Official Verbal Ability thread for CAT 2013

MBA CAT 2024
2204

At a media interaction earlier this month, the Navy Chief indicated that the Indian

navy was prepared to protect the nation's interests in the South China Sea. The

navy chief's comments were drawn out from him by excitable journalists, so it is

advisable to take them with a pinch of salt.

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the conclusion above?

1) The Navy has a well laid out media interaction policy.

2) The Navy chief had decided to make this announcement before the

media interaction.

3) The Navy Chief has been caught saying things in the past which he

has had to take back.

4) With the pressure to earn new readership, journalists go to extreme

measures to get bites.

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2205

YES Bank Chief Economist Shubhada Rao said: €œWe expect RBI to maintain

status quo in its mid-quarter review on December 18, though the RBI is likely to

acknowledge the early moderation in price. €?

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage above?

1) The early moderation in price strengthens the status quo.

2) The early moderation in price does not disturb the status quo.

3) The early moderation in price does not affect the status quo.

4) The early moderation in price has a zero correlation with the status quo.

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2206

From the following words, choose the one that fits the maximum number of

blanks.

If you want to stay at this academy, you must 1. ____ by the rules.

2. I hope you can ____ for the money you spent!

3. The police ____ on the call they received.

4. Dad's poor knee is _____up again.

1) Account

2) Act

3) Abide

4) Pain

2207

Mark 'A' if only statement I is implicit

Mark 'B' if only statement II is implicit

Mark 'C' if either I or II is implicit

Mark 'D' if neither I nor II is implicit

Mark 'E' if both I and II are implicit

Countries that take on efforts to limit climate change have to contend with

fall in economic competitiveness compared to countries that do make such

efforts.

Statements:

i.Over the last 20 years every country has recognised the need to limit climate

change

ii.Countries need to be incentivised to take measures to limit climate change.

2208

In sentence correction,which one do we give more preference to,a wrong use of word or a wrong use of comma...?
Do we consider it wronf if a adjective is not commonly used with a verb but still make sense...??

PLease intelligent puys...:)

2209

puys what does 'got a plug from' means


2210

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2211

Complete the para:


Most of us spend our entire lives trapped and suffocating in a kind of limbo - trapped because, even without knowing it, we are always waiting. And that waiting is an experience of almost unbroken tyranny. We are trapped by the movement of time because we live in a state of constant anticipation - waiting, endlessly waiting, for the future to arrive.


1. we live in this way because we believe that in future our lives will somehow be better than they are now.

2. The fact is that future never arrives and the wait continues.

3. This life of inaction mars every possibility of giving the present its due importance.

4. With every moment of wait passing by the sense of frustration and suffocation keeps intensifying.


Looking for a good explanation as to why the answer would be 1 and not 2.

2212

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2213

Change in meanings with slight changes in words:

1. Aggravate : worsen
aggravating : irritating

2. Known as: named
known to be : acknowledged as

3.Loss of: no longer in posession
loss in :decline in value

4.mandate: command
have a mandate: have authority from votes

5.native of: person from
native to :species that originated in

6.range of :variety of
ranging :varying

7.rise: general increase
raise: increase in salary

8.such as :for instance
like : similar to

9 try to do :seek to accomplish
try doing: experiment with.

2214

4. The use of mixed media captures the artistic ________ of the visual medium, however, the

treatment

of colours limits their use to a tool rather than a symbolic ________ .

(1) creativity; dream (2) contours; passion

(3) splendour; expression (4) vagaries; palette

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2215

5. Life is a/an ________ of experiences with its mystic underplays waiting to be explored. The

profundity

of the inner self is juxtaposed with the ________ of the outside world in the journey towards

discovering

the eternal truth.

(1) vicissitude; distractions (2) labyrinth; vagaries

(3) agglomeration; distortions (4) mystery; profoundness

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2216

64. Upendra was so eager to _______ his preconceptions that he grasped at any fact which

seemed to

_______ the undeniable gaps in his report.

(a) overcome ... play (b) convey ... window

(c) preserve ... bridge (d) reinforce .. strengthen

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2217

Hi All,


I see these questions which are like parajumble but, in those questions we do not need to arrange the sentences, rather we need to find a sentence which doesn't belong in that paragraph. #OddOneOut . I can't get hold on those questions, those are all similar, is there any article / post / thread on that ??

@dark-phoenix @scrabbler @writetotanveer
2218

The Tallest person is not opposite to the shortest person, who in turn specializes in Ecology..

WHO is specialized in Ecology ?

The shortest or the tallest ?? Any logic ??

2219

Q1)It is an undeniable fact that even to this day, several women in India live in a _______

society, displaying very little _______ to break the chauvinistic conduct of a largely male

dominated world.

(1) downtrodden . . . steadfastness (2) impoverished . . . resilience (3) progressive . . . audacity

(4) conformist . . . courage

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2220

Q2) _______ not only involves _______ the impact of negative emotions and conceptions but

enhancing positive feelings and notions.

(1) Pacification . . . mitigating (2) Blandishment . . . reducing (3) Arbitration . . . truncating (4)

Adjudication . . . curtailing

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2221

Q1) In the Industrial Age,which was structured around the ________ of resources into

products,human beings readily accepted Charles Darwin's notion of nature as a battleground

and life as a/an ________ struggle to accumulate scarce resources.

(1)manufacture....inevitable

(2)conversion......cut-throat

(3)transformation.....competitive

(4)remodelling......aggressive

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2222

Q2)Tourism and entertainment are fusing together into cultural productions that are more a/an

_______ of experience than ______ experience itself.

(1)imitation....credible

(2)affectation..reliable

(3)assumption....genuine

(4)simulation....authentic

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2223

Q3) In an era where the automobile has been central to our sense of personal identity,its

_______ from something people own to something they lease is a sign of the dramatic change

taking place in the ________ economic relationship.

(1)conversion...coordination

(2)metamorphosis.....organization

(3)alteration....management

(4)transmutation....regulation

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