Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Differ and Defer
Differ means to be different from something, and Defer means to delay action
Differ means to be unlike or distinct from something, while defer means to postpone or delay an action. Option (c) correctly states both meanings; option (d) reverses them, while (a) and (b) confuse the words with unrelated senses.
Similar Questions
- Bate, Bait, Bade
1. Those who had gathered for the unveiling were asked to bate their curiosity.
2. They set the bait to capture the leopard for tagging.
3. He reluctantly bade goodbye to his belongings.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly? - Climactic and Climatic
- Braid, Beard, Brood
1. The engineers were asked to braid the river by converting it into single body with the aid of an artificial dam.
2. Wise men, they say, often sport a beard.
3. Among certain avian species the males are known to brood the eggs laid by females.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly? - Lose and Loose
- Anyway and Any way
- Allusion and Illusion
- Appraise and Apprise
Directions : In the following questions a pair of similar sounding words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
‘Evoke’ and ‘Invoke’
- Dairy, Dreary, Diary
1. She quietly stored all her sacred memories in her private dairy.
2. The proceedings of the meeting went on and on and were quite dreary.
3. They always bought their milk products from the local diary.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly? - Lesion, Legion, Lesson
1. The scan of the affected area indicated the presence of a life-threatening lesion.
2. He had a legion of followers who hung on to his every word.
3. It is important to lesson the burden of others as we venture through life.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly?
Important Questions from Confusable Words
- Bate, Bait, Bade
1. Those who had gathered for the unveiling were asked to bate their curiosity.
2. They set the bait to capture the leopard for tagging.
3. He reluctantly bade goodbye to his belongings.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly? - Climactic and Climatic
- Braid, Beard, Brood
1. The engineers were asked to braid the river by converting it into single body with the aid of an artificial dam.
2. Wise men, they say, often sport a beard.
3. Among certain avian species the males are known to brood the eggs laid by females.
In which of the sentences given above has/have the words been used correctly? - Lose and Loose
- Anyway and Any way
