NDA (II) 2025 General Ability Test · Question 15 of 147

Correct — B. To 'emancipate' is to set free or liberate someone from slavery or restraint, while to 'empower' is to give someone authority or power — to authorise or enable them. Option B matches both verbs.

• (a)Emancipate means authorize and empower means liberate — Swaps the two — authorising is 'empower' and liberating is 'emancipate'.
• (c)Emancipate means liberal and empower means authorisation — Uses the wrong word class — 'liberal' is an adjective and 'authorisation' a noun, whereas both prompts are verbs; and 'liberal' is not the meaning of emancipate.
• (d)Emancipate means freedom and empower means encounter — 'Freedom' is a noun, not the verb sense of emancipate, and 'encounter' (to meet) is unrelated to empower.

'Emancipate' means to set free or liberate; 'empower' means to give authority to or authorise someone.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  'Emancipate' is closest in meaning to —

  • (a)enslave
  • (b)liberate
  • (c)govern
  • (d)punish

  Answer(b) liberate — to emancipate is to set free from restraint or slavery.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  To 'empower' a committee is to —

  • (a)disband it
  • (b)give it authority
  • (c)criticise it
  • (d)relocate it

  Answer(b) give it authority — empowering means granting power or authority to act.