Directions (1-15): In the following questions, a word is given in bold followed by three sentences. Choose the appropriate option mentioning the sentence(s) that uses the highlighted word in a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful manner.
Q1. CONDUCIVE
(I) We are unnecessarily killing this industry in a manner and way that is not conducive for our industry.
(II) Royal Marines are required to undergo one of the longest and most physically demanding specialist infantry training conducive in the world.
(III) Before induction into a specific branch of the armed forces, recruits undergo at least 9 weeks of basic military conducive.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) Both (I) and (III)
Q2. DETERRENCE
(I) I think that the kids caught in the act of vandalism or anything deterrence should be handcuffed and taken to the police station.
(II) The bill proposed making joyriding a deterrence offence and provided penalties of up to seven years in prison.
(III) There are several factors which control criminal activity and deterrence is only one of them.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) Both (I) and (III)
Q3. CYNICISM
(I) Politicians’ cynicism popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories.
(II) Citrin and other experts say cynicism actually seems to be a political motivator, increasing both activism and voter turnout.
(III) The cynicism factory shutdown would only exacerbate our unemployment problems.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) Both (I) and (III)
Q4. DISSEMINATION
(I) Elsevier and Tencent are pleased to announce the signing of a strategic agreement to accelerate the dissemination of global health information in China.
(II) A crater was dissemination at the point where the meteor impacted the planet’s surface.
(III) Section 4 of the Act calls for pro-active and voluntary dissemination of information, but only a few Central and State institutions have published relevant information.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) Both (I) and (III)
Q5. REMORSE
(I) We saw more murders and kidnappings than ever before, and violent remorse took a quantum leap.
(II) Mrs Reilly didn’t show any remorse for her behaviour – which placed vulnerable people at “at risk of emotional harm”.
(III) Bill Cosby says he has no remorse about his actions and believes his trial was a “set up” with “imposters” for jurors.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) Both (I) and (III)
Q6. TOUTED
(I) Educators can creatively and imaginatively use these quarters in touted on the geography and history of the United States.
(II) Testing is being touted as the means of making the U.S. education system competitive, even world-class.
(III) The BBC will introduce a change to the touted of its new 3D weather map after carefully assessing feedback from viewers.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q7. FORTITUDE
(I) There’s been a huge receptiveness to this event, which is what makes it much more likable from our fortitude.
(II) He battled his illness with characteristic courage and fortitude and displayed a positive attitude to the end.
(III) Leigh Hunt bore himself in his captivity with cheerful fortitude, suffering severely in health but flagging little in spirits or industry.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q8. DEPRAVED
(I) The people who make up this typical Gorky offering are drunkards, thieves, depraved creatures of every kind.
(II) In the meantime, there are sources of support and advice for men depraved access to their children by mothers.
(III) Use yellow journalism to scare the public into depraved that legislators pass a law to fix the non-existent problem.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q9. BEQUEATHED
(I) Incurable diseases are being treated and cured by unauthorized self-styled doctors who have learned from their bequeathed.
(II) No matter how often she changed her will, she told me, that diamond pin was always bequeathed to me.
(III) The rules for bequeathed are simple to understand but are deceptively difficult to put into practice.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q10. ENIGMA
(I) Paraffin wax is enigma added to a mixture to create a surface bloom which acts as a barrier to sun-checking and oxidation.
(II) Each region enigma its own brand of craft skills and the results are so variegated that the categories run into the hundreds.
(III) Tails are often an enigma; many creatures have them, but scientists know little about their function, particularly for extinct species.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q11. ANOMALY
(I) Out of fear of drowning, some children anomaly the thought of swimming.
(II) It is also intended to remove the anomaly of people doing similar jobs being paid different amounts.
(III) For the seven years of our record, there is a very obvious oscillation in the temperature anomaly.
(a)Both (I) and (III)
(b)Only (I)
(c)Only (II)
(d)Both (I) and (II)
(e)None of these
Q12. PROSPECTIVE
(I) Buying a Home offers advice, tips, and guides for both homeowners and prospective homeowners.
(II) Most prospective homesteaders make the same mistake I did in buying horses unless they are experienced.
(III) The study is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the etiology of major chronic diseases.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) All (I), (II) and (III)
Q13. PEREMPTORY
(I) Nutritionally peremptory children experience more health problems than food-secure children
(II) This time it was not a request but a peremptory order to go at once to Cuba and undertake the work.
(III) The year end-expiration of the bonus peremptory tax benefit, which was expected to boost outlays, had no major impact.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q14. DEDUCTION
(I) You will also need share vouchers, and certificates of deduction of tax from bank and building society accounts.
(II) The policy was taken during the sharp deduction of the rupiah against the U.S dollar.
(III) Most of us would not deduction with any such normal death.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Q15. IGNOMINY
(I) After all, we love nothing better than seeing the powerful and formerly smug dragged across the front pages in ignominy.
(II) While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
(III) A water firm has been granted ignominy to pump water from the Lake District into a reservoir in case of drought.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Solutions
S1. Ans. (a)
Sol. Conducive means ‘Making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible;
Good for, Helpful to.’ Statement (I) uses conducive in a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful manner. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. Deterrence means the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences; Prevention, Obstruction.
Statement (III) uses deterrence in a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful manner. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. cynicism means an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; Scepticism, Doubt.
Statement (II) uses cynicism in a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful manner. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S4. Ans. (e)
Sol. Dissemination means the action or fact of spreading something, especially information, widely; Spreading, Circulation.
Both Statement (I) and (III) use dissemination in a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful manner. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. Remorse means Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed; Contrition, Deep regret.
Both Statement (II) and (III) use Remorse in a grammatically correct and contextually
meaningful manner. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (b)
Sol. The term ‘touted’ means ‘advertise in strongly positive terms.
S7. Ans. (e)
Sol. The term ‘fortitude’ means ‘strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity.’
S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. The term ‘Depraved’ means ‘corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality’.
S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. The term ‘bequeathed’ means ‘leave or give, especially by will after one’s death’
S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. The term ‘enigma’ means ‘something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained’.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. The word ‘Anomaly’ means ‘irregularity’. In this context, option (c) holds the correct usage of the highlighted word.
S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. The term ‘prospective’ refers to ‘of or concerned with or related to the future’.
S13. Ans. (b)
Sol. The term ‘peremptory’ means ‘not allowing contradiction or refusal’
S14. Ans. (d)
Sol. The term ‘deduction’ means ‘the action of deducting or subtracting something’.
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol. The term ‘ignominy’ refers to ‘a state of dishonour’
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