IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 21
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- Aundermine; elevate; impede
- Bcompromise; impair; counter
- Cparalyse; improve; diminish
- Dendanger; preserve; decrease
Answer & solution
Answer: Option B
Track the polarity of each blank.
Blank 1 — what stress does to the immune system: something negative. Compromise (= weaken the effectiveness of) is the precise medical collocation. ✓
Blank 2 — joined by and to “making individuals more susceptible to illness”, so it must also be negative. Impair their well-being. ✓
Blank 3 — what mindfulness and sleep do to “these negative effects”: they must oppose them. Counter = act against. ✓
Why the others fail — check the polarity of blank 2:
Option | Blank 2 | Problem |
|---|---|---|
1 | elevate well-being | positive — contradicts the sentence |
3 | improve well-being | positive — same error |
4 | preserve well-being | positive — same error |
All three break at the same point. Option 1 also fails at blank 3, since you impede a process, not an effect.
Answer: Option 2 — compromise; impair; counter
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