Test Your RC Vocubalary   

These words have been appeared last year in various exams like CAT (in Reading Comprehension), XAT, FMS ,SNAP,IIFT

Directions: Each test is printed in BOLD letters in phrase or sentence. From the four choices , select the one that comes nearest to the precise meaning of the test word.

1. Specious argument (FMS)
A. unreasonable	B. Reasonable
C. Inaccurate	D. Deceptive
2. Got the comeuppance (IIFT)
A. Reward	B. Stolen Thing
C. Punishment	D. Concealed information
3. Peripatetic people (FMS)
A. Easily angered	B. Petulant
C. Wandering	D. Haughty
4. His Tergiversation (NM)
A. Excuse	B. Desertion
C. Sophistry	D. Chicanery
5. A minatory statement (XAT)
A. Essential	B. False
C. Terse	D. Threatening
6. His flak (NM)
A. Praise	B. Censure
C. Anger	D. Abusive Speech
7. We will subsume it (CAT 2005)
A. Excise	B. Deposit
C. Undermine	D. Include
8. They fulminated (XAT)
A. Inveigh	B. Eulogized
C. Objection	D. Support
9. He expiated (FMS)
A. Apologized	B. Supplicated
C. Atoned	D. Exhorted
10. He gouged me (XAT)
A. Overcharge	B. Helped
C. Explicated	D. Cozened
11. His propensity (CAT 2006)
A. Abhorrence	B. likeliness
C. Aversion	D. Visceral energy
12. importuning every passenger (CAT 2005)
A. Directing	B. Overcharging
C. Distributing	D. requesting annoyingly

If you have scored less than 7, you need to develop your level of Vocabulary. The fallout you all grapping with the problem of poor score in Reading Comprehension.

Ans:

1-D    2-C    3-C    4-B    5-D    6-B    7-D    8-A    9-C    10-A    11-B    12-D