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Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.
Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.
Updated On: Jul 28, 2025
‘Stat’ signaled something measurable, while ‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron’, above all, indicated control.
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.
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.
- The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix ‘-tron’, along with ‘-matic’ and ‘-stat’, embodied symbols.
- To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.
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The given sentences revolve around the theme of linguistic suffixes used in scientific technologies and their implications. Analyzing each sentence for coherence and connection:
- ‘Stat’ signaled something measurable, while ‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron’, above all, indicated control.
- 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.
- 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.
- The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix ‘-tron’, along with ‘-matic’ and ‘-stat’, embodied symbols.
- To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.
Sentences 1, 3, 4, and 5 cohesively discuss the symbolic and historical importance of suffixes like ‘-tron’, ‘-matic’, and ‘-stat’ in scientific contexts. Sentence 2, however, introduces the concept of high modernism which is disconnected from the specific topic of linguistic suffixes and their roles in scientific terminology. Thus, sentence 2 is the odd one out.
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