SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 1 of 98

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 10 September 2026.

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Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the given sentence. Economics began with growth and removel of poverty as its grand theme.

(a)Poverty
(b)Removel
(c)Grand
(d)Economics

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The sentence needs the noun built from the verb remove, and that noun is spelt removal.

Rule: a verb ending in a silent -e drops the -e and takes -al to become a noun — approve to approval, arrive to arrival, dispose to disposal, refuse to refusal.

English has no matching -el noun suffix, so the paper's removel is the misspelt word.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Poverty — Poverty is spelt correctly, p-o-v-e-r-t-y. It can look odd beside poor, but there is no second o and no doubled letter to add.
(c)
Grand — Grand is spelt correctly and has no rival spelling in English. It carries a single vowel letter and no suffix that a rule could distort.
(d)
Economics — Economics is spelt correctly. Candidates sometimes expect a k for the hard c sound, but the word keeps the c of economy all the way through.

Concept

Some misspelt-word items hide a stray or doubled letter; this one turns on a suffix. The test is the noun-forming suffix -al attached to a verb that ends in silent -e.

Remove keeps its stem and loses the final e: remov + al gives removal. The same shape produces approval, arrival, refusal, proposal and disposal.

An -el ending does exist in English, in words like model, tunnel and parcel — but none of those is a verb turned into a noun. That is why removel looks plausible and is still wrong.

Exactly one word in the sentence is wrong, so look for the word a rule is acting on. Poverty, grand and economics are ordinary spellings with nothing being built onto them, while removel is the one word shaped by a rule.

Key facts

The noun formed from the verb remove is removal, spelt with -al.
A verb ending in silent -e drops the e and takes -al: approve to approval, arrive to arrival, refuse to refusal.
Poverty, grand and economics are all spelt correctly in the sentence as printed.

Study next

The -al noun suffix on verbs ending in silent -e, such as dispose, propose and refuseWords where -el and -le are the genuine endings, such as model, parcel and articleSSC's second spelling format, where you pick the correctly spelt option instead of the wrong one

Common traps

Reading the sentence for its meaning and forgetting that spelling alone is being tested.
Marking economics because it looks technical, when the tested word is the one carrying a suffix.
Assuming the longest word in the sentence is the likeliest to be wrong.

SSC runs spelling both ways — mark the wrong spelling, or pick the right one for a blank. The pick-the-right-one format appears in this shift at English Q.7, on colloquial.

The misspelt-word format is also set on 9 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.12 (relevent) and 9 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.10 (mischievious).

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