| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Adequately and properly aged so as to be free of harshness | E | He has mellowed with age |
| B | Freed from the rashness of youth | F | The tones of the old violin were mellow |
| C | Of soft and loamy consistency | G | Some wines are mellow. |
| D | Rich and pleasant | H | Mellow soil is found in the Gangetic plains. |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Remove a stigma from the name of | E | The opposition was purged after the coup. |
| B | Make clean by removing whatever is superfluous, foreign | F | The committee heard his attempt to purge himself of a charge of heresy |
| C | Get rid of | G | Drugs that purge the bowels are often bad for the brain. |
| D | To cause evacuation of | H | It is recommended to purge water by distillation |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | To extend outside of or enlarge beyond | E | The mercy of God exceeds our finite minds |
| B | To be greater than or superior to | F | Their accomplishments exceeded our expectation. |
| C | Be beyond the comprehension of | G | He exceeded his authority when he paid his brother’s gambling debts with money from the trust. |
| D | To go beyond a limit set by (as an authority or privilege) | H | If this rain keeps up, the river will exceed its banks by morning. |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Removal or lightening of something distressing | E | A ceremony fellows the relief of a sentry after the morning shift. |
| B | Aid in the form of necessities for the indigent | F | It was relief to take off the tight shoes |
| C | Diversion | G | The only relief I get is by playing cards. |
| D | Release from the performance of duty | H | Disaster relief was offered to the victims |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | To derive by reasoning or implication | E | We see smoke and the infer fire |
| B | To surmise | F | Given some utterance, a listener may infer from it all sorts of things which neither the utterance nor the uttered implied |
| C | To point out | G | I waited all day to meet him; from this you can infer my zeal to see him |
| D | To hint | H | She did not take part in the debate except to ask and question inferring that she was not interested in the debate. |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Give new direction to | E | It was now his turn to be angry |
| B | Send | F | Leena never turned away a beggar |
| C | Change in form | G | Ashish asked Laxman to turn his face to the left |
| D | Opportunity coming successively for each person | H | The old school building was turned into a museum |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Capture | E | All her friends agreed that Prasad was a good catch |
| B | Grasp with sense of mind | F | The proposal sounds good, but where’s the catch? |
| C | Deception | G | Hussain tries to catch the spirit of India in his painting |
| D | Thing person worth trapping | H | Sorry, I could not catch you |
| Dictionary definition | Usage | ||
| A | Obliged, constrained | E | Dines felt bound to take a walk when the discussion on turned to kickbacks |
| B | Limiting value | F | Buffered by contradictory forces, he was bound to lose his mind |
| C | Move in a specific direction | G | Vidya’s story strained the bounds of credibility |
| D | Destined or certain to be | H | Bound for a career in law, Jyoti was reluctant to study Milton |
| 1. | C | A-G: The wines have been preserved for a long time so as to ‘age’ it. B-E: He has been “freed from the rashness of youth” in his old age. C-H: The soil in the Gangetic plains are ‘rich’ with the flow of time. D-F: The violin tunes were ‘rich and pleasant’. |
| 2. | D | A-F: The committee heard his attempt to “remove the stigma” from his name. B-H: Water had to be purified of “foreign/superfluous” ingredients by distillation. C-E: The opposition was “gotten rid of” after the coup. D-G: Drugs that empty the bowels have a bad effecton the brain. option 4 is correct |
| 3. | A | A-H: Here ‘exceed’ would mean ‘flowing beyond’ the ‘banks’ (physical boundaries). B-F: Here their accomplishments ‘were superior to’ the expectation. C-E: It is difficult for us to ‘comprehend’ the infinitemercy of God. D-G: He ‘crossed limits’ when he embezzled from the fund. Option 3 is correct |
| 4. | B | A-F: The author felt “light after removing something distressing ‘shoes’ B-H: The victims were given relief ‘aid’. C-G: The only ‘diversion’ I get is by playing cards. D-E: The sentry was ‘released from the performance of duty’. Option 2is correct. |
| 5. | A | A-E: We see smoke and ‘deduce’ that there must be afire. B-F: The listener makes all sorts of guesses about the ‘utterance’. C-G: ‘You’ can be sure from ‘the long wait’ that the person is definitely inclined to meet ‘him’. D-H: She had distanced herself from the debate but for a perfunctory question, thereby ‘hinting’ that shewas not exactly excited by the debate. Option 1 is correct |
| 6. | C | Note that size matches with cricket pitch and vessel matches with measuring oil |
| 7. | D | Note that capture matches with Husain capturing the spirit, grasp matches with I could not catch you, and soon |
| 8. | B | A matches with E, B with G, and so on. |
| 9. | C | The right construction would be "…..help himself to the beer…". |
| 10. | A | Option 1 is the right answer because it should have been “ great on paper”. |
| 11. | B | The correct sentence should have read “ …. runs a profitable business …” |
| 12. | A | “Customers have to serve themselves….” would be the right construction. |
| 13. | B | Drew on his fancy –used his imagination. |
| 14. | D | To rest on their laurels means be happy with what they get, be complacent. Hence option D) |
| 15. | A | Make no bones about something – to say clearly what you think or feel although you may embarrass or offend someone. |
