Rearrangement of Jumbled Parts Questions and Answers

Answer: E

Correct answer: with, recovery

The first blank needs a preposition introducing accompanying circumstances - with … being the buzzwords. The second must be what surgery aims at along with safer outcomes: a faster recovery. Restoration and recreation are not what a patient makes after an operation.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Foretell, spanning

Discoveries and innovations point to something ahead, so they foretell a period of growth; breaks and declares are singular and cannot agree with the plural subject. Spanning various geographies then says the growth reaches across regions, where compressing and condensing would say the opposite.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Lack, thought

The paradox is that a growth story has paid urban planning too little attention, so the first blank means a shortage: a staggering lack. The second must be a second thing withheld, and it must take to - thought to urban planning. Heed would repeat attention, and hope and study do not fit the pairing.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Allegation, persuade

What is made and then denied is an allegation - an unproved charge. The second blank takes a person and a to-infinitive, which is the pattern of persuade someone to do something; urge would fit the grammar but not the first blank's pairing, and woo and lead are too weak for the accusation described.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Explore, norms

One explores relationships - tries them out and finds where they lead - whereas examine and analyse treat them as objects of study. What a rigid society sets, and what unconventional relationships challenge, are its norms; a society has no scale or measure to be challenged.

Answer: C

Correct answer: loose

Entrenched means firmly established and hard to change, so its opposite is loose - not firmly held. Fixed, fortified and firm are synonyms, and dissatisfied is unrelated.

Answer: B

Correct answer: unlikely

Imminent means about to happen, so the opposite is unlikely - not expected to happen at all. Forthcoming, impending and inevitable all point the same way as imminent.

Answer: A

Correct answer: capability

Competence is the ability to do something well, so the word most similar in meaning is capability. The other four - ignorance, inability, impotence, inadequacy - are all antonyms, which is the trap: the question asks for the closest word, not the opposite.

Answer: E

Correct answer: present

Contemporary means belonging to the present time. Preceding, old and past all look backwards and future forwards; only present matches.

Answer: D

Correct answer: lengthen

Extend means to make longer or stretch further, which is exactly lengthen. Close, abridge, constrict and curtail all mean shortening or narrowing, so all four are opposites.