EditorialWords Daily Vocabulary Test – 04 July 2026
✓ Editorials Covered: 3
✓ Total Questions: 80
✓ Difficulty: Moderate–Advanced
✓ Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Covers:
✓ Vocabulary MCQs
✓ Synonyms
✓ Antonyms
✓ Idioms & Phrases
✓ One Word Substitution
✓ Fill in the Blanks
✓ Word Formation
✓ Spotting the Error
✓ Spelling Test
✓ Cloze Test
Start Test ↓
SECTION A/10: VOCABULARY MASTERY
1. In the context of judicial proceedings, what does the term “AI-fabricated” refer to?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Artificially created or invented using artificial intelligence
💡 Explanation: AI-fabricated refers to something artificially created, invented, or manufactured using artificial intelligence; synthetic or fake.
2. Which of the following best defines the word “conundrum”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A problem, difficulty, mystery, or dilemma
💡 Explanation: A conundrum is a problem, difficulty, mystery, dilemma, puzzle, quandary, or predicament.
3. “The rise is expected to be a staggering 74%.” Here, “staggering” means:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Extremely large, shocking, or surprising
💡 Explanation: Staggering means extremely large, shocking, or surprising; enormous, astounding, overwhelming.
4. Identify the correct usage of the word “insidious”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. The disease has an insidious onset, spreading unnoticed before symptoms appear.
💡 Explanation: Insidious means tricky, subtle, deceptive, or indirect with very harmful effects.
5. What does the term “imponderable” signify in geopolitical contexts?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A factor that is difficult or impossible to estimate or assess
💡 Explanation: Imponderable refers to an unknown, variable, or unpredictable factor that is impossible to estimate.
6. If an agreement is described as “inchoate”, it is:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Undeveloped, unformed, or rudimentary
💡 Explanation: Inchoate means undeveloped, unformed, immature, rudimentary, beginning, embryonic, or nascent.
7. To be in the “vanguard” means to be:
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✓ Correct Answer: D. In the leading position in a movement or action
💡 Explanation: Vanguard refers to the leading position in a movement, action, or development; forefront or spearhead.
8. When experts fear an “existential” question regarding AI, they are concerned with:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Existence, especially human existence or survival
💡 Explanation: Existential means concerned with existence, especially with human existence or the survival of something.
9. Which of the following sentences correctly uses “substantive”?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. They embarked upon substantive negotiations to resolve the war.
💡 Explanation: Substantive means significant, meaningful, substantial, important, real, solid, or profound.
10. “The detritus of history” refers to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Debris, waste, remains, wreckage, or ruins
💡 Explanation: Detritus means debris, waste, remains, wreckage, ruins, rubble, or scrap.
11. To “excoriate” someone is to:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Criticize severely or condemn
💡 Explanation: Excoriate means to criticize severely, condemn, denounce, censure, attack, lambaste, or chastise.
12. A “rubric” is best described as:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. A category, rule, or framework under which something is organised
💡 Explanation: Rubric refers to a framework, category, heading, or guideline under which something is organised.
13. Having a “stranglehold” over a situation means:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Complete or overwhelming control
💡 Explanation: Stranglehold means complete or overwhelming control over a person or situation; grip, dominance, monopoly.
14. What is the meaning of “disparate”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Contrasting, different, unalike, or diverse
💡 Explanation: Disparate means contrasting, different, unalike, diverse, varying, distinct, heterogeneous.
15. The phrase “in ample measure” indicates:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Abundantly, plentifully, or substantially
💡 Explanation: In ample measure means abundantly, plentifully, copiously, substantially, largely, profusely, extensively.
SECTION B/10: SYNONYMS
16. Choose the closest synonym for: DECIMATE
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Annihilate
💡 Explanation: Decimate means to destroy, devastate, wipe out, ruin, annihilate, shatter, obliterate.
17. Choose the closest synonym for: DEVIOUS
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Underhanded
💡 Explanation: Devious means underhanded, deceitful, scheming, cunning, calculating, sly, manipulative.
18. Choose the closest synonym for: WANE
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Dwindle
💡 Explanation: Wane means decrease, decline, diminish, dwindle, fade, shrink, ebb.
19. Choose the closest synonym for: WRANGLING
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Bickering
💡 Explanation: Wrangling means argument, dispute, disagreement, quarrel, bickering, squabble, altercation.
