Official verbal ability thread for CAT 2014

Fill in the the blank

Shady trees are growing ...................

1. on both side of the road.

2. on each side of the road.

3. on either sides of the road.

4. on either side of the road.

5. None of these

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........................, you would have succeeded in the examination.

1. Would that you worked hard

2. You had worked hard

3. If you would worked hard

4. Had you worked hard

5. None of these.

Puys, I am sorry, it's off topic, 

Can anyone plz tell any good book or website or methodology for LR and DI..

I am very weak in them.Any source for the techniques.(specially LR)

I have a week ... plz help..

Thanks in advance

Find the error

1. All the boys reached 2.the stadium well before 3. the match started.

Anybody from bangalore having 16th afternoon schedule in APS College?

Hi, pls can someone remind me of 2 formulas, forgot both-


1. to find integrals coordinates , Area = something - 1

2. ordered pair of triplets for a given LCM.



Thanks!!!


Fill in the the blank with one of words given in options

The mounting pressure was so overwhelming that his parents   ultimately ...................... to his wishes.

1. consented in 2. yielded in  3. gave in  4. agreed in

FED UP WITH THIS CAT SH**...HV EXAM ON 16TH......MORNING SESSION......F****

hey!!! since the pattern  has changed i was wondering how many questions should be attempted atleast??plz respond

From the given options select and mark the word which is the closest to meaning of the word in bold letters.

1. Augment

A. To Search   B. To Enhance  C. To Prepare D. To involve E. To evaluate

 2.  Allure    

A. Fascinate  B. Disappear  C. Depend  D. Bemuse  E.Flatter                                                                                                        

3. Admonish

A. Praise   B. Approach  C. Reprimand  D. Reduce  E. Attract

4. Alleviate

A. Lessen  B. Aggravate  C. Raise D. Move forward  E. Contemplate

5. Assuage

A. Criticise  B. Punish  C. Suspect  D. Implicate  E. Reduce

6. Adroit

A. Skillful   B. Novice  C. Incompetent  D. Immature E. Virtuous

Guys a fundamental doubt! Punctuation is included in grammar, right? In some questions it is mentioned as spelling, punctuation etc, but in others, it is not, although they may contain the punctuation errors. 

Please explain why this statement is an inference?

Even without war,we know that conflicts continue to trouble us - they only change in character.

Puys and Pirls, all of us who have our CAT on 22nd morning, lets discuss here 

http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/cat-2014-november-22-forenoon-slot-discussions-30020323

Hi People

Do we knock 'on' the door or do we knock 'at' the door?

Troubling me since a few hours :o 


DIRECTIONS for the question: In the given paragraph, the last line has been deleted. Choose the option that logically follows the paragraph.

To prepare for his role in the Turing test held in 2009, in which contestants compete for the Loebner prize for the most convincingly human computer and the most convincingly human human, Mr Christian analyses how computers fool people into thinking they are human and what persuades people that they are indeed talking to a machine. He recounts a tale told by Robert Epstein, who co-founded the prize with Hugh Loebner. Mr Epstein was deceived into thinking he was exchanging long letters online with a woman over a period of four months when he was, in fact, talking to a chatbot. Mr Christian identifies what distinguishes a computer from a real person: a machine that analyses vast numbers of previous conversations to identify a suitable response becomes inconsistent, for example, because its identity is actually that of many individuals. A chatbot lacks motive: it has no particular reason to say what it says and it speaks without really listening

Anyone has a repository of homonyms,homophones and homographs? Please share.

a.she

b.made

c.ramesh to do

d.the whole work

e.no error

find error

The general public is beginning to recognize the international standing of indian golf players who earn more money than the indian cricketers.

F/I/J ????

Can anyone tell me what is the most efficient way to identify if a statement is fact, inference or a judgement??? . these questions are pissing me off ...

BOARD

 a Aryan tried to board up a broken window. 

 bThe board has seven active members.  

cThe kneading board was plastic made.  

dThe package included bed and board.