TCS NQT Selecting Words Quiz 1

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Towards means to come in direction of someone or something.

At is used to convey specific time.
With is used representing involvement in something
Over is used to express the movement from one place to another.

Since here the movement is of leaning in the direct of a person, we use 'towards'.



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Although 'comprised of' actually means "being composed or constituted of," hence, the correct version put forward by grammar guides is to use "composed of" or "comprises"


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Scrooge means a person who is greedy and who is stingy with money.

Here it says that the person was staring at the bundle of notes. The word 'staring' here means reflects that the person was greedy and wanted to have those bundle of notes. Hence the word 'keenly' suits because it means to look at something with eager eyes.



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Here the sentence has the context of flourishing the market in Asia with its own market and it was all done very secretly. So when you take over something without anyone noticing, it  means that you're capturing it and not just acquiring it.

Acquire means to buy something.
Conquer means to take over by force. but there was no force used by Nestle.



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Answer : Good enough.

Good enough means quiet good or excellent at some work.

Here the speaker says that he/she has the full capacity to influence people, hence the person was good enough.

With the use of Best we need the article 'the' before it.
The adjective good is followed by at and not 'to'.



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The verb 'persists' is always followed by the preposition 'in + gerund' while insists it followed by 'to'. Here, the context of the sentence is that the person kept doing the same thing even after the disapproval, so the verb 'persists' is appropriate in this case.

Persists means to continue doing something without stopping.
Desist means to stop doing something
Resist means to try to stop something happening or to stop somebody from doing something



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Commandeered here means seize, the duty officers will seize the nail-cutter if someone will bring it to the Airport.

Since the subject here is the nail cutter 'it' and not the person carrying it, we cannot use 'punished' or 'arrested'
The word 'caught' is incorrect because it doesn't mean to confiscate. Hence, we go with commandeered.


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The sentence is a refined version of the idiom 'To err is human, to forgive divine' So here. 'err' is substituted with 'make a mistake' which is human and 'to forgive' should be substituted with 'Absolve' which means to forgive.

According to the sentence to make a mistake or the reaming options such as 'goof', 'foul up', and 'inhuman' are in nature of a human. To forgive/absolve is heavenly or divine.


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Answer: exacerbates.

The sentence here means that the speaker has no idea what he/sje is afraid of and because of this fact the person is even more afraid and it increases his/her fear.

So the word that means to increase or to make worse is exacerbate.Thus here, the uncertainty of her fears makes her fear much worse than it already was.

Dispose and negate cannot be used because it means to eliminate or curb something.



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Re-in-statement means to bring something in statement or in good form again 're' is the prefix here.

Here, reinstatement of old furniture in new and good form can be done only by born artists. Whereas restart, reopening,and rebirth do not go with the sentence because these verbs cannot be used with the subject 'furniture'.



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