This is the Vocab24 daily quiz of 5 June 2025, the same 30 questions the app served that day, on the day's vocabulary and editorial. One mark for a right answer, minus 0.25 for a wrong one; the explanation opens as soon as you tap.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Infiltration
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Deployed
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Ensure
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Described
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Hesitation
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Insisted
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Associated
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Recruitment
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
The act of secretly entering or gaining access to a place or organization to acquire information or cause harm.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Give a detailed account in words of.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
The fact or quality of insisting that something is the case or should be done.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
The process of actively seeking out, finding and hiring candidates for a specific position or job
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
Look, a new missile ____
Explanation: Sentence is in present continuous tense with passive voice. <br> Rule : <br> Subject + is/am/are + being + V3 + other agents. <br> Look, a new missile is being launched.
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
Look, many students ____ kites.
Explanation: Solution: <br> Sentence is in present continuous tense with active voice. <br> Rule : <br> Subject + is/am/are + V-ing + other agents. <br> Look, many students are flying kites.
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
Marry ____ a question to Mohan yesterday.
Explanation: Sentence is in past tense with active voice. <br> Rule : <br> Subject + V3 + other agents. <br> Marry asked a question to Mohan yesterday.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
The company has been handed over to new masters lock, stock and barrel.
Explanation: lock, stock and barrel: including everything; completely.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
It was out of place for him to talk on politics when the seminar was arranged to discuss recent trends in literature.
Explanation: out of place: in a setting where one is or feels inappropriate or incongruous.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
The sight of the accident made my flesh creep.
Explanation: made my flesh creep: To cause one to feel disgusted, frightened, or unnerved.
Out of given alternatives select the word which is correctly spelt.
Choose the Correct Spelling.
Out of given alternatives select the word which is correctly spelt.
Choose the Correct Spelling.
Out of given alternatives select the word which is correctly spelt.
Choose the Correct Spelling.
Out of given alternatives select the word which is correctly spelt.
Choose the Correct Spelling.
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
How could you even dream of doing such a thing (a)/ without me standing next to you (b)/ to make sure it was safe? (c)/ No error (d)
Explanation: without my standing
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
The less chances you take, the greater your peace of mind will be (a)/ but, then again, the high profits (b)/ that you hope for may never eventuate. (c)/ No error (d)
Explanation: The fewer chances
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
Judging from the beauty of the night. (a)/ I believe that we are (b)/ liable to have good weather tomorrow (c)/ No error (d)
Explanation: likely to have
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: <br><br> Paragraph 1: Between September 2017 and April 2018, as per a CSO report, the economy added 4.1 million new jobs in the formal sector. The CSO release defines jobs as ones that provide at least one government financed (or mandated) social security benefit such as Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), National Pension Scheme, or Employees' State Insurance Scheme. NITI Aayog and official economists have also put out similar estimates since early this year, inviting widespread skepticism among knowledgeable people. <br><br> Paragraph 2: How reliable or credible are the official estimates? Very little and for two reasons: the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification. <br><br> Paragraph 3: Moreover, the official data suffer from a conceptual problem. The social schemes mentioned above are applicable to establishments above a certain size (of employment), and to certain kinds of enterprises. For instance, in the factory sector, those employing 20 or more workers are mandated to provide EPF to all the workers. So, if in a factory, employment goes up from 19 to 20 workers, it comes under the purview of the EPF, to be provided to all the 20 workers. Thus, the EPF enrolment increases by 20 workers, but the additional job created is just for one worker. Herein lies the fault. <br><br> Paragraph 4: The formal sector stands at the apex of India's labour market pyramid, agriculture being at the bottom, employing 50% of the workforce. The remaining workers are in the non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at the expense of the other two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of the informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of underemployment or disguised unemployment are the defining feature of informal labour markets. <br><br> Paragraph 5: Since 1972-73, the five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSS) have been the mainstay for analysing labour market trends. Though infrequent, the database has served a valuable purpose of capturing the complexities of the labour market; access to householdlevel data lately has spawned rich and granular analyses of the informal economy. As the last round of the EUS was in held in 2011-12, there is no reliable way of updating employment trends. The EUS has been replaced with an annual Period Labour Force Survey, and a time use survey. However, it will be a while before these data series come up with stable and credible estimates. The Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to the EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation recently.
Which of the following is/are synonyms of skepticism? <br> I. Cynicism<br> II. Belief<br> III. Distrust<br> IV. Conviction
Explanation: Skepticism means a skeptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something. <br> I and III are synonyms while II and IV are antonyms. <br> Hence, option C is correct.
