Verbal Questions - January 2008

January 31st

WORDS:

1.Barren

2.Arid

3.Solitude

4.Rococo

5.Riveting

6.Hone

7.Succulent

8.Desiccated

9.Reticent

10.Clairvoyant

11.Pacify

12.Solitude

13.Impeccable


ANALOGIES:

1.Journey : Leg

2.Vivid: Inspiration

3.Furniture: Rickety

4.Literature: Grammar

5.Stadium: Game

6.Disinfectant: Germ


ISSUE TOPICS:

1.To learn the characteristics of the society, is it enough to study about major cities

2.Facts are stubborn things, we cannot mold them.


January 30th

WORDS:

1. Ineluctable

2.Vitriol

3. Polemical

4.Luculent

5. Stoical

6. Taciturn

7. Peremptory

8. Encomium


ANALOGIES:

1. Founder: sink

2. He: she

3. Unstable: volatile


January 29th

WORDS:

1.Gruff

2.Rivet

3.Pacify

4.Qurush

5. Repudiate

6. Complaisance

7. Encomium

8. Embezzle

9. Adamant

10. Demoralized

11. Natatorium

12. Imbue

13. Vapid

14. Clairvoyant

15. Obscene


ANALOGIES:

1.Game: Stadium

2.Brake: speed

3.Embezzling: stealing

4.Generator: Electricity

5.Factory: Product


January 28th

WORDS:

1.Ostentatious

2.Foul

3.Reminiscence

4.Indefinable

5.Detrimental

6.Spurious

7.Intriguing

8.Reinforce

9.Rapacious

10.Prudent

11.Augury

12.Esoteric

13.Sacrilegious


ANALOGIES:

1.Mollify: pain

2.Founder: sink

3.Rigid: break

4.Canvas: painting

5.Building: shed


ISSUE TOPIC:

1.Ritual and Ceremonies increases the value of the society, does the absence of these…….. results to the downfall of the society?????


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1.Oven Baskets, which are very famous in Palean city, are also found in Lithos city which is within city of Palean city. There is a deep and long river between these two cities which needs minimum transportation to cross the river and there is no evidence that Palean needs boats or cargos or large ships. Palean city consists of thick forest which consists of nuts, samegame etc…………….. so Oven Baskets are not unique to Palean city.(something like this)


2.Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who still ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish margarine from butter, or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well."


January 25th

WORDS:

1. Polemical

2. Emulate

3. Reinforcement

4. Accolade

5. Gullible

6. Procrastinate

7. Exude

8. Limpid

9. Penurious

10. Paralyze

11. Fretwork

12. Collude

13. Wary

14. Dire

15. Comprehensive


ANALOGIES:

1. Collude:cooperate

2. Ballad: song


COMPLETE ARGUMENT TOPICS:

1. The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Alta Manufacturing.

"During the past year, Alta Manufacturing had thirty percent more on-the-job accidents than nearby Panoply Industries, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. Experts believe that a significant contributing factor in many on-the-job accidents is fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers. Therefore, to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents at Alta and thereby increase productivity, we should shorten each of our three work shifts by one hour so that our employees will get adequate amounts of sleep."

2. The following appeared in a business magazine.
"As a result of numerous consumer complaints of dizziness and nausea, Promofoods requested that eight million cans of tuna be returned for testing last year. Promofoods concluded that the cans did not, after all, contain chemicals that posed a health risk. This conclusion is based on the fact that the chemists from Promofoods tested samples of the recalled cans and found that, of the eight chemicals most commonly blamed for causing symptoms of dizziness and nausea, five were not found in any of the tested cans. The chemists did find that the three remaining suspected chemicals are naturally found in all other kinds of canned foods."

3. The following appeared in a medical newsletter.

“Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment.”


4. From a letter to the editor of a city newspaper.

"Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who still ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish margarine from butter, or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well."

5. The following appeared in a memo from the owner of Green Thumb Gardening Center, a small business serving a suburban town.
"There is evidence that consumers are becoming more and more interested in growing their own vegetables. A national survey conducted last month indicated that many consumers were dissatisfied with the quality of fresh vegetables available in supermarkets. And locally, the gardening magazine GreatGardens has sold out at the Village News stand three months in a row. Thus, we at Green Thumb Gardening Center can increase our profits by greatly expanding the variety of vegetable seeds we stock for gardeners this coming spring."


