43rd BCS

Ans: d) uncertain
[ sine die  /adv/ = (অধিবেশন) অনির্দিষ্ট কালের জন্য (স্থগিত)। SINE DIE means not setting any future date for resumption (পুনরায় শুরু).]

Ans: b) at large
[ “at large” means a criminal or any dangerous animal is at liberty, not captured.

** at large = স্বাধীনভাবে;
** random= এলোমেলোভাবে;

Option ‘c’ and ‘d’ do not make sense.]

Ans: b) generous
[ magnanimous = উদার, মহানুভব;
synonym = generous;
antonym= unkind.

revengeful = প্রতিশোধপরায়ণ ]

Ans: c) common
[ Orphan refers to the kid without parents. Here, gender is not relevant. An orphan can be either male or female . Therefore, orphan is a common gender.]

Ans: c) collective noun
[ herd= পাল, A herd of cattle = এক পাল পশু;
Collective noun = যে Noun দ্বারা সমজাতীয় কোন গোত্র বা দলকে বুঝায় তা Collective noun.]

Ans: a) populous
[ populous = জনবহুল (Adj);
popular = জনপ্রিয় (Adj. though but meaning-wise it differs form the required base word);
popularity = জনপ্রিয়তা (N);
popularize = জনপ্রিয় করা (V)]

Ans: c) a verbose speech
[ A verbose speech is the speech that uses more words than necessary;
A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected or appointed member of a legislature or parliament.]

Ans: b) gerund
[ He contemplated marrying his cousin = সে তার কাজিনকে বিয়ে করতে মনস্থ করেছে; এখানে marrying “কি অর্থে” (কি করতে) noun হিসেবে ব্যবহৃত হয়েছে। তাই marrying শব্দটি এখানে gerund.] 

Ans: c) to bend the knee
[ Genuflect = to bend one or both knees as sign of respect to God, especially when entering or leaving a Catholic church (Source: Cambridge Dictionary).]

Ans: a) on foot
[ on foot vs by foot = ‘On foot’ is the most commonly used expression. ‘By’ is usually used to talk about a means of transport (i.e. train, car, boat, plane, etc).]

Ans: c) ocassion
[ Correct spelling = occasion (উপলক্ষ)
fluctuation = ওঠানামা, remission = মওকুফ ]

Ans: d) A traitor is not trusted by anybody.
[ Object + aux. verb (not) + verb 3 + by + subj. (nobody ➜ anybody).]

Ans: b) acted
[ It is high time we acted on the matter = বিষয়টার উপর কাজ করার এখনই চূড়ান্ত / শেষ সময়। It is high time এর পর verb এর past form (verb 2) বসে।]

Ans: c) laughter
[ laugh = verb;
laughter = noun;
laughing / laughable = adjective;
laughingly = adverb ]

Ans: d) on
[ কারো কাছে থাকা বা সাথে বহন করা অর্থে preposition হিসেবে on ব্যবহৃত হয়। সুতরাং শূন্যস্থানে on বসবে। Do you have any money on you? তোমার সাথে কাছে কি কোন টাকা আছে? এরকম আরো কিছু sentence- Have you got any money on you? I never carry much money on me (Source: Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)]

Ans: c) wholeness
[‘deformation’ = বিকৃতি (কোন কিছুর);
distortion = বিকৃতি;
contortion = বিকৃতি;
wholeness = অখণ্ডতা, সম্পূর্ণতা;
disfigurement = বিকৃতকরণ ]

Ans: d) epitaph
[ epitome = সংক্ষিপ্তসার, মূল অংশ;
epithet = উপাধি, গুণবাচক উক্তি;
episode = পর্ব, কাহিনী;
epitaph = সমাধিস্তম্ভ-লিপি ]

Ans: a) hot weather
[ Dog days = The hottest days of the summer.
Dog days is the period between early July and early September when the hot weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere.]

Ans: b) The girl burst into tears.
[ The girl burst into tears = মেয়েটি কান্নায় ভেঙ্গে পড়লো।
burst into = দুঃখে কষ্টে ভেঙ্গে পড়া বুঝাতে;
burst out = খুশিতে / হাসিতে ফেটে পড়া বুঝাতে;

Verb 2 & verb 3 of burst are same as burst (verb 1). Therefore, option “d” is incorrect.]

Ans: a) Charlotte Brontë
[ Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel ‘Jane Eyre (1847)’.
Emily Brontë is best known for her novel ‘Wuthering Heights (1847)’. 
Jane Austen’s best works include ‘Sense and Sensibility (1797-98)’, ‘Pride and Prejudice (1847)’.
Mary Shelley, wife of P.B. Shelly is famous for her novel ‘Frankenstein (1818)‘.]

Ans: c) William Wordsworth
[ William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is considered the most famous romantic poet of English literature.
John Dryden (1660 – 1700) is a poet, literary critic of Restoration age.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) is a poet of Augustan period. 
T.S. Eliot (1888 – 1965), born in America but settled in England, is considered as a Modern poet.]

Ans: b) William Congreve
[ William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. “The Way of the World” by William Congreve was performed and published in 1700. The play, which is considered Congreve’s masterpiece, ridicules the assumptions that governed the society of his time, especially those concerning love and marriage.]

Ans: c) John Milton
[ John Milton (1608 – 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. The saying is from Paradise Lost and says that it is better to rule over – be like a king in hell than to serve somebody as a slave in heaven.]

Ans: d) D.H. Lawrence
[ David Herbert Lawrence was born in England in 1885. He is one of the best novelists of 20th century. His best works include The Rainbow, The White Peacock, Women in Love. Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Jonathan Swift are Irish writers.]

Ans: a) P.B. Shelly
[“Ozymandias (1818)” is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822, aged 29).]

Ans: a) Herman Melville
[ Moby-Dick, novel by American writer Herman Melville was published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick. It is regarded as one of the greatest American novels.]

Ans: d) P.B. Shelly
[“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” – This is the famous last line from the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”.]

Ans: b) America
[ William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O’ Henry, was an American short story writer. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.]

Ans: c) poem
[ ‘No Second Troy‘ is a twelve-line poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats).]

Ans: c) John Keats
[ W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), W.H. Auden (1907- 1973) and T.S. Eliot (1888- 1965) are modern poet. John Keats ( 1795- 1821) is a romantic poet.]

Ans: d) Arundhati Roy
[ Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born in 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ‘The God of Small Things‘ which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.]

Ans: c) One Hundred Years of Solitude
[ A Passage to India = E.M. Forster (English writer);
Sons and Lovers = D.H. Lawrence (English writer);
One Hundred Years of Solitude = Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombian writer);
Pride and Prejudice = Jane Austen (English writer).]

Ans: d) Denmark
[ Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother.]

Ans: d) historical
[‘Julius Caesar‘ is a history and tragedy based play by William Shakespeare which was first performed in 1599.]

Ans: c) William Blake
[ William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and painter. Largely unrecognized during his life, Blake is now considered an influential figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.]