Describing a discovery — Aptitude Question
Describing a discovery: Fill in the blank: The discovery was ______: it overturned assumptions that had stood for a… Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Fill in the Blanks & Para Jumbles
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Medium
- Time target: 50 seconds
Question
Fill in the blank:
The discovery was ______: it overturned assumptions that had stood for a century.
Options
- trivial
- momentous
- expected
- routine
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. momentous
Worked solution
- The clause after the colon defines the blank.
- Overturning long-standing assumptions makes the discovery momentous.
- Trivial, expected and routine all contradict that.
Answer: momentous.
The idea
A colon usually explains what precedes it. Read past the punctuation before choosing the word.
Shortcut. Trivial, expected and routine all mean roughly 'unremarkable', and three near-synonyms cannot all be right — the odd one, 'momentous', matches overturning a century of assumptions.
Common trap. "expected" — reading 'assumptions that had stood for a century' as if the discovery confirmed them; 'overturned' means it defied expectation.
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