In the following sentence, four words are underlined out of which one word is misspelt. Identify the INCORRECTLY spelt word. After the recapture (A) of Tololing and the adjacent features, evacting (B) the enemy from this well-fortified (C) position became a priority.(D)

Correct — A. Segment B carries the misspelling.

No dictionary holds evacting. The word wanted is evicting — forcing an occupant out of a position — built as evict + ing, with an i in the stem, not an a.

Recapture, well-fortified and priority are all spelt correctly, so segment B is the only faulty one, and the option naming it is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  D — Segment D is priority, spelt correctly as prior + ity — one r, one t. Nothing in that segment is wrong, so this option marks a clean word.
• (c)
  C — Segment C is well-fortified, correct hyphen included: a compound adjective sitting before its noun takes a hyphen, and fortified doubles no letter.
• (d)
  A — Segment A is recapture, correct as it stands — the prefix re- attaches straight to capture with no doubled letter and no hyphen.

SSC's spelling items rarely reach for rare words. They alter one letter in a familiar one and rely on you reading for sense instead of for shape.

Evacting for evicting is that pattern exactly. The vowel in the stressed syllable is swapped, and the eye slides over it because the sentence around it reads naturally.

The defence is mechanical. Lift each underlined word out of the sentence and rebuild it from its parts — prefix, stem, suffix. Recapture is re + capture, priority is prior + ity, evicting is evict + ing, and evacting cannot be built from any stem at all.

Key facts

• The verb is evict, so its -ing form is evicting — evacting is not an English word.
• Recapture, well-fortified and priority are all spelt correctly in this sentence.
• The options name the segment letters, so the keyed option (a) stands for segment B.

Common traps

• Answering with the underlined letter you spotted instead of the option that contains it
• Reading for meaning and letting a single swapped vowel pass unnoticed
• Assuming the hyphen in well-fortified is the planted error

No directly related past PYQ was found.