Ans 1) The sentence describes what the teacher “gently” does to “students who do not do their homework”. Her demeanor is generally amiable to punish them, so the blank must contain something like lightly criticize or “chide”.
Malign or Pillory means to criticize, it is impossible to gently “detest” or “pillory” them. “detest” means to loathe or hate.
Demeanor means person’s behavior or outward manner. Seldom means “almost never”.
Ans 2) The colon means that the blank will agree with the clue “not fully convinced”, so the correct answer is “a level of skepticism”.
“An enthusiasm” is the opposite of what would fit this blank. “Degree of humility”, “thoroughness” and “eloquence” do not match the fact that she is “not fully convinced” about this theory.
Hypothesis means an idea or theory that is not proven but that leads to further study or discussion.
Ans 3) A “euphemism” is a mild or indirect term substituted for one considered too harsh or blunt.
Adults referred to the girl with the positive word “precocious”, which means forward or advanced at an unusually early age, whereas she really was “overly talkative” so the blank should mean something like too talkative or garrulous.
“Skittish” means nervous or easily frightened or likely to change opinion or belief.
Mnemonic trick for Skittish:- The word skittish contains word ‘skit’. ‘skit’ sounds similar to ‘skid’. We are normally skittish about riding bike on slippery road, because of fear of skidding of bike.
“Solicitous” means showing concern or care for someone’ s health, happiness etc.
“endearing” means lovable or admirable. “naïve” means having or showing a lack of experience or knowledge.
Ans 4) If a company is far from “flourishing” (prosperous), it is not doing well, even if the report “avers” (swears) that it is.
“aver” means to state truth strongly.
Mnemonic trick for aver:- Gandhiji used to speak truth forever or he used to aver. Therefore, aver means to state truth strongly.
“Solvent” means able to pay debts. “Insolvent” means not having enough money to pay debts.
“Thriving” is very tempting but ignores the expression “let alone flourishing”. The correct use of the expression “not X let alone Y”, requires that X be at a lower level or be an intermediate step towards Y, as in “The paper was not even comprehensible, let alone informative”. Since “thriving” is on the same level as “flourishing”, it cannot be logically used here.
“copious”, “evasive” and “unprecedented” do not fit with “let alone flourishing” either.
Ans 5) “plaudit” means enthusiastic approval or round of applause. “Vestigial” or “remnant” means remaining part of something. “Antiquated” means old fashioned. “Plaudits” are praise, which matches the idea of praise being “heaped upon him” on a “prolonged and elaborate farewell tour”.
Additionally, the negative certainty of “no one thought the plaudits heaped upon him were ________” matches in degree with the positive certainty of “admired by all”. “obsequious” means obeying to an excessive degree or fawning, puts a negative spin on the praise, which is what “no one” would think; therefore, this is the answer. If he was admired by all, then no one would think that the praise was undeserved or inappropriate. Thus “deserved” is a wrong answer.
Ans 6) “emulate” or “imitate” means to copy. “instinctive” means a way of behaving, thinking or feeling that is natural or that is not learned.
The phrase “once considered” suggests that whatever follows is no longer thought to be true, so the blank will oppose the clue “capable of genuine imitation” and go along with the idea that the bearded dragons were thought to be acting “without understanding the actions deeper significance”.
An appropriate choice, then will mean something like “mindlessly”.
“listlessly” means unenergetically, while “actively” means the opposite.
“consciously” or “attentively” means aware what is happening around.
Ans 7) The correct answer must match dangerous- only “parlous” does this, and it is the correct answer. Note that “suicidal” is too extreme and not indicated by the sentence.
“providential” means happening at a good time because of luck. “prudent” means wise.
“Semiotic” means study of signs and symbols and it is not supported by the sentence.
Ans 8) “Agglomerate (Verb)” means to gather into a ball, mass or cluster. “Conglomerate” (Adj.) means made up of parts from various source. The word “Agglomerate” and “Conglomerate” come from same root word. “Amortize” means to pay back money to someone. Syncopated (Adj.) is related to having a rhythm that stresses the weak beats instead of strong beats. It also means to abbreviate something. “fractured” means broken. “Coalesce” means to come together to form one group.
After brief initial struggle over power or after splitting, group elected a leader and they came close to form a surprisingly harmonious team. Therefore, “coalesced” is most appropriate word here. “agglomerated”,” amortized”, ”fractured”, ”syncopated” do not make sense.
Ans 9) “efficacious” means effective. “immutable” means unable to be changed. “Polemic” means a strong written or spoken attack against someone else’ s opinion, belief, practices etc.
Because the semicolon indicates agreement, the blank will agree with “opponents were still able to set aside differences and work across party lines, as is typically necessary to pass productive legislation”.
In other words, political opponents were once able to govern effectively despite their differences but they can no longer do so today.
“efficacious” means effective is a good match.
“immutable” means unchangeable do not match.
“enjoyable”, “civil”, “polemical” do not match.
Ans 10) “expatriate” means to withdraw oneself from residence in or withdraw allegiance to one’ s native country. “Lascivious” means lustful. “alienate” means to make someone unfriendly.
The blank should be a positive word to accompany “alluring”. It should be something that contrasts the “simple and quaint” nature of rural America. Given this you need a positive word for something not simple.
“Sophisticated” with its sense of polished culture, offers the best contrast to “simple and quaint”. “Sophisticate” means to alter deceptively or to make complicated or complex. There is also a second meaning of sophisticate. “sophisticated” means a person who has a lot of knowledge about art, culture, literature etc. Therefore, “sophisticated” is the best choice.
