Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the word 'Infelicity'.
- (a)Disloyalty towards one's nation
- (b)An inappropriate remark
- (c)To kill or destroy
- (d)To touch or push gently
Correct — B, 'an inappropriate remark'. 'Infelicity' means an inapt, awkward or unfortunate expression — a phrase or remark that is poorly chosen for the occasion (as in 'infelicities of style'). 'An inappropriate remark' captures this sense exactly.
- (a)Disloyalty towards one's nation — That describes 'sedition' or 'treason'; it is unrelated to an ill-chosen expression.
- (c)To kill or destroy — That points to verbs such as 'annihilate' or 'slay'; 'infelicity' is a noun and carries no sense of killing.
- (d)To touch or push gently — That is 'to nudge'; it has nothing to do with an unfortunate or inapt remark.
'Infelicity' means an inapt or unfortunate remark or expression (and, more broadly, a state of unhappiness); the sense tested here is the ill-chosen expression.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word for 'an inapt or ill-chosen expression'.
- (a)infelicity
- (b)eloquence
- (c)fluency
- (d)clarity
Answer(a) infelicity — an awkward or unfortunate turn of phrase.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'The essay was marred by several infelicities.' Here 'infelicities' most nearly means —
- (a)awkward expressions
- (b)spelling rules
- (c)long paragraphs
- (d)factual dates
Answer(a) awkward expressions — inapt turns of phrase.