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NDA 2025
Exam
NDA
Year
2025
Subject
General Ability
Chapter
English

NDA 2025 · General Ability · English

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that...

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct option from the given options, based solely on the passage. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages do continue to be discovered, even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which make the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all.

Which one of the following words from passage means 'come to be known'?

Options

  1. Atranspire
  2. Blingua franca
  3. Cstraight
  4. Dvariant

Correct answer

A. transpire

Step-by-step solution

The word 'transpire' in the passage is used in the sentence 'Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different...'. In this context, 'transpire' means to become known or to be revealed.

Therefore, 'transpire' is the correct word that means 'come to be known'.

Answer: transpire
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