20. Choose the closest synonym for: CONTOUR
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Outline
💡 Explanation: Contour means to shape, influence, or define the form of something; shape, outline, define, mould.
21. Choose the closest synonym for: IMPLICATION
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Ramification
💡 Explanation: Implication means consequence, result, ramification, repercussion, fallout, outcome.
22. Choose the closest synonym for: DISRUPTION
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Upheaval
💡 Explanation: Disruption means disturbance, interruption, disorder, upheaval.
23. Choose the closest synonym for: ECLIPSE
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Overshadow
💡 Explanation: Eclipse means overshadow, outshine, surpass, transcend, exceed, dwarf, outclass.
24. Choose the closest synonym for: TELLING (adjective)
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Significant
💡 Explanation: Telling means significant, revealing, striking, meaningful, impactful, expressive, weighty.
25. Choose the closest synonym for: RETRIEVE
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Regain
💡 Explanation: Retrieve means to recover or bring something back from a difficult situation; recover, regain, restore, reclaim.
SECTION C/10: ANTONYMS
26. Choose the opposite meaning for: CATASTROPHIC
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Harmless
💡 Explanation: Catastrophic means destructive or disastrous, making harmless its clear opposite.
27. Choose the opposite meaning for: DELIBERATE
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Accidental
💡 Explanation: Deliberate means intentional, calculated, conscious, or purposeful. Accidental is its opposite.
28. Choose the opposite meaning for: INDEPENDENT
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Dependent
💡 Explanation: Independent means free from external control. Dependent represents relying on external influence.
29. Choose the opposite meaning for: STRUCTURAL
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Superficial
💡 Explanation: Structural means fundamental or systemic. Superficial (on the surface only) is its antonym.
30. Choose the opposite meaning for: FRAGILE
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Strong
💡 Explanation: Fragile means vulnerable, shaky, unstable, delicate. Strong is the direct opposite.
31. Choose the opposite meaning for: UNDISPUTED
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Questionable
💡 Explanation: Undisputed means unquestioned or undeniable, meaning questionable is its antonym.
32. Choose the opposite meaning for: UNVERIFIED
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Authenticated
💡 Explanation: Unverified means not checked or proved to be true. Authenticated (verified) is the opposite.
33. Choose the opposite meaning for: SCARCE
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Abundant
💡 Explanation: Scarce means in short supply or rare. Abundant means plentiful.
34. Choose the opposite meaning for: VAGUE
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Clear
💡 Explanation: Vague means unclear, uncertain, indefinite, indistinct. Clear is the precise opposite.
35. Choose the opposite meaning for: BOLD
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Timid
💡 Explanation: Bold means courageous, brave, daring. Timid means lacking courage.
SECTION D/10: IDIOMS & PHRASES
36. What does the phrase “what’s good for the goose is good for the geese” mean?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Equal treatment; what is beneficial for one group should apply to another
💡 Explanation: It means what is beneficial or suitable for one person/group should also apply to another similar person/group.
37. To “concede ground” implies:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. To surrender advantage, yield, or relinquish territory/power
💡 Explanation: Concede ground means surrender advantage, yield, give up territory or power; relinquish, cede, retreat, compromise.
38. Which of the following defines the phrase “take for granted”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. To assume, presume, or accept without question
💡 Explanation: Take for granted means to assume, presume, suppose, accept without question, undervalue, disregard, underappreciate.
39. The phrase “come to terms with” means to:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Accept, reconcile oneself to, or make peace with
💡 Explanation: Come to terms with means to accept, reconcile oneself to, get used to, acknowledge, adjust to.
40. If something is said to “cost someone dearly”, it means:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. It caused someone to suffer heavily or pay a high price
💡 Explanation: Cost someone dearly means to cause someone to suffer heavily, hit hard, penalize heavily, take a heavy toll on.
SECTION E/10: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
41. A risk, condition, or situation that is recognized to exist but whose full extent or consequences are not completely understood.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Known unknown
💡 Explanation: Known unknown refers to recognized uncertainty, identified risk, or predictable unpredictability.
42. A sudden event that causes something to fail completely; fatal stroke, devastating strike.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Mortal blow
💡 Explanation: Mortal blow means a sudden event that causes something to fail completely.