“lascivious”, “foreign”, “alien”, “alienating” do not fit at all.
Ans 11) “preternatural” means very unusual in a way that does not seem natural. “prodigy” means a young person who is unusually talented in some way. “crank” means a person who is often angry or easily annoyed.
These preternaturally intelligent children actually do “fulfill their early promise”, blank requires something in meaning similar to naturally intelligent.
The other answers, “cranks”, “theorizers”, “pragmatists”, ”teenagers” do not fit at all.
Ans 12) “indifference” means apathy. “inveigle” means to persuade someone to do something in a clever and deceptive way. Hector (verb) means to criticize or question (someone) in a threatening way. “Marginalize” means to put or keep (someone) in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group.
The word “despite” indicates that there is a contrast between what the salesman is attempting to do and how the couple is responding. The salesman is flattering around young couple in order to get the couple to buy a car, but his tactic is not working.
“inveigle” is the correct answer.
“support”, “deliberate”, “marginalize” do not convey the meaning.
Ans 13) “Dementia” means a mental illness that causes someone to be unable to think clearly or to understand what is real and what is not real.
“Hysteria” means a state in which your emotions are so strong that you behave in an uncontrolled way.
“Voyage” means a long journey to a distant or unknown place especially over water or through outer space.
The second half of sentence states that it would take a miracle for a person to get to another solar system. In other words it is more or less impossible.
“Delusion” means a belief that is maintained despite being contradicted by reality is the best fit.
Ans 14) “Stanchion” means a strong, upright pole that is used to support something.
Mnemonic trick for Stanchion:- The word stanchion contains word stanch, stanch sounds similar to staunch. Staunch means highly devoted or loyal to a person, belief etc. Therefore, stanchion means a strong upright physical body that is used to support something.
“rudder” means a movable piece attached to ship, boat, airplane etc. and it is used in steering or a guiding force for something.
“touchstone” means benchmark or something that is used to make good judgements about the quality of other things.
“cornerstone” means a stone that forms part of a corner or something of basic importance.
“fraught” means causing or having a lot of emotional stress or worry.
“Touchstone” matches perfectly.
“rudder” does not match. A “rudder” is literally part of a ship related to steering, if you are lost in life, you are like a ship without a rudder.
Ans 15) “In a age of near instantaneous fact checking” Politicians need to careful about what they say , “as” any fictitious claim will be proved fictitious or false.
“Bogus” (not genuine) is an excellent match. “genuine” is wrong.
“dull”, “unnecessary”, “unfamiliar” do not match.
Ans 16) “insouciant” means relaxed and not worried about anything. “profound” means deep and “aesthetic” gives reference to something beautiful.
The sentence states that “the distinction between architecture and engineering profession is that architecture must consider something in addition to functionality”. Later the sentence indicates that architectural clients base decisions more on beauty than practicality. So architecture must consider visual appeal as well as functionality.
The word best fits this meaning is “aesthetics”. “insouciance” does not fit.
“Utility”, “price”, “profundity” are all characteristic that architect might consider, but they do not take into account the fact that clients base their decisions on beauty.
Ans 17) “Liberal” means supporting new ideas or ways of behaving that are not traditional. “Tendentious” means strongly favoring a particular point of view in a way that may cause argument. “bucolic” means pastoral. “opulent” means plush or prosperous.
“Cosmopolitan” means worldly or showing interest in different culture, ideas etc. Because the clue is “no effect” the blank will oppose championing “economic, political and even cultural isolationism”. Isolationism is a policy of abstaining from relationships with other countries so the senator’ s upbringing must have been non-isolationist or worldly.
“cosmopolitan” means worldly and is therefore a good fit.
“opulent”, “tendentious (opinionated)” and “liberal” do not fit the match.
Ans 18) “benign” means not causing harm or damage. “robust” means strongly formed or built. “notorious” means shamelessly bad.
The bacteria that survive antibiotics would presumably be those hardest to kill. We might also want a word that means something like drug-resistant.
The only word that means anything like hard-to-kill is “robust”.
“Notorious” is a trap, a “notorious” bacteria is not necessarily hard to kill; it could just be particularly infectious or toxic.
Ans 19) “impeccable” means flawless or faultless. “convoluted” means containing no. of turns or something difficult to understand. “amicable” or “amiable” means friendly. “dulcet” means sweet and pleasant to hear. “facile” means done or achieved in a way that is too easy or not showing enough thought or effort.
Mnemonic trick for dulcet: - “dulcet” is made up of two words. “dul” and “cet”, “dul” sounds similar to dil and “cet” sounds similar to suit. Dulcet is something pleasant or “something jo dil ko suit kare”.
Therefore, “dulcet” means sweet and pleasant to hear. The sentence suggests that the idea of bringing about world peace by saying “love one another” is naïve or oversimplified.
“Facile” matches well and facile also means something not showing enough thought or effort.
“Dulcet” means sweet and soothing have a problem: while the suggestion might be friendly and sweet one, those definitions do not properly convey the idea that the suggestion is naïve.
Ans 20) “inundated” means to cause (someone or something) to receive or take in a large amount of things at the same time.
The sentence requires a word that mean helps or strengthens. “enhances” is a perfect synonym for
Strengthen and it is the correct answer.
“ensures” is a trap which is too extreme. Their bodies can fit through any space it hardly ensures the
Success of a species. “Mitigate” means to make less severe, “inundate” (overwhelm), neither of which fit
In the blank.
