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4100 Total Questions67 Official PapersYears: 2017–2025Search in English Comprehension
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Question 161

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Which of the given options arranges the following sentences in the most logical sequence to form a meaningful paragraph?

  1. James Watson and Francis Crick, building on Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction images, proposed the model in 1953.
  2. Understanding DNA's structure has led to developments in medicine, forensic science, and evolutionary research.
  3. Their findings demonstrated how DNA stores genetic information through base pairing.
  4. This discovery revolutionized biology, paving the way for advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology.
  5. The discovery of DNA's double-helix structure was a major breakthrough in genetics.
  1. AOption (a)

    5-1-3-4-2

  2. BOption (b)

    2-4-3-1-5

  3. COption (c)

    3-1-4-2-5

  4. DOption (d)

    1-2-4-3-5

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Answer: (a)A.

5-1-3-4-2

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Question 162

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: DISPARAGING

  1. AOption (a)

    Complimentary

  2. BOption (b)

    Belittling

  3. COption (c)

    Flattering

  4. DOption (d)

    Kind

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Answer: (a)A.

Complimentary

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Question 163

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: ELUCIDATE

  1. AOption (a)

    Confuse

  2. BOption (b)

    Darken

  3. COption (c)

    Complicate

  4. DOption (d)

    Clarify

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Answer: (a)A.

Confuse

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Question 164

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Tedious

  1. AOption (a)

    Dull

  2. BOption (b)

    Boring

  3. COption (c)

    Exciting

  4. DOption (d)

    Tiresome

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Answer: (a)A.

Dull

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Question 165

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Covert

  1. AOption (a)

    Secret

  2. BOption (b)

    Hidden

  3. COption (c)

    Clandestine

  4. DOption (d)

    Overt

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Answer: (a)A.

Secret

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Question 166

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: CAPITULATE

  1. AOption (a)

    Defend

  2. BOption (b)

    Attack

  3. COption (c)

    Resist 

  4. DOption (d)

    Surrender

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Answer: (a)A.

Defend

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Question 167

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: EXCULPATE

  1. AOption (a)

    Condemn

  2. BOption (b)

    Blame

  3. COption (c)

    Exonerate

  4. DOption (d)

    Punish

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Answer: (a)A.

Condemn

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Question 168

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Disparate

  1. AOption (a)

    Alike

  2. BOption (b)

    Different 

  3. COption (c)

    Contrasting

  4. DOption (d)

    Dissimilar

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Answer: (a)A.

Alike

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Question 169

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Which of these is the correct spelling of a radical equality concept from Rawls?

  1. AOption (a)

    Egaliterianism

  2. BOption (b)

    Egalitarianism

  3. COption (c)

    Egalatarianism

  4. DOption (d)

    Egalitairianism

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Answer: (a)A.

Egaliterianism

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Question 170

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Find the word that is spelled correctly and refers to an artistic viewpoint valuing beauty.

  1. AOption (a)

    Aesthetics

  2. BOption (b)

    Aestheticks

  3. COption (c)

    Asthetic

  4. DOption (d)

    Atheistic

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Answer: (a)A.

Aesthetics

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Question 171

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Spot the correct spelling of cross-species organ grafting.

  1. AOption (a)

    Xenotransplantion

  2. BOption (b)

    Xenotransplantation

  3. COption (c)

    Zentransmitation

  4. DOption (d)

    Xenotransplantasion

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Answer: (a)A.

Xenotransplantion

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Question 172

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Choose the correct one-word substitute for: 'One who uses long or obscure words.'

  1. AOption (a)

    Sesquipedalian

  2. BOption (b)

    Garrulous

  3. COption (c)

    Sophist

  4. DOption (d)

    Verbose

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Answer: (a)A.

Sesquipedalian

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Question 173

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:

In the archipelago of epistemic fracture, where coherence is a relic and continuity a performative illusion, cognition unfolds not through linear causality but via stochastic pulses of informational detritus. Within this disjunctive matrix, agency is less a property of autonomous will than a side effect of algorithmic interpellation.

