Miscellaneous Topics

SAQs 1 on Miscellaneous Topics

Marine Academy Admission Questions 2012 to 2024

1. Stephen Hawking investigated into the universe of the----. 

Answer: history

2. Razzmatazz means----.

Answer: noisy activity

3. The word 'Lunar' is related to:

Answer: Moon

4. Many islands make up ----.

Answer: an archipelago

5. 'Unable to read or write' means:

Answer: illiterate

6. The word 'lucrative' means:

Answer: profitable

7. The type of clothing people wear tells others a lot about-

Answer: who they are

8. I spent ---- with patient.

Answer: some time

9. The word 'quorum' means-

Answer: Required number

10. Time after twilight and before night is called

Answer: Dusk

11. Which of the followings is not a greeting?

Answer: Good night

12. 'It' can be substituted by ----.

Answer: They

13. A person who is deeply learned is called a ----.

Answer: scholar

14. What is the meaning of 'Wriggling'?

Answer: Twisting suddenly

15. "---- is the fine tuning of education" - Nadine Dacher.

Answer: Etiquette

16. The word "Nuptial" is related to ----.

Answer: marriage

17. "---- is the fine tuning of education" - Nadine Dacher.

Answer: Etiquette

18. What is the meaning of 'Wriggling'?

Answer: Twisting suddenly

19. It will be your task to make sure the ---- of traffic is maintained without interruption.

Answer: flow

20. The word "Nuptial" is related to ----.

Answer: marriage

21. It was a very ---- situation.

Answer: embarrassing

22. A 'cardiologist' is a doctor who treats ----.

Answer: heart patients

23. Which of the following is an offer?

Answer: Have a cup of tea.

24. Fill in the blank. This dictionary costs ---- the other one.

Answer: twice as much as

25. My reading room is untidy. Here 'untidy' means:

Answer: messy

26. The plot of the novel was----it was completely incomprehensible.

Answer: so complicated that

27. Hydrophobia is the fear of____.

Answer: water

28. An educated person can----between right and wrong.

Answer: differentiate

29. Photosynthesis takes place in the----of plants.

Answer: green parts

30. No one can----that he is honest.

Answer: deny

31. Hasan has read most of the----of Shakespeare.

Answer: works

32. The word 'imbibe' means----.

Answer: to drink

33. Time after twilight and before night

Answer: Dusk

34. ----takes charge of a prison.

Answer: A warden

35. The word 'lunar' is related to:

Answer: Moon

37. I cannot ---- to pay such high prices.

Answer: afford

38. "Pilferage" is a soft word for:

Answer: stealing

39. Even as a child, sleep ---- Sumana.

Answer: eluded

40. The expression 'distinctive qualities' means those qualities of a person which ----.

Answer: make him/her different from others

41. The word 'Diaspora' is related to ----.

Answer: migration

42. Let me----you on your birthday:

Answer: congratulate

43. We often----a victim of circumstances.

Answer: fall

44. Which one completes the sentence properly? The ship----.

Answer: sank

45. The man was ---- for murder.

Answer: hanged

46. Would you mind simply ---- a cup of tea?

Answer: taking

47. Our school building has a good ----.

Answer: site

48. The plot of the story is so ---- that I can predict the outcome.

Answer: Trite

49. One who sacrifices his life for a cause is a----.

Answer: martyr

50. Hardly had the train stopped----

Answer: when we got down

51. The word 'Paradigm' means:

Answer: Example

52. I have no knowledge of----.

Answer: who did it

53. There is no reason ---- absent.

Answer: to be

54. I am not leaving ---- I get an apology from you.

Answer: until

55. Choose the appropriate connecting word: ---- I was walking along the riverside, I saw a water-snake.

Answer: While

56. My father does not like terrorism----his honesty.

Answer: because of

57. He cannot walk a mile---- ten miles. (Use phrases)

Answer: let alone

58. The children studied in a classroom----windows were never opened.

Answer: whose

59. The horse----was hit by the car was only slightly hurt.

Answer: which

60. The team is----eleven players.

Answer: made up of

61. The world has come closer and has become a----village.

Answer: global

62. An educated person can---- between right and wrong.

Answer: differentiate

63. The intensive search was conducted by the detectives to locate those criminals who----.

Answer: had escaped

64. The children studied in a classroom----windows were never opened.

Answer: whose

65. A remedy for all disease is called----.

Answer: panacea

66. The word 'lunar' is related to:

Answer: Moon

67. All the following sentences are compound except ----.

Answer: I offended him as did this.

68. He is ---- tall nor fat.

Answer: neither

69. I have read the book ---- you lent me.

Answer: that

70. The verb 'succumb' means----:

Answer: submit

71. He/she has ---- in the Marine Entrance Exam.

Answer: succeeded

72. I ---- but I cannot hear a sound.

Answer: am listening

73. A new house ---- at the corner of the road.

Answer: is being built