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Crack The Iim Indore Ipm Entrance Examination 2nd Edition North Academics (Author) - Solutions
Oriental: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters(a) Fatal (b) Occidental(c) Fatalistic (d) Actuarial(e) Bank
Callous: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters(a) Frugal (b) Nonchalant(c) Sensitive (d) Stingy(e) Cellular
Alleviate: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Motivate (b) Pep up(c) Aggravate (d) Malign(e) Godly
Dearth: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Terror(b) Abundance(c) Paucity(d) Levity(e) Life
Coy: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Shy (b) Reserved(c) Optimistic (d) Brazen(e) Comely
Advance: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Retreat (b) Goad(c) Plod (d) Defeat(e) Cash
Zenith: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Crest (b) Pinnacle(c) Interior (d) Nadir(e) Acme
Cacophonous: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Loud (b) Melodious(c) Raucous (d) Harsh(e) Loud
Gloomy: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Disgusting (b) Comical(c) Versatile (d) Spirited(e) Dark
Tranquil: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Serene (b) Disturbed(c) Cowardly (d) Beautiful(e) Sumptuous
Fickle: Select the alternative that conveys opposite meaning as the word given in bold letters.(a) Aggressive (b) Persistent(c) Miraculous (d) Hard working(e) Timid
Redoubtable:(a) Decisive(b) Resolved(c) Awesome(d) Formidable(e) Minnow Redoubtable means generating respect and fear or formidable, so its opposite is minnow, which means a small and unimportant person or company, so (e) is the answer.
Polish:(a) Ruthless (b) Honesty(c) Indolent (d) Gaucheness(e) Complexity Here, polish has nothing to do with rubbing and shining. The noun Polish means, refinement and culture, so the opposite is gaucheness or awkwardness. You can also eliminate the choices that do not have opposites, like chair,
Pedestrian:(a) Ordinary (b) Static(c) Jejune (d) Motor Car(e) Imaginative The answer is (e) Imaginative, as the secondary meaning of pedestrian is unimaginative. Look at the answer choices to determine the part of speech of the question word.
Censure:(a) Extol (b) Impartial(c) Slander (d) Castigate(e) Admonish The options (c), (d) and (e) can be eliminated straight away as they are also negative, like censure which means to criticize.Impartial means unbiased is a neutral word, so it can also be eliminated. Therefore, we are left with
(a) The first choice is correct, as it shows the effect of the two opposing views of the two countries engaged in tiff.Hence, this is the answer.(b) It provides external information, so can’t be the answer.(c) This is an extreme choice to be eliminated.(d) It is out of scope of the passage, as it
Let us eliminate the options:Option (b) talks about how does ‘voting’come into picture. Passage does not mention that or is not related to that. Hence, option (b) is not the answer.Option (c) looks tempting but does not flow from the passage.Option (d) sounds like a U turn and hence, cannot be
(a) It does not go with the negative tone of the last line, ‘attacks the life-style...’.(b) Again, this option changes the tone of the passage which is negative.(c) This is an extraneous piece of information which falls outside the scope of the discussion.(d) As it explains how it ‘attacks
(a) It is not possible as the previous line talks about Forbes’ review of the movie.(b) The paragraph nowhere talks about Scorsese, so this option is eliminated.(c) The last line does not have Belfort as the main subject, so ‘he’ can’t be used for lack of clear antecedent.(d) The author
(a) This could have been a possible choice, but it does not flow from the last sentence.(b) This option is quite tempting, but misses on the ‘India’ element interspersed throughout the paragraph.(c) Last sentence in option (c) does not refer to any ‘problems’ as mentioned in this
(a) Goes with the tone of the paragraph which is laudatory.(b) It does not follow the last sentence which is positive.(c) It dilutes the tone of the paragraph which is positive.(d) ‘the vaccination programme’ does not have its antecedent in the previous line.
