Tips on cracking Reasoning Questions on Artificial Language

1. 2 TIPS on cracking Reasoning Questions on Artificial Language

2. Tip #1: Break the given words in the artificial language as well as English into smaller parts to find their translations Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language. (I) migenlasan means cupboard (II) lasanpoen means boardwalk (III) cuopdansa means pullman Which word could mean "walkway“ ? poenmigen B.cuopeisel C.lasandansa D.poenforc Solution: ‘Board’ is common between cupboard and boardwalk. Since ‘lasan’ is common between migenlasan and lasanpoen, we can conclude that ‘lasan’ implies ‘board’ and ‘poen’ implies ‘walk’. Both A and D start with ‘poen’ but ‘migen’ means cup and therefore A can be rejected. Thus, the correct answer is poenforc, i.e., D. Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language. (I) apatose means first base (II) epatose means second base (III) lartabuk means ballpark Which of the following words could mean “baseball” ? A. buklarta B. oseepta C. bukose D. oselarta Solution: The word for ‘base’ could be ‘patose’ or ‘atose’ or ‘tose’ or ‘ose’ etc. From the options, since ‘ose’ is common across options B, C and D, we can conclude that the translation for ‘base’ is ‘ose’. The words in both the artificial language and English appear in the same order. Thus, option C can be eliminated. Among B and D, only D has the phrase ‘larta’ from lartabukwhich corresponds to ‘ball’. So, the correct option is D.

3. Tip #2: Eliminate options with (a) incorrect translations and/ or (b) incorrect order of appearance of the words Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language. (I) agnoscreniameans poisonous spider (II) delanocreania means poisonous snake (III) agnosdeerymeans brown spider. Which word could mean ‘black widow spider’? A. deeryclostagnos B. agnosdelano C. agnosvitriblunin D. trymuttiagnos Solution: It is evident that in the artificial language, nouns appear first and then the adjectives, with the phrase ‘agnos’ meaning spider. Thus, it should appear first. This eliminates options A and D. Now, ‘delano’ means snake, so this eliminates option B. Hence, the answer is C. Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language. (I) jalkamofti means happy birthday (II) moftihoze means birthday party (III) mentogunn means goodness. Which of the following could mean ‘happiness’ A. jalkagunn B. mentohoze C. moftihoze D. Hozemento Solution: In the artificial language, the phrase ‘mufti’ is common between ‘happy birthday’ and ‘birthday party’ and therefore, it refers to ‘birthday’. Hence, ‘jalka’ means happy. There is only one option with this phrase. So the correct answer is A.

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