43. A person who sacrifices or suffers greatly for a cause while remaining alive; heroic survivor, revered figure.
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✓ Correct Answer: D. Living martyr
💡 Explanation: A living martyr is a living symbol of sacrifice, devoted sufferer, heroic survivor.
44. An extremely small amount; bit, spec, trace, scrap.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Iota
💡 Explanation: Iota refers to an extremely small amount; bit, spec, trace, scrap.
45. A metaphor for a person or entity that is injured or defeated but remains extremely dangerous and unpredictable.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Wounded tiger
💡 Explanation: A wounded tiger is a cornered beast, dangerous adversary, desperate foe, threatened enemy.
SECTION F/10: FILL IN THE BLANKS
46. But for its serious ________, a judge relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI) hallucinations to arrive at a judicial determination would have been comical.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. implications
💡 Explanation: ‘Implications’ fits perfectly in this editorial context, denoting the serious consequences or ramifications of the action.
47. Given the serious miscarriage of justice that such hallucinations can ________ to, if used in the judicial processes…
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✓ Correct Answer: C. lead
💡 Explanation: ‘Lead to’ is the phrasal verb used here meaning to cause or produce a particular result.
48. In India, cancer is not a ________ disease at the national level, keeping with the Health Ministry’s position.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. notifiable
💡 Explanation: A ‘notifiable disease’ is one required by law to be reported to public health authorities.
49. Population-based cancer ________ and hospital-based cancer registries are currently the only national tool at the disposal of the Centre.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. registries
💡 Explanation: ‘Registries’ refer to databases or repositories holding official records.
50. Ever since 1945, the dominance of the United States and western Europe in world ________ has been taken for granted.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. affairs
💡 Explanation: ‘World affairs’ refers to global issues, international relations, and geopolitics.
51. As China’s ________ over world affairs has grown, driven by its technological and innovative capabilities…
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✓ Correct Answer: C. influence
💡 Explanation: ‘Influence’ denotes power, sway, authority, leverage, control, or dominance.
52. Even ________ to embarking upon substantive negotiations in Switzerland on all contentious issues, the U.S. and Iran entered into an “initial deal”.
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✓ Correct Answer: B. prior
💡 Explanation: ‘Prior to’ means before, ahead of, preceding, or in advance of.
53. The June 17 agreement was widely criticised as little more than a latter-day ________ of the status quo that had existed prior to the U.S.-Israel strikes.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. endorsement
💡 Explanation: ‘Endorsement’ means support, backing, approval, agreement, or acceptance.
54. It also entails an important ________ in relations between the U.S. and Israel.
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✓ Correct Answer: C. rupture
💡 Explanation: ‘Rupture’ means a break, rift, division, split, schism, separation.
55. Such ‘adventurism’ could lead to more ________ conflicts in a vital region, which incorporates a critical artery of global energy supplies.
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✓ Correct Answer: A. disparate
💡 Explanation: ‘Disparate’ means contrasting, different, unalike, diverse, varying, or distinct.
SECTION G/10: WORD FORMATION
56. What is the noun form of the adjective “catastrophic”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Catastrophe
💡 Explanation: The noun form of ‘catastrophic’ is ‘catastrophe’ (a disastrous event).
57. What is the verb form of the noun “endurance”?
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Endure
💡 Explanation: ‘Endure’ is the verb meaning to suffer patiently or remain in existence.
58. What is the noun form of the adjective “substantive”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Substance
💡 Explanation: The noun form is ‘substance’, indicating essential nature or physical matter.
59. What is the adjective form of the adverb “consistently”?
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Consistent
💡 Explanation: ‘Consistent’ is the adjective form describing something acting the same way over time.
60. What is the adjective form of the noun “accountability”?
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Accountable
💡 Explanation: ‘Accountable’ is the adjective used to describe someone who is responsible or liable.
SECTION H/10: SPOTTING THE ERROR
61. Spot the error: The court made this observation (A) / while setting aside (B) / the orders of the (C) / tribunal yesterday (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. The court made this observation
💡 Explanation: The editorial uses the plural “observations”. If using “this”, it should be “this observation”, but contextually “these observations” is correct.
62. Spot the error: It is a staggering (A) / rise of over 74%, given this (B) / projections, thanks to (C) / an increasing life span (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. rise of over 74%, given this
💡 Explanation: “Projections” is plural, so it should be “these projections” instead of “this projections”.
