Verbal Ability – Odd One Out – ‘Stat’ signaled something measurable
Slot – 1 – VA
‘Stat’ signaled something measurable – Video
Q. 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.
‘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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