Which one of the following options is nearest in meaning to that implied by the phrase 'sarcasm of destiny' in this passage?

From the passage: Certain variants of key behavioural genes, "risk allele" make people m...

Mr. Good and Mr. Evil were batch-mates during the college. Five years after graduating, Mr. Evil was put behind bars for financial fraud while Mr. Good was running a successful NGO, working for orphans. Mr. Good was raised in a protective environment while Mr. Evil was a self-mad…

From the passage: Creative thinking can be used by management teams to produce actions t...

Pick the option that best captures the relationship between the two paragraphs above.

Read the following statements carefully: Statement 1: If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. Statement 2: Murali did not work as hard as his friends but had secured 1st rank in the examination. Whi…

In the following pages, I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique, every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be…

Identify the correct sequence of words that would most aptly fit the blanks in the following passage. It is _____ (i) _____ that the accused had _____ (ii) _____ _____ (iii) _____ from all criminal activities by adopting the _____ (iv) _____ of a sanyasi. However, despite repeate…

Ranu is an ordinary sportsperson. In the last two university sprint events, her performances in the heats were pathetic. Which of the following, if true, weakens the above argument the most?

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger, and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two, apparently dissimilar, approaches were proved to be mathematically equ…

In the traditions of many religions throughout the world (including Judaeo-Christian beliefs), there has long been a sustained belief that the Universe as we know it today did not exist forever in the past, and that there was a spontaneous act which gave birth to all that has bee…