Govt. Exams
Entrance Exams
'Prolific' means producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring; highly fertile. 'Scarce' is the opposite, meaning insufficient or rare.
'Ephemeral' means lasting for a very short time. 'Transient' shares this meaning, indicating something temporary or short-lived.
Direct questions within quotation marks should start with a capital letter and end with a question mark inside the quotation marks.
Pragmatic means practical and realistic. Idealistic (based on ideals rather than reality) is its opposite.
Ameliorate means to make something better or improve. Options A, C, and D all suggest negative changes.
'Immense' (great) creates a contrast with 'modest life' through the word 'despite', making the sentence logically coherent.
The structure 'has been + verb-ing' indicates Present Perfect Continuous tense, showing an action that started in the past and continues to the present.
The passage explicitly mentions 'without immediate intervention, crop yields will decline', implying that action is necessary.
Option A correctly uses commas and quotation marks with proper capitalization inside quotes.
'Meticulous' means very careful and precise, so 'careless' is its opposite.
