Synonyms & Antonyms — CAT Previous-Year Questions
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Synonyms & Antonyms · CAT PYQs
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
For every word a sentence is given, you have to find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word.
OPPROBRIUM - The police had to bear the opprobrium generated by their blatant partisan conduct.
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
For every word a sentence is given, you have to find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word.
PORTENDS - It appears to many that US "war on terrorism" portends trouble in Gulf.
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
For every word a sentence is given, you have to find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word.
PREVARICATE - When her video tape recording was shown to her and asked to explain her presence, she started prevaricating.
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
For every word a sentence is given, you have to find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word.
RESTIVE - The waiting public started getting restive when the leader got late for the speech.
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
For every word a sentence is given, you have to find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word.
OSTENSIBLE - The watchmen's ostensible job is to guard this building.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. 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.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. 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.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. 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.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. 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.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. 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.