Ans 21) “inure” means to cause someone to be less affected by something unpleasant. “effusive” means expressing a lot of emotion. “maudlin” means expressing a lot of emotion especially after drinking.
“casting a blind eye too” suffering means that these people ignore or pretend not to see the suffering. Thus, they are “inured to” suffering or they are hardened and desensitized as a result of seeing so much of it. Trap answer “exempted” would mean that the people described are no longer personally subject to the suffering, which the sentence does not indicate. Because they ignore suffering, they also would not be “maudlin” or “effusive” which are about expressing strong feelings.
Finally, “dominant over” does not fit idiomatically since you cannot become dominant over suffering.
Ans 22) Myopia means a condition of the eye that makes it difficult to see objects that are far way or myopia means a lack of discernment. “myopic” is adjective form of myopia.
“anemic” (suffering from anemia) or mot strong, forceful or impressive.
“botch” means to do something badly or to ruin something because of carelessness.
Mnemonic trick for botch- botch sounds similar to “hotch-potch”. In Hindi we normally say “sab hotch-potch kar diya”, it means that we have done something badly because of proper skill.
“anemic” as a metaphor means weak or lacking energy. Job market is weak, so young people are choosing graduate school instead. Therefore, anemic is a god fit here.
“Myopic” does not make sense. The job market has not been “botched” (who botched it) and it is not booming (the sentence says that there are not many jobs available).
“educated” is a trap answer, the young people are going to graduate school because the job market is bad, not because the job market is “educated”.
Ans 23) “figurehead” means a head or chief in name only. Accomplish means to succeed in doing (something). “resolute” means very determined. Follow the structure to understand the meaning of sentence. The boss was initially considered a “figurehead”.
However, people slowly realized that he was actually getting a lot of stuff done! The employees were initially critical or doubtful; the best match among the answers is “skeptical”.
The other four answers, “senior”, “clueless”, “resolute” (determined) and scrutinized do not match the meaning.
Ans 24) “caustic” means very harsh or critical. “acerbic” means harsh or sharp in mood or tone. “anachronism” means something that is mistakenly placed with respect to time. Abstruse gives reference to something that is difficult to understand.
The comedian has a “caustic” sense of humor. She is polarizing as some people adore her and some hate or “abhor” here. A good word for the blank would be something like biting or controversial.
“Acerbic” (means harsh or sharp) is the best choice. “Ample” (big or large) does not fit.
An “astounding” sense of humor would probably cause everyone to feel the same way about her and so can be eliminated.
Ans 25) “Pulchritude” means beauty or physical comeliness. “Parsimony” means unwillingness to spend money. “Pedant” means a person who annoys other people by correcting small error and gives too much attention to minor detail. “Wisdom” means knowledge that is gained by having experiences in life. Wit means an ability to say or write things in a clever way or ability to think. “dogmatic” means opinionated and enervate means to unsettle someone. The correct answer should parallel dogmatic and match the negative spin of “enervates rather than inspire”. “wisdom”, “pulchritude”, “wit” are all positive terms that do not match with the sentence structure. Only “pedantry” (being arrogant in relation to learning) and parsimony (unwillingness to spend money) are negative. Only “pedantry” fits the idea of an uninspiring professor.
Ans 26) The newcomers and the long-time fans are divided in their opinions. The newcomers were happy with the show, so the long-time fans must have been unhappy: they thought that “the storyline was unfinished”. Only “considered” matches this meaning.
“appreciated” is a reversal trap. The fans did not “generate”, “examine” or “secure” the storyline.
Ans 27) “ergonomic” means a science that deals with designing and arranging things so that people can use them easily and safely.
The sentence gives two clues about the engineer. She is not interested in making products that match “market needs”, and her work is known more for “its technical brilliance” than for “its ________ potential”.
Her work is technically good, then, but does not necessarily match “market” or customer needs; that is, it lacks “commercial” potential.
Work that has technical brilliance could very well have lots of “scientific”, “academic” or possibly even “revolutionary” potential. Therefore, none of these answer choices can be correct, so that they do not offer any contrast.
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Ans 29) “orthodox” means accepting and closely following the traditional beliefs and customs of a religion.
“Halcyon” means happy and successful or calm and peaceful. “Benign” means not causing harm or damage.
Sentence structure is complicated. “Contrary” followed by “anything but” functions as a double negative, so the blank will agree with the western-held assumptions about mindfulness. Additionally, a semicolon followed by “while” indicates that the blank will agree with “calm the mind” and oppose “restlessness and doubt”. Therefore, Halcyon is the best choice.
“Benefical”, “Benign”, “Orthodox”, “Mystical” do not match the meaning.
Ans 30) “reminiscence” means the act of remembering or telling about past experiences.
“invalidate” means to make something invalid or to destroy the effect of something. Defer means to delay or to submit to another’ s wishes, opinion usually through respect. “presage” means to be give or be a sign of (something that will happen or develop in future).
The poet’ s childhood memories color, or influence, her work. The sentence needs a similar word or how war influences her poetry.
“inform” means to give substance, character or distinction too- can be used in this way.
“Mimic” is a trap answer choice. It may be possible to say that her poetry mimics her experiences, but not that her experiences mimics her poetry (rather her experiences are mimicked in her poetry). “invalidate”, “defer”, “presage” do not match the meaning of sentence.
Ans 31) “toil” means to work hard for a long time. “dizzy” means to confuse someone or to make someone foolish.
