1 votes 1 votes Choose the appropriate word/phrase, out of the four options given below, to complete the following sentence: Apparent lifelessness ____________________ dormant life. harbours leads to supports affects Verbal Aptitude gate2015-me-3 verbal-aptitude most-appropriate-word + – Akash Kanase asked Feb 15, 2016 • retagged Jun 23, 2017 by Arjun Akash Kanase 3.3k views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 3 votes 3 votes It should be A. Apparent lifelessness harbours dormant life. What seems to be lifeless because of lack of movements might be alive, probably simply sleeping. Vishal Goel answered Oct 31, 2017 • selected Jan 29, 2018 by Rupendra Choudhary Vishal Goel comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
2 votes 2 votes Ans : [B] Apparent lifelessness leads to dormant life. Desert_Warrior answered May 2, 2016 Desert_Warrior comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply Rupendra Choudhary commented Jan 29, 2018 reply Follow Share Hello Desert_Warrior B is a wrong answer.Even B and D are options which can be eliminated in first look. I don't need to add anything as it's explained in a well defined manner here https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-most-appropriate-word 1 votes 1 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes "Habours" is the only one of the four choices that makes sense. The reference here is to the phenomenon of hibernation. When animals hibernate, they appear to be lifeless ("apparent lifelessness"), but in fact they are in a state of dormancy ('dormant life"). The word "harbours" here is roughly equivalent to "contains," and it further suggests a sort ofprotective containment (on analogy to a literal harbour, which holds ships in a protected and safe environment). None of the other three options comes even close to providing this sort of meaning. geek_o_gate answered Feb 5, 2016 geek_o_gate comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.