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    Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is, however, right when he

    points out that growth had already been slowing down, so ascribing (A) / prescribing (B) the entire downturn to demonetisation is not fair. The Commission’s report recommended (A) / recommending (B) a set of significant changes to the law on bail deserves urgent attention. The main problems that beset (A) / detest (B) Air India are structural, which is why efforts to revive the entity are unlikely to bear fruit. In each question, there are five sentences. Each has a pair of words that are italicised and highlighted. From the italicised and highlighted words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may e selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one
    A BAA Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B ABB Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C ABA Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D BBB Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    I- A. Ascribe is to charge or to assign while prescribe is to order for use by a particular patient / direction or rule for action. II- B. Recommending will be used as here the report which needs urgent attention is the one which is recommending the changes and not any other report. III – A. Beset means to attack and detest means to hate. The problems are attacking Air India not hating air India.

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