“belies” means to give a false idea of (something) or to contradict (or misrepresent) something. “redress” means to correct something that is unfair or wrong. The phrase “apparent simplicity” is the clue that indicates that there is more to coffee than meets the eye. This sentence sets up a contrast between the phrases (“apparent simplicity” and “dizzying number of hours of toil”) that are both used to describe coffee; the word that fills the blank must be a contrast word.
“confirms”, “furnishes”, and “fosters” (supports) are all incorrect because these words would be used to connect two phrases that agreed with each other.
“redresses” (corrects) could be used for an opposite connection but does not fit here because there is no sense that the “simplicity” is correcting all those hours of work.
“Belies” (contradict or misrepresent) is most appropriate here.
Ans 32) “gaffe” means a mistake made in social situation. “Wag” means to move something from side to side repeatedly. It has second meaning also. Wag (Noun) also means joker. Transgress (verb) means to do something that is not allowed.
The sentence concerns “commentators and comedians”, since defining a “gaffe” (a mistake made in social situation) as a politician accidentally telling the truth is meant to be funny, the blank needs to be a word for a comedian.
A “wag” is a joker, and a decent match here. An “apologist” would be a supporter who made excuses for the corrupt politicians, this does not fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
A “diplomat” would not be likely to publicly say something so impolite about politicians. “egoist”, “transgressor” do not fit.
Ans 33) “laxity” means carelessness and” tardiness” means sluggishness.
“probity” means honesty and “prodigal” gives reference to a person who spends lot of money and “parsimonious” gives reference to a person who is unwilling to spend money. “punctilious” means careful. “panache” means flamboyance in style and action.
What was the action “for eons” is contrasted with the situation “now”, which is that “laxity and tardiness” are “fashionable” and “considered appropriate”, So blank is referring toward some behavior that is not lax or not tardy.
“punctiliousness”, which is the state of being strict in observance of formalities, fits with the former, and with the latter, too, If punctuality is a formality.
“probity” which means integrity or honesty, it does not contrast with “laxity and tardiness”.
“Prodigality”, “Parsimonious”, “Panache” do not match the meaning of sentence.
Ans 34) “Progeny” means young of an animal or plant.
“lackadaisical” means lazy or showing a lack of respect. “serendipity” means something good happening by chance. “vicissitude” means quality or state of being changeable. It also means something favorable or unfavorable event that occurs by chance.
The clue “in turn” suggests that the event occurs continuously, making “circle” the best answer choice in this sentence.
There is no “irony” or “comedy” in calling its progeny lackadaisical. Finally, “serendipity” and “vicissitude” are somewhat antonyms of each other. “Serendipity” means something good happening by chance and “vicissitude” generally means something unfavorable happening by chance. “Serendipity” and “Vicissitude” do not match, because the sentence does not suggest that the accusing done by each generation is the matter-of-Chance.
Ans 35) “remnants” means remaining parts. “mores” means customs, values and behaviors that are accepted by a particular group, culture etc. “foresee” means to see what will happen.
The clue “just as” indicates that the second part of the sentence will need to mirror the first part.
Thus the blank must match the meaning of “provided the romans with a model”. “informed” can be used in this way and it is the correct answer.
Don’ t be tricked by “duplicate” (to provide a model is not to make an exact copy) or “foresaw” (the remnants of roman culture did not tell the future). Both “curbed” and “hindered” have too strong of a negative spin and do not mirror the first part of the sentence.
Ans 36) “minutiae” means minor detail. “peccadilloes” means minor crimes.
The correct answer must reflect the clue “petty” and oppose the idea of “lofty goals”.
Lincoln felt that McClellan paid so much attention to minor details or “minutiae”, that he ignored the big picture. “minutiae” is correct choice. The trap answer “irrelevancies” is incorrect because the “logistical details” are not irrelevant; they are merely minor, or not worthy of so much attention. “Tactics” and “strategy” do not convey the idea of minor details.
And nothing in the sentence suggests that attention was being placed on minor offenses or “peccadilloes”.
Ans 37) “exacting” means difficult or demanding. “passable” means adequate or satisfactory.
“For all” here means despite. Despite his meticulous preparation, he received ________ grade on his final exam.
“For all”, an idiomatic way of seeing “despite”. The second half of the sentence, then, should contradict the “meticulous preparation” reported in the first half. The student’ s grade must have been bad.
“Passable” would not do the job here- it would suggest a decent but not fantastic grade- and “outstanding” is the exact opposite of what you want.
“exacting” (demanding), while the test must have been exacting on the student, his grades could not be described as such.
“surprising” is the most confusing option. Because the student was very likely surprised by a grade, but that did not reflect the work he put into studying; this choice does not make clear, however, that the student’ s grade was terrible.
“Deplorable” on the other hand fits well.
Ans 38) “aesthetic” gives reference to something beautiful. “sitter” means a person who poses for a portrait. “likeness” means state of being alike or similar. It has second meaning also. “likeness” means picture of a person. “artifact” means something created by humans usually for a practical purpose. “Artifice” means dishonest or insincere behavior especially to deceive someone. “palettes” means a range of colors used by someone.
“but” signal a contrast: commercial portrait painters are similar to other painters in some ways, but the blank refers to how they are in some ways different than those other painters (they try to make the subject look more attractive in the painting).
The correct answer, “artifices”, means trickery fits perfectly. Trap answers “palettes” and “aesthetics”, do not match the meaning.
Ans 39) “preternatural” means very unusual in a way that does not seem natural. “Preordain” means to dispose in advance. “prescient” gives reference toward ability to foretell the future. “preposterous” means silly. “pithy” gives reference to something using few words or something concise.
