We all (a) / must respect (b) / a honest person (c) / No error (d)
Which one is the right option?
Jacob, you're expressing mean and harmful satisfaction over Tom's misfortune. It's mean to _____ over other people's misfortune.
Which one is the right option?
Wow! She is so beautiful and charming. I am completely bowled over by her _______.
There were _________ viewers than expected.
Statement: "I think that she has gone mad. Last night I saw her barking like a dog." - A tells B about Madhu.
Assumptions:
I. Madhu is a friend of A.
II. B knows Madhu.
III. Some people do not bark like dogs
__________ the stable door after the horse has bolted.
- shut
- lock
- close
- open
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mispronounced english words..
Wednesday.
It's whens-day, not wed-ness-day.
it's also pronounced whens-dee.
Extempore.
X-tem-puh-ree(Immediately say "ree" after "puh"). Not X-tem-pore.
Vehicle.
No, it's pronounced vay-kul or v-kul(kul as in cult). It's apparently not pronounced like ve(like in vendor)-he-kill. I never knew, heavens!
Subtle.
Sa(like in someone)-dl. Not sub-tyl.
Colonel.
It's pronounced like kernel- without the r-, like ka(imagine pronouncingsomeone, but with an s instead of a k)-nl. It's not pronounced co-lo-nell.
Lettuce.
It's Let-iss. Not let-yuce.
Hyperbole.
It's hye-per-buh-lee(immediately say lee after buh). Not hye-per-bol.
Facade.
It's fuh-saad. Not f**k-ade.
Elite.
It's Eh-leet. Not Eh-Light.
puys help me with the right usage of verb with "one of the ". ex-
This is one of the most interesting novels that have appeared this year.(correct)
This is one of his poems that is worth reading.(correct)
Ambition is one of those passions that are never realised.(correct)
How do we decide if the verb is singular or plural ?
Some general queries to all the high scorers in verbal ability section?
1) how did you prepare for verbal ? I know many of the answers will be like you have to read from different sources, try aeon , aldaily but what I want to understand is ,was something specific done while going through these articles or just skimming
2) how did you master rc ? Was it after solving n number of RCS ? Or simply because you were good at reading, please also share some source for the RCS
3) sentence correction did you finish off wren and martin to gain mastery over this can you identify some important topics and where do we prepare from.
PS:I m not tagging anyone because of the limited knowledge of pg community, please feel free to answer the question, it will be a great help to hear from people who aced va.
which online cat classess is best . Please help me.
- arun sharma
- byju’s
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can anyone explain difference between urban dictionary and oxford dictionary..
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
i think urban dictionary words have no use in our exam ? am i right ? if wrong ..let me know the difference
Silly i know, but someone tell me how to add smileys on pg comments?
Need explanation not answer.
Indian meat is considered to be (1)/of very high quality as it lacks fat content (2)/ and free from many harmful substances which travels (3)/to the animal body through the food chain (4)/ No error (5)
According to corporate circles data is pushing through the merger to create financially ...... company in the processed foods business, the group's thrust area for the 1990's
a) acceptable b) powerful c) leading d) straight
ans B ...why?
The creation of writing in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) and Egypt in the late 4th millennium BC permitted the command and seal of a ruler like the Babylonian Hammurabi, the Roman Julius Caesar, or the Mongol Kublai Khan, to extend far beyond his sight and voice and even to survive his death. If the Rosetta Stone had never been inscribed, for example, the world would be virtually unaware of the nondescript Graeco-Egyptian king Ptolemy V Epiphanes, whose priests promulgated his decree upon the Rosetta Stone in 196 BC written in three scripts: sacred hieroglyphic, administrative demotic, and Greek alphabetic.
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
(a) The Rosetta stone is an example of the earliest form of recording information.
(b) The voice of a ruler is taken forward by his writings.
(c) Without the written medium, Julius Caesar would not have been as famous as he is.
(d) The earliest form of writing was invented in Egypt
ans is c ....why not b?
The only way to provide relief to the people, and to ensure that India itself does not slide into a recession, is by massively increasing public investments that will generate jobs, increasing purchasing power and enlarging domestic demand. The measures announced by the UPA government are woefully inadequate to address the gravity of the crisis. The Left's assertions on this score have now been confirmed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), G-20 meeting this February, which showed that the stimulus offered by the Indian government would contribute a mere 0.5 per cent growth in GDP. Worse is that it would result in a contraction of the GDP next year unless there is a quantum leap in public spending. There is an urgent need for a new government, following these elections, to reverse this trend.
A non-Congress, non-BJP political alternative that can affect such a change is the need of the hour. A careful examination of the results in the last round of Assembly elections shows that such parties polled a significant percentage of votes.
In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP formed the government with 37.8 per cent votes, the others polled 21.6 per cent. In Rajasthan, the Congress formed the government with 36.8 per cent, the others polled 29 per cent. In Delhi, the Congress formed the government with 40.5 per cent, the others polled 23 per cent. In Chhattisgarh, the BJP formed the government with 40.6 per cent, the others polled 20.6 per cent. In Mizoram as well, the share of the others is 30.1 per cent while the Congress formed the government with 38.9 per cent votes.
