Official verbal ability thread for CAT 2014

That is why the leading lights of organisations like the Shiksha Bachao Andolan are affiliated to the RSS, which promotes a straight and narrow nationalist path for Hinduism. This view is gaining adherents, and not necessarily from the loony fringe. Dinanath Batra, the convenor of the Andolan and the first name on the petition against Penguin India, is a career teacher who once won a national teaching award. His comrade, OP Gupta, is a former Indian ambassador to, among other countries, Tanzania, Estonia, Tunisia and the Cayman Islands. _____________________________


a. They prefer a Hinduism that fits into an austere, monotheistic slot that is convenient to modern sloganeering and politics.

b. The core of their arguments against Doniger revolves around a “Christian conspiracy”.

c. Too many Hindus are becoming familiar with and supportive of Hinduism's emerging interpretation – the make-no-compromises approach.

d. These gentlemen – and their arguments – certainly cannot be called crazy.

Can someone please tell me which is the best book for critical reasoning?


Guys could you help me with this...... there are 7 boys A-G seated in a row facing the same direction.

F is at the extreme right seat. C is 3 places away to the left of F. Then will there be 2 empty seats or 3 empty seats between C and F? PS consider only that C and F are seated for time being.

He claimed that he had never seen that man, but I know that ________.

In each of the four ,questions given below , four sentences are given labelled 1,2,3,4.Of these three statements when arranged form a coherent paragraph .Choose the odd one out .
(1)Every boy wants to grow up and be an intellectual yet physical person.
(2)Writers are thought of as being bespectalced professors.
(3)Along comes Hemingway, who's a boxer and a bull-fighter . ... so macho and chest-thumping.
(4)When you are in front of a bull,you court death but you defy it too .

In each of the four ,questions given below , four sentences are given labelled 1,2,3,4.Of these three statements when arranged form a coherent paragraph .Choose the odd one out .
(1)Cline's first four singles flopped.
(2)But the "hillby with oomph" act she developed on TV and in personal appearances earned her regional fame .
(3)Her recording stalemate ended when she made her national TV debut on the Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1957.
(4)By the end of 1957 Cline had retreated into semi-retirement.

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FE:


1. A majority of the educationists

2. believes that

3. too many examinations

4. are counter-productive.

In each of the four ,questions given below , four sentences are given labelled 1,2,3,4.Of these three statements when arranged form a coherent paragraph .Choose the odd one out .
1)If the B-Theory is correct ,then our ordinary sense that events approach us from the future,arrive at the present , and recede into the past is at best a mind-dependent phenomenon.
2)For on the B-Theory ,there are no such irreducible monadic A-Properties as futurity ,presentness and pastness.
3)The B-theorist might yet have uses for 'past' , 'present' , and 'future'.
4)There is just a manifold of tenselessly exisitng events ordered by the B-Relations.


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police want to know all_________it and are calling for witnesses

a.beside
b.among
c.across
d.under

look,it's nearly midnight. it's____ time we went
1.almost
2.in
3.around
4.about

Creativity has long been a focus of academics in fields ranging from anthropology to neuroscience, and

has enticed management scholars as well. Therefore, a substantial body of work on creativity has been

available to any businessperson inclined to step back from the fray of daily management and engage in

its questions. And that's suddenly very fortunate, because what used to be an intellectual interest for

some thoughtful executives has now become an urgent concern for many. ____________________

a. The shift to a more innovation-driven economy has been abrupt.

b. Academicians have now pushed the ball in the management's court and it remains to be seen how

executives will cope up with this.

c. Management has now joined the long list of subjects that have a bias towards the arts rather than the

science.

d. Still many are unruffled by this race for creativity and we can, somehow, surmise their future.

Question of the day - GMAT / CAT Verbal (Sentence Correction)

Choose the right meaning for the below selected line.

(The marriage of the princess with the commoner) caused a furore among the royalty.


(a) mesalliance


(b) misalliance


(c) elopement


(d) romance


P.S -


how do you differentiate between mesalliance and misalliance ?

Which is the better mock series for the verbal section ? Is it true that TIME's verbal section is somewhat abstract and random compared to ims ?

Please post questions with 'Add a Question' and the correct answer if you already know.

The word given below has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option

corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

JOB

(a) There was a job of work waiting for him that he was not looking forward to.

(b) That cup of tea was just the job.

(c) Sorting these papers out is going to be a tall job.

(d) He got six months for that last job he did

Phrasal Verb differences:


Back something up : To reverse

Usage: I backed my car up in the morning.

Back someone up : To support

I backed my boss up over the new marketing idea.

Word of the day 1 - Truckle (to act in a subservient manner; submit)

Usage: Ralph was a man of principles and he refused to truckle to his managers in their illegal activities.