The sentence stats that two things were thought to be equally unlikely in 1986. But today while one of those events still seems quite far-fetched, the other is common, making the argument sound absurd or “preposterous”.
“preternatural” is used to express mysterious or exceptional events. This argument is not really mysterious as much as it is absurd.
The prediction about future was entirely wrong, it does not sound “prescient”. The transaction from home are common now, the argument against such a possibility was neither preordained nor sound preordained.
Nothing in the sentence suggests that argument was pithy or concise.
Ans 40) “Annihilation” means destruction. “brutality” means cruel and harsh treatment of another person. “detonation” means explosion. “specter” means something that haunts or perturbs the mind. “Arms race” means a situation in which enemy countries try to build or collect weapons faster than the other can.
If the elementary school students ran drills in which “they had to dive under their desks and curl up into a ball”, there was a fear or a threat that was a daily part of people’ s lives.
“Specter” means something that haunts or perturbs the mind. “Annihilation”, “brutality”, “detonation”, “arms race” all seem to fit with the theme of a nuclear holocaust, but these words do not mean something that fears or haunts the mind.
Ans 41) “Voluble” means talking a lot in energetic and rapid way. “Hostile“means unfriendly or unpleasant or harsh. “languid” means having or showing little energy or strength. “Unscrupulous” means not guided by scruple or concise. “Frank” means speaking or writing in a very direct or honest way. “eloquent” means having or showing the ability to use language clearly and effectively.
The first clues in the short sentence are “Bombastic” (pompous and verbose) and “long” one of which should agree with the blank. The word “eloquent” should contrast with the blank due to “rather than”.
“Voluble”, which is used to describe someone who talks a lot in an energetic way, fits perfectly. “unscrupulous” and “hostile” are not at all related to talking too much in a pompous way. “Frank” (direct and sincere in speech) and “languid” (means slow and relaxed) do not fit well.
Ans 42) “circumscribe” means to limit the size or amount of something. “corroborate” means to support a theory, evidence etc. “ameliorate” means to make (something such as a problem) better, less painful etc.
The opening words, “In contrast”, alert you to look for the opposition between “environmental economics” and “ecological economics”.
The latter field “positions the human economy as a subsystem of natural ecologies”, which is the opposite of a system that concerns itself with the monetary valuation of natural resources. Therefore, former system positions the natural economy as a part of human economy.
The new system is opposite, or “reversing”, the way the old system thought of things.
“Corroborating”, “ameliorating”, “Circumscribing” do not fit the meaning of sentence.
“Refuting”, a trap, is incorrect. Because the sentence only provides evidence for opposition, not contradiction.
Ans 43) “inveigle” means to persuade someone to do something. “speculate” means to think about something and make guesses about it. “Needle” means a teasing or gibing remark. “rant” means to talk loudly in a way that shows anger.
“invective” means harsh or insulting words. This action has been done against china’ s record on environmental protection, especially among those already invective (insulting or harsh language) on such topics.
Speculating is too neutral and lauding (praising) is too positive. Needling (teasing or gibing) remark can be negative, but would be done to someone or to some group, not something that could be done “against china’ s record”.
Ans 44) “libelous” means defamatory or untrue written statement that causes people to have bad opinion of someone. “inveterate” means something always happening or something always existing. “nullify” means to cause (something) to lose its value or to have no effect. “unverified” means something that is not verified. “forfeited” means something that is given up or taken away as a punishment.
The “while” and the hypothetical “if what he said were true” in the first part of the sentence indicate that he is a liar. This is based on his long track record, so a good fill-in might be “an established” liar. Libelous is a trap answer. libel means lying in print to damage someone’ s reputation. We have no indication that the lying was done in written. “Nullified”, “Unverified”, “forfeited” don’ t quite works as a description of a liar. Inveterate (long-established and unlikely to change) is the correct answer.
Ans 45) “monotony” means a lack of change that makes something boring. “opulence” means wealth or affluence. “feebleness” means weakness. “nonchalance” means apathetic or relaxed and calm in a way that shows that you do not care about anything.
“recrimination” means angry statement in which you accuse or criticize a person who has accussed or criticized you.
We know that Burma was being mismanaged, so you want something bad (and appropriate to describe an economy). The blank and “isolation” are contrasted with “power and influence”. We can expect the blank to oppose power: something like “not powerful” or “not strong”. Feebleness (weakness) is a good match. “monotony”, “opulence”, “nonchalance”, “recrimination” do not make sense.
Ans 46) “insolence” means rudeness or impoliteness. “epitome” means perfect example. “belligerence” means aggressive or quarrelsome attitude. “autonomy” means power or right of a country, people to govern itself. “recidivism” means tendency to relapse into a previous condition especially relapse into a criminal behavior.
“Coup d’ e’ tat” means a sudden attempt by a small group of people to take over the government usually through violence.
Definitely authoritarian government threatened the independence of citizen with readblocks and curfews. Though citizens might need to be belligerent to stage a coup, the blank describes what the citizens would lose that would initially cause people to just begin to utter “whispers” of a “possible” coup. “Belligerence”, “insolence”, “epitome”, “recidivism” do not make sense.
Ans 47) “fortitude” means mental strength and courage that allows someone to face, danger, pain etc. “patois” means a form of language that is spoken in a particular area or that is spoken by particular group of people. “equanimity” means tendency to remain calm even in difficult situation. “diffidence” means lacking confidence. “consternation” means feeling of anxiety, shock or confusion.
