2023 · Q1
Each of the five items given below has a phrase given in italics. Choose the one from among the options (a), (b), (c) and (d) that best describes the phrase and mark your response in the Answer Sheet accordingly. Her poetry not only succeeds in brilliantly capturing the beauty of nature but also carries the power to suggest that which is too great and beautiful to be expressed in words.
General EnglishVocabulary
- Athe unknown
- Bthe proscribed
- Cthe intangible
- Dthe ineffable
Explanation
Ineffable means too great or beautiful to be expressed in words, from Latin in- (not) + effabilis (utterable). The italicised phrase is its textbook definition, so option D matches exactly. Intangible (C) means merely not touchable and misses the inexpressibility; the unknown (A) concerns knowledge, not expression. Hence D.