2024 · Q94
In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option which most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
**Complaisant — Complacent**
EnglishUsage of Paired Words
- AComplaisant means overconfident and complacent means eager to please
- BComplaisant means confident and complacent means overconfident
- CComplaisant means eager to please and complacent means to manifest universally
- DComplaisant means eager to please and complacent means overconfident
Explanation
‘Complaisant’ means willing to please, obliging and agreeable. ‘Complacent’ means smugly self-satisfied, overconfident. Option (d) states both correctly; (a) and (b) swap the senses, and (c) invents ‘to manifest universally’. Hence (d) is correct.