Since the royal visitor found O’ Neill “incomprehensible”, there must be something in his speech, not the tone or content of that speech, that is confusing them. Patois is a regional dialect or language spoken by royal visitor, that they struggled to complete the negotiation.
“fortitude”, “equanimity”, “diffidence”, “consternation” do not make sense.
Mnemonic trick for consternation: Consternation can be broken into “KON SA TERA NATION”. He got consternated when security guard asked him “KON SA TERA NATION”. He got confused or shocked with some fear, when security guard of his nation questioned his nationality. Therefore, “consternation” means feeling of anxiety, shock or confusion.
Ans 48) “Pith” means important part of something. A “probing questioner” is looking for the central point of a matter. That it is an “intellectual matter”, suggests a word other than emotions for the blank, because it is not related to “probing questioner” clue. Periphery is the opposite of central. “examination”, “academics” do not make any sense. The only answer that means “core or central point or important point” is pith.
Ans 49) “ennui” means lack of spirit, enthusiasm or interest. “opulence” means wealth or affluence. “truculence” means quality or state of being truculent or aggressive or quarrelsome. “covetousness” means greediness or showing a strong desire especially for something that belongs to someone else. “extravagance” means an act of spending a lot of money.
The blank is reffering to something that makes the Prussians feared, and something that has led to internal fighting. Truculence – aggression or belligerence is the best fit here. “ennui”, “extravagance”, “opulence”, “covetousness” do not make sense.
Ans 50) “rube” means an uneducated or unsophisticated person. “anachronism” means something mistakenly placed with respect to time. “malefactor” means a person whose behavior is wrong or evil. “abet” means to help, encourage or support someone in a criminal act. “mendicant” means someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
“reliance” means dependence and “alms” means charity, money, clothes, food that are given to poor people. The clues” are that he “wandered” and was “lowly” and lived by a “reliance on alms” or “dependence on charity”, as did the “other members of his religious order”. A mendicant is sometimes just a “beggar”, but it can have a specifically religious connotation. “abettor”, “rube”, “anachronism”, “malefactor” do not fit at all.
Ans 51) “amiability” or “amicability” means friendliness. “Propinquity” or “proximity” means nearness. “reciprocity” means a situation or relationship in which two people or groups agree to do something similar for each other. “commodiousness” means having a lot of space. “cordiality” means sincere affection and kindness.
“intimacy” means having a very close relationship. You are told that, for Americans, familiarity follows from close proximity. The blank should be a synonym for proximity and propinquity is. The other answer choices deal with comfort or friendliness, and thus are theme traps drawing on association with “neighborly”.
Ans 52) “Overweening” means arrogant. “notorious or flagrant” means shamelessly bad. “surreptitious” means something done in secret. “Nascent” means recently formed or developed. “precipitous” means very steep or happening in a very quick and sudden way.
“Jagged” means sharp and uneven edge or surface. We are told that Himalayas have jagged peaks, which means that they have steep or sharp drops as well. Precipitous (means steep) is best fit here. “nascent” word cannot be used for drops here. Overweening (conceited or arrogant) is generally used to describe a person or an attitude- not a physical object. “Notorious” and “surreptitious” do not make any sense.
Ans 53) “innocuous” means harmless. “expedient” means helpful or useful in a particular situation or providing an easy and quick way to solve a problem. “Salient” means very important or noticeable. “titillating” means interesting or exciting especially exciting sexual feelings. “Prolific” means productive or fruitful.
If the traits in question help animals survive long enough to mate, they must be advantageous in some way- the missing word is most likely related to this. “innocuous” and “salient” do not make any sense. “titillating” trait might generate stimulus to mate, but here we are discussing any and all traits that help an individual survive and reproduce. We cannot pick prolific, because referring to a trait as prolific does not make very much sense. The best answer is expedient (helpful or useful in a particular situation or providing an easy and quick way to solve a problem).
Ans 54) Under the aegis of somebody/ something; with the protection, support or control of somebody? Something <The project was setup under the aegis of the university>. “covenant” means formal agreement between two or more people. “Tutelage” means act of guarding or protecting something or teaching of an individual student by a teacher. “Opus” means a piece of work especially a music composition. “Vagaries” means erratic or unpredictable actions or notions.
We are told that Larsen and Toubro is diversified company and does business in a variety of different areas; clearly the sentence means to say that all of these branches fall under the control and supervision of Larsen and Toubro. Therefore, aegis is the best fit here. “Vagaries” does not make any sense. “Opus” means a piece of work especially a musical one and it is relevant to passage. “Covenant” means a formal agreement and it is especially used in religious context. “Tutelage” means act of guarding or teaching of an individual. “tutelage”, “covenant” are irrelevant to this passage.
Ans 55) reticent means silent or not willing to tell people about things. “foretell” means to tell something before it happens. “cognizant” means mindful or aware of what’ s happening around. “belie” means to give a false idea of something or to misrepresent something. “unctuous” describes people or behavior expressing too much friendliness and politeness but that is unpleasant because it is obviously not sincere.
The entry must refer to awareness and no other choice fits except “cognizant”. “reticent”, “foretold”, “belied”, “unctuous” do not match.
Ans 56) “turpitude” means a very evil quality or way of behaving. “Probity” means honesty. “Specious” means falsely appearing to be true but actually false. “torpor” means a state of not being active or having very little energy. “Urbanity” means state of being urbane. Urbane means belonging to urban area or in other words we can say that urbane means polite, confident and fashionable.
Since the passage indicates that the judge is upstanding and has considerable honesty. Therefore, Judge was known for his honesty. “turpitude”, “speciousness”, “torpor”, “urbanity” do not fit.
