Master Your Vocabulary: 15 Idioms for Competitive Exams(2026) | MCQs for Competitive exams

Idioms for Competitive Exams 

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom:

Bank upon:

1. Mistrust
2. Doubt
3. Depend on
4. To save money

Ans: Depend on

Bring home:

1. To buy a new home
2. To explain
3. To give information
4. To continue

Ans: to explain

Square meal:

1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
4. Full meal

Ans: Full meal

Wear a long face:

1. To look gloomy
2. Light up
3. Cheerful face
4. Surprized

Ans: To look gloomy

In vogue:

1. In the current fashions
2. Out of style
3. Old fashioned
4. Olden

Ans: In the current fashion

Once for all:  

1. Temporarily
2. Gradually
3. Finally
4. Provisionally

Ans: Finally

Mother's wit:

1. Common sense
2. Academic qualification
3. Mother's knowledge
4. Native wit

Ans: Common sense

At large:

1. As a whole
2. Extensively
3. Generally
4. Confined

Ans: Confined

Assume airs:

1. Humble
2. Down-to-earth
3. Pretend superiority
4. Reject

Ans: Pretend superiority

At the stone's throw:

1. Far away
2. A very short distance
3. Remote
4. An easy task

Ans: A very short distance

The principal is not ready to listen to any arguments beside the mark.

Meaning of the idiom, "beside the mark".

1. Suggestion 
2. On the mark
3. Pertinent
4. Irrelevant

Ans: Irrelevant

Nowadays, corporal punishment is considered a criminal activity.

Meaning of the idiom, "corporal punishment".

1. Praise
2. Reward
3. Encouragement
4. Bodily punishment

Ans: Bodily punishment

He is so cocksure that he will certainly ace the upcoming entrance exam.

Meaning of the idiom cocksure.

1. Modest
2. Humble
3. Diffident
4. Arrogant

Ans: Arrogant

His father strictly said to him," I cannot allow you to play ducks and drakes 

with your inheritance.

Meaning of the idiom," Ducks and drakes".

1. To store
2. Frugal
3. To waste money
4. Hoard

Ans: To waste money

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Most (Expected & Repeated) PYQ for 2026 (Synonyms and Antonyms) | Upgrade Vocabulary for Competitive Exams

 

Antonyms & Synonyms for 

Competitive Exam

 Choose the correct synonym:

Lousy 

• Energetic
• Unbearable
• Awful
• Loose

Ans: Awful

Some other Synonyms of Lousy are:

• Crummy
• Bad
• Poor
• Terrible, 

In other words, we can say 'Lousy' means very bad, poor quality

What a crummy day! means someone is having a very unpleasant, frustrating or 
disappointing day where things have gone wrong.
We can easily understand by this easy memory trick (beneficial for SSC, CGL)
Lousy - means low quality

After learning the synonyms, try to make sentences:

• Yesterday was a lousy day, so we didn't go out.
• I don't know why my body feels lousy.

This is the best trick to remember the meaning.

Anticipate:

• Hope
• Accept
• Expect
• Think

Ans: Expect

Envisaged:

• Severe
• Ensured
• Contemplated
• Imagined 

Ans: Imagined 

Envisaged means 'visualized' or 'imagined beforehand'.

In other words, we can say to imagine or picture something in the mind,

especially about the future.

Let's go through other synonyms of 'Envisaged'

•                                                              Visualized
•                                                              Foreseen
•                                                              Envisioned
•                                                              Conceived

Choose the correct antonym:

Spurious:

• Original
• Content
• Mitigate
• Authentic

Ans: Authentic

The antonym of 'Spurious' is 'Authentic'.

Here, two concepts are created, on the left-hand side, you see a spurious object 
while on the right-hand side, you can find an authentic object.

Antonym of Obscure:

• Clear
• Easy
• Create
• Veiled

Ans: Clear

The antonym of obscure is obvious or clear

In the image, there are two types of paths:

On the left side, there is obscure path,

while on the right side, we see obvious path.