Every action is (1) _______ not as a result of volition but as an emergent behavior-calculated, inferred, and subtly modulated by systems of predictive design. Identity, in this terrain, ceases to be ontological and becomes computational: a fluid sequence of statistical probabilities encoded and re-encoded through bio-digital feedback loops. The notion of authorship is retrofitted, no longer a site of expression but a (2) _______ node in a decentralized economy of semiotic production. Language, once the principal vessel of intentionality, now functions as a carrier signal for behavioral cues-optimized not for meaning but for engagement velocity. In this regime, dissent is not censored but (3) _________ -subtly realigned to serve the centripetal logics of monetized attention. The archive is not a memory but a battleground: past and present re-stitched according to the dictates of data retention, compliance heuristics, and platformed ontology. What remains is not truth but latency: the delay between perception and its (4) ________ by computational governance. Thus, power no longer manifests through prohibition, but through calibration-redefining the limits of thinkability itself. In this techno-psychic schema, liberation is not absent but (5) ________: detectable only in its strategic simulation.

What should come in the place of blank number (1)?

  1. AOption (a)

    instantiated

  2. BOption (b)

    rationalized

  3. COption (c)

    evoked

  4. DOption (d)

    repressed

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Answer: (a)A.

instantiated

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Question 174

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:

In the archipelago of epistemic fracture, where coherence is a relic and continuity a performative illusion, cognition unfolds not through linear causality but via stochastic pulses of informational detritus. Within this disjunctive matrix, agency is less a property of autonomous will than a side effect of algorithmic interpellation.

Every action is (1) _______ not as a result of volition but as an emergent behavior-calculated, inferred, and subtly modulated by systems of predictive design. Identity, in this terrain, ceases to be ontological and becomes computational: a fluid sequence of statistical probabilities encoded and re-encoded through bio-digital feedback loops. The notion of authorship is retrofitted, no longer a site of expression but a (2) _______ node in a decentralized economy of semiotic production. Language, once the principal vessel of intentionality, now functions as a carrier signal for behavioral cues-optimized not for meaning but for engagement velocity. In this regime, dissent is not censored but (3) _________ -subtly realigned to serve the centripetal logics of monetized attention. The archive is not a memory but a battleground: past and present re-stitched according to the dictates of data retention, compliance heuristics, and platformed ontology. What remains is not truth but latency: the delay between perception and its (4) ________ by computational governance. Thus, power no longer manifests through prohibition, but through calibration-redefining the limits of thinkability itself. In this techno-psychic schema, liberation is not absent but (5) ________: detectable only in its strategic simulation.

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

  1. AOption (a)

    transactional

  2. BOption (b)

    reflexive

  3. COption (c)

    proprietary

  4. DOption (d)

    deterministic

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Answer: (a)A.

transactional

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Question 175

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:

In the archipelago of epistemic fracture, where coherence is a relic and continuity a performative illusion, cognition unfolds not through linear causality but via stochastic pulses of informational detritus. Within this disjunctive matrix, agency is less a property of autonomous will than a side effect of algorithmic interpellation.

Every action is (1) _______ not as a result of volition but as an emergent behavior-calculated, inferred, and subtly modulated by systems of predictive design. Identity, in this terrain, ceases to be ontological and becomes computational: a fluid sequence of statistical probabilities encoded and re-encoded through bio-digital feedback loops. The notion of authorship is retrofitted, no longer a site of expression but a (2) _______ node in a decentralized economy of semiotic production. Language, once the principal vessel of intentionality, now functions as a carrier signal for behavioral cues-optimized not for meaning but for engagement velocity. In this regime, dissent is not censored but (3) _________ -subtly realigned to serve the centripetal logics of monetized attention. The archive is not a memory but a battleground: past and present re-stitched according to the dictates of data retention, compliance heuristics, and platformed ontology. What remains is not truth but latency: the delay between perception and its (4) ________ by computational governance. Thus, power no longer manifests through prohibition, but through calibration-redefining the limits of thinkability itself. In this techno-psychic schema, liberation is not absent but (5) ________: detectable only in its strategic simulation.

