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English By Vishal Parihar
Read the following passage carefully and answer
the questions given below it. Certain words are
given in bold to help you locate them while
answering some of the questions.
Everyone makes mistakes. But if you perceive your
mistake in the right way, despair can never arise.
The reason for your sadness and despair is that you
do not want to accept your mistake but are
compelled to do so. When you are caught red-
handed and have to reluctantly admit it, you feel
sad, depressed and you develop complexes. This
occurs when you intend to defend your ego and not
honestly own up.
Your suffering is not because you did what you
shouldn’t have done, but because the image you
have created gets tainted. He who honestly accepts
his mistake so that he can uproot it would never go
into depression or inferiority.
You ask for atonement for a wrongdoing and you
perform it, too. But the next time you get a wrong
desire, you feel, ‘let me fulfil it and later I shall ask
for atonement and cleanse myself’. Your focus
remains on the deed and not on the
impurity latent in your intention. Thus, by falsely
repenting and taking atonement, you try saving
your image but not move towards transformation.
There is no regret for your faulty state. You try
covering up the mistake.
In the name of repentance, you try defending your
ego. If the list of your mistakes becomes long, your
ego feels hurt and you think, ‘Am I really so bad
that I became angry? I am not, it's just that such a
situation arose, and I happened to act like that.’ You
repent and become the ‘good’ person you think you
are. This so-called repentance does not transform
you but makes arrangement for you to stay the way
you are. You keep repeating the same mistake but
do not bring any change in your inner state.
Ouspensky in his book ‘Strange Life of Ivan
Osokin’ writes about Ivan Osokin who goes to a
mendicant and says, ‘On the whole I am a good
person. Yet mistakes have been committed.
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Walking through an unknown path, I fell in a pit. I
am not the kind who would fall, but the path was
unfamiliar, there was darkness of the night and a pit.
May be someone pushed, and I fell in the pit. If I
get to relive the past and walk again, I want to prove
that I would never fall in the pit.’ The mendicant
said, ‘I make you 12 years younger.’ Osokin said,
‘You see, in 12 years I will become another person.
I was wishing I could get another chance, so I don’t
repeat the mistakes I had committed in ignorance.’
Osokin returns to the mendicant after 12 years and
confesses, ‘I seek forgiveness. The mistakes I had
committed in the past were not because the path was
not known. The mistakes were mine alone; because
I have repeated the same mistakes. I have realised
that I have been living exactly the way I had lived
in the past.’ The mendicant said, ‘I knew it will
recur. Because the mistakes are not in the action but
in the intention.’
Not just Osokin but you too live a strange life; you
live your life in the same way as you have been
living. Even as you age, you keep repeating the
same mistakes, because the doer remains
untransformed. You do the same things you did in
the past and so you remain the same as you were.
Life gives you many chances. But you cheat
yourself by blaming the circumstances.
Q.1
When would a person feel sad and depressed as per
the context of the passage?
1. When a person reluctantly admits her/his
mistake.
2. When a person intends to defend her/his ego
instead of honestly owning up.
3. Options (a) and (b)
4. When a person perceives her/his mistakes in the
right way.
5. Options (a) and (d)
Q.2
Which person would never go into depression or
inferiority?
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1. The one who reluctantly admits his/her Q6.

mistakes. As per the passage, who/what should be blamed
2. The one who perceives his/her mistake in the for a person to remain untransformed, and
right way.
why?
3. The one who honestly accepts his/her mistakes.
1. Circumstances; circumstances weren’t
4. Options (b) and (c)
5. None of these favorable
Q.3. 2. A person’s own self; the person cheat
What does a person do to cover up his/her her/himself by blaming the circumstances but
mistake? isn’t really interested in the transformation.
1. The person atones for her/his mistakes. 3. People around us; they don’t help in creating a
2. The person honestly accepts her/his mistakes. good ecosystem around a person to transform
3. The person goes into depression or inferiority. her/himself.
4. The person despairs for not being an ideal 4. Options (a) and (b)
person.
5. None of these
5. None of these
Q.4.
Among the following options, what are the Q7.
characteristics of false repentance? In each of the questions given below a word is
1. The focus remains on the deed but not on the given in bold. The word is then followed by five
impurity latent in your intention. options. Choose the option which is most
2. The person tries to defend his/her ego. opposite to the word given in bold.
3. False repentance doesn’t transform a person but
makes an arrangement for him/her to stay the Despair
way he/she is.
