Question

John refuses to try anything new because he's risk-_____.
averse
adverse
reluctant
afraid

Answer 1

Answer:

Option-2

Adverse

Explanation:

Adverse

Adverse is defined as being unfavourable or acting in opposition to a person, objective, or situation.

He did not give any unfavourable feedback and did not back away from any challenge.

Any situation when he was certain that someone had been slain continued to irk him.

However, his resignation in May was prompted by the Chamber's unfavourable vote on a strictly technical issue.

By battling against these harmful forces, the papacy was made weaker, and it was because of its inability to succeed that its ideal of temporal and spiritual domination over Europe only very partially materialised in the real world.

The ministry received a negative vote a few days later.

FINAL ANSWER - Option-2

Adverse

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Answer 2

We are provided with an incomplete sentence that requires to be completed by using an appropriate word from the words given below. The word that will be used to fill the gap in the sentence will be 'averse.'

• The word "risk-averse" is an adjective.
• This adjective is used to describe one of the characteristic feature of John.
• The person who is risk averse usually has the characteristic or trait of preferring  to avoid loss over making a heavy gain.
• In economics and finance, risk aversion is that tendency of the people where they prefer to outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, whether or not the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more certain outcome.
• The other three words, that is, adverse, reluctant and afraid when suffixed with the word risk doesn't form a meaning sentence.

Therefore, the sentence using the word very will be written as "John refuses to try anything new because he's risk-averse."

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