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Question 34 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2019 Medium NAT +3.00 marks

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in. 1. 'Stat' signaled something measurable, while 'matic' advertised free labour; but 'tron', above all, indicated control. 2. It was a totem of high modernism, the intellectual and cultural mode that decreed no process or phenomenon was too complex to be grasped, managed and optimized. 3. Like the heraldic shields of ancient knights, these morphemes were painted onto the names of scientific technologies to proclaim one's history and achievements to friends and enemies alike. 4. The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix '-tron', along with '-matic' and '-stat', embodied symbols. 5. To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.

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