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Verbal Reasoning Blue Lotus

Verbal Reasoning Blue Lotus. Verbal Reasoning. Verbal Ability is to understand the Prose and to work with Specialized and Technical Vocabulary Verbal Ability falls under following categories: * Syn onyms * Antonyms * Analogy * Sentence Completions * Reading Comprehensions

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Verbal Reasoning Blue Lotus

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  1. Verbal Reasoning Blue Lotus

  2. Verbal Reasoning • Verbal Ability is to understand the Prose and to work with Specialized and Technical Vocabulary • Verbal Ability falls under following categories: *Synonyms *Antonyms *Analogy * Sentence Completions * Reading Comprehensions *Spotting Errors *Idioms

  3. Formation Of Words • Primary Words: Example : Run, Go, Do. • Compound Words : Example : Moonlight, Sweetheart, Spendthrift, Drawing room, Downfall.

  4. Formation Of Words • Primary Derivatives: Example : Breach (N) from break (V), Glaze from (V) Glass (N) • Secondary Derivatives: Prefix - a, ab, un, mis. Suffix - ful, less, ati, ism

  5. Greek Roots: chron - morph - pan - neo - pyr - astro - time form all new fire star Root Words

  6. Greek Roots: Example chronicle - Metamorphosis - Panorama - Neologism - pyrotechnics - astronaut - historical record change of form an all round view new word or meaning relating to fireworks space traveler Root Words

  7. Greek Roots: ped - soma - gam - theo - onym - path - phil - child body marriage god name feeling to love Root Words

  8. Pediatrician - somatic - monogamy - theomacy - toponym - Sympathy - Philosophy - doctor who treats child of body married to one person battle among god word derived from name of place Compassion for someone else’s pain love of wisdom Root Words

  9. Greek Roots: poly - bibli - misein - logy - archy/ cracy - psyche - many book to hate study of rule by mind, spirit, soul Root Words

  10. Greek Roots: Example polyglot - bibliophile - misogamist - graphology - theocracy - psychosis - competent in many languages book seller one who hates marriage study of handwriting rule by gods a mental disorder Root Words

  11. Latin Roots: cede, ceed, cess - brev - nihil - omni - cide - nec - dorm, somn - go / movement short nothing/abolish all to kill death to sleep Root Words

  12. Latin Roots: recede - breviary - Annihilate - Omniscient - filicide - necrology - dormant - go back summary kill, reduce to nothing all knowing killing of children list of the dead, obituary asleep Root Words

  13. Latin Roots: luc - loqu/locut - bene - mal - cred - bel - vor - scribe - light to speak good bad believe war eat to write Root Words

  14. Latin Roots: elucidate - solilquy - beneficial - malevolent - credulous - antebellum - omnivore - describe - make clear speaking alone good for harmful, wanting to cause harm ready to believe preceding a war who eats everything write in detail Root Words

  15. Latin Roots: later - side magni - large rect - straight Doc - to teach flect - to bend fract - break tract/ tang - touch verto - to turn Root Words

  16. Latin Roots: bilateral - side magnify - greatness of size rectify - straighten or to correct doctrine - rule or principle genuflect - Bend in a gesture of respect fracture - break intact - untouched ambivert - to turn your thoughts in both direction Root Words

  17. Antonym • Think of a Context. • Carefully Read the given Choices. • Consider Secondary Meaning as well as Primary Meaning. • Breakdown Unfamiliar Words into Recognizable parts. • Eliminate the Choices for Answer.

  18. Example:1 Industrious: • Stupid • Harsh • Indolent • Complex • Inexpensive

  19. Antonym Answer: c) Indolent ( lazy, lethargic, idle)

  20. Example:2 Belittle • Lessen • Intensity • Compliment • Begrudge • Fawn

  21. Antonym Answer: c) Compliment

  22. Example:3 Debilitate • Discharge • Strengthen • Undermine • Squelch • Delete

  23. Antonym Answer: b) Strengthen

  24. Example:4 Maladroit • Ill-willed • Dexterous • Cowardly • Enduring • Sluggish

  25. Antonym Answer: b) Dexterous

  26. Example:5 Prim • Enormous • Unsuitable • Arid • Healthy • Slight

  27. Antonym Answer: b) Unsuitable

  28. Example:6 Work through the choices, turning each into its opposite: Carnal • Sensual • Aural • Oral • Unusual • Spiritual

  29. Antonym Answer: e) Spiritual

  30. Example:7 Alleviate: • Alienate • Worsen • Revitalize • Aerate • Elevate

  31. Antonym Answer: b) Worsen

  32. Example:8 Precipitate: • Candid • Erratic • Cautious • Generous • Shallow

  33. Antonym Answer: • Cautious

  34. Example:9 PERSPICUITY (Eloquence ,clarity): a) madden. b) disturbance. c) articulacy. d) vagueness. WIPRO 2008

  35. Antonym Answer : d) Vagueness

  36. Example:10 Veracity a) flaw b) restlessness c) dishonesty d) reliable (INFOSYS 2008)

  37. Antonym Answer : c) dishonesty

  38. Example:11 Disregarded (a) heed (b) hopeful(c) evade(d) dense (Satyam)

  39. Antonym Answer: (a) heed

  40. Example:12 Obviate(a) becloud(b) necessitate(c) rationalize(d) execute (Satyam)

  41. Antonym Answer: (b) necessitate

  42. Example:13 Superficial(a)  profound(b) exaggerated(c) subjective(d) spirited (satyam)

  43. Antonym Answer: (a)  profound

  44. Example:14 ABJURE • Blaspheme • Champion • Gesticulate • Mitigate (TCS)

  45. Antonym Answer: (b) Champion

  46. Example:15 PRODIGAL • Bountiful • Dependent • Provident • Superfluous (TCS)

  47. Antonym Answer: c. Provident

  48. Example:16 Catholic • Uncharitable • Reticent • Specialized • Irreverent • Reckless

  49. Antonym Answer: c) Specialized

  50. Example:17 Slothful • Credulous • Highly skilled • Without resources • Sprightly

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