Gauhati High Court Junior Administrative Assistant (JAA) Study Material – English

September 13, 2025

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Gauhati High Court will conduct a common written examination for Recuitment of JAA in District Courts of Assam. This page contain Gauhati High Court Junior Administrative Assistant (JAA) Study Material for English part so that applicants get an idea about question pattern. Moreover Gkseries has launched a Junior Administrative Assistant (JAA) Test Series at cheapest price.

Gauhati High Court Junior Administrative Assistant (JAA) Study Material

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Question	A room or building, for the preservation of plants.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	plantation	incorrect
Option	farmyard	incorrect
Option	greenhouse	correct
Option	plantain	incorrect
Solution	green house (N.) : a building with glass sides and a glass roof for growing plants in plantation (N.) : a large area of land that is planted with trees to produce wood farmyard (N.) : an area that is surrounded by farm buildings plantain (N.) : a fruit like a large banana, but less sweet, that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable

Question	A large number of fish swimming together.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	troupe	incorrect
Option	swarm	incorrect
Option	litter	incorrect
Option	shoal	correct
Solution	shoal (N.) : a large number of fish swimming together as a group troupe (N.) : a group of actors, singers, etc. who work together litter (N.) : a number of baby animals that one mother gives birth to at the same time — puppies swarm (N.) : a large graup of insects (bees)

Question	A list of things to be discussed at a meeting.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	minutes	incorrect
Option	issues	incorrect
Option	agenda	correct
Option	data	incorrect
Solution	agenda (N.) : a list of items to be discussed at a meeting minutes (N.) : a summary/ record of what is said/decided at a formal meeting issues (N.) : an important topic that people are discussing/arguing about data (N.) : facts/information, especially when examined and used for finding out things/ for making decisions

Question	A figure with many angles or sides.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	hexagon	incorrect
Option	octagon	correct
Option	polygon	correct
Option	pentagon	incorrect
Solution	polygon (N.) : many angles/ sides hexagon (N.) : six angles and sides octagon (N.) : eight angles and sides pentagon (N.) : five angles and sides

Question	An office with a salary but no work
Type	multiple_choice
Option	honorary	incorrect
Option	sinecure	correct
Option	insolvent	incorrect
Option	sinuous	incorrect
Solution	sinecure (Adj.) : a job you are paid for even though it involves little or no work -honorary (Adj.) : given as an honour ; not paid insolvent (Adj.) : not having enough money to pay what you owe sinuous (Adj.) : turning while moving, in an elegant way ; having many curves

Question	The study or collection of coins
Type	multiple_choice
Option	nymphomania	incorrect
Option	numismatics	correct
Option	numerology	incorrect
Option	numeric	incorrect
Solution	numismatics (N.) : the study of coins and medals nymphomania (N.) : abnormally intense sexual desire in women numerology (N.) : the use of numbers to try to tell somebody what will happen in the future numeric (N.) : relating to numbers ; expressed in numbers

Question	One who hates women
Type	multiple_choice
Option	misogynist	correct
Option	misanthrope	incorrect
Option	feminist	incorrect
Option	effeminate	incorrect
Solution	misogynist (N.) : a man who hates women misanthrope (N.) : a person who hates and avoids other people feminist (N.) : a person who supports the belief that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men effeminate (N.) : looking, behaving or sounding like a woman or girl

Question	A woman with dark brown hair
Type	multiple_choice
Option	blonde	incorrect
Option	philogynist	incorrect
Option	brunette	correct
Option	dotard	incorrect
Solution	brunette (N.) : a white–skinned woman with dark brown hair blonde (N.) : (of hair) pale gold in colour philogynist (N.) : one who esteems women as the higher type of humanity dotard (N.) : someone whose age has impaired (diminished in strength, quality or utility) intellect

Question	Speech for the first time.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	introductory speech	incorrect
Option	maiden speech	correct
Option	concluding speech	incorrect
Option	initial speech	incorrect
Solution	maiden speech (N.) : the first speech made by a person introductory speech (N.) : said at the beginning of something as an introduction to what follows concluding speech (N.) : said at the end of something as a conclusion to what happend initial speech (N.) : said at the beginning

Question	A person who is physically dependent on a substance
Type	multiple_choice
Option	criminal	incorrect
Option	martyr	incorrect
Option	gladiator	incorrect
Option	addict	correct
Solution	addict (N.) : a person who is very interested in something and spends a lot of his free time in it ; a person who is unable to stop taking harmful drugs criminal (N.) : connected with/ involving crime martyr (N.) : a person who suffers very much or is killed because of his religious/ political beliefs gladiator (N.) : a man trained to fight other men/animals in order to entertain public

