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Select the correct option that indicates the arrangement of the given words in the order in which they appear in an English dictionary

1. Petitionary

2. Petitioning

3. Petition

4. Petitioners

5. Petitioned

This question was previously asked in
SSC CGL 2020 (Tier-2) Statistics Previous Year Paper 3 (28-Jan-2022)
The correct answer is

3, 1, 5, 4, 2

All five words share the common prefix Petition, so we compare the characters that follow that prefix in dictionary order.

  1. Petition – no extra letters; shortest, so comes first.
  2. Petitionary – next letter is a.
  3. Petitioned – next letter is e, followed by d.
  4. Petitioners – next letter is e, followed by r.
  5. Petitioning – next letter is i.

Ordering by these tie-breakers gives Petition (3) → Petitionary (1) → Petitioned (5) → Petitioners (4) → Petitioning (2), i.e. 3, 1, 5, 4, 2.

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