Each item in this section consists of sentences with an underlined word followed by four words or group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the answer sheet accordingly.
There was a combination of agrarian colonising tendencies with the **assertion** of local landlord power that was able to assimilate pioneer peasants.
- Ainsistence
- Baverment
- Cstatement
- Ddenial
Explanation
'Assertion' means a confident declaration or statement that something is true. The antonym must mean denial. Option (d) 'denial' means the refusal to admit truth, the direct opposite of assertion. Options (a) 'insistence', (b) 'averment', and (c) 'statement' are all synonyms of assertion. The combination involved asserting landlord power; denial would reject it. Therefore option D is correct. Cross-checked with Oswaal CDS Yearwise Solved Papers.