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SSC GD 2024 PYQ — Question 5

SSC GD Const (English) - 21 Feb 2024 - Shift 2 • English • Q5

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Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the four alternatives.

Several lines of geological evidence (1)_____________ that an asteroid that was as much as 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous (2)_________. This evidence includes an ancient impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico that dates (3)__________ the time of the extinction. The impact would have produced an enormous dust cloud that would have (4)__________ into the atmosphere and (5)__________ the planet.

Select the most appropriate option for blank(1)

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. indicate.

Indicate means to say something in an indirect way. Here, several lines of geological evidence have indirectly mentioned that a huge asteroid hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period.

Other options mean:

Prevaricate means to avoid answering a question directly in order to hide the truth.

Sign means a motion or gesture by which a thought is expressed.

Intimate means to get close to someone.