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ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 19th)
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1. Timorous
2. Prudent
3. Moderate
4. Hasten
5. Abase
6. Quench
7. Descry
8. Jarred
9. Accolade
10. Qualified
11. Castle
12. Moat
13. Mnemonics
14. Antidote
15. Balm
16. Sedative
17. Nitpick
18. Vaunt
19. Pliable
20. Unassuming
21. Secrete
Analogies:
1. Castle: Moat
2. Mnemonics: Word
3. Antidote: Poison
4. Balm: Itching
5. Sedative: Sleep
6. Zoning: Land
7. Journal: Entries
8. Nitpick: Criticize
Issue Topic:
1. Technology is used to degrade the human life than to improve it.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 18th)
1. Connive
2. Assiduous
3. Superficial
4. Discordant
5. Sequential
6. Tether
7. Haphazard
Analogies:
1. Spy: watch
2. Haphazard: order
3. Orchestra: musician
Issue Topic:
1. "Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall
condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity."
2. The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made
possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."
Argument Topic:
1. The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to
covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned
with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during
our late-night news program have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to
our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand the coverage of weather and local news
on all our news programs."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 14th)
1. Enervate
2. Vindictive
3. Querulous
4. Adumbration
5. Accrue
6. Elucidate
7. Prognosis
8. Pervasive
9. Effrontery
10. Congeal
11. Camouflage
12. Vehemence
13. Charlatan
14. Doctrine
15. Distress
16. Banal
17. Hackneyed
18. Suppress
19. Prosaic
20. Thwart
21. Venerate
22. Quell
23. Nebulous
24. Exalted
25. Perpetual
26. Desiccant
27. Palliate
28. Disabuse
29. Enfeeble
30. Vigor
31. Exonerate
32. Disdain
Issue Topic:
1. Though many people know the ways to success, only great people utilize it effectively.
2. In present day professions and academics, importance is given to imagination than knowledge.
3. The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that
everyone has more leisure time.
4. It is difficult to follow tradition and technology, when one has to choose between them.
5. The Laws should not always be rigid. They should be flexible and take into account the
circumstances,
times and places of the occurrence of crime.
Argument Topic:
1. Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have
long wondered how the Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.
Since
archeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now
conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and
techniques, to create these statues. This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statues were
abstract and entirely different in style: molds could only be used for life-size sculptures. It also
explains
why few ancient Kalinese sculpting tools have been found. In light of this development, collectors
should expect the life-size sculptures to decrease in value and the miniatures to increase in value.
2. The following was posted on an Internet real estate discussion site.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams is clearly
superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents. In contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only
part-time.
Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch, and included home sales that
averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: Ten
years ago, I listed my home with Fitch and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I
sold
another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home
quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 13th)
1. Maligner
2. Infuse
3. Camouflaged
4. Liken
5. Congeal
6. Slump
7. Tether
8. Mottled
9. Pliant
10. Tortuous
11. Gregarious
12. Sociability
13. Nebulous
14. Teeter
15. Serpentine
16. Blighted
17. Everlasting
18. Eulogy
19. Shirk
20. Philanthropist
Analogies:
1. Eulogy: speech
2. Shirk: duty
3. Philanthropist: generosity
Issue Topic:
1.Video recording is more important means of documenting ontemporary life than a written
record.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 12th)
1. Aggrieve
2. Proselytizer
3. Vacillate
4. Obdurate
5. Slight
6. Haphazard
7. Camouflage
8. Celerity
9. Polarize
10. Limp
Analogies:
1. Unmatched: equaled
2. Limp: Walk
3. Artisan: potter
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 11th)
1.Haphazard
2.Caustic
3.Instill
4.Decentralization
5.Peripheral
6.Oblivious
7.Quell
8.Assuage
9.Finicky
10.Gourmet
11.Disband.