1. hope
4. The person keeps repeating the same mistake
2. accident
but do not bring any change in her/his inner
state. 3. anguish
5. All of the above. 4. allergy
Q.5. 5. beef
Among the following options, what is the correct Q8.
reason for a person to keep repeating the same In each of the questions given below a word is given
mistakes? in bold. The word is then followed by five options.
1. A person gets angry upon committing a Choose the option which is most opposite to the
mistake.
word given in bold.
2. Because the mistakes committed by a person are
Tainted
not in the action but in the intention.
3. People and circumstances around a person don’t 1. changed
allow him/her to transform. 2. cheap
4. Because the person gets depressed after 3. pure
realizing that she/he committed a mistake. 4. dangerous
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Q9. Direction: In each of the following question a

In each of the questions given below a word is given part of the sentence is highlighted which is
in bold. The word is then followed by five options. grammatically incorrect . Choose the best option
Choose the option which is most similar to the among the five given alternatives that reflect the
word given in bold. correction in the context of the grammatically
Latent correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it
1. Unused is, mark (E)i.e."no replacement required" as the
2. Ducking answer.
3. Eccentric Q12.
“I didn’t like your assignment but everybody’s
4. Equal
else”, the Mathematics teacher said to Rohan.
5. Active
(I) but everybody else’s
Q10.
(II) but for everybody’s else
In each of the questions given below a word is given
(III) but on everybody’s else
in bold. The word is then followed by five options. 1. Only (I)
Choose the option which is most similar to the 2. Both (II) and (III)
word given in bold. 3. Both (I) and (III)
Atonement 4. Both (I) and (II)
1. Entrance 5. No replacement required
2. Famous Direction: In each of the questions given below
3. Foreigner a sentence is given with one blank. Below each
4. Luggage sentence FOUR words are given out of which
5. Reconciliation two can fit the sentence. Five options are given
Direction: In each of the questions given below a with various combinations of these words. You
sentence is given with one blank. Below each must choose the combination with the correct
sentence FOUR words are given out of which set of words which can fit in the given sentence.
two can fit the sentence. Five options are given Q.13
with various combinations of these words. You They expressed ______________ optimism about
must choose the combination with the correct set a solution to the crisis.
of words which can fit in the given sentence. (A) prudent
Q11. (B) cautious
Some laws are considered to be harmful to (C) slow
(D) desire
economic growth as they breed ____________.
1. A-B
(A) Inadequacy
2. A-C
(B) Artifice
3. B-D
(C) Ingenuity
4. C-D
(D) Inefficiency 5. B-C
1. A-B Direction: Select the phrase/connector
2. B-C (STARTERS) from the given three options
3. A-D which can be used to form a single sentence from
4. A-C the two sentences given below, implying the
5. B-D same meaning as expressed in the statement
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Q14. Q16.
(I) Ramakrishna Paramhansa inspired the (I) How to have painless labor during the birth of a
perspective of Swami Vivekananda. child?
(II) This has been a very old problem
(II) Ramakrishna promoted the doctrine of ‘Jato
(i) How to have…
Mat, Tato Path’.
(ii) Since how to have painless labor…
(i) Though, Ramakrishna, who promoted … (iii) This has been…
(ii) Despite Ramakrishna promoted … 1. Only (ii)
(iii) Although, Ramakrishna Paramhansa 2. Only (i)
inspired… 3. Both (i) and (ii)
1. Only (i) 4. Both (ii) and (iii)
2. Only (ii) 5. None of these
3. Only (iii) Direction: Which of the following phrases given
below each sentence should replace the phrase
4. None of these
printed in bold letters to make the sentence
5. Both (i) and (iii)
grammatically correct? Choose the best option
Direction: In each of the questions given below a among the five given alternatives that reflect the
sentence is given with one blank. Below each correct use of phrase in the context of the
sentence FOUR words are given out of which grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence
two can fit the sentence. Five options are given is correct as it is, mark (E) i.e. “No correction
with various combinations of these words. You required” as the answer.
must choose the combination with the correct set Q17.
of words which can fit in the given sentence. The leader repeatedly mentioned that his mission
was not by merely to achieve freedom.
Q15.
