Vocabulary for Common Admission Test

I want to do MBA and for this I am doing preparation of the CAT (Common Admission Test) exam. Will you please provide me some tips to improve Vocabulary For Common Admission Test and also provide me Vocabulary Building Techniques for doing prep?

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Good Vocabulary is important for a high CAT score and a MUST for the other MBA exams.

In both the Sentence Completion Section and the Reading comprehension section of the CAT, you will come across many difficult words.

To improve your memory you must increase the number and variety of your mental associations.

Strategies for Building a Winning Vocabulary using Mental Associations:

Many CAT winners have successfully used one or more of the strategies below to remember 1000 word wordlists in just a few days.

- OUT OF PROPORTION - In all your images, try to distort size and shape. You can imagine things much larger than their normal size or conversely, microscopically small.

- SUBSTITUTION - You could visualize footballers kicking a television around a football pitch instead of a football, or pens growing on a tree instead of leaves. Substituting an out of place item in an image increases the probability of recall.

-EXAGGERATION - Try to picture vast quantities in your images.

- MOVEMENT - Any movement or action is always easy to remember. For example, Tutorial 1 suggested that you see yourself cutting into a sausage and gallons of ink squirting out and hitting you in the face.

Vocabulary Building Techniques

Etymology
Associations
Ideas
Reading

Some examples of Vocabulary:

Q1. Choose the closest meaning:

i. dishevelled appearance
a. untidy b. fierce
c.foolish d. Unhappy

ii. parry a blow
a. fear b. expect
c. ward off d. Ignore

iii. a clandestine meeting
a. prearranged b. hurried
c. public d. Secret

iv. a glib talker
a. smooth b. awkward
c. loud d. Boring

v. feel antipathy
a. friendliness b. hostility
c. suspense d. ashfulness

vi. an indefatigable worker
a. well-paid b. tired
c. tireless d. Pleasant