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: <br><br> Paragraph 1: Between September 2017 and April 2018, as per a CSO report, the economy added 4.1 million new jobs in the formal sector. The CSO release defines jobs as ones that provide at least one government financed (or mandated) social security benefit such as Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), National Pension Scheme, or Employees' State Insurance Scheme. NITI Aayog and official economists have also put out similar estimates since early this year, inviting widespread skepticism among knowledgeable people. <br><br> Paragraph 2: How reliable or credible are the official estimates? Very little and for two reasons: the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification. <br><br> Paragraph 3: Moreover, the official data suffer from a conceptual problem. The social schemes mentioned above are applicable to establishments above a certain size (of employment), and to certain kinds of enterprises. For instance, in the factory sector, those employing 20 or more workers are mandated to provide EPF to all the workers. So, if in a factory, employment goes up from 19 to 20 workers, it comes under the purview of the EPF, to be provided to all the 20 workers. Thus, the EPF enrolment increases by 20 workers, but the additional job created is just for one worker. Herein lies the fault. <br><br> Paragraph 4: The formal sector stands at the apex of India's labour market pyramid, agriculture being at the bottom, employing 50% of the workforce. The remaining workers are in the non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at the expense of the other two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of the informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of underemployment or disguised unemployment are the defining feature of informal labour markets. <br><br> Paragraph 5: Since 1972-73, the five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSS) have been the mainstay for analysing labour market trends. Though infrequent, the database has served a valuable purpose of capturing the complexities of the labour market; access to householdlevel data lately has spawned rich and granular analyses of the informal economy. As the last round of the EUS was in held in 2011-12, there is no reliable way of updating employment trends. The EUS has been replaced with an annual Period Labour Force Survey, and a time use survey. However, it will be a while before these data series come up with stable and credible estimates. The Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to the EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation recently.
Which of the following is/are antonyms of spawned? <br> I. Destroyed<br> II. Engender<br> III. Procreated<br> IV. Sired
Explanation: Spawned means to produce or generate a large number of. <br> II, III and IV are all synonyms and hence incorrect. <br> Only destroyed is the opposite of spawned. <br> Hence, option A is correct.
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: <br><br> Paragraph 1: Between September 2017 and April 2018, as per a CSO report, the economy added 4.1 million new jobs in the formal sector. The CSO release defines jobs as ones that provide at least one government financed (or mandated) social security benefit such as Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), National Pension Scheme, or Employees' State Insurance Scheme. NITI Aayog and official economists have also put out similar estimates since early this year, inviting widespread skepticism among knowledgeable people. <br><br> Paragraph 2: How reliable or credible are the official estimates? Very little and for two reasons: the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification. <br><br> Paragraph 3: Moreover, the official data suffer from a conceptual problem. The social schemes mentioned above are applicable to establishments above a certain size (of employment), and to certain kinds of enterprises. For instance, in the factory sector, those employing 20 or more workers are mandated to provide EPF to all the workers. So, if in a factory, employment goes up from 19 to 20 workers, it comes under the purview of the EPF, to be provided to all the 20 workers. Thus, the EPF enrolment increases by 20 workers, but the additional job created is just for one worker. Herein lies the fault. <br><br> Paragraph 4: The formal sector stands at the apex of India's labour market pyramid, agriculture being at the bottom, employing 50% of the workforce. The remaining workers are in the non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at the expense of the other two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of the informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of underemployment or disguised unemployment are the defining feature of informal labour markets. <br><br> Paragraph 5: Since 1972-73, the five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSS) have been the mainstay for analysing labour market trends. Though infrequent, the database has served a valuable purpose of capturing the complexities of the labour market; access to householdlevel data lately has spawned rich and granular analyses of the informal economy. As the last round of the EUS was in held in 2011-12, there is no reliable way of updating employment trends. The EUS has been replaced with an annual Period Labour Force Survey, and a time use survey. However, it will be a while before these data series come up with stable and credible estimates. The Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to the EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation recently.
As per paragraph 1, which of the following could weaken the importance of having added 4.1 million jobs in the economy as per the CSO report? <br> I. The report is silent about the majority of the workforce engaged in the informal sector. <br> II. The formal sector accounts for just about 12-15% of India's workforce. <br> III. The estimates supplement the data on organised sector employment reported regularly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Explanation: Statements I and II are correct and weaken the impact of the report. Both state that the informal employment stats have not been provided and that this area forms the majority of the employment in India. <br> Statement III is incorrect. It reinforces the importance of the report by stating it strengthens other similar data. <br> Only I and II are correct. <br> Hence, option C is correct.
