Which term means 'fundamentally different'?

• A. Dogmatic
• B. Disparate
• C. Elegy
• D. Emulate

Answer: (B)

What the item is testing is a word that means essentially different in kind or nature. Disparate fits best because it describes things that are so unlike each other at a fundamental level that they are fundamentally different. Dogmatic refers to stubbornly insisting that one set of beliefs is true, not to how alike or different two things are. An elegy is a mournful poem, not a description of difference. Emulate means to imitate or strive to equal something, which is about copying rather than being fundamentally different. So disparate is the precise choice for “fundamentally different.”