Selecting Words - Verbal and Reasoning

Q1:

The English schemed to continue their rule in India by playing off one community ...... the other.

A before

B upon

C against

D with

ANS:C - against

Playing off.

Noun.

A match/game, or a series of them, between two players or teams with equal points or scores to decide who the winner is.

They lost to Chicago in the play-offs.