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Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Indefeasible
Explanation: Indefeasible describes something that cannot be annulled, defeated or made void. Unassailable therefore expresses its meaning most precisely. Revocable, defeasible, rescindable and voidable all suggest that something can be cancelled, challenged or invalidated and thus convey the opposite idea.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Gasconade
Explanation: Gasconade means extravagant boasting or bragging, so boasting is the most accurate synonym. Reticence and reserve imply restraint in expression, while modesty and humility indicate an absence of excessive self-praise and are therefore contrary to gasconade.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Misconceive
Explanation: To misconceive something is to form a wrong idea or understanding of it. Misapprehend conveys the same sense of understanding something incorrectly. Comprehend, grasp and understand indicate correct understanding, while interpret by itself does not necessarily imply error.
Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.
Consilience
Explanation: Consilience refers to the convergence or agreement of evidence obtained from different independent sources. Concordance closely expresses this idea of agreement. Divergence, discord and conflict describe separation or disagreement and therefore move in the opposite semantic direction.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Decarbonize
Explanation: Decarbonize means to reduce or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from an activity, process or economy. Carbonize is its listed opposite because it moves toward carbon rather than its reduction. Defossilize, electrify and cleanse are associated with the reduction or removal implied by decarbonization.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Diachronic
Explanation: Diachronic concerns development or change over a period of time, whereas synchronic examines something without such chronological development and is therefore its direct opposite. Historical, evolutionary, temporal and developmental all retain the idea of time, change or development.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Depoliticize
Explanation: Depoliticize means to remove political influence, control or significance from something. Politicize means the opposite movement by giving something political significance or influence. Neutralize, disengage, detach and deideologize are aligned with removing or reducing such influence rather than adding it.
Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Flummery
Explanation: Flummery denotes empty compliments, meaningless talk or insincere flattery. Candor, meaning openness and sincerity, stands in direct contrast to such insincerity. Blandishment, humbug, flattery and nonsense are all associated with the meaning or semantic field of flummery.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
The substitution of one person or party for another with respect to a legal right or claim.
Explanation: Subrogation precisely refers to the substitution of one person or party for another regarding a legal right or claim. Consilience concerns convergence of evidence, gasconade means extravagant boasting, flummery means insincere or meaningless talk and diachronic relates to development over time.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Agreement or convergence of evidence obtained independently from different sources.
Explanation: Consilience denotes agreement or convergence among evidence coming from different independent sources. Subrogation concerns legal substitution, gasconade denotes boasting, flummery refers to empty or insincere talk and misconceive means to form an incorrect understanding.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
Incapable of being wrong or containing errors.
Explanation: Inerrant means incapable of being wrong or containing errors and therefore directly substitutes the given definition. Indefeasible means incapable of being annulled or defeated, diachronic relates to change through time, consilience denotes convergence of evidence and depoliticize means removing political influence.
Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
To remove political influence, control or significance from an issue or institution.
Explanation: Depoliticize means to remove political influence, control or significance from something. Misconceive concerns incorrect understanding, decarbonize concerns reducing carbon dioxide emissions, subrogate relates to legal substitution and carbonize expresses an idea contrary to decarbonization.
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.
Governments investing heavily in renewable energy often aim to ______ their economies by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Explanation: Decarbonize fits because the sentence explicitly refers to reducing carbon dioxide emissions from economies. Carbonize conveys the opposite idea, politicize concerns political influence, misconceive relates to incorrect understanding and subrogate concerns substitution with respect to a legal right or claim.
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 audience quickly recognized that the speaker's extravagant praise was little more than ______ and therefore lacked sincerity or substance.
Explanation: Flummery means empty compliments, meaningless talk or insincere flattery, which precisely matches extravagant praise lacking sincerity or substance. Consilience concerns evidential convergence, subrogation is a legal concept, inerrancy concerns freedom from error and diachrony relates to change across time.
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 theory became more persuasive when independent findings from different fields showed a striking ______ of evidence.
Explanation: Consilience is appropriate because the sentence describes independent findings converging toward agreement. Divergence, conflict, discord and disagreement all suggest separation or inconsistency among the evidence and therefore contradict the contextual requirement of mutually supporting findings.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Full of hot air
Explanation: The phrase full of hot air is used in the memory aid associated with gasconade and conveys excessive boasting or bragging without substantial basis. Modesty and reserve express the opposite tendency, while the remaining alternatives correspond to entirely different concepts such as inerrancy, consilience and depoliticization.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Made void
Explanation: To make something void is to annul or cancel its validity. This sense is central to the meaning of indefeasible, which describes something not capable of being annulled or made void. Preservation, continuance, freedom from error and convergence do not convey the required idea.
Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.
Through different chronological periods
Explanation: The phrase refers to the idea represented by diachronic, namely examining development or change across different periods of time. The other choices describe depoliticization, subrogation, inerrancy and gasconade respectively and therefore do not correspond to chronological development.
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.
Many people misconceives silence as a sign of weakness when they fail to interpret restraint correctly.
Explanation: The plural subject many people requires the base-form verb misconceive, not the singular form misconceives. Option a therefore restores subject-verb agreement while retaining the intended meaning. Option b unnecessarily shifts the tense and changes sign to signs, while option c lacks the required finite verb.
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.
After compensating the policyholder, the insurer exercised its right of subrogate against the responsible party.
Explanation: The expression requires the noun subrogation after the preposition of. Subrogate is a verb and cannot appropriately occupy this noun position. Subrogated and subrogating are verbal forms that also fail to provide the required noun construction, making option b 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 committee sought to depoliticize the appointment process so that political influence could be removed from the decision.
Explanation: The construction sought to depoliticize is grammatically correct because sought is properly followed by the infinitive to depoliticize. Option a introduces an unsuitable construction, option b incorrectly uses the past form after to and option c omits the infinitive marker.
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> A reform commission was established to improve the credibility of an important appointment process. Its first objective was to <strong>depoliticize</strong> decision-making by reducing partisan influence and examining claims on their evidentiary merit. The members deliberately refused to regard their own judgments as <strong>inerrant</strong>. Instead, they invited independent specialists to examine the same questions from different perspectives. When findings from several teams converged, the resulting <strong>consilience</strong> strengthened the commission's conclusions. <br><br> The commission also conducted a <strong>diachronic</strong> examination of the institution, comparing its development across different periods rather than treating its existing structure as static. Some commentators <strong>misconceived</strong> this caution as weakness and responded with considerable <strong>gasconade</strong>, repeatedly exaggerating their own certainty. Others offered little beyond <strong>flummery</strong>, praising the reform without engaging seriously with its substance. <br><br> A separate working group considered how the institution could <strong>decarbonize</strong> its operations. Meanwhile, its legal advisers examined cases involving <strong>subrogation</strong>, particularly situations in which one party replaced another in relation to a legal claim. Throughout the exercise, the commission maintained that no institutional arrangement should automatically be treated as <strong>indefeasible</strong> merely because it had existed for a long time.
Which of the following can most reasonably be inferred from the commission's approach?
Explanation: The commission refused to regard its judgments as inerrant and sought evidence from independent specialists, with converging findings strengthening its conclusions. This supports option b. The remaining choices contradict the passage because the commission questioned established arrangements, sought depoliticization, rejected empty certainty and conducted a diachronic examination.
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> A reform commission was established to improve the credibility of an important appointment process. Its first objective was to <strong>depoliticize</strong> decision-making by reducing partisan influence and examining claims on their evidentiary merit. The members deliberately refused to regard their own judgments as <strong>inerrant</strong>. Instead, they invited independent specialists to examine the same questions from different perspectives. When findings from several teams converged, the resulting <strong>consilience</strong> strengthened the commission's conclusions. <br><br> The commission also conducted a <strong>diachronic</strong> examination of the institution, comparing its development across different periods rather than treating its existing structure as static. Some commentators <strong>misconceived</strong> this caution as weakness and responded with considerable <strong>gasconade</strong>, repeatedly exaggerating their own certainty. Others offered little beyond <strong>flummery</strong>, praising the reform without engaging seriously with its substance. <br><br> A separate working group considered how the institution could <strong>decarbonize</strong> its operations. Meanwhile, its legal advisers examined cases involving <strong>subrogation</strong>, particularly situations in which one party replaced another in relation to a legal claim. Throughout the exercise, the commission maintained that no institutional arrangement should automatically be treated as <strong>indefeasible</strong> merely because it had existed for a long time.
In the context of the passage, the word consilience most nearly means:
Explanation: The passage states that findings from several independent teams converged and that this consilience strengthened the conclusions. Thus, consilience means convergence or agreement of independent evidence. Conflict indicates the opposite, preservation relates to retention, depoliticization concerns political influence and incorrect interpretation corresponds more closely to misconceiving.
