SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 19 of 99

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Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Beseech

(a)Impart
(b)Implore
(c)Bequeath
(d)Pamper

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Beseech means to beg somebody urgently and humbly for something. Implore is its closest match in the list: same pleading force, same sentence frame.

Put both in one slot and they behave identically - 'I beseech you to reconsider' and 'I implore you to reconsider'.

The three rejected words are about giving, leaving and indulging. None of them is a request, which is what beseech is.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Impart — Impart means to pass on knowledge, a skill or a quality, as in impart wisdom. It hands something over, where beseech asks for something.
(c)
Bequeath — Bequeath means to leave property by will to someone after your death. It is a legal transfer, not a plea.
(d)
Pamper — Pamper means to indulge someone with comfort and attention. It describes how you treat a person, not what you ask of them.

Concept

Beseech is be- plus the old form of seek, so the word is literally seeking hard - asking from a position of need.

Its family is entreat, implore, supplicate and plead. Every one of them is a request made by someone who is not in a position to demand.

This synonym set is built to blur: several options sit in a neighbouring area of meaning - here, transferring things to people - and only one shares the actual act. The reliable test is the frame, not the feel. 'I impart you to reconsider' collapses at once.

Beseech has two accepted past forms, besought and beseeched, and both are standard.

Key facts

Beseech means to beg or entreat someone urgently.
Implore takes the same pattern as beseech: implore someone to do something.
Impart means to pass on knowledge, a skill or a quality.
Bequeath means to leave personal property to someone by will.

Study next

Verbs of pleading: entreat, supplicate, importune, beseechVerbs of transfer: impart, bestow, bequeath, endowIrregular verbs with two accepted past forms, such as besought and beseeched

Common traps

Choosing bequeath because it is the other formal, old-sounding word on the list.
Splitting beseech into be and speech and guessing at something to do with talking.
Judging by meaning alone and never testing the word in a sentence frame.

The same section sets Magnificent at English Q.4, answered by Splendid, and Miraculous at English Q.15, answered by Incredible - one uncommon headword against four ordinary single words.

Beseech itself reappears as a wrong option in a sound-alike set at 17 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.4, where the answer is screech.

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