13 votes 13 votes Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia. Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase in the above sentence. Put up with. Put in with. Put down to. Put up against. Verbal Aptitude gatecse-2016-set2 verbal-aptitude meaning normal + – Akash Kanase asked Feb 12, 2016 edited Mar 7, 2016 by makhdoom ghaya Akash Kanase 4.3k views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 17 votes 17 votes Answer is (A) The closest meaning to cope with is put up with which means to tolerate. Cope with does not mean to place someone into competition with someone else. UK answered Feb 14, 2016 edited Sep 1, 2018 by Krithiga2101 UK comment Share Follow See all 2 Comments See all 2 2 Comments reply Ashish Deshmukh commented Feb 15, 2016 reply Follow Share cope = "Deal with reasonably well despite some difficulty; come to terms with" 3 votes 3 votes gattu94 commented Feb 17, 2016 reply Follow Share I totally agree with you. check out my explanation.. google put up with to see the meaning as tolerate/endure. check this link :http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+up+againstfor the meaning of put up against.Now read the question again, it says about the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia rather than the Australian team it self. So, clearly the Indian team has to endure the conditions in Australia rather than compete with the conditions in Australia 2 votes 2 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
14 votes 14 votes option d put up with: tolerate put in with: to partner with put down to: attribute put up against: to place someone into competition with someone else Mohit Kumar Gupta answered Feb 13, 2016 Mohit Kumar Gupta comment Share Follow See all 2 Comments See all 2 2 Comments reply mohini commented Feb 18, 2016 reply Follow Share option d is correct......because as per searching in google.....for put up against it shows "cope" as synonyms..... 0 votes 0 votes khushtak commented May 6, 2016 reply Follow Share option d is not appropriate. Because "put up against" can only be used as "put up 'someone' against 'someone' " eg. Aaa puts up Bbb against Ccc for boxing match. 1 votes 1 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes YOU JUST SEE THE LINK AND GET THE IDEA CLEARLY http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/essential-american-english/put-up-with-someone-something rajan answered Oct 1, 2016 rajan comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.