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DIRECTIONS:
Read the fol lowing passages carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words are given in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
PASSAGE
The development of nationalism in the third world countries, as is well known, followed a very different trajectory from that in the advanced capitalist countries. In the latter it was a part of the process of the emergence of the bourgeois order in opposition to feudalism, while in the former it was a part of the anti-colonial struggle. The impact of colonialism, though it differed across countries, had on the whole been in the direction of transcending localism and unifying supra-local economic structures through the introduction of market relations. The struggle against colonialism, consequently, took the form of a national struggle in each instance in which people belonging to different tribes or linguistic communities participated. And the colonial power in each instance attempted to break this emerging national unity by splitting people.
The modus operandi of this splitting was not just through political manipulation as happened for instance in Angola, South Africa and a host of other countries; an important part of this modus operandi was through the nurturing of a historiograpy that just denied the existence of any overarching national consciousness. The national struggle, the national movement were given a tribal or religious character, they were portrayed as being no more than the movement of the dominant tribe or the dominant religious group for the achievement of narrow sectional ends. But the important point in this colonialism, while, on the one hand, it objectively created the condition for the coming into being of a national consciousness at a supra-tribal, supra-local and suprareligious level, on the other hand it sought deliberately to subvert this very consciousness by using the same forces which it had objectively undermined.
Question : 16
Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning to the word given in bold as used in the passage.
TRANSCENDING
a) encompassing
b) surpassing
c) reviving
d) widening
e) piloting
Answer »Answer: (b)
The meaning of the word ‘transcend’ is ‘to be or go beyond the normal limits of something’. Hence the words ‘transcending’ and ‘surpassing’ are synonymous.
Question : 20
Choose the word which is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word given in bold as used in the passage.
SUBVERT
a) create
b) emanate
c) escalate
d) conquer
e) strengthen
Answer »Answer: (e)
The meaning of the word ‘subvert’ as mentioned in the passage is ‘to destroy the authority of a political system, religion etc’. Hence the words ‘subvert’ and ‘strengthen’ are antonymous. Meaning of the given word ‘emanate’ is ‘to come or flow from something/ somebody or from a place’.
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