Which of the following can be inferred from the given passage?
(i) Increased public spending will ensure that India will not slide into a recession.
(ii) There has been international condemnation for the stimulus package offered by the Indian government.
(iii) The election of a non-BJP, non-Congress government is essential for the reversal of the economic downturn.
(a) Only (i) (b) Both (i) and (ii) (c) Only (iii) (d) All of the above
ans C ...why not B??
Statement I. Girls like pink.
II. Some boys like blue.
Conclusions:
(a) Girls don't like blue.
(b) Some boys don't like pink.
(c) Some girls don't like pink.
(d) Pink is liked by all girls.
oa D ..how??
Please provide the explainations too 😃
XAT 2006: Reading Comprehension - 4
DIRECTIONS: Questions 30-35 are based on the passage below.
Think back to 1993. That is when the Centre for Disease Control came up against the hantavirus in the South West. The virus made no sense. It had never appeared in landlocked regions before, and it was killing people by attacking their lungs rather than their kidneys, the virus's usual target. It seemed to defy explanation. And that's as close a parallel to a cosmology episode as I can describe. Basically a cosmology episode happens when people suddenly feel that the universe is no longer a rational, orderly system. What makes such an episode shattering is that people suffer from the event and, at the same time, lose the means 'to recover from it. In this sense, a cosmology episode is the opposite of a dj vu experience. In moments of deja vu, everything suddenly feels familiar, recognizable. By contrast, in a cosmology episode, everything seems strange. A person feels like he has never been here before, has no idea of where he is, and has no idea who can help him. An inevitable stare of panic ensues, and the individual becomes more and more anxious until he finds it almost impossible to make sense of what is happening to him.
The continual merging and divesting and recombining and changing of responsibilities and bosses over the years has created immense cosmological episodes for business people. Even senior executives are unsure of whom they are working for and why. So I think it is fair to say that in the course of their careers, every manager will have a cosmology episode: their worlds will get turned upside down. Having the kind of alertness to weak signals that we see at High Response organizations can help managers avoid this particular psychological crisis. In the case of hantavirus, for example, the puzzle was eventually solved when epidemiologists discovered that recent climatic changes had produced an explosion in the rodent population that carried the virus, which increased the likelihood that humans might be exposed to hantavirus. In cosmological episodes, paying very close attention to details can definitely restore a sense of mastery.
What I have repeatedly noticed is that people who really get into trouble during these crisis are those who try to think everything through before taking action. The problem with defining and refining your hypothesis without testing them is that the world keeps changing, and your analysis gets further and further behind. So you have constantly got to update your thinking while you are sitting there and reflecting. And that is why I am such a proponent of what I call 'sensemaking'. There are many definitions of 'sensemaking; for me it is the transformation of raw experience into intelligible world views. It's a bit like what mapmakers do when they try to make sense of an unfamiliar place by putting it on paper. But the crucial point in cartography is that there is no one best map of a particular place. Similarly sense-making lends itself to multiple conflicting interpretations, all of which are plausible. If an organization finds itself unsure of where it's going, or even where its been, then it ought to be wide open to a lot of interpretations, al 1 of which can lead to possible action. The action and its consequence then begin to edit the list of interpretations down to a more manageable size.
And this is the point I wish to underscore. Action, tempered by reflection is the critical component in recovery from cosmology episodes. Once you start to act, you can flesh out your interpretations and rework them. It's the action itself that gets you moving. There is a beautiful, example of this. Several years ago a platoon of Hungarian soldiers got lost in the Alps. One of the soldiers found a map in his pocket and the troops used it to get out safely. Subsequently, however, the soldiers discovered that the map they used was in fact the drawing of another mountain range the Pyrennes. In crisis leaders have to act to think.
30. The hantavirus incident DOES NOT shows that:
A. Ignorance is pervasive
B. Uniqueness in its details can never be enumerated exhaustively
C. Pursuit of rationality is futile
D. None of the above
31. The nature of knowledge that most probably seems to be the ambit of the author in the above passage relates to which of the following?
A. Practical knowledge
B. Transcendental knowledge
C. Traditional knowledge
D. None of the above
32. Which of the following is necessarily true sad follows from the argument developed in the passage?
A. Action and conceptualization about reality is necessarily sequential
B. No concepts can be speculated about without action
C. Establishment of any concept cannot be done through discussions alone
D. None of the above
33. Sense-making as used in the passage refers to skills that primarily depend on:
A. The five human senses
B Memory
C. Skills of cognition
D. None of the above
34. A deja vu is a feeling where everything seems familiar, in order. Behind it, however, is a tragedy for the appearance of order is illusory. Ignorance about the disorder as well as non-experiencing of it builds the illusion. Such a characterization of deja vu is its use in the passage. (Choose the apt phrase to fill the gap)
A. Not inconsistent with
B. Inconsistent with
C. Necessarily follows from
D. Similar to
35. The use of episode in cosmological episode in the passage refers to:
A. Possibility of repetition of the experience
B. Disquieting nature of the experience
C. Accumulative nature of the experience
D. None of the above