This is the Vocab24 daily quiz of 31 January 2026, the same 26 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.
Impoverish
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Euphoric
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Ferment
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Fracture
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Outrage
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Encapsulate
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Illuminate
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Disperse
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Feeling intense happiness and excitement.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Break or crack (a bone or other hard material).
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Light up; make something clearer or easier to understand.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Become less strict or severe; give in.
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.
This date is worth _____
Explanation: Gerunds can be used after certain verbs including enjoy, fancy, discuss, dislike, finish, mind, suggest, recommend, keep, and avoid. After prepositions of place and time. 'remembering' is the correct answer.
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.
The price of kerosene oil _____ two rupees a liter?
Explanation: When deciding whether to use 'is' or 'are', look at whether the noun is plural or singular. If the noun is singular, use 'is'. If it is plural or there is more than one noun, use 'are'.
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.
Sita or her brothers _____ to be blamed.
Explanation: The verb to be placed in the statement should agree with the subject of the sentence. <br> In the given sentence, the subject is 'Sita or her brothers'. <br> Here, due to the usage of 'or', only one person is performing the action depicted by the verb. <br> The verb placed in the sentence will be in accordance with the word immediately before the verb. <br> Here, brothers is a plural noun, hence the plural verb is placed. <br> Out of the given options, only 'are' is the plural verb.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
It was a Herculean task for me.
Explanation: Herculean task: extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
I just paid him a left-handed compliment.
Explanation: left-handed compliment: A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
The captain played with determination because the honour of the team was at stake.
Explanation: at stake: at risk.
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.
He knows very well (a)/ what is expected of him (b)/ but he is not able to fulfill all the expectations (c)/ No error (d)
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.
Unless I do not get some tea (a)/ I shall not be able (b)/ to do any more work (c)/ No error (d)
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 man who I have often mentioned (a)/ is one whose friendship I could wish to acquire (b)/ because he is respectable (c)/ No error (d)
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. <br><br><br> The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. <br><br> Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br><br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br><br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. <br><br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. <br><br> Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!
As per the passage, which of the following statements are true? <br><br> 1. Most of the plastic present in the ocean today has originated from the land. <br> 2. In recent years, the production of plastics has declined. <br> 3. Plastic pollution is present on almost every beach.
Explanation: Statement 1: Most of the plastic present in the ocean today has originated from the land. <br> Refer to: <br> the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br> The highlighted part above makes it clear that most of the plastic that ended up being in the ocean, originates from the land. This makes the statement 1 true. <br> Statement 2: In recent years, the production of plastic has declined. <br> Refer to: <br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. <br> According to the highlighted part above the production and consumption of plastics is on the rise which is opposite of what stated in statement 2. This makes the statement 2 invalid. <br> Statement 3: Plastic pollution is present on almost every beach. <br> Refer to: <br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. <br> In the above highlighted part, the author uses the words ‘any beach, anywhere’ to emphasise that plastic pollution is present on almost every beach. <br> Evidently, option C is the correct answer.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. <br><br><br> The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. <br><br> Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br><br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br><br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. <br><br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. <br><br> Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!
Which of the following is not the quality of plastic?
Explanation: Refer to : <br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and overconsumption of plastic goods<br> All the qualities other than Brittle have been mentioned in the passage. <br> Thus the option C is the correct answer.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. <br><br><br> The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. <br><br> Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br><br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br><br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. <br><br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. <br><br> Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!
Which of the following statements are false according to the passage? <br><br> 1. There is a 4 percent increase in the production of plastics in 2013, over 2012. <br> 2. The production of plastics in 2012 is approximately 299 million tons. <br> 3. According to the Global Industry Experts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015.
Explanation: Statement 1: There is a 4 percent increase in the production of plastic in 2013, over 2012. <br> Refer to: <br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. <br> According to the author, the production of the plastics was increased by 4 percent in 2013 over 2012. <br> Thus the statement 1 is true. <br> Statement: The production of plastics in 2012 is approximately 299 million tons. <br> Refer to : <br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. <br> From the above highlighted part, it is clear that the production of plastics was 299 million tons in 2013 and not in 2012. There has been no mention of the quantity of plastics produced in 2012 in the passage. This makes the statement 2 false. <br> Statement 3: According to the Global Industry Experts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br> Refer to: <br> In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br> As mentioned in the highlighted part the report is published by the Global Industry Analyst and not by the ‘Global Industry Experts’. This makes the statement 3 invalid. <br> Hence, The answer will be option C i.e. Both statement 2 and 3 are false.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. <br><br><br> The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. <br><br> Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br><br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br><br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. <br><br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. <br><br> Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!
Which organisation has quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean? As mentioned in the passage.
Explanation: Refer to: <br> Although both option 1 and 2 have been mentioned in the passage, it is option 1 i.e. UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis organisation which has quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. <br> There is no mention of the other organisation in the passage. <br> Hence, option A is correct.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. <br><br><br> The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. <br><br> Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. <br><br> For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. <br><br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. <br><br> A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. <br><br> Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!
According to the author, What can be the reason behind the plastic pollution. <br><br> 1. Plastic is cheaply available and that lead to the overconsumption. <br> 2. Plastic does not degrade easily thus it ended up being a pollutant. <br> 3. There is no policy to curb plastic pollution.
Explanation: Statement 1: Plastic is cheaply available and that lead to the overconsumption. <br> Refer to : <br> Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and overconsumption of plastic goods. <br> It can be observed from the above highlighted part that Plastic is comparatively cheaper. This quality of plastic has lead to over-consumption of plastic goods. This, in turn, has lead to more plastic goods being discarded. Thus eventually increasing the plastic pollution. Thus the statement 1 is true. <br> Statement 2: Plastic does not degrade easily thus it ended up being a pollutant. <br> Refer to: <br> However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power<br> From the above highlighted part, it can be inferred that plastic does not degrade easily, thus plastic can be present in the environment for a very long period of time. Ultimately it ended up being a pollutant. <br> This makes the statement 2 valid. <br> Statement 3: There is no policy to curb plastic pollution. <br> Refer to: <br> There has been no mention in the passage about the statement 3. This makes the statement 3 invalid. <br> Evidently, option D is the correct answer.
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