Ans 57) “ambiguous” means doubtful or having more than one possible meaning. “exultantly” means to say or do something in a very happy and excited way. “formidable” (or redoubtable) means very powerful, impressive and causing great fear or deserving respect. “imperturbable” means very calm or very hard to disturb. “Assiduous” means able to work or continue for a long time without becoming tired. The sentence suggests that the group put consistent time and effort into the project- in other words, they worked very hard. Therefore, best choice is assiduous. “ambiguously”, “exultantly”, “formidably”, “imperturbably” do not fit.
Ans 58) “effrontery” means extreme rudeness and lack of ability to understand that your behavior is not acceptable to other people. “pusillanimous” means weak and afraid of danger or frightened of taking risk. “dexter” means having or showing great skill or cleverness. It mainly implies skillful and competent with hands. “circumspection” means cautiousness or judiciousness while doing or saying something. “asperity” means harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger. “appall” means to cause (someone) to feel fear, shock or disgust. When we complained that our food came cold, he told us that it was our fault for ordering an unusual dish. The passage suggests that the waiter was rude and presumptuous, they were appalled by the waiter’ s rude behavior. So, the best choice for the blank is effrontery. “asperity” means harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger. There is no clue related to bitterness among waiter and customer. “asperity”, “dexterity”, “circumspection”, “pusillanimity” do not make any sense.
Ans 59) “lucid” means limpid or clear. “meretricious” means attractive in a cheap or false way. Obscure (or abstruse) means complex and difficult to understand. “malevolent” means having or showing desire to cause harm to another person. “bewilder” means to confuse someone very much. “meretricious” means attractive in a cheap or false way.
The passage indicates that Walt’ s presentation had the effect of clearing some previously unclear goals. Thus, the best choice is lucid; he cleared some difficult aspects of our group’ s goal. “malevolent”, “meretricious”, “obscure”, “bewilder” do not make any sense.
Ans 60) “renowned” means known or admired by many people for special quality or achievement. “endure” means to continue to exist in the same state or condition. “fleeting” means ephemeral or lasting for only a short time. “insidious” means gradually and secretly causing harm. “martial” means warlike. “Subtle” means hard to notice or see. The blank must agree with “it principles strongly influenced legal codes well into the 20th century”. It means that it principles had a long lasting effect. Therefore, “enduring” is the most appropriate word here. His innovative code had a subtler effect. Therefore, renowned is not suitable.
Ans 61) B “Abreast of”
Ans 62) “Prologue” means a speech, preface or speech at the beginning of a play, movie, book etc. “Catharsis” means purgation or act of releasing strong emotion (such as pity or fear) especially by expressing it in art form. “coda” means concluding part or something that ends. “homily” means usually short talk on a religious moral talk. “rampage” means act or move in a wild and usually destructive way.
You need a word that means something like bad ending. “coda” means concluding part or coda means something that sumps up, which in this case was a pretty bad year. Therefore, “coda” is the most suitable word. “rampage” does not fit grammatically. “prologue”, “catharsis”, “homily” does not make sense.
Ans 63) “Platitude” means a statement that expresses an idea that is not new. “Paradigm” means model or pattern for something that may be copied. “neologism” means new word or expression or new meaning of a word. “Anachronism” means something that is mistakenly placed with respect to time.
Hamlet typed his letter to Ophelia on a laptop. Laptop were not there in those days. Typing of letter on letter was mistakenly placed with respect to time. Therefore, “anachronism” is the most suitable word.
“platitude”, “paradigm”, “neologism”, “derivations” do not fit at all.
Ans 64) “gem” means polished stone or something that is admired for its beauty or excellence. “quagmire” means a situation that is hard to deal with or get out of. “enigma” means mystery or something that is difficult to understand. “incentive” means something that incites or something that motivates a person to do something.
Since no one has been able to decode it or no one has been able to understand it. We need a word that means something difficult to understand. Therefore, “enigma” is a perfect word here. “gem”, “stanza”, “quagmire”, “incentive” do not make sense.
Ans 65) “doctrinaire” means dogmatic or a person who has very strong belief. “Convivial” gives reference to being fond of feasting, drinking, and being sociable. “Sanguinary” means bloody or characterized by bloodshed. “jejune” means too simple and boring. “modish” means fashionable or stylish in a modern way.
Extroverts are sociable, outgoing etc. Only convivial matches. “Doctrinaire”, “Sanguinary”, “Jejune”, “modish” do not match.
Ans 66) “aerial” gives reference to air or atmosphere. “novel” means new and different from what has been known before.
“Alacrity” means quickness and cheerfulness while doing something. The correct answer must match the clue “industry leaders will embrace the new with alacrity”. The correct answer must be the synonym of new. Therefore, novel is the correct answer. “aerial”, “exciting”, “conventional”, “controversial” do not match at all.
Ans 67) “Hysterics” means an extreme emotional display: such as a fit of laughing, crying or anger. “mirth” means happiness or enjoyment. “flame” means to burn with a flame. It has second meaning also. “flame” means to break out violently or passionately <flaming with anger>.
“Composure” means calmness especially of mind, manner or appearance. “infidelity” means disloyalty.
“bereaved” means sad because a family member or friend has recently died.
The blank must contrast “maintain her composure”. The bereaved widow bursts into extreme emotions. Therefore, “hysterics” is the most suitable word here. “flames” implies uncontrollable or violent breakout. Therefore, it is not appropriate word to be used here.
