GATE CSE 2014 Set 1 | Question: GA-2

Question

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.

She could not understand the judges awarding her the first prize, because she thought that her performance was quite _________.

• A. superb
• B. medium
• C. mediocre
• D. exhilarating

Answer 1

C. Mediocre meaning not very good, not up to par, average.  Her performance was average and not worthy of $1^{\text{st}}$ prize.

Comments

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nice explanation

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He could not understand the judges awarding her the first prize.

 

Means according to him, that girl must not have got the first prize.So, her performance need to be inferior in this boy's eyes.So, mediocre is best here.

It is like he was thinking something else, something else happened.

Answer 2

Here, superb and exhilarating would imply that the performance was brilliant. But, the fact that he could not understand why she got awarded the first prize indicates that her performance was not that amazing in his opinion. So, A and D are incorrect. Medium is more used as a noun, and denoted intermediate in quality, value, etc. So, B is incorrect Mediocre is used as an adjective (to represent quality) and means low in performance, i.e., normal and not extraordinary  and C is the correct choice.

Answer 3

Superb- very good, excellent.

medium- halfway between two extremes of size, amount, length, etc.; average

medicore- of only average quality; not very good.

exhilarating- making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling.