Top 40+ XAT Vocabulary Questions with Solutions PDF

XAT Vocabulary questions are one of common type of questions that appear in XAT. In the actual exam, the direct meaning of a word is tested whereas in CAT the contextual understanding is tested. Every year one or two questions keep repeating. To get to know other similar questions that gets asked in the exam, checking with the XAT syllabus will help you better.

We have compiled all the vocabulary questions that have repeated in the previous years. You could download them as PDFs and practice at your convenience. Another advantage of these questions is that they give you a fair idea of the type and difficulty of the actual questions in the XAT exam. Another important post-exam recommendation we'd like to make is to check our XAT score calculator that'll help you to know to your expected scores and percentiles after the exam.

XAT 2024 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Read the following statement carefully.

___________like a fake can be a sign of___________, and clinging too tightly to what feels like one’s authentic self can ________that growth.

Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.

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Question 2

Read the following statement carefully and fill up the blanks from the given options.

As _________evolved and eventually moved to cities, close proximity ____________how we viewed and assessed each_________.

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XAT 2023 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Fill up the blanks with appropriate words.

Oil painting did to appearance what capital did to social____________. It reduced everything to the __________of objects. Everything became __________because everything became a commodity. All reality was mechanically__________ by its materiality

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XAT 2021 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Read the following statement:
While start-ups have__________ reach, _____ they introduce ________ products, they open-up ________ markets.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.

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XAT 2020 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Carefully read the paragraph below:

__________, medicine has been operated by trial and error, in other words, __________. We know by now that there can be entirely_________ connections between symptoms and treatment, and some medications succeed in medical trials for mere random reasons.

From the options below, choose the one that MOST appropriately fills up the blanks.

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XAT 2019 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Please study the paragraph given below:

In 1942, the French writer Albert Camus composed an essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. It draws on the Greek fable of a man condemned to roll a rock up a mountain only to have it roll back down under its own weight, a ______ that lasts for eternity. Camus argues that this image ______ the human condition in a world where we can no longer make sense of events; but instead of committing suicide, we should ______ ourselves to this ‘elusive feeling of absurdity’ and bear it as best we can. In this sense, Sisyphus is the ideal hero.

Consider the following words:
1. surrender
2. choice
3. symbolises
4. quandary
5. attune
6. option
7. reconcile
8. depicts

Which of the following options is the most appropriate sequence that best fits the blanks in the above paragraph?

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Question 2

Which option does not reflect the relationship implicit in ‘Emendation : Editor’?

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Question 3

Study the first sentence and then identify from among the options given the closest antonym of the highlighted word in the second sentence:

It’s conventional wisdom that procreation between first cousins is unhealthy. But what are the actual genetic risks?

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Question 4

Carefully read the following paragraph:

Who could resist the idea of remembering everything they wanted to, without trying? Learning would be made easy, exams a ______ and you would never forget where you left your keys. And memory-related disorders like Alzheimer’s would have met their match. So, it is of little surprise that scientists have turned their attention to ways of ______ human memory using techniques that ______, supplement or even mimic parts of the brain. The immediate goal is to treat memory disorders, but the idea of a memory ______ for everyday life is gaining ground.

Fill in the blanks in the above paragraph, with the best option from among the following:

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XAT 2016 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Which of the following options best captures the relationship similar to INSPECT : VIVISECT?

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Question 2

The subject of this book is knavery, skullduggery, cheating, betrayal, unfairness, crime, sneakiness, malingering, cutting corner, immorality, dishonesty, betrayal, graft, wickedness, and sin.

Which of the following options best captures ALL the italicized words above?

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Question 3

Read the following poem and answer the question that follows:

I sought a soul in the sea
And found a coral there
Beneath the foam for me
An ocean was all laid bare.
Into my heart’s night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! The light,
An infinite land of day.

Which of the following would best capture the ESSENCE of the poem above?


Question 4

Choose the best pronunciation of the word, Sobriquet, from the following options:

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XAT 2015 Vocabulary questions

Question 1

Six words are given below:

I. Cacophonic
II. Cacographic
III. Calamitous
IV. Catastrophic
V. Contraindicative
VI. Cataclysmic

Which of the above words have similar meanings?

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Question 2

Read the four sentences given below:
i. He is the most ______ of the speakers to address us today.
ii. The belief in ______ justice is the essence of his talk.
iii. This hall would have been full but for the _____ rain.
iv. Many in the audience have achieved _____ in their respective fields.

Which of the following sequence of words would most appropriately fit the blanks ?

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Question 3

Which of the following is not a term of ‘disapproval’?

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Question 4

Identify the correct sequence of words would most that aptly fit the blanks in the following passage.
It is _____ (i) _____ that the accused had _____ (ii) _____ _____ (iii) _____ from all criminal activities by adopting the _____ (iv) ____ _ of a sanyasi. However, despite repeated requests from the counsel for prosecution, the court has _____ (v) _____ a lie detector to ascertain the truth.

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XAT 2014 Vocabulary questions

Instruction for set 1:

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:

Question 1

The defense proposes to show that the incident that the prosecution so _____________ rejects as _______ did indeed take place.

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Instruction for set 1:

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:

Question 2

Not just the absence of ____________ , but also the presence of ____________ and honesty is required to bind up the nation’s wound.

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Instruction for set 1:

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:

Question 3

In many cases in physics, one has to deal simultaneously with collective and single-particle excitations of the system. The collective excitations are usually bosonic in nature while the single-particle excitations are often fermionic. One is therefore led to consider a system which includes bosons and fermions. Hence, _____________ Which of the following options is most likely to follow the paragraph given above?

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