Spelling – MBA CET questions with solutions

Approach: Correct each word letter by letter.

Solution: (a) maditation → meditation ✘
(b) aberrance — correct ✔
(c) delibarate → deliberate ✘
(d) naseating → nauseating ✘
(e) maintenence → maintenance ✘

Why the other options are wrong:
A, C, D, E — each word has one wrong or missing vowel.

Cetking shortcut: Spelling questions often hinge on a single vowel — say the word in syllables (de-lib-er-ate, main-te-nance).

Answer: B

Approach: Check spelling, then meaning in context, word by word.

Solution: 'simple', 'straightforward', 'complicated', 'mess' — all spelt correctly.
Meaning: 'isn't simple or straightforward' contrasts naturally with 'a complicated mess of wants and needs'. No word is out of place.

Why the other options are wrong:
A simple — correct spelling and fits the contrast.
B straightforward — correct (one word).
C complicated — correct spelling and sense.
D mess — correct; 'a complicated mess' is a standard phrase.

Cetking shortcut: Check the double-letter / compound traps first (straightforward); if they pass, go with 'All correct'.

Answer: E

Approach: Spelling check of each bold word.

Solution: Full, updated and commentary are spelt correctly and fit the sentence. 'Contemparary' is a misspelling — the correct form is contemporary (con-tem-po-rary), meaning modern / of the present time.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'full' is correct and fits ('full of').
B: 'updated' is correct.
D: 'commentary' is correct.
E: one word is misspelt.

Cetking shortcut: Split long words into syllables: con-tem-po-ra-ry — the 'po' syllable is the usual trap.

Answer: C

Approach: Spelling check of each bold word.

Solution: Industries, facing and huge are correct. The sentence prints 'presure', which is misspelt — the correct spelling is pressure with double 's'. So the fourth bold word is the answer.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'industries' is correct (y → ies).
B: 'facing' is correct.
C: 'huge' is correct.
E: one word is misspelt.

Answer: D

Approach: Spelling and usage check of each bold word.

Solution: 'Benefit', 'technology', 'adapted' (= modified to suit) and 'needs' are all spelt correctly and fit the meaning: technology can be quickly modified to suit clients' needs. Hence all are correct.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'benefit' — correct spelling (single 'f', single 't').
B: 'technology' — correct.
C: 'adapted' is the right word (adapt = modify to suit); 'adopted' would be wrong here.
D: 'needs' — correct.

Cetking shortcut: Adapt (modify) vs adopt (take up) is the usual trap in such sentences — here 'adapted to needs' is right.

Answer: E

Approach: Spelling check of each bold word.

Solution: In the paper the first bold word is printed 'Traditionlly' — the 'a' is missing. The correct spelling is traditionally (tradition + al + ly). Boost, festival and season are correct.

Why the other options are wrong:
B: 'boost' — correct.
C: 'festival' — correct.
D: 'season' — correct.
E: one word is misspelt.

Cetking shortcut: Words ending in -ally: adjective in -al + ly (tradition-al-ly), so both 'a' and 'll' must be there.

Answer: A

Approach: Spelling — break the word into its roots.

Solution: Quint (fifth) + essence → quintessence: the purest or most typical example of something. Only E keeps 'quint' and the full 'essence' (e-ss-e-nce).

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'Quentiscence' — wrong root (quen-) and wrong ending.
B: 'Quintecence' — drops 'ss' and the 's'.
C: 'Quintissense' — 'issense' is wrong.
D: 'Quintecsence' — 'cs' is wrong.

Cetking shortcut: Quint + essence: write 'essence' in full inside the word.

Answer: E

Approach: Build the word from its root: Latin 'pulcher/pulchritudo' = beauty.

Solution: Pulchritude (beauty) + '-inous' → pulchritudinous (beautiful). Spell it: pul-chri-tu-di-nous.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'Pulchritudinuous' – extra 'u' before -ous.
B: 'Pulchirutudionous' – 'chiru' and 'dio' wrong.
C: 'Pulchirutudinous' – 'chiru' instead of 'chri'.
E: 'Pulchritudonous' – 'do' instead of 'di'.

Cetking shortcut: Start from the noun 'pulchritude' and add '-inous' (like platitude → platitudinous).

Answer: D

Approach: Spelling: break a long word into its parts.

Solution: anti + dis + establish + ment + arian + ism = Antidisestablishmentarianism (opposition to removing the Church of England's status as the state church).

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'Ante' (before) in place of 'Anti' (against).
C: 'es' missing (disestablish).
D: 'ment' missing (establishmentarian).
E: 'ian' missing (establishmentarianism).

Cetking shortcut: Check each building block in order; every wrong option drops or changes one block.

Answer: B

Approach: Spelling: break the medical term into its Greek parts.

Solution: oto (ear) + rhino (nose) + laryngo (throat) + logist = Otorhinolaryngologist, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'Otrhono…' garbles oto-rhino.
B: 'rhinily-rangologist' garbles both parts.
C: 'laryon' is missing 'g'.
E: 'rhono' in place of 'rhino'.

Cetking shortcut: Ear-nose-throat = oto-rhino-laryngo, in that order.

Answer: D

Approach: Spelling: Latin parts sesqui + ped + alian.

Solution: sesqui (one and a half) + ped (foot) + alian = Sesquipedalian: very long words, or someone who uses them.

Why the other options are wrong:
B: 'pad' in place of 'ped'.
C: extra 'se' (sesquisepedalian).
D: 'pedilian' in place of 'pedalian'.
E: 'aliain' in place of 'alian'.

Answer: A

Approach: Spelling: pulchritude + -inous.

Solution: From pulchritude (beauty) + -inous comes Pulchritudinous, meaning beautiful.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: letters jumbled ('tdun' for 'tudin').
B: extra letters ('chiru' for 'chri').
D: 'inuous' in place of 'inous'.
E: extra 'i' (pulchiritudinous).

Cetking shortcut: Write the noun 'pulchritude' first, then add -inous.

Answer: C

Approach: Spelling: curmudg + eon.

Solution: Curmudgeon means a bad-tempered, grumpy person, often an old one. Spelling: c-u-r-m-u-d-g-e-o-n.

Why the other options are wrong:
A: 'Car' in place of 'Cur'.
B: 'madg' in place of 'mudg'.
C: 'j' in place of 'g'.
D: 'e' dropped (curmudgon).

Cetking shortcut: The word keeps the 'dge' of 'grudge': cur-mudge-on.

Answer: E