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GATE 2024 AG – Question 1

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Grammar and Vocabulary · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Increasing intensity dry → arid → parched is analogous to diet → fast → ______.

  1. Starve
  2. Reject
  3. Feast
  4. Deny

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Correct answer: (A) Starve

Explanation

Dry, arid and parched express increasing lack of moisture. Diet, fast and starve similarly express increasing food restriction or deprivation. Reject and deny do not continue the food-intensity progression, and feast reverses it. Thus **starve, A**.

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