1. To more achieving
For hours he did everything to ________________
2. For merely to achieve
him, but the old man remained impassive. 3. Merely to achieve
(A) Close 4. In order for achieving
(B) blaming 5. No correction required
(C) provoke Direction: In each of the questions given below a
(D) instigate sentence is given which is then divided into five
1. A-D parts out of which last part is correct. There are
2. C-D errors in some parts of the sentence out of which
only one part is correct. You must choose the
3. B-C
part as your answer.
4. B-D
Q.18.
5. A-C The Partition and the (A) /bloodletting who
Direction: Select the phrase/connector accompanied (B) /our Independence take up(C)/
(STARTERS) from the given three options many of the(D) /energy of our founders.(E)
which can be used to form a single sentence from 1. The partition and the
the two sentences given below, implying the 2. bloodletting who accompanied
same meaning as expressed in the statement 3. our Independence take up
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Direction: Which of the following phrases given
below each sentence should replace the phrase
printed in bold letters to make the sentence
grammatically correct? Choose the best option
among the five given alternatives that reflect the
correct use of phrase in the context of the
grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence
is correct as it is, mark (E) i.e. “No correction
required” as the answer.
Q.19.
Late in the afternoon, feeling exhausted and
humiliated, the impetuous warrior withdrew.
1. felting exhaust and humilate
2. feeling exhausting and humiliate
3. feel exhaust and humiliated
4. feel exhausted with humiliate
5. No correction required
Direction: Which of the following phrases given
below each sentence should replace the phrase
printed in bold letters to make the sentence
grammatically correct? Choose the best option
among the five given alternatives that reflect the
correct use of phrase in the context of the
grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence
is correct as it is, mark (E) i.e. “No correction
required” as the answer.
Q.20.
There is full justification to close down the
units which are neither profitable or serving any
social cause.
1. Which are not profitable or serve.
2. Which are neither profitable nor serve
3. Which have neither profitable nor serve
4. Which are not profiting nor serving
5. No correction required.
Q.21.
Direction: In the following passage, some of the
words have been left out, each of which is
indicated by a number. Find the suitable word
from the options given against each number and
fill up the blanks with appropriate words to
make the paragraph meaningfully complete.
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Over the last twenty-five years, a different
__________ (21) to economics has been slowly
birthing, and slowly growing—complexity
economics. Complexity economics holds that the
economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that
computation as well as mathematics is useful in
economics, that increasing as well as
______________(22)returns may be present in an
economic situation, and that the economy is not
something given and existing but forms from a
______________(23) developing set of
institutions, arrangements, and technological
____________(24). The economy is a vast and
complicated set of arrangements and actions
wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors
government agencies—buy and sell, speculate,
trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer
services, invest in companies, strategize, explore,
forecast, compete, learn, innovate and
__________(25).
1. Act
2. Restrain
3. Agreement
4. Approach
5. Judgment
Q.22
In the following passage, some of the words have
been left out, each of which is indicated by a
number. Find the suitable word from the options
given against each number and fill up the blanks
with appropriate words to make the paragraph
meaningfully complete.
Over the last twenty-five years, a different
__________ (21) to economics has been slowly
birthing, and slowly growing—complexity
economics. Complexity economics holds that the
economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that
computation as well as mathematics is useful in
economics, that increasing as well as
______________(22)returns may be present in an
economic situation, and that the economy is not
something given and existing but forms from a
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______________(23) developing set of
institutions, arrangements, and technological
____________(24). The economy is a vast and
complicated set of arrangements and actions
wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors
government agencies—buy and sell, speculate,
trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer
services, invest in companies, strategize, explore,
forecast, compete, learn, innovate and
__________(25).
1. Adding
2. Nurturing
3. Diminishing
4. Glorifying
5. Approving
Q.23 In the following passage, some of the words
have been left out, each of which is indicated by
a number. Find the suitable word from the
options given against each number and fill up
the blanks with appropriate words to make the
paragraph meaningfully complete.
Over the last twenty-five years, a different
__________ (21) to economics has been slowly
birthing, and slowly growing—complexity
economics. Complexity economics holds that the
economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that
computation as well as mathematics is useful in
economics, that increasing as well as
______________(22)returns may be present in an
economic situation, and that the economy is not
something given and existing but forms from a
______________(23) developing set of
institutions, arrangements, and technological
____________(24). The economy is a vast and
complicated set of arrangements and actions
wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors
government agencies—buy and sell, speculate,
trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer
services, invest in companies, strategize, explore,
forecast, compete, learn, innovate and
__________(25).
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1. Defectively
2. Constantly
3. Worthlessly
4. Disloyally
5. Arranged
Q.24
In the following passage, some of the words have
been left out, each of which is indicated by a
number. Find the suitable word from the options
given against each number and fill up the blanks
with appropriate words to make the paragraph
meaningfully complete.