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

  1. AOption (a)

    co-opted

  2. BOption (b)

    inverted

  3. COption (c)

    obfuscated

  4. DOption (d)

    delegated

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Answer: (a)A.

co-opted

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Question 176

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:

In the archipelago of epistemic fracture, where coherence is a relic and continuity a performative illusion, cognition unfolds not through linear causality but via stochastic pulses of informational detritus. Within this disjunctive matrix, agency is less a property of autonomous will than a side effect of algorithmic interpellation.

Every action is (1) _______ not as a result of volition but as an emergent behavior-calculated, inferred, and subtly modulated by systems of predictive design. Identity, in this terrain, ceases to be ontological and becomes computational: a fluid sequence of statistical probabilities encoded and re-encoded through bio-digital feedback loops. The notion of authorship is retrofitted, no longer a site of expression but a (2) _______ node in a decentralized economy of semiotic production. Language, once the principal vessel of intentionality, now functions as a carrier signal for behavioral cues-optimized not for meaning but for engagement velocity. In this regime, dissent is not censored but (3) _________ -subtly realigned to serve the centripetal logics of monetized attention. The archive is not a memory but a battleground: past and present re-stitched according to the dictates of data retention, compliance heuristics, and platformed ontology. What remains is not truth but latency: the delay between perception and its (4) ________ by computational governance. Thus, power no longer manifests through prohibition, but through calibration-redefining the limits of thinkability itself. In this techno-psychic schema, liberation is not absent but (5) ________: detectable only in its strategic simulation.

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

  1. AOption (a)

    ratification

  2. BOption (b)

    modulation

  3. COption (c)

    gratification

  4. DOption (d)

    reconciliation

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Answer: (a)A.

ratification

Explanation not yet available.
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Question 177

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:

In the archipelago of epistemic fracture, where coherence is a relic and continuity a performative illusion, cognition unfolds not through linear causality but via stochastic pulses of informational detritus. Within this disjunctive matrix, agency is less a property of autonomous will than a side effect of algorithmic interpellation.

Every action is (1) _______ not as a result of volition but as an emergent behavior-calculated, inferred, and subtly modulated by systems of predictive design. Identity, in this terrain, ceases to be ontological and becomes computational: a fluid sequence of statistical probabilities encoded and re-encoded through bio-digital feedback loops. The notion of authorship is retrofitted, no longer a site of expression but a (2) _______ node in a decentralized economy of semiotic production. Language, once the principal vessel of intentionality, now functions as a carrier signal for behavioral cues-optimized not for meaning but for engagement velocity. In this regime, dissent is not censored but (3) _________ -subtly realigned to serve the centripetal logics of monetized attention. The archive is not a memory but a battleground: past and present re-stitched according to the dictates of data retention, compliance heuristics, and platformed ontology. What remains is not truth but latency: the delay between perception and its (4) ________ by computational governance. Thus, power no longer manifests through prohibition, but through calibration-redefining the limits of thinkability itself. In this techno-psychic schema, liberation is not absent but (5) ________: detectable only in its strategic simulation.

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

  1. AOption (a)

    relegated

  2. BOption (b)

    aestheticized

  3. COption (c)

    emulated

  4. DOption (d)

    phantomized

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Answer: (a)A.

relegated

Explanation not yet available.
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Question 178

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Select the correct option:

They treated the interim guidelines as _______, pending formal ratification.

  1. AOption (a)

    provisional

  2. BOption (b)

    provisionally

  3. COption (c)

    provisioned

  4. DOption (d)

    provision

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Answer: (a)A.

provisional

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Question 179

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Select the correct option:

Her lecture ranged _______ quantum mechanics to cognitive linguistics.

  1. AOption (a)

    from

  2. BOption (b)

    between

  3. COption (c)

    among

  4. DOption (d)

    over

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Answer: (a)A.

from

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Question 180

SSC CPO 2025• English Comprehension• English Comprehension

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:

The economist's analysis (1) / was replete with insights (2) / yet lacked the adequate context (3) / for policy formulation. (4) /

  1. AOption (a)

    (1)

  2. BOption (b)

    (2)

  3. COption (c)

    (3)

  4. DOption (d)

    (4)

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Correct answer

Answer: (a)A.

(1)

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