Question	A child born after the death of its father
Type	multiple_choice
Option	an orphan	incorrect
Option	a deprived child	incorrect
Option	a waif	incorrect
Option	a posthumous child	correct
Solution	posthumous child (N.) : given or happening after someone has died orphan (N.) : a child whose parents are dead deprived child (N.) : a child who is without enough food, education and all the things that are necessary for it to live a happy and comfortable life waif (N.) : a thin child who doesn’t have enough to eat

Question	A movement of part of the body to express an idea or feeling
Type	multiple_choice
Option	jibe	incorrect
Option	gesture	correct
Option	pose	incorrect
Option	mimicry	incorrect
Solution	gesture (N.) : a movement made with your hands, head, face to show a specific meaning/feeling/ idea jibe (N.) : an unkind remark about somebody pose (V.) : to create a problem, to ask a question to sit/stand in a particular position mimicry (N.) : the action/skill of being able to copy the voice, movements of others

Question	A legal agreement by which a person borrows money from a bank usually to buy a house
Type	multiple_choice
Option	document	incorrect
Option	mortgage	correct
Option	lease	incorrect
Option	invoice	incorrect
Solution	mortgage (N.) : a legal agreement by which a bank lends you money to buy a house document (N.) : an official paper/book that gives information lease (N.) : a legal agreement that allows you to use a building, a piece of equipment or some land for a period of time, usually in return for rent invoice (N.) : a bill

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Question	Failing to discharge one’s duty
Type	multiple_choice
Option	debacle	incorrect
Option	dereliction	correct
Option	determination	incorrect
Option	deterrent	incorrect
Solution	dereliction (N.) : wilful negligence ; the fact of deliberately not doing what you ought to do, especially when it is part of your job debacle (N.) : an event/a situation that is a complete failure and causes embarrassment determination (N.) : the quality that makes you continue trying to do something even when this is difficult deterrent (N.) : a thing that makes somebody less likely to do something

Question	Study of insects is
Type	multiple_choice
Option	etymology	incorrect
Option	entomology	correct
Option	ecology	incorrect
Option	embryology	incorrect
Solution	entomology (N.) : the scientific study of insects etymology (N.) : the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings ecology (N.) : the study of the relation of plants and living creatures to each other and to their environment embryology (N.) : the scientific study of the development of embryos – young animals and plants before birth

Question	Careful in the spending of money, time, etc.
Type	multiple_choice
Option	punctual	incorrect
Option	economical	correct
Option	miserly	incorrect
Option	calculative	incorrect
Solution	economical (Adj.) : providing good service/value in relation to the amount of time/money spent; using no more than is necessary; not spending more money than is necessary, frugal punctual (Adj.) : not late ; happening or doing at the arranged/ correct time miserly (Adj.) : hating to spend money calculative (Adj.) : used of persons– the most calculating and selfish men; shrewd

Question	Reproducing or memorizing word for word
Type	multiple_choice
Option	verbatim	correct
Option	verbose	incorrect
Option	verbiage	incorrect
Option	verbalism	incorrect
Solution	verbatim (Adj.) : exactly as spoken/written ; word for word verbose (Adj.) : using/containing more words than are needed; long-worded verbiage (N.) : the use of too many words or of more difficult words than are needed to express an idea verbalism (N.) : a phrase/sentence having little or no meaning ; the way in which something is said

Question	That which cannot be captured
Type	multiple_choice
Option	unbreakable	incorrect
Option	ungrippable	correct
Option	impregnable	incorrect
Option	slippery	incorrect
Solution	ungrippable (Adj.) : that can’t be captured impregnable (Adj.) : strong and impossible to defeat/change ; invincible unbreakable (Adj.) : that can’t be entered by force slippery (Adj.) : difficult to hold/ stand/move in, because it is smooth wet/polished

Question	One who breaks the law
Type	multiple_choice
Option	aggressor	incorrect
Option	politician	incorrect
Option	transgressor	correct
Option	pedestrian	incorrect
Solution	transgressor (N.) : someone who violates a law or command aggressor (N.) : a person, country etc. that attacks first politician (N.) : a person connected with politics. pedestrian (N.) : a person who walks on a street rather than use a vehicle.

Question	A child secretly changed for another in infancy
Type	multiple_choice
Option	nipper	incorrect
Option	changeling	correct
Option	tiddler	incorrect
Option	tyke	incorrect
Solution	changeling (N.) : a child who is believed to have been secretly left in exchange for another tiddler (N.) : a very small fish tyke (N.) : a small child, one who behaves badly nipper (N.) : a small child