Temporarily inactive, stopped or suspended. 'An abeyant disease' is temporarily dormant or inactive. ' An______ service' is temporarily unavailable.

Temporarily inactive, stopped or suspended. 'An abeyant disease' is temporarily dormant or inactive. ' An______ service' is temporarily unavailable.

• A. nadir
• B. abeyant
• C. veracious
• D. specious

Answer: (B)

Think of a word that conveys a pause or hold—something not permanent, but temporarily inoperative. abeyant fits that sense precisely: it describes things kept in temporary suspension or dormancy, so a disease described as abeyant is momentarily dormant, and a service described as abeyant is temporarily unavailable. The adjective form works naturally in both contexts. The other words don’t match this idea: nadir refers to the lowest point, not a state of inactivity; veracious means truthful; specious means superficially plausible but misleading. The related noun abeyance is also used to describe a temporary pause.

Think of a word that conveys a pause or hold—something not permanent, but temporarily inoperative. abeyant fits that sense precisely: it describes things kept in temporary suspension or dormancy, so a disease described as abeyant is momentarily dormant, and a service described as abeyant is temporarily unavailable. The adjective form works naturally in both contexts. The other words don’t match this idea: nadir refers to the lowest point, not a state of inactivity; veracious means truthful; specious means superficially plausible but misleading. The related noun abeyance is also used to describe a temporary pause.