SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 9 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 15 of 100

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Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word. I would love to organise the farewell party at my house.

(a)Arrange
(b)Derange
(c)Disorder
(d)Confuse

Answer

Why

Correct — A. In this sentence 'organise' means to plan and set up an event, and 'arrange' carries exactly that sense: you arrange a party, a meeting, a wedding.

Put it back into the sentence — 'I would love to arrange the farewell party at my house' — and nothing shifts.

The other three all name confusion or disorder, which is the reverse of what organising a party means.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Derange — 'Derange' means to throw into confusion, or to disturb someone's mind. It resembles 'arrange' only in shape — the 'de-' prefix reverses the sense.
(c)
Disorder — 'Disorder' as a verb means to disturb the arrangement of something — the opposite of organising, so it cannot be its synonym in either sense of the word.
(d)
Confuse — 'Confuse' means to bewilder someone, or to mix up two similar things. You confuse a person or a pair of look-alikes, not an event you are offering to host.

Concept

A contextual synonym item gives the word inside a sentence, and the sentence fixes which sense is on test.

'Organise' has two everyday senses — to arrange an event, and to put things into order — and both point to 'arrange' here.

The decoys work by surface similarity and reversal: 'derange' looks like 'arrange' with a prefix, while 'disorder' and 'confuse' name the opposite of organising.

Substitute each option and reject anything that changes what the speaker is offering to do.

The instruction asks for a synonym, yet three of the four options mean the reverse.

That lopsided option shape is normal in SSC's underlined-word items — read the instruction line before you read the options.

Key facts

'Organise' used of an event means to plan and arrange it.
'Derange' means to disturb or unsettle, especially the mind, and is not a form of 'arrange'.
'Disorder' used as a verb means to disturb the order of something.

Study next

Prefixes that reverse meaning: de-, dis-, mis-, un-Event verbs: convene, host, coordinate, stageContextual synonym items where the target word carries two possible senses

Common traps

Picking 'derange' on the strength of the shared '-range'.
Reading past the sentence and choosing a sense of 'organise' that the sentence does not use.

SSC underlines a common verb inside a short sentence and builds the decoys from the same root or from the opposite sense.

The bare-word version of the same skill appears twice in this shift — 'Abundant' at English Q.14 and 'Berserk' at English Q.18 (9 Sep 2024, 12:30).

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