12.Dodder
13.Wince
14.Instill
15.Integral
16.Desecrate
17.Disgruntle
18.Facetious
19.Curb
20.Prairie
21.Sycophant
22.Ballad
23.Limp
Analogies:
1.Zoning: land
2.Pain: wince
3.Dodder : walk
4.Grandstand: impress
5.Prairie : trees
6.Flattery : sycophant
7.Song : ballad
8.Limp : Walk
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 8th)
1. Natatorium
2. Gainsay
3. Procrastinate
4. Disabashment
5. Embarassment
6. Vituperative
7. Torpor
8. Scathed
9. Vacillate
10. Transcend
11. Subpoena
12. Fraught
13. Placidity
Analogies:
1. Disabashment:Embarrassement
2. Fraught: placidity
3. Novelist: book
Issue Topic:
1. High-speed electronic communications media, such as electronic mail and television, tend to
prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 7th)
1. Quarantine
2. Accolade
3. Grill
4. Invigorate
5. Delegation
6. Imprudent
7. Contrite
8. Laconic
9. Deftness
10. Mirth
11. Pulchritude
12. Harangue
13. Mollify
14. Ladle
Analogies:
1. Spectacles : Look
2. Soup: ladle
3. Harangue: mollify
Argument Topic:
1. The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has
greatly
improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a five-hundred-page report in only two hours;
another graduate
rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read,
the more
information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read costs only $500 per employee — a small price to
pay when
you consider the benefits to Acme. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong
subscription to the
Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read
course."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 6th)
1. Charlatan
2. Facetious
3. Harebrained
4. Hasten
5. Tantalizing
6. Instill
7. Lampoon
8. Shun
9. Clairvoyant
10. Decentralization
11. Lubrication
12. Saboteur
Analogies:
1. Lubrication: Friction
2. Saboteur: Disrupt
Issue Topic:
1. Luxurious life is a hindrance for the growth of individualism in the youth.
2. In order to improve the quality of education in universities and colleges the faculty must be
required to work outside the
academic world in the industries pertaining to the subjects they teach.
3. In any field, imagination is more important than knowledge.
4. An individual`s greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most
objective evaluators of a person`s
greatness are people who belong to a later time.
5. Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
Argument Topic:
1. A college dean in his memo
"This college needs a new dormitory to be built as it will be inadequate for the new students
keeping in view the increasing
admissions in the college and its protraction after 50 years. Moreover the new building would
attract more prospective students."
(It is something like that)
2. In order to curb the growing cases of cheating in educational institutes we should adopt the
Groverton system.The Grovertan
calls for a honour council where students themselves are made members and they should report
cheating cases to the faculty.
Statistics of the report conducted in two years indicated that in use of such system the cases
reported dropped by half in the next
year. Hence all college can adopt this system.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 5th)
1. Evoke
2. Indispensable
3. Cognizance
4. Stringent
5. Chary
6. Decentralization
7. Hygiene
8. Effervescive
9. Instill
10. Snarl
11. Facetious
12. Harebrained
13. Measly
14. Disgruntled
15. Predilection
16. Bestow
Analogies:
1. Song: ballad
2. Stanza: poem
Issue Topic:
1. High speed electronic media like electronic mails and televisions are tending to prevent
effective and thoughtful communication.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 4th)
1.Maveric
2. Hasten
3. Ambivalence
3. Obfuscate
4. Argentums
5. Sacrosanct
Issue topic:
1. "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain is justifiable."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 1st)
1. Instill(v): to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings; to introduce by gradual, persistent efforts;To pour in (medicine,
for example) drop by drop; to introduce (feelings, etc.) little by little; fill, as with a certain quality.
Synonyms: inculcate, engender, imbue, impart, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix, infuse, inject,
insert, insinuate.
2. Decentralization(v): to disperse (something) from an area of concentration; to distribute the administrative functions or powers
of (a central authority) among several local authorities; To undergo redistribution or dispersal away from a central location or
authority.
3. Peripheral(adj): concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question; Related to, located in,
or constituting an outer boundary or periphery; Of minor relevance or importance; External; away from the center; as, the peripheral
portion of the nervous system.
Synonyms: circumferential, distal, distant, external, incidental, marginal, secondary, surface.
4. Oblivious(adj): unmindful; unconscious; unaware; forgetful; without remembrance or memory; lacking all memory; lacking
conscious awareness; unmindful; unaware of or not paying attention to.
Synonyms: absentminded, disregardful, heedless, inattentive, preoccupied, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unnoticing,
unwitting.
5. Zoning(v): to divide (a city, town, neighborhood, etc.) into areas subject to special restrictions on any existing or proposed
buildings; to surround or encircle with or as if with a belt or girdle; to designate or mark off into zones.
(Adj): (esp. in city planning) of or pertaining to the division of an area into zones, as to restrict the number and types of buildings
and their uses.
6. Wince(v): to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; to shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress; make
a face indicating disgust or dislike; to start or jump with pain.
Synonyms: cower, cringe, flinch, gesture, grimace, movement, quail, recoil, reel, shrink; blench.
Analogies:
1. Zoning: Land
2. Pain: Wince
Issue Topic:
1. It is often necessary and desirable for the political leaders to withhold information from public.
Argument Topic:
1. A letter is written to the head of the tourism of tria island.
The island is facing a great problem of errosion so we have to charge the people visiting . This may decrease the no of visitors.
With the fund raised we can replenish the sand in the island. Like the island Batia did we can protect the buildings from damage by
replenishing sand. in the long term tourism can be developed and more people are attracted.
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