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GATE ME topic:verbal-aptitude PYQs
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Are there enough seats here? There are ______ people here than I expected.
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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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While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”.
The writer of this page is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students, because _____.
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X is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its loyalty membership. If its loyalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within the next eight years more households will be watching X than cable television.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?
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“Going by the ________ that many hands make light work, the school ________ involved all the students in the task.”
The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
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“The dress ______ her so well that they all immediately ______ her on her appearance.”
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“Her ________ should not be confused with miserliness; she is ever willing to assist those in need.”
The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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“The judge’s standing in the legal community, though shaken by false allegations of wrongdoing, remained ______.”
The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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He was one of my best ________ and I felt his loss ________.
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The ways in which this game can be played ______ potentially infinite.
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