The inscrutability surrounding the incident remains unresolved until the end of the movie
- (a)clearness
- (b)comprehensibility
- (c)seriousness
- (d)mystery
Answer
D
Why
Correct — D, mystery. 'Inscrutability' is the quality of being impossible to understand, read, or interpret; something the audience cannot fathom 'until the end of the movie' is precisely a mystery, so 'mystery' is the closest match.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)clearness — An antonym — clearness is the quality of being easy to see or understand, the opposite of something inscrutable.
- (b)comprehensibility — An antonym — it means the quality of being able to be understood, whereas an inscrutable thing resists comprehension.
- (c)seriousness — Unrelated — it refers to how grave or earnest a matter is, not to whether it can be understood.
Concept
A synonym item testing 'inscrutability' — the quality of being impossible to understand or interpret, which matches 'mystery'.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word closest in meaning to 'inscrutable'.
- (a)obvious
- (b)enigmatic
- (c)cheerful
- (d)talkative
Answer(b) enigmatic — inscrutable means mysterious and impossible to interpret.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Comprehensibility' most nearly means —
- (a)the state of being easy to understand
- (b)the state of being hidden
- (c)great size
- (d)deep sadness
Answer(a) the state of being easy to understand — the opposite of inscrutability.