Over the last twenty-five years, a different
__________ (21) to economics has been slowly
birthing, and slowly growing—complexity
economics. Complexity economics holds that the
economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that
computation as well as mathematics is useful in
economics, that increasing as well as
______________(22)returns may be present in an
economic situation, and that the economy is not
something given and existing but forms from a
______________(23) developing set of
institutions, arrangements, and technological
____________(24). The economy is a vast and
complicated set of arrangements and actions
wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors
government agencies—buy and sell, speculate,
trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer
services, invest in companies, strategize, explore,
forecast, compete, learn, innovate and
__________(25).
1. Innovations
2. Reductions
3. Drawings
4. Affirmation
5. Distractions
Q.25
In the following passage, some of the words have
been left out, each of which is indicated by a
number. Find the suitable word from the options
given against each number and fill up the blanks
with appropriate words to make the paragraph
meaningfully complete.
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Over the last twenty-five years, a different COLUMN I

__________ (21) to economics has been slowly (A) Researchers are only beginning to understand
birthing, and slowly growing—complexity the power
economics. Complexity economics holds that the (B) As our understanding grows, we will have the
potential
economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that
(C)The burden of gene editing
computation as well as mathematics is useful in
COLUMN II
economics, that increasing as well as (D) cannot be borne by science alone.
______________(22)returns may be present in an (E) to edit out genes that cause fatal diseases.
economic situation, and that the economy is not (F) would not be passed down the family tree.
something given and existing but forms from a 1. A-D
______________(23) developing set of 2. Both B-E and C-F
institutions, arrangements, and technological 3. A-F
____________(24). The economy is a vast and 4. B-F
complicated set of arrangements and actions 5. None of these
wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors Q.27
In the question given below, some parts are given
government agencies—buy and sell, speculate,
which have to be arranged in a proper sequence.
trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer
Select the option which best defines the proper
services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, sequence and arranges the parts to form a
forecast, compete, learn, innovate and meaningful sentence.
__________(25). of adulthood, they are nevertheless (A)/ the
1. Anger traditional milestones (B)/ entering their peak
2. Clash spending years(C)/while a surprisingly large (D)
3. Argue /number of millennials have delayed (E)/
4. Annoy 1. ABDCE
5. Adapt 2. CDBEA
Q.26 3. BDEAC
4. EABDC
In the following questions two columns are given
5. DEBAC
containing three sentences/phrases each. In first Q.28
column, sentences/phrases are A, B and C and in In each of the question given below a/an
the second column the sentences/phrases are D, idiom/phrase is given in bold which is then
E and F. A sentence/phrase from the first followed by five options which try to decipher its
column may or may not connect with another meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the
sentence/phrase from the second column to option which gives the meaning of the phrase
make a grammatically and contextually correct most appropriately in context of the given
sentence. Each question has five options, four of sentence.
which display the sequence(s) in which the That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to
own.
sentences/phrases can be joined to form a
1. Varied
grammatically and contextually correct
2. Mismatched
sentence. If none of the options given forms a 3. Fabricated
correct sentence after combination, mark (E), 4. Mastered
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Q.29 Answer2:D
In the question given below, some parts are given Solution: The correct answer for the question can
which have to be arranged in a proper sequence. be derived from the first paragraph and the third
Select the option which best defines the proper paragraph.
sequence and arranges the parts to form a In the first paragraph, kindly read the sentence
meaningful sentence. ‘Everyone makes mistakes. But if you perceive your
societies that bar (A)/ protecting themselves (B)
mistake in the right way, despair can never arise.’
/their critics aren’t (C)/, for they are (D)/ advertising
In the third paragraph, kindly read the sentence
their weakness (E)
‘He who honestly accepts his mistake so that he
1. ABCDE
2. BEDAC can uproot it would never go into depression or
3. ABCED inferiority.’
4. ACBDE From the above, we understand that both the
5. EDCBA options (b) and (c) are the correct answer.
Q30. Hence, the option (d) is the correct answer.