63. Spot the error: The adversary lacks (A) / the staying powers (B) / to endure such (C) / a rigorous conflict (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. the staying powers
💡 Explanation: The correct phrase from the vocabulary list is “staying power” (singular, uncountable).
64. Spot the error: The sudden (A) / surge in cases (B) / constitute a serious (C) / threat to public health (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: C. constitute a serious
💡 Explanation: Subject-verb agreement error: “surge” (singular) should take the singular verb “constitutes”.
65. Spot the error: They decided to embark in (A) / a fresh bout (B) / of adventurism (C) / across West Asia (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: A. They decided to embark in
💡 Explanation: The correct phrasal verb is “embark upon” (or embark on), not “embark in”.
66. Spot the error: The committee will formulate (A) / a norms and define (B) / disciplinary actions (C) / for lawyers (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. a norms and define
💡 Explanation: The article “a” cannot be used with the plural noun “norms”. It should be “a norm” or simply “norms”.
67. Spot the error: The decision was widely (A) / regarded as having impose (B) / humiliating terms (C) / on the defeated nation (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. regarded as having impose
💡 Explanation: After “having”, the past participle “imposed” must be used.
68. Spot the error: Cancer is not a notifiable (A) / disease at the national level, keep with (B) / the Health Ministry’s (C) / established position (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. disease at the national level, keep with
💡 Explanation: It should be “keeping with”, functioning as a participle phrase showing ongoing adherence.
69. Spot the error: The mortal blow (A) / to the image of the country (B) / was cost them dearly (C) / in the region (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: C. was cost them dearly
💡 Explanation: “was cost” is grammatically incorrect. It should be “has cost them dearly” or “cost them dearly”.
70. Spot the error: Such a dangerous outcome (A) / is derive from (B) / a combination (C) / of human stupidity (D).
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✓ Correct Answer: B. is derive from
💡 Explanation: Passive voice requires the past participle: “is derived from”.
SECTION I/10: SPELLING TEST
71. Choose the correctly spelled word:
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✓ Correct Answer: C. catastrophic
💡 Explanation: The correct spelling is ‘catastrophic’ (meaning destructive or ruinous).
72. Choose the correctly spelled word:
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✓ Correct Answer: D. unawares
💡 Explanation: The correct spelling is ‘unawares’, meaning by surprise or unexpectedly.
73. Choose the correctly spelled word:
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✓ Correct Answer: A. insolvency
💡 Explanation: The correct spelling is ‘insolvency’, the state of being unable to pay debts.
74. Choose the correctly spelled word:
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✓ Correct Answer: B. vulnerability
💡 Explanation: The correct spelling is ‘vulnerability’ (weakness, susceptibility).
75. Choose the correctly spelled word:
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✓ Correct Answer: D. excoriate
💡 Explanation: The correct spelling is ‘excoriate’, meaning to criticize severely.
SECTION J/10: CLOZE TEST
Directions (Q. 76 – Q. 80): Read the following passage extracted from the editorials and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words from the options provided.
“The Court has made clear that AI may serve as an (76) _____ tool to improve efficiency, but it can never replace independent human (77) _____, judicial (78) _____ or professional accountability. In AI, humanity is encountering what many experts fear might well be an (79) _____ question. AI disruption is a known unknown — everyone knows that it is happening but nobody (80) _____ knows its extent or implications.”
76. Choose the correct word for blank (76):
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✓ Correct Answer: B. assistive
💡 Explanation: ‘Assistive’ means helpful, supportive, aiding, perfectly fitting the context of AI as a tool.
77. Choose the correct word for blank (77):
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✓ Correct Answer: C. reasoning
💡 Explanation: ‘Human reasoning’ implies critical thinking and logic that AI cannot replace.
78. Choose the correct word for blank (78):
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✓ Correct Answer: D. discretion
💡 Explanation: ‘Judicial discretion’ denotes the choice or judgment made by a judge in a court.
79. Choose the correct word for blank (79):
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✓ Correct Answer: A. existential
💡 Explanation: ‘Existential’ question refers to concerns over human existence and survival relating to AI threats.
80. Choose the correct word for blank (80):
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✓ Correct Answer: C. quite
💡 Explanation: ‘Quite’ means completely, fully, or entirely, fitting the phrasing “nobody quite knows”.
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