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Q:

Fumble is to Finesse as Malign is to

A) Slander B) Extol
C) Criticize D) Assurance
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Extol

Explanation:

Fumble means grope, mishandle, drop, mistake, blunder, bungle.

Finesse means skill, grace, elegance, assurance, diplomacy, discretion.

So, they are opposites.

 

Similarly,

Malign means slander or criticize.

Extol means being kind or good-natured. A person without finesse often fumbles. A person without extol in his heart often maligns.

Extol means praise or exalt, benevolence

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Q:

Statements :
All keys are locks.
All locks are bangles.
All bangles are cars.


Conclusion :
a. Some cars are locks.
b. Some bangles are keys.
c. Some cars are keys.

A) Only a follows B) Only c follows
C) Only a & b follows D) a, b & c follows
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) a, b & c follows

Explanation:

All locks are bangles + All bangles are cars = A + A = A
= All locks are cars => Some cars are locks.
Hence conclusion (a) follows.
All keys are locks + All locks are bangles = A + A = A
= All keys are bangles => some bangles are keys.
Hence conclusion (b) follows.
All keys are bangles + All bangles are cars = A + A = A
= All keys are cars => Some cars are keys.
Hence conclusion (C) follows.

 

 

 

Thus all a, b and c follows.

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Q:

Fact 1: All hats have brims.
Fact 2: There are black hats and blue hats.
Fact 3: Baseball caps are hats.

If the first three statements are facts, which of the following statements must also be a fact?
I. All caps have brims.
II. Some baseball caps are blue.
III. Baseball caps have no brims.

A) I only B) II only
C) I, II, and III D) None of the statements is a fact.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) None of the statements is a fact.

Explanation:

All baseball caps have brims, since baseball caps are hats (Fact 3) and all hats have brims (Fact 1). This rules out statement III—but it doesn’t follow that all caps, a category that may include caps that are not baseball caps, have brims (statement I). Statement II cannot be confirmed, either, since it is possible, given the information, that all baseball caps are black.

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Q:

They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

A) Light B) Bats
C) Stars D) Flights
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Stars

Explanation:

Stars are what that come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

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Choose the word which gives best meaning to the sentence from the given options.

His recent success ______ him more arrogant than what he used to be

A) make B) have make
C) was making D) has made
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) has made

Explanation:

HIS RECENT SUCCESS HAS MADE HIM MORE ARROGANT THAN WHAT HE USED.

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Statement :

The byproducts obtained from animals such as hairs, skins, horns, etc. contain at least 45 per cent food protein. Indian scientists have developed methods to segregate 50 per cent of this protein. They have used an enzyme developed in Russia for destruction of soya-proteins.

Conclusions:

A. Indian scientists cannot develop enzymes.

B. If a suitable method involving less cost is developed then many more food protein would be obtained.

A) Only A follows B) Only B follows
C) Neither A nor B follows D) Both A & B follows
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Neither A nor B follows

Explanation:

There is no indication that Indian scientists are incapable of developing enzymes. There could be any number of reasons why Indian scientists used Russian enzymes.

So conclusion A does not follow.

In addition, cost is not discussed in the passage at all. There is no mention of a correlation between cost and extraction of proteins.

Thus, conclusion B does not follow either.

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Q:

Arrange the following words in an appropriate order


1. Rainbow   2. Rain   3. Sun    4. Happy    5. Child

A) 4, 2, 3, 5, 1 B) 4, 5, 1, 2, 3
C) 2, 1, 4, 5, 3 D) 2, 3, 1, 5, 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 2, 3, 1, 5, 4

Explanation:

Firstly Rain falls and then Sun comes and Rainbow forms. After that Child sees the rainbow and feels Happy.

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Q:

Rita ? into the cellar.

Which of the following words best suitable in the place of '?'

A) ascended B) rescinded
C) descended D) intended
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) descended

Explanation:

Rita descended into the cellar.

Descended means went down. As the cellar is in the basement, she must go down.

Options and meanings :: 

descended  -  went down 

rescinded   - cancelled or annulled

ascended   - went up 

intended    - meant

 

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