Sentence: Their talk was slightly/a bit malicious.
Sentence: Edward complained that he had been receiving malicious telephone
calls.
Sentence: Avoidance of maleficence is one of the cardinal principles of ethics.
Sentence: John was convicted for being guilty of maleficence.
Sentence: “I will gather some documents that will show you all the maleficence
of this organization”, said John to his friend Edward
Sentence: “It is an act of sheer maleficence”, said Edward to his friend John.
Sentence: The murder was an act of sheer maleficence.
14. Beneficent/Benevolent, Beneficial, Beneficence/Benevolence: Someone
who is generous, bountiful, kindhearted and humane is called Beneficent or
Benevolent. Something or someone that produces good and helpful results is
called Beneficial.
Sentence: Moderate exercise is beneficial for heath.
Sentence: The doctors decided that it would not be beneficial to keep him in the
hospital.
Sentence: Sunshine and water is beneficial to living beings.
Sentence: It will be a mutually beneficial project/business.
Sentence: Under the beneficent government the country prospered and extended
its trade.
Sentence: The reign of the king was beneficent/benevolent and long.
Sentence: She became extremely beneficent to the poor cottagers.
Sentence: Religion teaches love, kindness, sympathy, benevolence and morality.
Sentence: His benevolent nature prevented him from refusing any beggar who
came across him.
Sentence: She was a benevolent woman who gave all of her money to the N.G.O.
15. Illuminate, Illuminated, Illuminating: To make something visible or bright
by shining light on it. To light up something. To brighten.
Sentence: The lights illuminated the room.
Sentence: “The headlights of the cars are meant to illuminate the way during the
night”, said Edward to his friend John.
Sentence: The headlights of the cars illuminated the darkness during the
journey.
Sentence: The street lights illuminated the whole area at night.
Sentence: The torch light illuminated the room during a power breakdown.
Sentence: “These lights are used for illuminating the playing area”, said Katie
to her friend Edward.
Sentence: The moon shone brightly, illuminating the night.
Sentence: A rope of colored lights was illuminating the dance floor.