GATE2018 ME-2: GA-2

Question

" The judge's standing in the legal community, though shaken by false allegations of wrongdoing, remained ______ ."

The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is

• A. undiminished
• B. damaged
• C. illegal
• D. uncertain

Answer 1

"though shaken by false allegations"

means the word must be a positive one. Only "undiminished" is a positive one.

Correct Option: A

Comments

I havenot got , what it actually means? plz elaborate.

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We use “though shaken by false allegations” in this scenario, and there is a word remained which is similar to using regardless of  which is then used to negate the tone of the first part. And here, only "undiminished" is a positive one.

This sentence can also be written as: Regardless of the false allegations of wrongdoing, the judge's standing in the legal community was undiminished.