Directions: Read the passage carefully and indicate the meaning of the word underlined by choosing one of the four alternatives as given.
Some profit by verbal obfuscation, or indeed strive to bring it about. Advertisers are not displeased if the public thinks of vacuum cleaners as Hoovers or paper tissues as Kleenex. And demagogues frequently believe in the premise of Newspeak, namely, that to control language is to control thought, and they dream of limiting speech and thinking to a rude little lexicon of politically correct grunts, just enough for efficient exploitation of those they rule. But when left to itself the evolution of word meanings is an occult, unpredictable, and unfathomable process.
Occult here means mysterious, beyond the range of ordinary knowledge and hence concealed.
Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to given word.
Incorrigible means someone who cannot be corrected and changed but reformable means someone who can be reformed and changed.
Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to given word.
Quotidian means commonplace daily or usual. So the opposite is unusual.
Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to given word.
A comely person is attractive.
Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to given word.
An errant person is wayward.