Fill in the blank with the correct word from the options given below to make a meaningful sentence:-
Being a true ________,Anna remained poised and calm despite hardships.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → fatalist
A fatalist is a person who believes that events are decided by fate and cannot be changed, and so accepts whatever happens without protest. Such a person meets hardship calmly, which is why Anna "remained poised and calm despite hardships".
Example: Being a fatalist, he accepted the loss of his crop as his destiny.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: cynic — Incorrect. A cynic is a person who distrusts other people's motives and believes they act only out of self-interest. Distrust does not explain calmness in hardship.
Example: The cynic believed that the donor was helping only for publicity.
Option 2: nihilist — Incorrect. A nihilist is a person who believes that life has no meaning and rejects all values; the word has nothing to do with staying poised.
Example: The novel's hero is a nihilist who believes in nothing.
Option 4: optimist — Incorrect. An optimist is a person who expects good things to happen. The sentence stresses calm acceptance of hardship ("poised and calm"), not hope for a better future.
Example: An optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty.
The following words have also been asked in other CUET (UG) English papers:
| Word | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
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| fatalist | 12-05 S1 | – | – | – | – |