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Day 136: SSC CGL English

5 questions (9 parts). Try each one first, then open its answer.

  1. Question 1

    Spotting Errors. Asked once: 24 Sep 2025 S3

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    Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: Being largely ignored in the early discussions, (1)/ the revised charter was again subjected (2)/ to reviews by external experts (3)/ who had earlier flagged similar inconsistencies. (4)

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  2. Question 2

    Vocabulary. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S3

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    Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Esoteric

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  3. Question 3 (case study, 5 parts)

    Cloze Test. Asked once: 22 Sep 2025 S1

    In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Global sustainability discourse has not so much evolved as ossified into a lexicon of managerial (1) _____—terms engineered more for reputational lubrication than ecological redress. What was once a moral reckoning with planetary precarity now traffics in dashboards and metrics, calibrated less to redistribute power than to launder it. Words like “resilience,” “stakeholder engagement,” and “net-zero” populate position papers, their meanings stretched until they acquire the elasticity of (2) _____.In this semantic economy, language ceases to be revelatory and becomes performative. Reports teeter on euphemism; declarations bristle with procedural piety. Crises are not named; they are (3) _____ into ‘developmental challenges.’ The grammar of suffering is bleached, even as the facts remain uncompromising. What emerges is not truth, but a choreography of credibility—an affective simulation of care. Meanwhile, epistemic asymmetries persist: indigenous knowledge is (4) _____ as “local insight,” offered just enough space to decorate, never to reorient. Environmental justice, once confrontational, now wears a diplomatic smile, folded neatly into intergovernmental communiqués. If sustainability is to escape the orbit of self-congratulation, it must surrender its obsession with optics and inhabit the discomfort of history. Anything less is not stewardship—it is semantic (5) _____ masquerading as progress.
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    What should come in the place of blank number (1)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (2)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (3)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (4)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (5)?

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  4. Question 4

    Fill in the Blanks. Asked once: 16 Sep 2025 S3

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    Select the correct option: Only after years of archival research did the historian manage to ___ the contradictory accounts of the regime’s collapse.

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  5. Question 5

    Grammar. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S1

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    Fill in the blank with the most appropriate phrasal verb: The department was asked to _____ the outdated protocol.

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