In the question given below, some parts are given Answer3:A
which have to be arranged in a proper sequence. Solution: The answer for the question can be
Select the option which best defines the proper derived from reading the third paragraph.
sequence and arranges the parts to form a ‘Thus, by falsely repenting and taking atonement,
meaningful sentence. you try saving your image but not move towards
principle of limited liability (A)/ to stand guarantee transformation. There is no regret for your faulty
for(B) / of promoters who have been made state. You try covering up the mistake.’
(C)/going after personal assets (D)/the company’s The options (b), (c) and (d) are completely
loans -violates the (E)/
irrelevant and out of context.
1. BDCEA
Hence, the correct answer is the option (a).
2. DBCAE
Answer4:E
3. DCBEA
4. CEADB Solution: The characteristics of false repenting can
5. ABDCE be derived from reading the third and fourth
paragraphs.
In the third paragraph, ‘Your focus remains on the
deed and not on the impurity latent in your
Solutions: intention.’
Answer1:C
In the fourth paragraph, ‘In the name of
Solution: The answer for the question can be
repentance, you try defending your ego’;
derived from the first paragraph. It is mentioned
‘This so-called repentance does not transform you
that ‘When you are caught red-handed and have to
but makes arrangement for you to stay the way
reluctantly admit it, you feel sad, depressed and
you are. You keep repeating the same mistake but
you develop complexes. This occurs when you
do not bring any change in your inner state.’
intend to defend your ego and not honestly own
From above, we understand that, all the given
up.’
options, i.e., the options (a), (b), (c) and (d) are
So, both options (a) and (b) are correct and hence,
correct.
the option (c) is the correct answer
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Answer5:B Answer9:A
Solution: The answer for the question can be Solution: ‘latent’ [adjective] means ‘(of a quality or
derived from the sixth paragraph. state) existing but not yet developed or manifest;
‘The mistakes were mine alone; because I have hidden or concealed’;
repeated the same mistakes. I have realized that I Duck [verb] means ‘lower the head or the body
have been living exactly the way I had lived in the quickly to avoid a blow or missile or so as not to be
past.’ The mendicant said, ‘I knew it will recur. seen.
Because the mistakes are not in the action but in Eccentric [adjective] means ‘(of a person or their
the intention.’’ behavior) unconventional and slightly strange.
The other options (a), (c) and (e) are completely Among the given options, the correct answer
irrelevant. would be the option (a) ‘unused’.
Hence, the correct answer is the option (b). Answer10:5
Answer6:B Solution: Atonement [noun] means ‘the action of
Solution: The answer for the question can be making amends for a wrong or injury;
derived from the last paragraph where the reconciliation;
following sentences appear. Among the given options, the option (e)
‘You do the same things you did in the past and so ‘reconciliation’ is the correct answer.
you remain the same as you were. Life gives you Answer11:3
many chances. But you cheat yourself by blaming Solution: Inadequacy means the state or quality of
the circumstances.’ being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality
Among the given options, the option (b) is the required.
correct answer. Inefficiency means he state of not achieving
Answer7:A maximum productivity; failure to make the best
Solution: Despair [noun] means ‘the complete loss use of time or resources.
or absence of hope’; Here these two are the words that can be used as
Anguish [noun] means ‘the complete loss or economic growth will be hampered since some
absence of hope’; laws hold or breed inefficiency that is inadequacy.
Allergy [noun] means ‘A damaging immune Artifice means clever or cunning devices or
response by the body to a substance, especially a expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive
particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has others.
become hypersensitive’; Ingenuity means the quality of being clever,
Among the given options, clearly, ‘hope’ is the original, and inventive.
antonym of ‘despair’. Answer12:A
Answer8:C Solution: The apostrophe ‘s with everybody is
Solution: tainted [adjective] (participle) means wrong because of the presence of the word ‘else’.
‘contaminated’; Now, the ‘s should be used with the ‘else’.
Among the given options, the option (c) ‘cheap’ is Among the given alternatives, the alternative (I) is
the correct answer. correct and hence, option (a) is the correct
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Answer13:A
Solution: The most appropriate words to be used
here are prudent and cautious. Because here a
well-judged optimism is required about a solution
to the crisis.
Prudent means acting with or showing care and
thought for the future.
Cautious means (of a person) careful to avoid
potential problems or dangers.
Answer14:D
Solution: All the given alternatives are out-of-
context and irrelevant as per the context of the
sentence.
