Selecting Words - Verbal and Reasoning

Q1:

This, partly, explains how the Mehta family has been able to ...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact that all its assets have been ......

A keep, removed

B afford, attached

C develop, liquidated

D keep up, destroyed

ANS:D - keep up, destroyed

Keep up-->Maintain a required pace or level. Here we are talking about longer period of time.

Afford-->Have the financial means to do something or buy something. It means one may do something now but in future he may not be able to do.