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The world's finest single-malt whiskies come from the highland of Scotland. If the quality of the blended whisky derives from the quality of its component ingredients, then MacDuff's whisky must be the finest whisky in the world, because it blends no fewer than five Scotland's finest single-malt whiskies.
The argument above could be seriously weaken if which of the followin were true?
(A) The more single-malt whiskies involved in the batch of blended whisky, the finer the quality of whisky. (B) Whereas many of MacDuff's competitors have been in industry for decades or even century, the MacDuff brand was created within the last decade by marketing committee.(C) Including more than five single-malt whiskies in a blended whisky is a waste, because no one can taste that many component flavors.(D) A blended whisky is as fine as the average quality of its components.(E) The concept of "finest" in a whisky is a subjective measure that cannot be quantified in a statistically valid way.
Verbal Aptitude Quiz for CAT, XAT
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This quiz consists of questions from various past actual papers of CAT. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we'll let you know the correct answers!
Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each of the sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.
1. But ________ are now regularly written not just for tools, but well-established practices, organizations and institutions, not all of which seem to be _________ away.
a. reports, withering
b. stories, trading
c. books, dying
d. obituaries, fading
2. The Darwin who ___ is most remarkable for the way in which he ___ the attributes of the world class thinker and head of the household.
a. comes, figures
b. arises, adds
c. emerges, combines
d. appeared, combines
3. Since her face was free of ___ there was no way to ___ if she appreciated what had happened.
a. make-up, realize
b. expression, ascertain
c. emotion, diagnose
d. scars, understand
4. In this context, the ________- of the British labour movement is particularly ________
a. affair, weird
b. activity, moving
c. experience, significant
d. atmosphere, gloomy
5. Indian intellectuals may boast, if they are so inclined, of being ___ to the most elitist among the intellectual ___ of the world.
a. subordinate, traditions
b. heirs, cliques
c. ancestors, societies
d. heir, traditions
Direction for questions 6 to 10: For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
6. Specious: A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of truth.
a. Deceitful b. Fallacious c. Credible d. Deceptive
7. Obviate: The new mass transit system may obviate the need for the use of personal cars.
a. Prevent b. Forestall c. Preclude d. Bolster
8. Disuse: Some words fall into disuse as technology makes objects obsolete.
a. Prevalent b. Discarded c. Obliterated d. Unfashionable
9. Parsimonious: The evidence was constructed from very parsimonious scraps of information.
a. Frugal b. Penurious c. Thrifty d. Altruistic
10. Facetious: When I suggested that war is a method of controlling population, my father remarked that I was being facetious.
a. Jovian b. Jovial c. Jocular d. Joking
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Choose the most logical order of sentences among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this 'war' has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase 'war against terror', which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has codified the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E.Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity-either State or non-State.
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- BECDA
- ECDBA
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Autodidact
a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
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The, sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
The, sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
- CBEDA
- ABCDE
- CABDE
- ACBED
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The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private label diapers.
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private label diapers.
- ADBCEF
- ABCDEF
- ABCEDF
- AEDBCF
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Word: Inure
Meaning: Accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant
Part of speech: Verb
Synonyms: Harden, toughen
Antonym: Sensitive
Verbal Aptitude Quiz for MBA entrance exams
Dear readers,
This quiz consists of questions from various past papers of MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we'll let you know the correct answers!
Directions for questions 1 to 10: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
1.
A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment.
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even during office hours.
a. ECADBF b. EADCFB c. EADBFC d. ABFCBE
2.
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defense, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
a. FDEBAC b. FCABED c. DEBACF d. DFEBAC
3.
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too - in fact, he returns to the point often - that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.
a. EACDB b. ADEBC c. EACBD d. DCEAB
4.
A. Passivity is not, of course, universal.
B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different.
C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.
E. This depends on an assessment of the political situation.
a. BEDAC b. CDABE c. EDBAC d. ABCDE
5.
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman's question: "Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?"
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
a. DABC b. ACDB c. CBAD d. DBAC
6.
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere. C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private label diapers.
a. ABCDEF b. ABCEDF c. ADBCEF d. AEDBCF
7.
A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs in choosing what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
F. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.
a. ACEDBF b. ACBDEF c. DCBEFA d. ABCEDF
8.
A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.
D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
E. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.
a. BCEDA b. BEDAC c. BEADC d. BCDEA
9.
A. "This face-off will continue for several months given the strong convictions on either side," says a senior functionary of the high-powered task force on drought.
B. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.
C. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a line of divide between the two.
D. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying the crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is required to alleviate the damage.
E. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate monsoon had been sounded by the Centre as well as most of the states, in late July and early August.
a. EBCDA b. DBACE c. BDCAE d. ECBDA
10.
A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was that of exact nature of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at the poles. D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an 'oblate spheroid', more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of 'how much more' was yet to be established.
a. BECAD b. BEDCA c. EDACB d. EBDCA
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shenanigans
noun
- secret or dishonest activity or manoeuvring."the chairman was accused of financial shenanigans"
- silly or high-spirited behaviour; mischief.
Verbal Aptitude Quiz for MBA entrance exams
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This quiz consists of questions from various past papers of MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we'll let you know the correct answers!
Directions for questions 1 to 6: Fill the gaps in the passages below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
Von Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes reflecting, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximize the expected utility.
(1) such a model reflects major simplifications of the way divisions are made in the real world. Humans are not able to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes; they tend not to think (2) as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its (3) and when they do assess alternatives, they may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.
1. 1. Regrettably 2. Firstly 3. Obviously 4. Apparently
2. 1. quantitatively 2. systematically 3. scientifically 4. Analytically
3. 1. implications 2. disadvantages 3. utility 4. Alternatives
In a large company, (4) people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to (5) an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally traumatic; as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No, but they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a 'failed product' and to ask how the process (6) such a phenomenon in the first place.
4. 1. dismissing 2. Punishing 3. Firing 4. Admonishing
5. 1. resolve 2. thwart 3. Defeat 4. close
6. 1. derived 2. engineered 3. produced 4. Allowed
Directions for questions 7 to 10: In each of the questions below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
7.
A. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is that it is not always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
B. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
C. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
D. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not it is always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D
8.
A. A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated by underhand deals.
B. A symbiotic relationship develops among contractors, bureaucracy and politicians, and costs are artificially escalated with a large number of devices and black money is generated through underhand deals.
C. A symbiotic relationship develops among contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated on underhand deals.
D. A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and politicians, and by large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated by underhand deals.
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D
9.
A. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create difference of prices at which goods are traded on the world market and their price within a local market.
B. The distinctive feature of tarriffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference of prices at which goods are traded with the world market and their prices in the local market.
C. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference between prices at which goods are traded on the world market and their prices within a local market.
D. The distinctive feature of tarriffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference across prices at which goods are traded with the world market and their prices within a local market.
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D
10.
A. Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive hedging.
B. Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
C. Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourages excessive gambling.
D. Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourages excessive gambling.
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D
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