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Question : In the following passage, some blanks are given, and against each blank five alternative words are suggested. Choose the correct alternative to complete the passage in a meaningful way.

We know that ________________ (1) untreated industrial produce or sewage into rivers will pollute them. But industries and local bodies do it anyway. We know our unsustainable thirst for coal or minerals like gold is ________________ (2) entire hills, accelerating biodiversity loss and affecting the people living near these areas as well as working there. Governments and corporations mine them anyway. There’s a word for such sustained, ________________ (3) actions that we commit despite knowing fully well their monumental and widespread ecological and environmental fallouts: ecocide. It is, literally, ‘the ________________ (4) of the environment’.
Ecocide refers to actions that result in the willful, conscious destruction of the natural environment with consequences for human, animal and plant life. That’s the ________________ (5) in which biologist Arthur Galston used the term for the first time in 1970, at the Conference on War and Responsibility in Washington, D.C. He referred to the US’s use of Agent Orange – a herbicide used to ________________ (6) jungles during the Vietnam War – an act of ecocide. Galston was the first to link the willful destruction of nature with genocide, which is ________________ (7) as an international crime.

Q.Choose the correct word to be used in blank 4

Option 1:  Dissimulating

 

Option 2: Killing

 

Option 3: Grovelling

 

Option 4: Obsequiously.


Team Careers360 5th Jan, 2024
Answer (1)
Team Careers360 16th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: Killing

 


Solution : The correct answer is option 2

Explanation:

  • Dissimulating: concealing or masking (one's thoughts, feelings, or personality).
  • Killing: the act of intentionally causing death.
  • Grovelling is defined as acting submissively in order to seek pardon or favour.
  • Obsequiously: characterised by or displaying a fawning attentiveness.

According the meaning of the given option, the most suitable word is "Killing"

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