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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 111-115) : In each of the following questions four options are given, of which one word is most nearly the same or opposite in meaning to the given word in the question. Find the correct option having either same or opposite meaning.

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NONDESCRIPT

A. Conducive

B. Discern

C. Tantamount

D. Defined

Correct Answer :

B. Discern


Nondescript refers to, lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics. Option (b) 'discern' has the nearest meaning that refers to, distinguish someone or something with difficulty by sight or with the others senses which means it lacks distinctive characteristics.

Related Questions

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A slice from a circular pizza of diameter 14 inches is cut in a such a way that each slice of pizza has a central angle of 45°. What is the area of each slice of Pizza(in square inches)?

A. 16.25

B. 19.25

C. 18.25

D. 17.25

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What does this mean that India will continue to be a haven of stability?

A. That new budget will make India stable forever.

B. The four pillars of budget will lead to make stability.

C. India will continue towards stability even in disturbed economic environment.

D. The budget will remain unchanged even in turbulent and choppy economic environment.

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Statement: You are hereby appointed as a programmer with a probation period of one year and your performance will be reviewed at the end of the period for confirmation. - A line in an appointment letter.
Assumptions:
I. The performance of an individual generally is not known at the time of appointment offer.
II. Generally an individual tries to prove his worth in the probation period.

A. If only assumption I is implicit

B. If only assumption II is implicit

C. If either I or II is implicit

D. If both I and II are implicit.

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From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the passage.

A. India has 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

B. The government should redouble its efforts to combat climate change, which will naturally slash not just greenhouse-gas emissions but particulates as well.

C. Every year, more than half a million people are estimated to die prematurely because of air pollution.

D. While air quality tends to worsen around this time of year as millions of Indians light firecrackers to celebrate the Diwali festival, the problem isnt limited by season or geography.

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Statement : X × W, W @ Z , Z % Y
Conclusion:
I.Y $ W II.Z $ W III.X � Y

A. Only I is true

B. Ony II is true

C. Both I and II are true

D. Both I and III are true

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What is the total population of State J & K ?

A. 11.55 lak

B. 10.65 lak

C. 10.55 lak

D. 9.78 lak

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RBI is concerned about the risk of investing in mutual funds. RBI is likely to ask banks to reduce their investments in mutual funds.
(A) At the risk of investing
(B) To reduce investments
(C) Concern for the risk

A. Only (A)

B. Only (B)

C. Only (C)

D. Only (A) and (B)

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What is the Ramanujam committee constituted for?

A. To keep tab on the child trafficking

B. To check corruption in Banks

C. To oversee the foreign trade

D. To avoid obsolete laws

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How many persons have seminar at 3'0 clock between G and C?

A. 5

B. 6

C. 2

D. 4

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Find the average of total no of staff in all the dept ?

A. 103.8

B. 108.3

C. 108.2

D. 108

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CORPULENT

A. Lean

B. Gaunt

C. Emaciated

D. Obese

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The code word 6$A for the word

A. Later

B. Arrive

C. Earlier

D. Today

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Food inflation is touching twenty per cent. The government will have to tighten monetary policy to prevent further rise.
(A) Although food inflation is
(B) With the tightening of monetary
(C) Given that food inflation

A. Only (A)

B. Only (B)

C. Only (C)

D. Only (A) and (B)

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Which among the following is an important circuitry in a computer system that directs the operation of the processor?

A. Memory

B. Address Bus

C. Accumulator

D. Control Unit

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Who is Y's husband ?

A. Q

B. P

C. X

D. Can't be determined

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Statements: Some roofs are figures. All figures are lions. All lions are goats. No tool is lion.
Conclusions:
I. Some tools are figures is a possibility.
II. All tools being goats is a possibility.
III. No roof is tool.
IV. Some goats are figures

A. Only II and IV follow

B. Only I and II follow

C. Only either I or II and IV follow

D. None follows.

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Assembly is a _______ based low-level language replacing binary machine-code instructions, which are very hard to remember, it is the classic and uncontroversial example of a low level language.

A. Memory

B. High Level

C. Key

D. Mnemonic

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From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the passage.

A. A look at the historical data on forecasts made by the IMF in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) reports seems to suggest that optimism bias may be the bigger culprit.

B. The large negative forecast errors in the recession years skewed the historical averages.

C. Over the past few years, the growth forecasts made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have displayed one consistent pattern

D. Has predicting the fate of the global economy become more difficult in a volatile post-crisis world, or does the IMF suffer from an inherent optimism bias?

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Which of the following groups of people represents the people sitting at extreme ends of both the rows ?

A. MSD, P.V.Sindhu, Sardana Singh, Dipa Karmakar

B. Sakshi Malik, Abhinav Bindra, Sathish,P.V.Sindhu

C. Sakshi Malik, P.V. Sindhu, Sardana Singh, Dipa Karmakar

D. MSD, P.V.Sindhu, Sardana Singh, Abhinav Bindra

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However, it is possible that the non -resident entity may have a business connection with the resident Indian entity. In such a case, the resident Indian entity could be treated as Permanent Establishment of the nonresident entity. ……………During the last decade or so, India has seen a steady growth of outsourcing of business processes by non residents or foreign companies to IT -enabled entities in India. Such entities are either branches or associated enterprises of the foreign enterprise or an independent India enterprise. The nonresident entity or foreign company will be liable to tax in India only if the IT -enabled BPO unit in India constitutes its Permanent Establishment.

A. The tax treatment of the Permanent Establishment in such a case is under consideration

B. How would the profit would be shared is not decided yet?

C. A lengthy and cumber some process requiring a lot of application of mind and revenue principles is ahead for the tax department of India

D. A new trend is seen in last decade.

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Which among the following is the difference in value between a country's imports and exports?

A. Balance of Trade

B. Balance of Payment

C. Balance of power

D. Credit Balance

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The village headman was unlettered, but he was no fool, he could see through the mystery of the businessmans proposition and promptly moved him down.

A. deception, forced

B. naivete, turned

C. potential, forced

D. sophistry, turned

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Which cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms and it is particularly valuable for dynamic or highly changeable workloads?

A. Dynamic Cloud

B. Advance Cloud

C. Hybrid Cloud

D. Sharing Cloud

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India has signed a Grant Agreement for Additional Financing in Financing Energy Efficiency at MSMEs Project- Programmatic Framework for Energy Efficiency with ___________.

A. Asian Development Bank (ADB)

B. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

C. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

D. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

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Which of the following error occurs when software tries to access protected memory?

A. Segmentation Fault

B. Display time Error

C. IO Error

D. Runtime Error

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4x + 2y =8.5, 2x + 4y = 9.5

A. x > y

B. x < y

C. x >= y

D. x <= y

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Which among the following is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft?

A. Simple Storage Service

B. Atmos

C. Openstack Swift

D. Azure

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How much per cent of the Indian population have access to internet in India in 2015?

A. 20 percent

B. 23 percent

C. 29 percent

D. 26 percent

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To curb black money in the economy, which of the following committees has been formed in 2016?

A. Deepak Mohanty Committee

B. Suresh Prabhu Committee

C. Justice BM Shah committee

D. Nachiket Mor Committee

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A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the probability that they are not of the same colour ?

A. 40/44

B. 44/41

C. 41/44

D. 40/39