This is the Vocab24 daily quiz of 25 January 2026, the same 27 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.

1. Synonym

Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.

Coeval

2. Synonym

Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.

Contiguity

3. Synonym

Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.

Denunciation

4. Synonym

Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.

Emendation

5. Antonym

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Erratum

6. Antonym

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Hortatory

7. Antonym

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Decimation

8. Antonym

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Probative

9. One word substitution

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

Existing at the same time; of the same age or period.

10. One word substitution

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

A public statement strongly condemning someone or something.

11. One word substitution

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

An error in a printed or published text, usually corrected later.

12. One word substitution

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

Serving as proof; providing evidence that helps establish something as true.

13. Fill in the blank

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.

Qadri informed that all of the PAT members... soon take back their nomination forms?

14. Fill in the blank

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.

We need to do........ of work before the event starts.

15. Fill in the blank

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.

........ you........ 'English in Ten days' in the morning?

16. Idiom

Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.

Sumit had to look high and low before he could find his scooter key.

17. Idiom

Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.

She rejected his proposal of marriage point blank.

18. Idiom

Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.

He is in the habit of fishing in troubled waters.

19. Sentence correction

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.

Not only the bandit robbed (a)/ the traveller of his purse of gold (b)/ but also wounded him grievously (c)/ No error (d)

20. Sentence correction

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 visiting professor gave a wounderful discourse (a)/ on the future of philosophy (b)/ as a subject of study in the universities (c)/ No error (d)

21. Sentence correction

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.

That christmas a great many new toys (a)/ came to the nursery (b)/ and the children were delighted with them (c)/ No error (d)

22. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

Which of the following can be inferred from the given passage? <br><br> I. Childhood memories always stay strong. <br> II. Feeling of love towards someone is based on our current evaluation of that person. <br> III. Emotions can be erased through technology based therapy.

23. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

Which of the following is false in the context of the passage?

24. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

The participants were asked to write their experiences primarily about whom of the following?

25. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

Which of the following is true in the context of the passage?

26. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

What of the following could be the most appropriate title of the passage?

27. RC

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given beside. <br><br><br> Memories of the love we felt in childhood towards our parents are among the most precious aspects of autobiographical memory we could think of, says lead author Lawrence Patihis, researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. Yet our findings suggest that these memories of love are malleable -- which is not something we would want to be true. <br><br> If you change your evaluation of someone, you will likely also change your memory of your emotions towards them and this is true of memory of love towards mothers in childhood, Patihis explains. <br><br> For their first experiment, Patihis and coauthors Cristobal S. Cruz and Mario E. Herrera recruited 301 online participants. Some participants wrote about recent examples of their mother's positive attributes, such as showing warmth, generosity, competence, and giving good guidance; others wrote about recent examples of their mother's lack of these attributes. Participants in one comparison group wrote while receiving writing prompt and participants in another comparison group received no writing prompt at all. <br><br> The participants completed a survey assessing how they currently thought about their mother's attributes, including her warmth and generosity. They then completed the Memory of Love Towards Parents Questionnaire (MLPQ), which contained 10 items designed to measure the love participants remembered feeling for their mother at different ages (e.g., During the whole year when you were in first grade, how often on average did you feel love toward your mother? and During the whole year when you were in first grade, how strong on average was your love toward your mother? ). The MLPQ also measured participants' current feelings of love for their mothers. <br><br> The participants completed the measures again 2 weeks and 4 weeks after the initial session. <br><br> The results showed that the writing prompts influenced participants' current feelings and their memories of love. Specifically, participants who were prompted to write about their mother's positive attributes tended to recall stronger feelings of love for their mother in first, sixth, and ninth grade compared with participants who wrote about their mother's lack of positive attributes. <br><br> These effects endured at the 4-week follow-up for first grade memories, but not for memories of sixth grade or ninth grade. <br><br> Additional findings showed the effects of the writing prompts were not simply the result of changes in participants' mood. <br><br> A second experiment, with another 302 online participants, replicated these findings. Importantly, the participants did not differ in their current assessments of their mother before receiving the writing prompt, indicating that the effects of the writing prompts were not due to preexisting differences among participants. The findings also revealed that participants' current feelings of love for their mothers, as measured at the start of the experiment, were misremembered 8 weeks later following the experimental manipulation. The writing prompt effects had begun to fade by the time the researchers conducted an 8-week follow-up after the experiment. <br><br> The authors plan to expand this research to explore whether the same effects emerge for other emotions and target individuals and they're also exploring whether successes in life might similarly alter childhood memories of emotion. In addition, the researchers hope to find out whether these effects might influence later behavior. <br><br> The significance of this research lies in the new knowledge that our current evaluations of people can be lowered if we choose to focus on the negative, and this can have a side effect: the diminishing of positive aspects of childhood memories, says Patihis. We wonder if wide-ranging reappraisals of parents -- perhaps in life or in therapy -- could lead to intergenerational heartache and estrangement. Understanding this subtle type of memory distortion is necessary if we want to prevent it.

What of the following could be the most appropriate title of the passage?

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