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: <br><br> Paragraph 1: Between September 2017 and April 2018, as per a CSO report, the economy added 4.1 million new jobs in the formal sector. The CSO release defines jobs as ones that provide at least one government financed (or mandated) social security benefit such as Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), National Pension Scheme, or Employees' State Insurance Scheme. NITI Aayog and official economists have also put out similar estimates since early this year, inviting widespread skepticism among knowledgeable people. <br><br> Paragraph 2: How reliable or credible are the official estimates? Very little and for two reasons: the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification. <br><br> Paragraph 3: Moreover, the official data suffer from a conceptual problem. The social schemes mentioned above are applicable to establishments above a certain size (of employment), and to certain kinds of enterprises. For instance, in the factory sector, those employing 20 or more workers are mandated to provide EPF to all the workers. So, if in a factory, employment goes up from 19 to 20 workers, it comes under the purview of the EPF, to be provided to all the 20 workers. Thus, the EPF enrolment increases by 20 workers, but the additional job created is just for one worker. Herein lies the fault. <br><br> Paragraph 4: The formal sector stands at the apex of India's labour market pyramid, agriculture being at the bottom, employing 50% of the workforce. The remaining workers are in the non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at the expense of the other two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of the informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of underemployment or disguised unemployment are the defining feature of informal labour markets. <br><br> Paragraph 5: Since 1972-73, the five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSS) have been the mainstay for analysing labour market trends. Though infrequent, the database has served a valuable purpose of capturing the complexities of the labour market; access to householdlevel data lately has spawned rich and granular analyses of the informal economy. As the last round of the EUS was in held in 2011-12, there is no reliable way of updating employment trends. The EUS has been replaced with an annual Period Labour Force Survey, and a time use survey. However, it will be a while before these data series come up with stable and credible estimates. The Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to the EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation recently.
As per paragraph 1, which of the following could weaken the importance of having added 4.1 million jobs in the economy as per the CSO report? <br> I. The report is silent about the majority of the workforce engaged in the informal sector. <br> II. The formal sector accounts for just about 12-15% of India's workforce. <br> III. The estimates supplement the data on organised sector employment reported regularly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Explanation: Refer to: <br> '..the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification.' <br> As per the highlighted fragments, I and II are correct while III is not. <br> Hence, option B is correct.
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: <br><br> Paragraph 1: Between September 2017 and April 2018, as per a CSO report, the economy added 4.1 million new jobs in the formal sector. The CSO release defines jobs as ones that provide at least one government financed (or mandated) social security benefit such as Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), National Pension Scheme, or Employees' State Insurance Scheme. NITI Aayog and official economists have also put out similar estimates since early this year, inviting widespread skepticism among knowledgeable people. <br><br> Paragraph 2: How reliable or credible are the official estimates? Very little and for two reasons: the estimates are based on administrative records of implementing the social security schemes, whose completeness, consistency and accuracy are unknown; and since a formal sector worker, in principle, can legitimately access more than one social security scheme, double counting is a distinct possibility. The release does not explain how the problem is addressed in the database. Therefore, rightly, experts have demanded the release of the administrative data for independent verification. <br><br> Paragraph 3: Moreover, the official data suffer from a conceptual problem. The social schemes mentioned above are applicable to establishments above a certain size (of employment), and to certain kinds of enterprises. For instance, in the factory sector, those employing 20 or more workers are mandated to provide EPF to all the workers. So, if in a factory, employment goes up from 19 to 20 workers, it comes under the purview of the EPF, to be provided to all the 20 workers. Thus, the EPF enrolment increases by 20 workers, but the additional job created is just for one worker. Herein lies the fault. <br><br> Paragraph 4: The formal sector stands at the apex of India's labour market pyramid, agriculture being at the bottom, employing 50% of the workforce. The remaining workers are in the non-farm informal sector, spread across rural and urban areas. In fact, it is this sector that has grown in recent decades at the expense of the other two sectors mentioned above. Moreover, nearly half of the informal labour workers are self-employed in household (or own account) enterprises, often engaging unpaid family labour. Varying degrees of underemployment or disguised unemployment are the defining feature of informal labour markets. <br><br> Paragraph 5: Since 1972-73, the five-yearly Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS) conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSS) have been the mainstay for analysing labour market trends. Though infrequent, the database has served a valuable purpose of capturing the complexities of the labour market; access to householdlevel data lately has spawned rich and granular analyses of the informal economy. As the last round of the EUS was in held in 2011-12, there is no reliable way of updating employment trends. The EUS has been replaced with an annual Period Labour Force Survey, and a time use survey. However, it will be a while before these data series come up with stable and credible estimates. The Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been carrying out household surveys somewhat similar to the EUS since 2010-11. They show a decline in worker-population ratio between 2013-14 and 2015-16, suggesting a deteriorating employment situation recently.
Which of the following is a suitable gist of paragraph 3?
Explanation: Paragraph 3 talks about how the social schemes are applicable to a firm only once it reaches a certain threshold and how this shows that the people under a particular scheme may have increase by a huge amount but that does not correspond with an increase in actual employment. <br> Basically, social security database is not a good source to understand about employment data. <br> This eliminates option B. <br> Option C is also incorrect as the paragraph does not state that enrolling is voluntary. Option D is incorrect as there is no matching of numbers as stated in the paragraph. <br> Only option A gives the best gist and states that the databases simply have the list of workers under the scheme but do not depict correct employment figures. <br> Hence, option A is correct.
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