DSSSB TGT PART-1 (23 June 2024)

The answer is Option 1 i.e Foreign

• Native: a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently residing there or not.

• Foreign: of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own.

Here we find that both Native and Foreign express different meanings.

Therefore both these words are Antonyms and Option 1 Foreign is the correct answer.

• Rustic: relating to the countryside; rural.

• Urban: in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.

• Rural: in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. disgrace.

• Stigma means 'a mark of disgrace associated with about particular circumstance, quality, or person'.

•  Meanings of the given options are -

• Honour means high respect; great esteem.

• Credit means public acknowledgment or praise, given or received when a person's responsibility for an action or idea becomes apparent.

• Award means a prize or other mark of recognition given in honour of an achievement.

• Disgrace means loss of reputation or respect as the result of a dishonourable action.

Eg - He left the party in disgrace.

• Clearly, 'disgrace' is similar in meaning to 'stigma'.

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. active

Sluggish: Refers to someone who is lazy and slow.

Active: Refers to someone who is energetic and fast.

Thus, it is clear that sluggish and active are opposite words.

Dull: Refers to someone who is boring or something that lacks shine.

Weak: Refers to someone who lacks strength.

Sedentary: Refers to someone who spends a lot of time seated; somewhat inactive.

Thus, the correct answer is option 4.

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. spying.

Espionage means the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.

Hypnotism means the study or practice of hypnosis.

Spying means work for a government or other organization by secretly obtaining information about enemies or competitors.

• Eg- Enemies were spying on us.

Perception means the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

• Detente means the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

The correct answer is option 4, i.e., but you will get wet.

• The sentence uses the incorrect conjunction 'but'.

• Given the context, the correct conjunction here should be 'or' or 'else'.

Thus, the rectified sentence is: It's raining heavily, so you should take an umbrella, or/else you will get wet.

The correct answer is option 2) i.e. B.

An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group.

• For example:

• Laxman wakes up early.

• Here 'early' qualifies the verb 'wake up'.

• Seldom or never, seldom if ever, little or nothing, little if anything.

The correct answer is 'has few'.

• The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.

• The erroneous part 'have a many' should be 'has few'.

• The given sentence has two errors.

• Firstly, 'has' should be used instead of 'have' because 'India' is singular. Therefore, a singular helping verb should be used.

• The given sentence is talking about the lack of all - rounders in the Indian team.

• The word 'a many' refers to a large number of something countable. Therefore, the use of "a many" is grammatically incorrect.

• The word 'few' has a negative meaning. We use them to mean 'not as much as may be expected or wished for.'

• We use few with plural countable nouns.

• Therefore, the correct answer is Option 3. 

Correct Sentence: India has few all-rounders to match the talent and dedication of Kapil Dev.

The correct answer is 'used to'.

• The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.

• The given sentence is talking about a past habitual action.

• Want to denotes something that the person would like to do in the future.

• Therefore, it is grammatically incorrect as the given sentence is expressing a past action.

• And we know that in such cases 'used to' should be used instead of 'want to'.

• 'Used to' is a modal verb. It means done or experienced in the past, but no longer done or experienced.

• Example: We don't go to the movies now as often as we used to.

• Therefore, by reading the above explanation we find that the correct answer is Option 1.

Correct Sentence: I used to learn yoga when I was in school.

We use would to talk about something which happened regularly in the past but which no longer happens. Would is a modal verb and a modal verb is followed by another verb in the base form (the infinitive without the 'To'). 'spent' is the simple past and participle form of 'spend'. So we will use 'spend' here. 

Example: Sunday mornings my mother would bake. I'd stand by the fridge and help.

The complete sentence is: 'When we were kids we would spend hours playing outside."

The correct answer is option 4) i.e. industrious.

• Options 1 and 3 cannot be the correct answer because these are the negative words and in the blank we need a positive word.

• Industrious is the correct answer and it means diligent and hard-working. This fits in the context of the given sentence, hence, will be used here.

• Note: Inert- lacking the ability or strength to move.