Hence, the option (d) is the correct answer.
Some of the correct sentences can be as follow:
‘Ramakrishna, who promoted the doctrine of ‘Jato
Mat, Tato Path’, inspired the perspective of Swami
Vivekananda.’
‘Ramakrishna promoted the doctrine of ‘Jato Mat,
Tato Path’ and inspired the perspective of Swami
Vivekananda.’
Answer15:D
Solution: Provoke and instigate are two words
which can be used in the given blank.
Provoke means stimulate or give rise to (a reaction
or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one)
in someone.
Instigate means bring about or initiate (an action
or event).
Answer16:B
Solution: Among the starters, only starter (i) is the
correct answer. The starters (ii) and (iii) are
irrelevant.
‘How to have painless labor during the birth of a
child has been a very old problem.’
Hence, the option (b) is the correct answer.
Answer17:C
Solution: ‘Merely to achieve’ will be used instead
of ‘By merely to achieve’ because after Subject
+be(is/are/am/was/were) we use Infinitive so
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before infinitive ‘by’ preposition or any other
preposition is not used like:
(i) She is to buy a car
(ii) She was to open a school
(iii) He was merely to receive the visitors.
Answer18:D
Solution: Except the part (a), all other options are
erroneous.
Since the partition and bloodletting are
uncountable nouns it will take a conjunction ‘that’
and not ‘who’ in part (B).
Furthermore, In the part (C), our Independence
took up. This is so because these events have
already happened in the past.
In the part (D), ‘many of the must’ be replaced by
‘much of the’.
Answer19:E
Solution: There is no error in the given question.
Answer20: C
Solution: Nor should be used in place of ‘or’
because we ‘nor’ with ‘neither’.
Answer21:4
Solution: The appropriate word here to be used is
‘approach’. The sentence implies to say that over
the last some years a different outlook to
economics has been slowly birthing. Act, restrain,
agreement and judgment are inappropriate words
to be used here.
Answer22:3
Solution: The most suitable word to be used here
in the blank is ‘diminishing’ which means reducing.
This is so because here returns are referred where
increasing is already mentioned .Now a
comparison is needed which will require to use a
word ‘diminishing’. So increasing as well as
reducing returns could be present in an economic
situation.
Answer23:2
Solution: The most suitable word to be used here
is ‘constantly’. This is so because here it is given
that the economy is not something given and
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existing but forms from a developing set of closely resembles another. It means "an exact
institutions. Institutions could only be constantly duplicate" and derives from 19th-century horse-
developing and not defectively, worthlessly or racing slang for a horse presented "under a false
disloyally developing. Arranged is not the proper name and pedigree"; "ringer" was a late
form to be used here. Hence constantly is the word nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually
to be used. with implications of dishonesty, and "dead" in this
Answer24:1 case means "precise", as in "dead center".
Solution: Option (a) is the suitable choice to be Answer29:D
used here. Innovations means change, altering, a Solution: Option (d) is the correct option as the
new method, altering. Here a developing set of sequence ACBDE provides the suitable
institutions, arrangements, and technological arrangement of the sentence .The arranged
innovations that are new methods are referred. sentence will be as follow: “Societies that bar their
Reductions, drawings, affirmation and distractions critics aren’t protecting themselves for they are
cannot be used with technological as they do not advertising their weakness.”
go with the context of the sentence. Answer30:C
Answer25:5 Solution: Option (c) is the correct choice as it
Solution: Here option (e) is the appropriate provides the correct arrangement of the sentence
answer. As along with other words like strategize, which is as follows: “Going after personal assets of
explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate, the promoters who have been made to stand
word that can only be used is adapt which goes guarantee for the company’s loans — violates the
with the context. Rest all words are not in context. principle of limited liability.”
Clash means a violent confrontation.
Annoy means make (someone) a little angry;
irritate.
Answer26:2
Solution: Combination B-E and C-F successfully
form grammatically viable and contextually
meaningful sentence as the relevant phrases are of
similar context and in appropriate grammatical
syntax.
Answer27:5
Solution: Option (e) is the most appropriate
answer as it provides a correct arrangement of the
sentence. The sentence will be as follows: “While a
surprisingly large number of millennials have
delayed the traditional milestones of adulthood,
they are nevertheless entering their peak spending
years.”
Answer28:5
Solution: “Dead ringer” is an idiom which means
duplicate or an exact copy; a person or thing that

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