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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
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
Formation Of Words • Primary Words: Example : Run, Go, Do. • Compound Words : Example : Moonlight, Sweetheart, Spendthrift, Drawing room, Downfall.
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
Greek Roots: chron - morph - pan - neo - pyr - astro - time form all new fire star Root Words
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
Greek Roots: ped - soma - gam - theo - onym - path - phil - child body marriage god name feeling to love Root Words
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
Greek Roots: poly - bibli - misein - logy - archy/ cracy - psyche - many book to hate study of rule by mind, spirit, soul Root Words
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
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
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
Latin Roots: luc - loqu/locut - bene - mal - cred - bel - vor - scribe - light to speak good bad believe war eat to write Root Words
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
Latin Roots: later - side magni - large rect - straight Doc - to teach flect - to bend fract - break tract/ tang - touch verto - to turn Root Words
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
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.
Example:1 Industrious: • Stupid • Harsh • Indolent • Complex • Inexpensive
Antonym Answer: c) Indolent ( lazy, lethargic, idle)
Example:2 Belittle • Lessen • Intensity • Compliment • Begrudge • Fawn
Antonym Answer: c) Compliment
Example:3 Debilitate • Discharge • Strengthen • Undermine • Squelch • Delete
Antonym Answer: b) Strengthen
Example:4 Maladroit • Ill-willed • Dexterous • Cowardly • Enduring • Sluggish
Antonym Answer: b) Dexterous
Example:5 Prim • Enormous • Unsuitable • Arid • Healthy • Slight
Antonym Answer: b) Unsuitable
Example:6 Work through the choices, turning each into its opposite: Carnal • Sensual • Aural • Oral • Unusual • Spiritual
Antonym Answer: e) Spiritual
Example:7 Alleviate: • Alienate • Worsen • Revitalize • Aerate • Elevate
Antonym Answer: b) Worsen
Example:8 Precipitate: • Candid • Erratic • Cautious • Generous • Shallow
Antonym Answer: • Cautious
Example:9 PERSPICUITY (Eloquence ,clarity): a) madden. b) disturbance. c) articulacy. d) vagueness. WIPRO 2008
Antonym Answer : d) Vagueness
Example:10 Veracity a) flaw b) restlessness c) dishonesty d) reliable (INFOSYS 2008)
Antonym Answer : c) dishonesty
Example:11 Disregarded (a) heed (b) hopeful(c) evade(d) dense (Satyam)
Antonym Answer: (a) heed
Example:12 Obviate(a) becloud(b) necessitate(c) rationalize(d) execute (Satyam)
Antonym Answer: (b) necessitate
Example:13 Superficial(a) profound(b) exaggerated(c) subjective(d) spirited (satyam)
Antonym Answer: (a) profound
Example:14 ABJURE • Blaspheme • Champion • Gesticulate • Mitigate (TCS)
Antonym Answer: (b) Champion
Example:15 PRODIGAL • Bountiful • Dependent • Provident • Superfluous (TCS)
Antonym Answer: c. Provident
Example:16 Catholic • Uncharitable • Reticent • Specialized • Irreverent • Reckless
Antonym Answer: c) Specialized
Example:17 Slothful • Credulous • Highly skilled • Without resources • Sprightly