(a) Option (a) provides a solid example to support the main idea about finetuning the clemency jurisprudence.(b) It is an extension of the topic, but it deviate from the topic of mercy petitions or clemency jurisprudence.(c) Goes against the tone of the paragraph which is positive, ‘thoughtful
(a) The passage talks about big ideas motivating the individuals or nations, this option talks about negative motivation of the proletariat.(b) It is counter to the theme of the paragraph which talks about the sweeping influence of the big ideas.(c) This is contradictory to the main idea of the
We say Newton discovered gravitation.Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use
More fundamentally, the tiff has uncovered a deep rift in the two countries’ perceptions of one another. From the Indian perspective, America remains unwilling to afford it the respect a true partner deserves. And from the American, the Indian response reveals both a brittle anxiety about its own
Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need—not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation;’________.(a) A struggle against
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’(a) But we refuse to believe
Like Company Limited, Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is an exploration of the contemporary world that few would have expected from these two artistes, given their refined sensibilities. The Wolf of Wall Street attacks the lifestyle of the middle-class, the world of advertising and
The yearning for money as succour drives contemporary capitalism. If every revolution and alternative has failed, why not work to enable the one that actually exists, why not do what your stockbroker tells you, and keep investing to circulate money in the economy? The original Forbes magazine
Up to this point, Jordan Belfort is no different from countless eager MBA graduates in India who work in the stock or bond markets for global financial firms.Belfort’s lifestyle, while perhaps more(or less?) excessive than that of India’s super-rich, is still something a lot of us covet. He
After successfully eradicating smallpox in 1980, India has now gone three straight years without reporting any new case of poliomyelitis infection (‘polio’). This qualifies it to receive the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) certification for being polio-free. Undoubtedly, this is a victory
A country that retains the death penalty needs constantly to fine-tune its clemency jurisprudence as the second best option.The Supreme Court’s latest verdict on death row convicts is a thoughtful exposition of the law in this regard. _______.(a) Commuting the death sentences of 15 convicts to
The ‘grand sweep of history’ has become a much overused cliché. It incorporated the belief that change stemmed from big ideas that motivated individuals, classes and nations. ________.(a) The Bolshevik Revolution, whose impact dominated the 20th century, was prompted by disillusionment among
Politicians may be corrupt, but have to seek re-election, and to that extent are accountable to voters. But civil servants are virtually unsackable, unaccountable and widely corrupt. You cannot change this overnight. ________.(a) However, you can create jobs for the unemployed.(b) So, go easy on
The function of education is to create human beings who are integrated and therefore intelligent. ________. We may take degrees and be mechanically efficient without being intelligent. Intelligence is not mere information; it is not derived from books, nor does it consist of clever self-defensive
Though there is a higher and wider significance to life, of what value is our education if we never discover it? We may be highly educated, but if we are without deep integration of thought and feeling, our lives are incomplete, contradictory and torn with many fears; ________.(a) the
Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. _______ To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success(a) Creativity is crushed by orthodoxy(b) Innovative thinking is the key(c) This has ruined many
All things by a law divine In one another’s being mingle: ________(a) Why not I with thine?(b) Let’s make a jingle(c) It takes two to tango(d) God is not away from us
The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean;The winds of heaven mix forever, With a sweet emotion;________;(a) This is the power of love(b) Nothing in the world is single(c) This is the seed of creation(d) What’s life without love
Then there is a very common argument from natural law. That was a favourite argument all through the eighteenth century, especially under the influence of Sir Isaac Newton and his cosmogony.People observed the planets going around the sun according to the law of gravitation, and they thought that
Perhaps the simplest and easiest to understand is the argument of the First Cause.I may say that when I was a young man and was debating these questions very seriously in my mind, I for a long time accepted the argument of the First Cause, until one day, at the age of eighteen, I read John Stuart
A. Products of mutual funds and insurance companies all aimed specifically at women are an example of this fact.B. For this purpose, we looked at the district wise figures for working women.C. They influence a lot of consumption decisions and hence there is a distinctive attempt to target them.D.
