SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 10 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 1 of 100

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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Evaluate

(a)Assess
(b)Unity
(c)Misquote
(d)Misjudge

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Evaluate means to judge the worth, quality or amount of something, and assess carries exactly that sense.

The trigger is that both verbs describe forming a considered judgement. You evaluate a proposal, you assess a proposal, and the object measured is the same kind of thing.

The other three pull away from neutral judging. One is a noun about togetherness, and two carry the prefix mis-, which adds error to the act. Only option (a) matches.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Unity — Unity is a noun meaning oneness or agreement, while evaluate is a verb of judging. The two do not even share a part of speech, so no shade of meaning connects them.
(c)
Misquote — Misquote means to repeat someone's words wrongly. It concerns reporting, not judging worth, and the prefix mis- makes it an error rather than a neutral act.
(d)
Misjudge — The nearest trap. Misjudge shares the judging sense of evaluate but adds mis-, so it means to judge wrongly — a spoiled evaluation, not a synonym for one.

Concept

SSC's synonym items are decided on the core sense of the word, not on a loose association with it.

Evaluate belongs to a family of judging verbs — assess, appraise, gauge, rate. Each takes an object whose worth or size is being measured: evaluate the damage, assess the risk.

When an option carries a prefix such as mis-, un- or dis-, treat it as a different word rather than a near miss. The prefix changes the direction of the meaning, and that gap is where the closest wrong option is built.

Assess has a second, narrower use in tax and property — to assess a house, meaning to fix its value officially.

That use does not weaken the match here, because the shared idea is still measuring worth.

Key facts

Evaluate means to judge the worth, quality or amount of something.
Assess is its standard synonym and takes the same kind of object: assess the damage, evaluate the damage.
The prefix mis- turns a verb into doing that action wrongly, as in misjudge and misquote.

Study next

Judging verbs and their shades: assess, appraise, gauge, rate, estimatePrefixed traps in synonym items, built with mis-, dis-, under- and over-Synonym items that supply a sentence, where the context fixes which sense is tested

Common traps

Choosing misjudge because it contains the idea of judging.
Reading the options for a general feeling instead of the core sense of the given word.

SSC prints a bare word with four options and no sentence, so the core sense decides everything and no context can rescue a guess.

The same vocabulary skill also appears with a sentence for context at 10 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.9 and English Q.17.

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