IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 3

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Commonly Confused Words, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Commonly Confused WordsVocabularyMultiple choiceMedium
When she inherited some jewellery from a distant relative, she had no idea of its worth and decided ______.
  1. A
    to get an approval
  2. B
    to get it appreciated
  3. C
    to have it appraised
  4. D
    to have it apprised
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option C

What the sentence needs. She does not know what the jewellery is worth, so she decides to have its value professionally assessed.

The word set. This question turns on four near-identical words:

Word

Meaning

appraise

to assess the value of something ✓

apprise

to inform someone (“apprise her of the facts”)

appreciate

to value or enjoy; also to rise in value

approval

consent or permission

Why the others fail:

apprised means informed — you apprise a person, not an object.

appreciated in the “rise in value” sense is something jewellery does by itself; you cannot “get it appreciated” on demand.

approval is about permission, irrelevant to worth.

Note also the grammar: have something appraised is the correct causative construction.

Answer: Option 3 — to have it appraised

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