Official verbal ability thread for CAT 2014

Word of the day - Temporal ("Lasting only for a certain period of time; not eternal, only temporary")


The benefits of the new medicine were temporal in nature and the health problems recurred.

Complete the sentences using further or farther.

A) Your actions have made me move_______ from you.
B) My house is _______ than yours from the school.

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Common phrasal verbs and their usage

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Word of the day - puerile (childishly silly and immature)

The reasons he gave for not attending his best friend's wedding were absolutely puerile and absurd

Question of the day - Sentence correction CAT / GMAT

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can smbdy explain wat does this mean...iam not able to get it completely


If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death......



@scrabbIer sir!!!


specially ",,,,and you will do comparatively little harm....



.....or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death......





ps: its a saying by bernard shaw... and was asked as a para completion questn in one of cl mocks!!!






The cat was _________ in watching the skiing show on television.

How's this book:

The Pearson Guide to Verbal Ability for the CAT and Other MBA Entrance Examinations 1st Edition

Author:Sujit Kumar


FE (in one or more parts of the sentences)

TEST SERIES FOR CAT 14 ??

Which test series combination for CAT 14 ?

I have taken TIME only for CAT 13 but felt them very much tougher than CAT and also their Exam interface is also not good ( There is no highlighting option for RC's, analysis not given properly and also their AIMCAT centers also not responding well) Despite all these, the very tough quant (when compared to actual CAT) and the toughest RC passages in them made me demoralised and I feel no use in giving TIME AIMCATS (My personal presceptive i m not advising anyone to stop taking TIME AIMCAT series. )

So, please advise me a test series other than TIME ...

WHich combination is better ?? IMS+CL or BYJU + CL or any other series ??? the test series have to be touugher than CAT ( I believe all test series are made tougher than CAT in order to maximise performance on CAT day) but it must not be as tough as TIME ???

Pls provide ur reviews on all test series ?? also will it be a disadvantage for me if i dnt tkae most popular test series in india AIMCAT ?? Pls ans me ??

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almost th i rty years ago,

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almost th i rty years ago,

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pov erty in Braz i l ' s in terior ci t ies,


Anti-plagiarism software is growing increasingly sophisticated; it is now enabling a scholar like Vickers to

investigate the __________ of unattributed works of literature. €œWith this method we see the way authors use

and reuse the same phrases and ________ , like chunks of fabric in a weave, €? says Vickers.

a. provenance, metaphors

b. authenticity, styles

c. truthfulness, metres

d. plausibility, idioms

can smbdy explain wat does this mean...iam not able to get it completely



If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death......



@scrabbler

sir!!!



specially ",,,,and you will do comparatively little harm....


.....or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death......


ps: its a saying by bernard shaw... and was asked as a para completion questn in one of cl mocks!!!

Word of the day - Nebulous (vague or ill defined concept)


Usage: As a new business you have to be very focused on how you spend you marketing dollars; you do not have the marketing muscle to compete with the nebulous competition.

Does any one have any good pdf for Grammer for CAT, if yes, plz share,thanks in advance

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My family ________ never been able to agree.

Complete the sentence using a,an or the.

____ eagle is _____ bird.