Vocabulary previous years questions (CAT) - Set 0005
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Previous years`s CAT questions: Vocabulary
Post your solutions as reply to respective questions below.
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Question 1
In this context, the ________ of the British labour movement is particularly ________.
(1) affair, weird
(2) activity, moving
(3) experience, significant
(4) atmosphere, gloomy   (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 3
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Question 2
Indian intellectuals may boast, if they are so inclined, of being ________ to the most elitist among
the intellectual ________ of the world.(1) subordinate, traditions
(2) heirs, cliques
(3) ancestors, societies
(4) heir, traditions (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 2
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Question 3
Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context..
SPECIOUS: A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of truth.
(1) Deceitful
(2) Fallacious
(3) Credible
(4) Deceptive (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 3
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Question 4
Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
OBVIATE: The new mass transit system may obviate the need for the use of personal cars.
(1) Prevent
(2) Forestall
(3) Preclude
(4) Bolster   (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 4
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Question 5
Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
DISUSE: Some words fall into disuse as technology makes objects obsolete.
(1) Prevalent
(2) Discarded
(3) Obliterated
(4) Unfashionable   (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 1
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Question 6
Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
PARSIMONIOUS: The evidence was constructed from very parsimonious scraps of information.
(1) Frugal
(2) Penurious
(3) Thrifty
(4) Altruistic (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 4
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Question 7
Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
FACETIOUS: When I suggested that war is a method of controlling population, my father remarked that I was being facetious.
(1) Jovian
(2) Jovial
(3) Jocular
(4) Joking  (CAT 2001)
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Answer: Option 1
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Question 8
Though one eye is kept firmly on the ________, the company now also promotes ________ contemporary art.
A. present, experimental
B. future, popular
C. present, popular
D. market, popular (CAT 2000)
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Answer: Option 2
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Question 9
The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree, even if it grows on oneâs own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the government, this legal provision leads to a riproaring business for ________, who care neither for the ________, nor for the trees.
A. middlemen, rich
B. the government, poor
C. touts, rich
D. touts, poor  (CAT 2000)
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Answer: Option 4
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Question 10
It will take some time for many South Koreans to ________ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ________ what to make of their northern cousins.
(1) reconcile, decide
(2) understand, clarify
(3) make out, decide
(4) reconcile, understand  (CAT 2000)