January 24th

WORDS:

1.Proofread

2.Verbosity

3.Meander

4.Unflappable

5.Infuriate

6.Deplore

7.Exacerbate

8.Bore

9.Adamant

10.Insipid

11.Reinforce

12.Irrelevant

13.Deplore

14.Immaterial

15.Dispatch

16.Vivify


ANALOGIES:

1.Lampshade: lamp

2.Face: mask

3.Apron: clothing

4.Rock: hill

5.Cow: herd

6.Soil: mud

7.Irrelevant: pertain

8.Glacial :slow


January 23rd

WORDS:

1.Insipid

2. Alacrity

3.Buttress

4.Deplore

5.Qurush

6.Repudiate

7.Complaisance


ANALOGIES:

1.Collude: cooperate

2.Wary: cautious

3.Pacify: infuriate

4.Heart: organ

5.Irrelevant: pertain

6.Choreograph: movement

7.Melodious: hear

8.Deplore: vile

9.Proofread: document

10.Isthmus: island

11.Impervious: penetrate

12.Glacial: slow

13.Duck: drake

14.Exponent: advocate

15.Recess: halt

16.Harangue: mollify

17.Mulish: pervasive

18.He: she

19.Rock: hill

20. Cow: herd

21.Collaborate: cooperate

22. Soil: mud

23. Inane: significance

24. Lubricant: friction

25. Din: ear

26. Porous: liquid

27. Transparency: light

28. Figure: statue

29. Impeachable: blame

30. Arboreal: trees

31. Friction: oil

32.Gratuitous: justification

33.Comprehensive: dire


ISSUE TOPICS:

1. Study of history is not important unless it’s relevant to daily lives

2. Only through mistakes, progress or discovery is achieved

3. High-speed electronic communications media, such as electronic mail and television, tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication

4. A school or college should pay its teachers at the same rate in all disciplines, regardless of differences in salaries for related fields in the world outside of school. For example, entry-level teachers in mathematics and in the arts should receive the same pay, even if outside of school, math specialists earn a much higher salary on average than do specialists in the arts

5. To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards

6. High-speed electronic communications media, such as electronic mail and television, tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication

7. Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places

8. When research priorities are being set for science, education, or any other area, the most important question to consider is: How many people's lives will be improved if the results are successful?

9. Money spent on research is almost always a good investment, even when the results of that research are controversial.


January 22

WORDS:

1.Encomium

2.Stealing

3.Embezzling

4.Adamant

5.Demoralized

6.Ignominy

7.Proscribe

8.Natatorium

9.Procrastinate

10.Imbue

11.Vapid


ANALOGIES:

1.Brake: speed

2.Impervious: penetrate


ISSUE TOPIC:

1.The money spent on research is a good investment… even though the results of research are controversial


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1.There is evidence that consumers of US have started growing vegetables in their own houses. The recent survey shows that the US consumers are very dissatisfied with the freshness of the vegetables that they buy in supermarkets. Another survey shows that during the last three months all the copies of a magazine named GARDEN something (XXX) is sold. So a company selling seeds decides to increase their profit by increasing the production of seeds of vegetables.


January 21

WORDS:

1.Alacrity

2.Insipid

3. Excavate

4. Deplore

5. Boorish

6. Banquet

7.Absorb

8. Accolade

9. Polemical

10.Emulate

11. Reinforce


ISSUE TOPIC:

1.Are the researches made in various groups like teaching, science etc are useful to all"


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1.A restaurant was supplying margarine instead of butter…. only a 2% of people complained about their whole fleet of restaurants and the rest 98% kept quite and more over the waiters say that customers could not differentiate between the butter and margarine"


January 18th

WORDS:

1.Gullible

2.Upbraid

3.Procrastinate

4.Befriend

5.Garrulous

6.Zest

7.Exude

8.Limpid

9.Penurious

10. Paralyze

11.Fretwork


ANALOGIES:

1.Collude: cooperate

2.Wary: cautious

3.Pacify: infuriate

4.Duck: Drake

5.Gratuitous: justification

6.Comprehensive: dire

7.Lubricant: friction


January 17

WORDS:

1.Vivify

2.Sequester

3.Intimidate

4.Esteem

5.Ineluctable

6.Temerity

7.Pugnacious


January 15

WORDS:

Today’s Words:

1.Reconstitute

2.Slipshod

3.Meticulous

4.Immaterial

5. Crux

6. Proscribe

7. Fault

8. Din

9. Lubricant

10. Bach

11. Voluptuous

12. Tacit

13. Garrulous

14. Austere

15.Ostracize

16.Perfidy


ANALOGIES:

1.Din: ear

2.Porous: liquid

3.Transparency: light

4.Figure: statue

5.Impeachable: blame

6.Arboreal: trees

7.Friction: oil


Janury 14

WORDS:

1.Knack

2.Mulley

3.Archaic

4.Touchy

5.Impalpable

6.Trespass

7.Obtrude

8.Duly


ISSUE TOPIC:

1."Students should question about what they are studying instead of accepting, they should show some skepticism"

2."The character of the leaders of the society can be determined by the character of men and women of the society who chose them"

ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1.The following appeared in a medical newsletter.

“Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment.”


January 11

WORDS:

1.Touchy

2.Annual

3.Iconoclast

4.Irrelevant

5.Obdurate

6.Laconia

7.Quislings

8.Trespass

9.Buttress

10. Alienate

11.Archaic

12.Desperate

13.Belie

14.Boorish

15.Exacerbate

16.Zealot


ANALOGIES:

1.He: she

2.Soil: mud

3.Lubricant: friction

4.Inane: Significance

5.Collaborate: cooperate

6.Cow :herd

7.Rock: hill


January 10

WORDS:

1.Glacial

2.Crux

3.Alienate

4.Fault

5.Ostracize

6.Proscribe


ANALOGIES:

1.Transparency: Light

2.Din: ear

3.Lubricant: friction

4.Figure: statue

5.Soil: mud

6.Porous: liquid


ISSUE TOPIC:

1. To become an effective leader, a public official must have high ethical values.


January 9

WORDS:

1.Touchy

2.Bach

3. Mulish

4. Pervasive

5. Duly


ANALOGIES:

1.Arboreal: trees

2.Friction: oil

3.Impeachable: blame

4.Mulish: pervasive


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1. The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Alta Manufacturing.
"During the past year, Alta Manufacturing had thirty percent more on-the-job accidents than nearby Panoply Industries, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. Experts believe that a significant contributing factor in many on-the-job accidents is fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers. Therefore, to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents at Alta and thereby increase productivity, we should shorten each of our three work shifts by one hour so that our employees will get adequate amounts of sleep."

January 8

WORDS:

1.Reward

2.Scold

3.Voluptuous

4.Tacit

5.Garrulous

6.Ineluctable

7.Austere

8.Duly

9.Archaism


ANALOGIES:

1.Ballad: song

ISSUE TOPIC:

1."Laws in our society should be fixed and they should consider time, place, circumstances"

2.The modern media such as television and email are tending to prevent thoughtful and meaningful communication.


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1."Some people complained dizziness because of the chemicals present in food. 8 million cans will be tested and proved that those tested cans don’t contain 5 chemicals (initially it will be given that only 8 chemicals will be responsible for disorder). They also say that the remaining 3 chemicals will be present in all the cans."

2.It’s about the accidents in a company.......... and about deciding to reduce the work hour of the day so that it causes less fatigue and will lead to fewer accident.


January 7

WORDS:

1.Excavate

2.Befriend

3.Receptive

4.Calculated

5.Homogeneous

6. Upbraid

7. Disinclined

8.Deplore

9.Vile

10. Proofread

11. Isthmus

12. Impervious

13. Ascetic,

14. Homogeneous

15. Gratuitous

16. Intangible

17. Receptive

18.Quibble

19.Rebuff


ANALOGIES:

1.Mulish: Pervasive

2.Harangue: mollify

3.Melodious: hear

4.Heart: organ

5.Irrelevant: pertain


ISSUE TOPIC:

1. Teacher’s salary depends on student’s academic study.


January 4

WORDS:

1.Imbue

2.Crouch

3.Venerate

4.Trite

5.Chicanery

6.Palpable

7.Caustic

8.Befriend

9.Matter-of- fact

10. Boastful

11. Intangible

12. Observable

13.Ineluctable

14. Procrastinate

15.Vile

16.Gratuitous

17.Perceptive

18.Receptive

19.Pervasive

20.Calculated

21.Alienate

22.Inaccurate

23.Homogeneous


ANALOGIES:

1.Aphoristic: succinct

2.Glacial :slow

3.Impervious: penetrate

4.Isthmus: island

5.Wedding: marriage

6.Melodious: hear

7.Heart :organ

8.Choreograph: movement

9.Irrelevant: pertain

10. Proofread: document


January 3

WORDS:

1.Befriend

2.Upbraid

3.Disinclined

4.Buttress

5.Sturdy

6.Pragmatic

7.Teem

8.Ignominy

9.Gaunt

10. Puckish

11. Dilettante

12. Abate

13. Gullible

14. Lethargic

15. Vitriol

16. Devious

17. Munificent


ANALOGIES:

1.Cameo :sculpture

2.Deplore: vile

3.Duck: Drake

4.Recess: halt

5.Exponent: advocate


Issue Topic:

1. Study of history is not important unless it’s relevant to daily lives


January 1

WORDS:

1. Ignominy

2. Teem

3. Abate

4. Maverick

5. Accolade

6. Gully

7. Surreptitious

8. Absorb

9. Transient

10. Gainsay

11. Buttress


ANALOGIES:

1. Novelist: book

2. Harangue: mollify


Issue topic:

1. Only through mistakes, progress or discovery is achieved.