Chemistry
GATE CY topic:verbal-aptitude PYQs
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Question 5
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The minister avoided any mention of the issue of women’s reservation in the private sector. He was accused of ______ the issue.
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Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning ‘River that swallows Rivers’. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?
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“When she fell down the ______, she received many ______ but little help.” The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
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“In spite of being warned repeatedly, he failed to correct his ______ behaviour.” The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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She has a sharp tongue and it can occasionally turn __________
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I ______ made arrangements had I ______ informed earlier.
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“If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters”.
Here, the word ‘antagonistic’ is closest in meaning to
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