A. But if, having done so, you did not spare constructive thought as to why your neighbourhood was becoming crime-prone, you would be leaving yourself vulnerable to similar future intrusions.B. While the international community can only hope that Moscow’s hostage drama is resolved without further
A. But PST has also used satellite pictures to suggest that an ancient fortified town had existed 30 km from Junagadh.B. Soil and vegetation patterns were used in the search.C. The site matches the description of Krishna’s town in an ancient scripture.D. PST’s primary job at Space Applications
A. Moreover, as argued above, knowledge is entailed not by way of justification as such, but by the realization of good or fruit-ladenness of meaning and actions or iterated actions.B. Knowledge is required in order to resolve doubts and thus, in order to act meaningfully.C. Therefore the actions
A. Such inter-operability of a software service or product appears to be only one aspect, and the interoperable system is itself evolving.B. Each software product introduces a variation and consequently a change in the system.C. An operating system must work with applications and other elements in
A. First may be necessary for immediate relief.B. However, to cure the problem from the root the treatment at the elemental level is a must.C. Therefore synergy of modern medical science and ancient Indian wisdom is in the interest of humanity.D. Allopathic treatment is symptomatic while Ayurveda
A. The dangers of conflicting irrational majoritarianism with enlightened consensus are, indeed, great in developing democracy.B. Real democracy is about mediating the popular will through a network of institutional structure and the law of the land.C. While law making and governance are meant to
A. Asian economies will need alternative sources of growth to compensate for the rapid fall in demand from the western markets.B. But the crisis has exposed the limits of region’s dominant economic-growth model.C. The export-led model that propelled many Asian economies so effectively for the
A. It reverberates throughout the entire Universe. And you are transmitting that frequency with your thoughts!B. The frequency you transmit reaches beyond cities, beyond cities, beyond countries beyond the world.C. You are a human transmission tower, and you are more powerful than any television
A. He somehow knew he would find what he was looking for. So with missionary zeal, he started to climb.B. So instead, for perhaps the first in this life he shed the shackles of reason and placed hi trust in his intuition.C. At first he thought about hiring a Sherpa guide to aid him in his climb
S1. Satyajit Ray made several films for children.P. Later filmmakers have followed his lead.Q. Today other nations are making children’s films in a big way.R. This was at a time when no director considered children as potential audience.S. Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the field.(a) SQRP (b)
S1. Urban problems differ from state to state and city to city.P. Most of the cities have neither water nor the required pipelines.Q. The population in these cities has grown beyond the planners’imagination.R. However, certain basic problems are common to all cities.S. Only broad macro-planning
S1. Exercising daily is a must for good health.P. Luckily, there is no link between the amount of money spent and beneficent exercise, else the poor would have creaking bodies.Q. While some cost you nothing, others may require the investment of some amount of money.R. However, it is important to
S1. There was a time Egypt faced economic crisis.P. Cotton is the chief export commodity of Egypt.Q. Foreign trade depends on cultivation of cotton on large scale.R. It became necessary for Egypt to boost cotton crops.S. Only by means of increasing foreign trade Egypt could survive.(a) PQRS (b)
A. Not too far from the bright lights of Mumbai, a silent scourge is killing thousands of young children.B. Their ill-fed bodies vulnerable to infection, most succumbed to ailments as minor as diarrhea.C. Stalked by chronic hunger and disease, nearly 30,000 children below the age of six have died
A. Even when it is self-willed, migration causes dislocation and alienation, creating the need for meaningful identities at the individual level.B. The root cause is modernisation that has spurred migration in large numbers.C. Simultaneously, education and development within non-western societies
A. One may disagree with some of his contentions, but in the aftermath of September 11, one must give credence to his central point: that in the post-Cold War world, the critical distinctions between people are not ideological or economic—they are cultural.B. Samuel P. Huntington’s book The
A. The first vision is cyclical and millennial.B. It sees man originating from the greater anthropoid apes, climbing slowly through tribal groups, via the Renaissance and the early Industrial Age, into modern technological man.C. The second is linear and utopian.D. It sees man originating from a
A. He is the faceless man who is nowhere and everywhere.B. He will live on bread and water, sleep on the streets, move from house to house.C. It is impossible for the political leaders of a tame western world that wages its wars by remote control to understand the power of the marginal man, who has
A. So Iraq and Afghanistan are now sundrenched lands enjoying liberty and freedom, overflowing with joy and prosperity?B. Yet in a new campaign ad, Republican Party strategists shamelessly take credit for ‘two more free nations’ and‘two less terrorist regimes,’ using footage of the Iraqi
I was able to bring my wife....... to my views with a lot problem.(a) off (b) to(c) round (d) up
......... I reached the airport when the plane arrived.(a) No sooner (b) Scarcely had(c) Though (d) Scarcely
He has not......... and will not marry in near future.(a) been married (b) marrying(c) married (d) being married
Hand.....the stationary among the students.(a) with (b) out(c) up (d) over
The wedding of my cousin ....... last Monday.(a) took place (b) was took place(c) did take place (d) took
Ram disposed......his old bicycle and bought new one.(a) off (b) of(c) on (d) at
Only on very rare occasions ......... an appearance before midday.(a) would the old lady make(b) would make the old lady(c) the old lady make would(d) the old lady would make
Sheena is putting...... at Raipur road these days.(a) up (b) off(c) after (d) down
As the train pull.....the passengers ran here and there.(a) in (b) off(c) to (d) out
The students or the teachers.......... to host this event.(a) is going (b) are going(c) go (d) has gone
He had given him a lot of money and gold, but he .......... it in a couple of weeks.(a) ran into (b) ran down(c) ran through (d) ran up
He has given up........ on her best friend’s advice.(a) drinking (b) drunk(c) to have drunk (d) to drinking.
