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Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
UNDERTAKE
Explanation: Undertake means to accept responsibility for and begin a task, project, or activity; therefore, embark is the closest synonym because it conveys the idea of beginning or engaging in an undertaking. Neglect means to fail to give proper attention, while refuse, abandon, and avoid all indicate unwillingness to begin or continue something and are therefore contrary to the intended meaning.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
FORTHCOMING
Explanation: Forthcoming describes something that is about to happen, appear, or become available soon, making impending the most precise synonym. Previous, past, and departed refer to what has already occurred, whereas distant suggests something remote rather than approaching. Thus, impending best preserves the temporal sense of something expected shortly.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
OVERLOOK
Explanation: Overlook in this sense means to fail to notice, consider, or deal with something, so disregard is the closest synonym. Detect, observe, and notice involve becoming aware of something, while consider involves giving attention to it. These alternatives therefore express ideas opposite to overlooking rather than equivalent to it.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
UNDERCOVER
Explanation: Undercover refers to secret activity undertaken to gather information or investigate something, and clandestine similarly describes something conducted secretly or concealed from public knowledge. Visible, public, overt, and open all imply disclosure or accessibility and therefore conflict with the secretive character of undercover activity.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
OVERDUE
Explanation: Overdue refers to something not completed, returned, or paid by the required time, whereas punctual indicates conformity with the expected time and is therefore its best opposite. Belated, tardy, delayed, and late all share the idea of failing to meet the expected time and are thus related in meaning to overdue.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
INSURANCE
Explanation: Insurance provides financial protection against specified risks or losses, while exposure denotes being subject to risk without such protection. Assurance, indemnity, protection, and coverage all reinforce the protective function of insurance and therefore cannot serve as opposites. Exposure most clearly expresses the contrasting condition of vulnerability to loss.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
MATRIMONY
Explanation: Matrimony denotes the state or institution of being married, whereas celibacy denotes remaining unmarried and therefore provides the strongest contrast. Nuptials, wedlock, marriage, and union are all associated with marriage itself and are semantically close to matrimony, making them unsuitable as antonyms.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
THROUGHPUT
Explanation: Throughput refers to the amount of material, data, or work that passes through a system within a specified period, whereas stagnation implies an absence of movement, activity, or progress. Productivity, capacity, output, and yield are all connected with productive flow or performance and are therefore closer to the meaning of throughput than to its opposite.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
A place or department entrusted with the management and safeguarding of public or institutional money.
Explanation: Treasury precisely denotes a place or department responsible for managing and safeguarding public or institutional money. Insurance refers to financial protection against specified risks, throughput concerns the amount processed by a system, matrimony denotes marriage, and undertake is a verb meaning to accept responsibility for a task.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
The amount of material, data, or work that can pass through a system within a particular period.
Explanation: Throughput is the precise term for the quantity of material, data, or work processed by a system during a given period. Insurance concerns protection against financial loss, treasury concerns the management of funds, overdue describes something late, and matrimony refers to the state of marriage.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Secret investigative activity carried out to obtain information while concealing the true purpose or identity involved.
Explanation: Undercover accurately describes secret work or activity intended to obtain information or investigate something. Forthcoming means approaching or soon to appear, overlook means to fail to notice, overtake means to catch and pass, and overdue describes something that has passed its required time.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
To catch up with and pass a person or object moving in the same direction.
Explanation: Overtake means to catch up with and pass someone or something travelling in the same direction. Undertake concerns accepting responsibility for a task, overlook involves failing to notice something, forthcoming describes something approaching, and undercover relates to secret investigative activity.
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
The administration upgraded its digital infrastructure because the existing system could no longer provide sufficient ______ during periods of unusually heavy data processing.
Explanation: The context concerns the amount of data that a system can process within a given period, so throughput is the precise choice. Treasury relates to funds, insurance to financial protection, matrimony to marriage, and exposure to vulnerability or risk. Only throughput fits both grammatically and conceptually.
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
Because the payment remained ______ even after repeated reminders, the institution imposed an additional charge.
Explanation: A payment that has not been made by the required time is overdue, making option (e) the exact contextual choice. Forthcoming means expected soon, undercover implies secrecy, overtaken concerns being passed, and overlooked means not noticed or considered. None of these alternatives describes a delayed payment.
A statement with one blank is given below. Choose the set of words from the given options which can be used to fill the given blank.
Revenue collected by the department was transferred to the national ______ for proper management and safeguarding.
