1500+ Essential Words for all competitive exams

Here’s a golden nugget for all students who are preparing for all competitive exams, such as the CSS and PMS exams, the FPSC, PPSC, NTS, and SPSC General Recruitment Tests.

We recommend mastering the vocabulary words provided in these lists and learning how to use them in your writing. We have also added a series on YouTube for covering these words. This series is more than sufficient for an aspirant, but it is also important to read as much as you like. Reading anything you like, including the content shared on our WhatsApp channel, will help you develop your thoughts and ideas, and make it easier to write on any topic in any paper in an engaging and lucid style of writing, which readily captures and retains the examiner’s attention with elegant turns of phrase.

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Special thanks to ma’am Muniba Javed, from our CSS Exam Desk Team, for making these detailed vocabulary lectures on the given word lists for students. She is also currently preparing them for the English and General Ability section in her ongoing module. You can get the enrollment details from this attached link.

1500+ Essential Words for competitive exams, such as the CSS and PMS exams, the FPSC, PPSC, NTS, and SPSC General Recruitment Tests.

Related MCQs

  1. The highest source of Omega-3 fatty acids? (CSS 2012 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Corn oil
    • Fish oil
    • Sunflower oil
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  2. The SYNONYM of the word \"WILTED\" is? (CSS 2017 English Precis & Composition Paper)

    • Droop
    • Comeback
    • Recovery
    • Convalesced

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  3. In a fission nuclear reaction, a heavy nucleus breaks up into smaller nuclei whereas in another nuclear reaction two or more than two possibly nuclei are fused to form a heavy nucleus. This nuclear reaction is called? (CSS 2010 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Nuclear Reaction
    • Chemical Reaction
    • Fission nuclear reaction
    • Fusion nuclear reaction

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  4. Largest concrete dam in the world is? (CSS 2014 Current Affairs Paper)

    • The Itaipu Dam
    • Grand Coulee Dam
    • Three Gorges Dam
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  5. Members of Quadrilateral group are US, Pakistan, China and _____? (CSS 2018 Current Affairs Paper)

    • India
    • Russia
    • Afghanistan
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  6. Pakistan needs _______ votes from FATF members to exit from grey list? (CSS 2021 Current Affairs Paper)

    • 10
    • 12
    • 14
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  7. Umm-ul-Masakeen was the title given to one of the wives of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (صلَّی اللہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم)? (CSS 2009 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • Hazrat Sauda (علیہا السلام)
    • Hazrat Safia (علیہا السلام)
    • Hazrat Zainab benet Khuzima (علیہا السلام)
    • none of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  8. The largest Surah of the Quran is? (CSS 2013 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • Al-Baqrah
    • Al Imran
    • Al-Taubah
    • Surah Younus

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  9. who called the\"spiritual guide\"as shopkeepers? (CSS 2010 Pakistan Affairs Paper)

    • Shaikh ahmed sirhindi
    • shah Walliullah
    • sir syed ahmed khan
    • none of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  10. Which control rods are used in nuclear reactors? (CSS 2019 General Sciencee & Ability Paper)

    • Lithosphere
    • Stratosphere
    • Biosphere
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  11. Baznama (The Book Falconry) was authored by? (CSS 2020 Pakistan Affairs Paper)

    • Hamza Shinwari
    • Abdul Ghani Khan
    • Abdul Rahman baba
    • Khushal Khan Khattak

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  12. Ahsan Al-Qasas (the most beautiful stories) is Mentioned in which surah of the Holy Quran? (CSS 2022 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • Al Baqarah
    • A-Rehamn
    • Surah Yousaf
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  13. One of the following is water-soluble vitamin? (CSS 2016 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Vitamin A
    • Vitamin D
    • Vitamin K
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  14. Which material conduct heat and electricity? (CSS 2015 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Plastic
    • Gas
    • Solid
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  15. The unit of home electricity energy consumption is? (CSS 2011 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Watt hour
    • Joule hour
    • Kilowatt hour
    • Kilojoule hour

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  16. First Azan was given/called by which Companion of Prophet Muhammad? (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم)

    • Hazrat Ali (کرم اللہ تعالٰی وجہہ الکریم)
    • Bilāl ibn Rabāh (رضی اللّٰہ عنہ)
    • Hazrat Umar(رضی اللّٰہ عنہ)
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  17. Masjid Nimrah is located in? (CSS 2015 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • Arafat
    • Jerusalem
    • Madinah
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  18. The first Martial Law in Pakistan was imposed In? (CSS 2019 Current Affairs Paper)

    • September 1958
    • November 1958
    • October 1958
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  19. Number of OIC Muslim states? (CSS 2017 Current Affairs Paper)

    • 58
    • 57
    • 59
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  20. If an igneous rock cuts across a sedimentary rock, we know that the igneous rock is? (CSS 2014 General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Older than the sedimentary rock
    • Younger than the sedimentary rock
    • The same age as the sedimentary rock
    • A minimum of 1.2 million years old

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  21. Tell Numbers of Surahs with Huroof Mugataat? (CSS 2020 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • 19 Surahs
    • 23 Surahs
    • 9 Surahs
    • 29 surahs

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  22. Sahara desert is located? (CSS 2014 Current Affairs Paper)

    • Northern Africa
    • Central Africa
    • South America
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  23. Artificial noise is a? (CSS General Science & Ability Paper)

    • Vibration
    • Vocal cord
    • Both (a) & (b)
    • None of these

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  24. \"Mujadid-Alf-Thani\" is the title of? (CSS 2024 Islamic Studies Paper)

    • Shah Wali Ullah
    • Abdul Haq Muhadith dehlvai
    • Sheikh Ahmad Sarhandi
    • Sheikh Mohayudin ibn Arabi

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team

  25. On which occasion Quaid-i-Azam announced parting of ways with Congress? (CSS 2023 Special Pakistan Affairs Paper)

    • Nehru Report
    • Simon Commission
    • Round Table Conferences
    • None of these options

    Submitted by: CSS Exam Desk Team