GATE MN Verbal Aptitude PYQs & Answers

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Suresh said, “I did it yesterday.” Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?

Your answerChoose one option.

Suresh said that I did it yesterday.

Suresh says I did it yesterday.

Suresh says that he did it the day before.

Suresh said that he had done it the day before.

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Exacerbate : Mitigate :: __________

Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.

Your answerChoose one option.

Aggravate : Alleviate

Alleviate : Precipitate

Aggravate : Precipitate

Emancipate : Exonerate

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Even though I had planned to go skiing with my friends, I had to _________ at the last moment because of an injury.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

back up

back of

back on

back out

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The President, along with the Council of Ministers, __________ to visit India next week.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Your answerChoose one option.

wish

wishes

will wish

is wishing

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“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.”

(From E. V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)

Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?

Your answerChoose one option.

The solitary man described in the passage is dead.

Strangers helped create a grand reputation for the solitary man described in the passage.

The solitary man described in the passage found joy in scattering fruits.

The solitary man worked in a court where he fell ill.

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If ‘→’ denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [drizzle → rain → downpour] is analogous to [_____ → quarrel → feud]. Which one of the given options is appropriate to fill the blank?

Your answerChoose one option.

bicker

bog

dither

dodge

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In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)–(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks.

Yoko Roi stands (i) _____ as an author for stand (ii) _____ as an honorary fellow, after she took (iii) _____ her writings that stand (iv) _____ the freedom of speech.

Your answerChoose one option.

(i) out (ii) down (iii) in (iv) for

(i) down (ii) out (iii) by (iv) in

(i) down (ii) out (iii) for (iv) in

(i) out (ii) down (iii) by (iv) for

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The line ran ______ the page, right through the centre, and divided the page into two.

Your answerChoose one option.

across

between

about

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Kind : ______ : : Often : Seldom (By word meaning)

Your answerChoose one option.

Cruel

Variety

Type

Kindred

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Based only on the following passage, which one of the options can be inferred with certainty?

When the congregation sang together, Apenyo would also join, though her little screams were not quite audible because of the group singing. But whenever there was a special number, trouble would begin; Apenyo would try singing along, much to the embarrassment of her mother. After two or three such mortifying Sunday evenings, the mother stopped going to church altogether until Apenyo became older and learnt to behave.

At home too, Apenyo never kept quiet; she hummed or made up silly songs to sing by herself, which annoyed her mother at times but most often made her become pensive. She was by now convinced that her daughter had inherited her love of singing from her father who had died unexpectedly away from home.

[Excerpt from These Hills Called Home by Temsula Ao]

Your answerChoose one option.

The mother was embarrassed about her daughter’s singing at home.

The mother’s feelings about her daughter’s singing at home were only of annoyance.

The mother was not sure if Apenyo had inherited her love of singing from her father.

When Apenyo hummed at home, her mother tended to become thoughtful.

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