Explanation: A treasury is the place or department responsible for managing and safeguarding public or institutional money, which fits the reference to collected revenue. Throughput concerns processing capacity, matrimony refers to marriage, insurance provides protection against specified losses, and undertaking refers to a task or responsibility.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Fall behind
Explanation: Fall behind means to trail or lag behind another person, object, or standard. It expresses the opposite movement to overtake, which means to catch up with and pass. Beginning a responsibility relates to undertake, while ignoring a matter relates to overlook, so those alternatives do not fit the phrase.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Enter into matrimony
Explanation: Matrimony means the state or institution of being married, so enter into matrimony means to enter the state of marriage. Financial protection is associated with insurance, secret investigation with undercover activity, management of institutional money with a treasury, and avoidance of responsibility conflicts with the sense of undertaking something.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Catch up with and pass
Explanation: Overtake means precisely to catch up with and pass someone or something moving in the same direction. Overlook means to fail to notice, undertake means to accept responsibility for and begin something, fall behind expresses the opposite movement, and remain overdue concerns delay beyond an expected time.
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
The committee has decided to undertook a detailed review of the existing administrative arrangement.
Explanation: After the infinitive marker to, the base form of the verb must be used; therefore, to undertake is grammatically correct. Undertook is the simple past form, while undertaking is the participial form and cannot follow to in this construction. Hence, option (c) correctly repairs the sentence.
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
By the time the final report was released, the revised system had overtaken its nearest rival in processing capacity.
Explanation: The past perfect construction requires had followed by the past participle, and the correct participle of overtake is overtaken. Option (b) incorrectly combines has with the simple past overtook, while option (c) wrongly uses the base form after had. Therefore, the original phrase represented by option (a) is grammatically correct.
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'd' as the answer.
The forthcoming review is expected to examine whether officials overlooked important details in the earlier assessment.
Explanation: The sentence is already grammatically correct: the singular subject review appropriately takes is expected, and the infinitive to examine is correctly formed. The alternative constructions contain errors in auxiliary agreement or verb form. Therefore, no replacement is required.
DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. <br><br><br> A public department decided to <strong>undertake</strong> a comprehensive review of its financial and digital operations before a <strong> forthcoming </strong> administrative reform. Officials had discovered that several payments were <strong> overdue </strong>, while important procedural weaknesses had previously been <strong> overlooked </strong>. The review therefore sought not merely to identify individual errors but also to determine whether the underlying system encouraged delay and inefficient supervision. <br><br> One area of concern was the department's digital network. Although expensive equipment had been purchased, its actual <strong> throughput </strong> remained below the expected level whenever a large volume of information had to be processed. Investigators concluded that purchasing additional equipment would not by itself solve the problem unless existing procedures were also improved. In another section, records showed that substantial revenue had been transferred correctly to the <strong> treasury </strong>, but weak monitoring had made it difficult to detect delays at an early stage. <br><br> The administration consequently adopted a broader approach. It strengthened financial safeguards, reviewed the adequacy of <strong> insurance </strong> for specified risks, and assigned an <strong> undercover </strong> team to examine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to repeated irregularities. The purpose of the exercise was not simply to punish individuals. Rather, the department intended to create a system in which efficient procedures could eventually <strong> overtake </strong> habitual delay. The review thus demonstrated that administrative improvement depends as much on identifying neglected weaknesses as on introducing new resources.
Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
Explanation: The passage repeatedly emphasizes that merely adding equipment or punishing individuals is insufficient; the administration must identify neglected procedural and systemic weaknesses and improve them. Options (a) and (b) reduce the argument to a single measure, while (d) is unsupported and (e) is contradicted by the inquiry into whether misconduct was only one possible cause.
DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. <br><br><br> A public department decided to <strong>undertake</strong> a comprehensive review of its financial and digital operations before a <strong> forthcoming </strong> administrative reform. Officials had discovered that several payments were <strong> overdue </strong>, while important procedural weaknesses had previously been <strong> overlooked </strong>. The review therefore sought not merely to identify individual errors but also to determine whether the underlying system encouraged delay and inefficient supervision. <br><br> One area of concern was the department's digital network. Although expensive equipment had been purchased, its actual <strong> throughput </strong> remained below the expected level whenever a large volume of information had to be processed. Investigators concluded that purchasing additional equipment would not by itself solve the problem unless existing procedures were also improved. In another section, records showed that substantial revenue had been transferred correctly to the <strong> treasury </strong>, but weak monitoring had made it difficult to detect delays at an early stage. <br><br> The administration consequently adopted a broader approach. It strengthened financial safeguards, reviewed the adequacy of <strong> insurance </strong> for specified risks, and assigned an <strong> undercover </strong> team to examine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to repeated irregularities. The purpose of the exercise was not simply to punish individuals. Rather, the department intended to create a system in which efficient procedures could eventually <strong> overtake </strong> habitual delay. The review thus demonstrated that administrative improvement depends as much on identifying neglected weaknesses as on introducing new resources.
The word throughput as used in the passage most nearly refers to:
Explanation: In the passage, throughput is discussed in relation to the digital network and the volume of information it could process, so it refers to processing capacity within a given period. Financial protection describes insurance, government funds relate to the treasury, secrecy relates to undercover activity, and delayed payments are described as overdue.
DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. <br><br><br> A public department decided to <strong>undertake</strong> a comprehensive review of its financial and digital operations before a <strong> forthcoming </strong> administrative reform. Officials had discovered that several payments were <strong> overdue </strong>, while important procedural weaknesses had previously been <strong> overlooked </strong>. The review therefore sought not merely to identify individual errors but also to determine whether the underlying system encouraged delay and inefficient supervision. <br><br> One area of concern was the department's digital network. Although expensive equipment had been purchased, its actual <strong> throughput </strong> remained below the expected level whenever a large volume of information had to be processed. Investigators concluded that purchasing additional equipment would not by itself solve the problem unless existing procedures were also improved. In another section, records showed that substantial revenue had been transferred correctly to the <strong> treasury </strong>, but weak monitoring had made it difficult to detect delays at an early stage. <br><br> The administration consequently adopted a broader approach. It strengthened financial safeguards, reviewed the adequacy of <strong> insurance </strong> for specified risks, and assigned an <strong> undercover </strong> team to examine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to repeated irregularities. The purpose of the exercise was not simply to punish individuals. Rather, the department intended to create a system in which efficient procedures could eventually <strong> overtake </strong> habitual delay. The review thus demonstrated that administrative improvement depends as much on identifying neglected weaknesses as on introducing new resources.
Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with the passage?
Explanation: The administration assigned an undercover team to determine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to the irregularities; it did not conclude in advance that misconduct caused every problem. The other statements are directly supported: weaknesses had been overlooked, equipment alone was regarded as insufficient, revenue reached the treasury, and both financial and digital operations were reviewed.
DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. <br><br><br> A public department decided to <strong>undertake</strong> a comprehensive review of its financial and digital operations before a <strong> forthcoming </strong> administrative reform. Officials had discovered that several payments were <strong> overdue </strong>, while important procedural weaknesses had previously been <strong> overlooked </strong>. The review therefore sought not merely to identify individual errors but also to determine whether the underlying system encouraged delay and inefficient supervision. <br><br> One area of concern was the department's digital network. Although expensive equipment had been purchased, its actual <strong> throughput </strong> remained below the expected level whenever a large volume of information had to be processed. Investigators concluded that purchasing additional equipment would not by itself solve the problem unless existing procedures were also improved. In another section, records showed that substantial revenue had been transferred correctly to the <strong> treasury </strong>, but weak monitoring had made it difficult to detect delays at an early stage. <br><br> The administration consequently adopted a broader approach. It strengthened financial safeguards, reviewed the adequacy of <strong> insurance </strong> for specified risks, and assigned an <strong> undercover </strong> team to examine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to repeated irregularities. The purpose of the exercise was not simply to punish individuals. Rather, the department intended to create a system in which efficient procedures could eventually <strong> overtake </strong> habitual delay. The review thus demonstrated that administrative improvement depends as much on identifying neglected weaknesses as on introducing new resources.
Which word is closest in meaning to overlooked as used in the passage?
Explanation: Overlooked in the passage means that procedural weaknesses had not received proper attention or had failed to be noticed, making neglected the closest synonym. Detected, observed, and noticed imply awareness of something, while considered implies deliberate attention. These alternatives therefore express the opposite tendency.
DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. <br><br><br> A public department decided to <strong>undertake</strong> a comprehensive review of its financial and digital operations before a <strong> forthcoming </strong> administrative reform. Officials had discovered that several payments were <strong> overdue </strong>, while important procedural weaknesses had previously been <strong> overlooked </strong>. The review therefore sought not merely to identify individual errors but also to determine whether the underlying system encouraged delay and inefficient supervision. <br><br> One area of concern was the department's digital network. Although expensive equipment had been purchased, its actual <strong> throughput </strong> remained below the expected level whenever a large volume of information had to be processed. Investigators concluded that purchasing additional equipment would not by itself solve the problem unless existing procedures were also improved. In another section, records showed that substantial revenue had been transferred correctly to the <strong> treasury </strong>, but weak monitoring had made it difficult to detect delays at an early stage. <br><br> The administration consequently adopted a broader approach. It strengthened financial safeguards, reviewed the adequacy of <strong> insurance </strong> for specified risks, and assigned an <strong> undercover </strong> team to examine whether deliberate misconduct contributed to repeated irregularities. The purpose of the exercise was not simply to punish individuals. Rather, the department intended to create a system in which efficient procedures could eventually <strong> overtake </strong> habitual delay. The review thus demonstrated that administrative improvement depends as much on identifying neglected weaknesses as on introducing new resources.
Which of the following is the best antonym of forthcoming in the context of the passage?
Explanation: Forthcoming describes the administrative reform as something expected to occur soon, whereas past refers to something that has already occurred and therefore provides the clearest contextual opposite. Impending, approaching, prospective, and upcoming all convey the idea of something expected or drawing near and are consequently close in meaning to forthcoming.
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