GATE Electrical 2017 Set 2 | GA | Question: 6

Question

"We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent- namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms."

The author's belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:

• A. 'culture'
• B. 'seemingly'
• C. 'urgent'
• D. 'political'

Answer 1

‘seemingly’ means seems to be and maynot always or apparently