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Question 895

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question Match List-Ⅰ List-Ⅱ▾

Match the word with definition: (January paper 3)

List-Ⅰ (Column I)List-Ⅱ (Column II)
(A)

Cognate

(i)

Rules governing the social use of language

(B)

Etymon

(ii)

Words with a common ancestor

(C)

Code switching

(iii)

Changing from one language variety to another in discourse

(D)

Pragmatics

(iv)

Etymological source of a word

Choices

Choice (4)Response
  • (A)
  • (B)
  • (C)
  • (D)

a.

  • (ii)
  • (iv)
  • (iii)
  • (i)

b.

  • (iii)
  • (i)
  • (iv)
  • (ii)

c.

  • (iv)
  • (iii)
  • (ii)
  • (i)

d.

  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • (i)

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Question 896

Appeared in Year: 2013

Question MCQ▾

Which one of Brecht՚s works was intended to lampoon the conventional sentimental musical but the public lapped up the work՚s sentiment and missed the humour? (June Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The Mother

b.

Man is Man

c.

Life of Galileo

d.

Three Penny Opera

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Question 897

Appeared in Year: 2013

Question MCQ▾

“I will put myself in poor and mean attire and with a kind of umber smirch my face” . The word umber means: (June Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

A dark brown pigment

b.

Yellow paste

c.

A dusty yellow or brown pigment

d.

Light brown powder

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Question 898

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

Elizabeth Bishop՚s poems are best remembered for their (January paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Intellectual tenor

b.

Conversational intimacy

c.

Astringent satire

d.

Urban topography

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