CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Word Usage questions
CAT/2001
Question . 36
For the word given at the top of each table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (A, B, C, D) with their corresponding usage on the right (E, F, G, H). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usages correctly matched.
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(c) Ageing frees of harshness in the first meaning, just as old wines become smooth and softer. Second meaning concerns a person and not a thing, thus usage E fits with this meaning. Soft and loamy consistency can refer to soil not to a violin.