While explaining the situation to her parents, Reena broke.......(a) up (b) down(c) off (d) out
Ronit is not so stupid as he look, ......?(a) does he (b) is he(c) he is (d) is not he
The mayor tried to work....... the mob.(a) on (b) upon(c) in (d) of
Either she or her children......... the truth of his father’s death.(a) know (b) knows(c) is knowing (d) known
It was difficult for him to put....... the appearance of innocence for a long time.(a) off (b) on(c) out (d) up
Nirmala could not......... a moustache to the photo of her warden in the newspaper.(a) resist to add(b) resist from adding(c) resist(d) resist for adding.
The teacher asked the students that whether everyone .....brought his assignment or not.(a) has (b) have(c) are (d) have been
These gardens....... with velvet grass.(a) are laid (b) are lain(c) laid (d) were lain
I had no sooner told Ramsey what I thought of him......I wished I had held my tongue.(a) than (b) after(c) when (d) then
In such a difficult situation as this, mistakes........happen occasionally(a) bounding to (b) bound (c) are bound to (d) bound to
If you........ to bring the notes, we would not have failed.(a) would have failed (b) remembered(c) had remembered (d) remembering
Either Ram or his friends......done it.(a) has (b) having(c) have to (d) have
The riots were put ...... by the local police.(a) up (b) with(c) down (d) off
Is this metamorphosis of the gentleman’s game into a ........ sport deplorable? Not at all, never mind the purists. There is more emotion that will ........ the stars. Despite the tag of being a team game there will be the clash of the ........ .frenzy, midgets, glorified, gladiatorial,
Earlier contributors to this discussion have adequately made the ........ point that in the Indian media, over recent years,........ commercial considerations have increasingly ........ journalistic ethics and editorial ........ .spurious, crass, transcended, authority, corruption, maneuvered.
The poisoned chalice, as Shakespeare says, will return to ........ its inventor and propagating a culture of compassion and fellow feeling that ........ all barriers and religious labels is ........ and spiritual duty.transcends, dominates, an enunciating, buttress, plague.
The ape-like part was above the waist, including the skull—more like a chimp in size than a human—and the arms, with........ shoulders and long, curving fingers, well ........ to climbing, although is isn’t clear whether they actually did climb........ this point, or merely retained a more
But it’s there too—in the meetings the priests ........ to schedule their planting dates and combat the problem of crop pests; in the plans they ........ up to maintain aqueducts and police conduits; ........ the irrigation proposals they consider and approve, the dam proposals they reject or
But five years ago, it could hardly have been ........ that a master’s thesis ........ this recondite subject, published under the conservative imprint of the University of California Press, would become one of the ________ books of the early 70s.(a) thought, upon, great(b) guessed, on,
Then in 1856, a similar skull, ........ in the Neander Valley outside the German city of Düsseldorf, showed that at least one man’s ........ ancestors, later named Neanderthal man, had a low sloping forehead, a receding chin, and thick ridges........ his eye sockets.(a) found, possible, in(b)
It is a ........ held belief that ........ and productivity are a function of ........ or a set of new equipment.(a) closely, inefficiency, technology(b) commonly, quality, technology(c) blindly, profit, management(d) recently, durability, experts
Eclecticism from the Greek ‘eklektikos’(‘selective’), is the practice of ........elements ........ in style in a ........ work of art.(a) compost, different, vague(b) uniting, several, solid(c) mixing, diverse, single(d) converging, unlike, likely
Taipei is the capital, largest city, and ........,........, and industrial centre of ........(a) agricultural, educational, world(b) educational, frugal, Taiwan(c) educational, commerce, Taiwan(d) educational, commercial, Taiwan
Economists engage in ........ enquiry into the effects of those human ........ which are grouped under three broad headings:production, ........, and consumption.(a) scientific, acts, redemption(b) methodical, attitudes, supply(c) systematic, activities, exchange(d) pragmatic, function, exchange
The ........ difficulties produced by the marriage ........ prompted some intense........ in Eliot’s poetry.(a) sentimental, clearly, mistakes(b) adjustment, obviously, remarks(c) emotional, evidently, passages (d) familial, glaringly, smiles
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