Monday, 17 August 2020

VERBAL ABILITY QUESTIONS SET 21 SOLUTIONS

 

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1- C 

Sentence B talks about an idea that was once thought

to be correct. Sentence D presents the present stream

of thought which is different from the original idea as

presented in B. Hence BD is a mandatory pair and ‘but’

in D is a good clue. Sentence D is followed by sentence

A as the latter states the new observations mentioned

in sentence D. In sentence C, the clue is ‘the star’

already referred to in sentence A as ‘blue stars’.

Sentence E is the concluding sentence.



2- A


The strongest clue here is AE, which is a mandatory

pair. Sentence A mentions ‘reform’ and sentence E

refers to the same as ‘the reform’. Using elimination

one can easily arrive at option (a) being the right

answer. Also, sentence C is a generalized sentence

hence it should come at the beginning of the paragraph.

CB is also a mandatory pair as ‘them’ in sentence B

refers to ‘revolutions’ in sentence C



3 - C


(a) Ease back- move slowly or with less commitment

(b) Ease off-become less severe or intense.

Option (c) is wrong. The expression should be “eased

off”. “Eased in” means to move in gently and carefullyyou

ease in behind the wheel of a car.

(d)Ease up means (here) become less pressing or

urgent.

(e)Ease off means (informally) do something less

intensely.



4 - B


Chipped away means to make weak gradually.

Chipped off is wrong. Chipped away, which means to

break small pieces off something, is the correct

expression.



5 - B


Syncretic means uniting and blending together

different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.



6 - A 


The sentence discusses the author’s contemplation

of the effects of the debate that is being driven by the

Scottish nationalists. Keeping this context in mind, the

second blank can be filled only by ‘contemplated’.

Hence, (a) is the right answer.



7-B 


Definitive (of a conclusion or agreement) means

decisive and with an authority. Equitable means just or

fair or marked by principles of fairness or equity.

Esoteric means secret or known only to a few people.

Luxuriant means growing in abundance.



8 - A


Palette-a range, quality or use of available

elements.(palette is also the name of an artist’s mixing

board). Bathos-insincere pathos; sentimentality;

mawkishness. Meretricious-flashy, gaudy, spurious.

Unequivocally means clearly and without doubt.



9 - A


The paragraph discusses the history of zero and how

it came into use. Once the idea of decimal based place

value came into existence, zero became popular. It

was on a roll. Hence option (a) is correct. (c), which

is a close option, can’t be the answer as the pairing of

zero with the numeral 1 gets discussed in the second

line of the paragraph.



10 - A


The last sentence of the paragraph is about how,

apart from the author, there were ‘hundreds of other

children’, who were going through the same ordeal.

Their approach to the ordeal was one of patience.

They were coping with it as best as they could. In

such a context option (a), which describes the children

silently accepting their fate and not asking any

questions comes across as the best answer. Also,

the ‘they’ in this option has an antecedent in the

‘children’.

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