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XAT 2017 — VARC Question 11

Word-Pair LogicEasy
Passage / Data

Carefully read the statements below:

  1. Chatterjee loves books; therefore, he reads them all the time.
  2. Chatterjee loves books. Therefore, he reads them all the time.
  3. Chatterjee loves books and, therefore, reads them all the time.

Grotesque is related to Macabre in a similar way as _________

Answer & solution

  • A

    Classics is related to Ruins

  • B

    History is related to Palaeontology

  • C

    Marriage is related to Funeral

  • Sorcery is related to Necromancy

  • E

    Science is related to Thanatology

Solution

Grotesque and macabre both mean/signify unpleasant, out of the normal and hideous. But Macabre while being unpleasant specifically focuses on death or is related to death. Among the options given below, all the right hand side words signify or are related to death/dead. But among options, the words on the left hand side, only sorcery is unpleasant and therefore similar to grotesque.
Hence the correct answer is option 4.

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