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> A reform commission was established to improve the credibility of an important appointment process. Its first objective was to <strong>depoliticize</strong> decision-making by reducing partisan influence and examining claims on their evidentiary merit. The members deliberately refused to regard their own judgments as <strong>inerrant</strong>. Instead, they invited independent specialists to examine the same questions from different perspectives. When findings from several teams converged, the resulting <strong>consilience</strong> strengthened the commission's conclusions. <br><br> The commission also conducted a <strong>diachronic</strong> examination of the institution, comparing its development across different periods rather than treating its existing structure as static. Some commentators <strong>misconceived</strong> this caution as weakness and responded with considerable <strong>gasconade</strong>, repeatedly exaggerating their own certainty. Others offered little beyond <strong>flummery</strong>, praising the reform without engaging seriously with its substance. <br><br> A separate working group considered how the institution could <strong>decarbonize</strong> its operations. Meanwhile, its legal advisers examined cases involving <strong>subrogation</strong>, particularly situations in which one party replaced another in relation to a legal claim. Throughout the exercise, the commission maintained that no institutional arrangement should automatically be treated as <strong>indefeasible</strong> merely because it had existed for a long time.
Which of the following is the best synonym for inerrant as it is used in the passage?
Explanation: In the passage, inerrant describes a judgment regarded as incapable of being wrong or containing errors. Infallible conveys exactly this meaning. Fallible is an antonym, while revocable and rescindable concern the possibility of cancellation and partisan concerns political alignment rather than freedom from error.
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> A reform commission was established to improve the credibility of an important appointment process. Its first objective was to <strong>depoliticize</strong> decision-making by reducing partisan influence and examining claims on their evidentiary merit. The members deliberately refused to regard their own judgments as <strong>inerrant</strong>. Instead, they invited independent specialists to examine the same questions from different perspectives. When findings from several teams converged, the resulting <strong>consilience</strong> strengthened the commission's conclusions. <br><br> The commission also conducted a <strong>diachronic</strong> examination of the institution, comparing its development across different periods rather than treating its existing structure as static. Some commentators <strong>misconceived</strong> this caution as weakness and responded with considerable <strong>gasconade</strong>, repeatedly exaggerating their own certainty. Others offered little beyond <strong>flummery</strong>, praising the reform without engaging seriously with its substance. <br><br> A separate working group considered how the institution could <strong>decarbonize</strong> its operations. Meanwhile, its legal advisers examined cases involving <strong>subrogation</strong>, particularly situations in which one party replaced another in relation to a legal claim. Throughout the exercise, the commission maintained that no institutional arrangement should automatically be treated as <strong>indefeasible</strong> merely because it had existed for a long time.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to depoliticize as used in the passage?
Explanation: In the passage, depoliticize means removing partisan or political influence from decision-making. Politicize expresses the opposite process of introducing or increasing political significance or influence. Neutralize, disengage, detach and deideologize are associated with removal or reduction rather than the addition of political influence.
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> A reform commission was established to improve the credibility of an important appointment process. Its first objective was to <strong>depoliticize</strong> decision-making by reducing partisan influence and examining claims on their evidentiary merit. The members deliberately refused to regard their own judgments as <strong>inerrant</strong>. Instead, they invited independent specialists to examine the same questions from different perspectives. When findings from several teams converged, the resulting <strong>consilience</strong> strengthened the commission's conclusions. <br><br> The commission also conducted a <strong>diachronic</strong> examination of the institution, comparing its development across different periods rather than treating its existing structure as static. Some commentators <strong>misconceived</strong> this caution as weakness and responded with considerable <strong>gasconade</strong>, repeatedly exaggerating their own certainty. Others offered little beyond <strong>flummery</strong>, praising the reform without engaging seriously with its substance. <br><br> A separate working group considered how the institution could <strong>decarbonize</strong> its operations. Meanwhile, its legal advisers examined cases involving <strong>subrogation</strong>, particularly situations in which one party replaced another in relation to a legal claim. Throughout the exercise, the commission maintained that no institutional arrangement should automatically be treated as <strong>indefeasible</strong> merely because it had existed for a long time.
Consider the following statements based on the passage: <br><br> I. Some commentators incorrectly interpreted the commission's caution as weakness. <br><br> II. The working group sought to increase carbon dioxide emissions from institutional operations. <br><br> III. The legal advisers examined situations involving the replacement of one party by another in relation to a legal claim. <br><br> Which of the statements given above are correct?
Explanation: Statement I is correct because the passage says some commentators misconceived the commission's caution as weakness. Statement II is incorrect because the working group sought to decarbonize operations, meaning to reduce or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions. Statement III is correct because the passage defines the examined subrogation cases as involving one party replacing another in relation to a legal claim.
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