IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 2

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Idioms and Phrases, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Idioms and PhrasesVocabularyMultiple choiceMedium

We hope that the government’s new policies will ______ a period of economic growth.

A
usher in
B
set in
C
turn up
D
set forth

Pick an option, then check.

Answer & solution

Answer: Option A

What the sentence needs. A verb meaning to bring about or inaugurate something new — the policies will cause a period of growth to begin.

The phrasal verb. Usher in = to mark or cause the start of a new period. It is transitive, so it takes “a period of economic growth” as its object. ✓

Why the others fail:

set in — means to begin and persist, but it is intransitive and used of unpleasant things (“the rot set in”, “winter set in”). It cannot take an object, so “set in a period” is ungrammatical.

turn up — to appear unexpectedly, or to increase volume. Wrong sense.

set forth — to set out on a journey, or to state something formally (“set forth the terms”). Does not mean to begin a period.

Answer: Option 1 — usher in

IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 2

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