Accord and Accrued
- (a)Accord means collected and accrued means agreement
- (b)Accord means agreement and accrued means arrived
- (c)Accord means accepted and accrued means received
- (d)Accord means agreement and accrued means accumulated
Answer
D
Why
Correct — D, accord means agreement and accrued means accumulated. 'Accord' (noun) means an agreement or harmony; 'accrued' means built up or accumulated over time. Option (d) is exact on both.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Accord means collected and accrued means agreement — 'accord means collected' is wrong, and it also mislabels 'accrued' as 'agreement' — the two are swapped and misdefined.
- (b)Accord means agreement and accrued means arrived — 'accord means agreement' is right, but 'accrued means arrived' is inexact — accrued means accumulated.
- (c)Accord means accepted and accrued means received — 'accord means accepted' and 'accrued means received' are both loose and miss the precise meanings.
Concept
'Accord' means an agreement or harmony, and 'accrued' means accumulated or built up over time.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct pair.
- (a)Accord means dispute; accrued means lost
- (b)Accord means agreement; accrued means accumulated
- (c)Accord means to reject; accrued means to spend
- (d)Accord means noise; accrued means arrived
Answer(b) accord means agreement; accrued means accumulated.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Interest ____ on the deposit every year.' Choose the correct word.
- (a)accord
- (b)accrued
- (c)accosted
- (d)accepted
Answer(b) accrued — the interest built up over time.