2024 · Q108
In the following items, certain words which have been borrowed into English from other languages have been given. Select the most appropriate meaning from the options provided and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
**Incommunicado**
EnglishAdaptation of Borrowed Words
- ANot wanting to or able to communicate
- BBreakdown and isolation
- CCommunication across semantic barriers
- DUnbridged destinations
Explanation
‘Incommunicado’ describes someone held or kept without means or desire to communicate with the outside world — not wanting to or able to communicate. Options (b), (c) and (d) invent unrelated senses. Hence (a) is correct.