Verbal Ability for MBA

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Verbal Ability:
In VA section, there are broadly five types of questions:
Critical Reasoning
Paragraph Forming (Para Jumbled Questions)
Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension

Verbal Ability questions:
Cacophony : Quarrelling people created a lot of
cacophony and so nobody was able to hear us.
(a) fighting (b) hearing
(c) noise (d) bitterness

Fallacy : Don’t live under the fallacy that luck
will do everything for you.
(a) right belief
(b) weakness
(c) pleasure
(d) wrong belief

Desiccate : The washed and wet wheat was
spread under the sun to desiccate.
(a) to dry (b) to shine
(c) to pack (d) to break

Exacerbate : Drinking more and more
exacerbated his already poor health.
(a) improved
(b) worsened
(c) killed
(d) checked

Ambiguous : He changed his statement so many
times that entire his message became ambiguous.
(a) clear (b) impressive
(c) unimpressive (d) unclear


Synonym in Context
Directions Choose the synonym from the four options
for the underlined word in the sentence.

Example 1. Cacophony : Quarrelling people created a lot of
cacophony and so nobody was able to hear us.
(a) fighting
(b) hearing
(c) noise
(d) bitterness
Explanation What quarrelling or fighting or arguing people
produce or create that makes hearing impossible? They
created what?
The correct answer is (c) noise.

Example 2. Fallacy : Don’t live under the fallacy that luck
will do everything for you.
(a) right belief
(b) weakness
(c) pleasure
(d) wrong belief
Explanation Is depending on luck for everything right or good?
You can re-read the sentences as ‘Don’t live under the
wrong or bad idea that …’.
The correct answer is (d) wrong belief.

Example 3. Desiccate : The washed and wet wheat was
spread under the sun to desiccate.
(a) to dry
(b) to shine
(c) to pack
(d) to break
Explanation Why do we spread washed clothes and grains
under the sun?
The correct answer is (a) to dry.


Example 4. Exacerbate : Drinking more and more
exacerbated his already poor health.
(a) improved
(b) worsened
(c) killed
(d) checked
Explanation Is it advisable to drink when somebody’s health is
already poor? What will it do to his health – improve or
make it further bad?
You can read it as ‘Drinking more and more deteriorated
…’
The correct answer is (b) worsened.

Example 5. Ambiguous : He changed his statement so many
times that entire his message became ambiguous.
(a) clear
(b) impressive
(c) unimpressive
(d) unclear
Explanation Will not change statements again and again
confuse the listeners and make it unclear to them?
You can re-read the sentence as ‘that entire his message
became confusing’.
The correct answer is (d) unclear

At times you may not be able to guess the meaning in the
context because of
(a) unfamiliar idea or language
(b) unusual usage of the word
In such cases, you are advised to take help of the root of
the word, prefix-suffix or other such devices that we are
going to discuss further.


Antonym in Context
The exercise on synonyms has made this clear to you how
to locate a correct answer. In case of antonyms, you have to
first replace the underlined word with an easier word and
then make negative of the word by adding ‘no’ or ‘not’ to
it. Read the sentence again with the negative word. Then,
look for the word in the choices that can fit in the sentence
without changing its meaning in the negative sense.
Follow the procedure explained below in finding
antonyms to a word in a given context.
Directions Guess the meaning of the underlined words
in the context and choose the antonym for the same.


Example 1. Diligent : The student’s constant and diligent
efforts brought him great success.
(a) lucky
(b) constant
(c) lazy
(d) slow
Explanation ‘Constant and diligent’ can be read as ‘constant
and labourious’ and converted into negative as ‘constant
but not labourious’. Another word for ‘not laborious’ is
lazy.
The correct answer is (c) lazy.


Example 2. Bellicose : The bellicose countries finally
stopped fighting.
(a) friendly
(b) fighting
(c) peaceful
(d) hateful
Explanation ‘Finally stopped fighting’ suggests that the
countries were fighting. Bellicose means fighting.
Therefore, you need ‘not fighting’ as opposite and another
word for the same is peaceful.
The correct answer is (c) peaceful.


Example 3. Audacity : Encouraged by success, the soldier
moved with audacity and killed the enemy.
(a) courage
(b) boldness
(c) timidity
(d) strength
Explanation Obviously, the soldier moves with confidence or
courage or boldness as he was encouraged. Therefore, for
‘without courage’ there is only one option.
The correct answer is (c) timidity.

Example 4. Garrulous : She had to listen to her garrulous
guest for hours in courtesy.
(a) taciturn
(b) talkative
(c) funny
(d) interestin

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