Ans 68) “aphorism” means remarks or sentences that convey the truth about something in a concise and humorous way. “anecdote” means short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence. “efface” means to cause something to disappear. “anomaly” means deviation from normal behavior. “overture” means a musical composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work or it also means first part of an event.
Candid (Adj.) means honest. Candor (Noun) means quality of being open, sincere and honest. Modern political campaigns are full of misrepresentations. We are told that politicians lie so much that Candor (or truth) is an ________. We need a word that means exception or something unusual. Therefore, “anomaly” is a perfect word. “aphorism”, “anecdote”, “effacement”, “overture” do not match.
Ans 69) “Careen” means to go forward quickly without any control. “Castigate” or “lambaste” means to criticize harshly. “trundle” means to walk slowly and heavily. “tarry” means to delay or be lazy in acting or doing. “transmute” means to completely change in form, appearance or nature and especially to a higher form. “Jalopy” means an old car that is in poor condition. “below a gasket” means to become very angry. The car slowly _________ to a stop. Only trundle can describe the slow movement of a car. “Careen” is a trap here. But “careen” means to go forward quickly without any control. Therefore, “Careen” will not be correct answer. “Castigate”, “tarried”, “transmuted” do not make any sense.
Ans 70) “Pellucid” means very clear. “disinterested” means not interested or it also means not influenced by personal feelings, opinions or concerns. “Solipsism” means a theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or that can be known, also called extreme egocentrism. “jocular” means jovial.
“adjudicator” means arbitrator or judge. It is difficult to find a suitable judge for debates on certain controversial matters, as there exist topics in which no one is _________. We need a word that means unbiased (a good quality for a debate judge or moderator). Disinterested also means not influenced by personal feelings, opinions or concerns. Therefore, disinterested is a perfect word. “Pellucid”, “Solipsistic”, “subjective do not match at all.
Ans 71) “Sanctimonious” means pretending to be morally better than other people. “risible” means laughable or silly. “Parsimonious” or stingy means very unwilling to spend money. “Prodigal” means carelessly or foolishly spending money. “Plangent” means deeply sad. “superannuated” means old and therefore no longer very effective or useful. “hilarity” means noisy fun or laughter.
The clue sentence here is “Veteran adopted a mood of exaggerated hilarity”, letting you know that the veteran thought the situation was funny or amusing. “Risible” which means laughable is most important word here. “Sanctimonious”, “Parsimonious”, “prodigal”, “plangent” do not make any sense.
Ans 72) “erroneous” means not correct or containing error. “premature” means happening too soon or earlier. “Prescient” means ability to know future. “Communist” means a person who believes in communism or who believes in society where the resources are owned by government and there is no private property.
The clue is “first to fight fascism in Spain”. There is no clue indicating that these fighters were violent or erroneous. They were first to fight fascism and they did not predict anti-fascism in advance. Therefore,” erroneous” is the most suitable word here. “Violent”, “premature”, “prescient”, “communist” are not suitable words.
Ans 73) “Peruse” means to read something in a relaxed way or it also means to read something in a careful way. “garnish” means to decorate or to embellish. “glean” means to extract information or some other material.
“Tome” means a very large, thick book. We are told that paleontologist do research in libraries, so their discoveries must come from tomes or their discoveries are extracted from tomes. Gleaned means extracted from various sources. “Peruse” is the act of reading, we can peruse a book, we can’ t peruse a discovery from a book. Therefore, “gleaned” is the most suitable word here. “Perused”, “Garnished”, “involved”, “interpreted” are not suitable words.
Ans 74) “rail” means to severely criticize. “skitter” means to move quickly and lightly along a surface. “Paradigm” means prototype. The sentence shows you that the authors of the book come up with many examples of numerous animals and primitive people who have polyamorous relationships.
Author gave many examples of polyamorous relationships, it means that he spoke against those who see paradigms for monogamy in nature. Therefore, “rail against” is a perfect match here.
Ans 75) “idle” means not active. “regalia” means special clothes and decorations especially for religious purposes. “blather” means to talk foolishly for a long time. “Puffery” means exaggerated commendation especially for promotional purposes. “Confabulate” means to talk informally or to chat.
“toady” means a person who praises and helps powerful people in order to get their approval. “Unctuous” describes people or behavior expressing too much friendliness and politeness but that is unpleasant because it is obviously not sincere.
There was exaggerated praise by king’ s attendant. King ignored his praise recognizing it as the insincere chatter of the toadies.
Therefore, “Puffery” is the most suitable word. “idleness”, “regalia”, “blather”, “confabulation” do not match.
Ans 76) “debase” means to lower the value or reputation of (someone or something). Decry means to criticize. “Deface” means to ruin the surface of something especially with writing or pictures. Delimit means to state the limits of something. “defer” means to delay or it also means to respect someone. “quirk” means unusual habit or behaving. “Philistine” means a person who is not interested in culture. The producer was herd to curse the philistines, therefore producer will criticize the lack of support for experimental art. Therefore, “decry” is the most suitable word. “debase”, “deface”, “delimit” “defer” do not match at all.
Ans 77)
“amiable” means friendly. “gregarious” means sociable. “belie” means to tell lie or to give false idea of something.
“Chagrin” means feeling of being frustrated or annoyed because of failure or disappointment. Word “unfortunately” shows that the boss’ s on-the-job style is contradicted by his friendly style in interview. We have the clue that the young hire (the new employee) experiences chagrin, which is mental distress or unease. Therefore, “draconian” is a perfect word here. “friendly”, “fatuous”, “disconcerting”, “nonplussed” do not make sense.
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