Gradutate Record Exam

1. Iridescent

2. Arabesque

3. Machiavellian

4. Saturnine

5. Despondent

6. Delinquent

7. Yapping

8. Hedonist

9. Ostentatious

10. Gaunt

11. Delegation

12. Saunter

Analogies:

1. Delegation: Represent

2. Saunter: walkVer

1.Callous

2.Qurush

3.Barbiturate

4.Archaic

5.Surrogate

6.Instill

7.Plaudit

8.Voracious

9.Roil

10.Inane

11.Malleable

12.Fretwork

Analogies:

1.Malleable: Shape

2.Fretwork: Ornament

3.Door: Wall

1. Taint

2. Havoc

3. Oblivious

4. Cessation

5. Skeptic

6. Vestiges

7. Antiquity

8. Euphonious

9. Fatuous

10. Didactic

11. Inept

Argument Topic:

1. Thirteen years ago, researchers studied a group of 25 infants who showed signs of mild distress when exposed to unfamiliar stimuli such as an unusual odor or a tape recording of an unknown voice. They discovered that these infants were more likely than other infants to have been conceived in early autumn, a time when their mothers' production of melatonin . a hormone known to affect some brain functions. would naturally increase in response to decreased daylight. In a follow-up study conducted earlier this year, more than half of these children. now teenagers . who had shown signs of distress identified themselves as shy. Clearly, increased levels of melatonin before birth cause shyness during infancy and this shyness continues into later life.

1. Paten

2. Gullible

3. Cherish

4. Shroud

5. Callous

6. Perplex

7. Proselytize

8. Xenophobia

9. Proximate

10. Tonic

11. Audacious

12. Swindle


Analogies:

1. Audacious: Caution

2. Swindle: Cheat

1.Patent

2.Hale

3.Abstruse

4.Hankering

5.Labyrinth

6.Ostracize

7.Voracious

8.Morbid

9.Endeavor

10.Alias

11.Callow

12.Lag

13.Priggish

14.Imperceptible

15.Pseudonym

Analogies:

1.Imperceptible: Detection

2.Pseudonym: Original

1. Fledgling

2. Hardy

3. Squalid

4. Torpor

5. Proficient

6. Emancipate

7. Sedulous

8. Excoriate

9. Fretwork

10. Obdurate

11. Trite

12. Mollify

13. Proofread

14. Analgesic


Analogies:

1. Mollify: pain

2. Proofread: document

3. Analgesic: Pain

1. Pliant

2. Hankering

3. Patulousness

4. Lag

5. Endeavor

6. Ponderous

7. Stoic

8. Indolent

9. Hidebound


Analogies:

1. Mosaic: Tile

2. Hidebound: Innovative

1. Halfhearted

2. Dissolvable

3. Court

4. Yoke

5. Supercilious

6. Pliable

7. Quell

8. Shirk

9. Harebrained

10. Gratuitous

11. Ballad


Analogies:

1. Gratuitous: Justification

2. Song: Ballad


Issue Topic:

1. Most of the people choose their career based on the salary, feasibility of obtaining job. Hardly we can find anyone choosing their career based on their natural talents.

1. Pliant

2. Hidebound

3. Parsimonious

4. Garbled

5. Commotion

6. Plethora

7. Occluded

8. Stricture

9. Skullduggery

10. Articulate

11. Chatter

12. Flit


Analogies:

1. Articulate: Unclear

2. Chatter: speaking

3. Flit: Walk


Issue Topic:

1. "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?"

2. "The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes."

1. Ineluctable

2. Grueling

3. Saboteur

4. Satiated

5. Esoteric

6. Quislings

7. Inveterate

8. Roil

9. Imprudent

10. Schism

11. Cameo

12. Persnickety

13. Stricture

14. Ascetic

15. Drench

16. Mishap


Analogies:

1. Drench: Wet

2. Mishap: accident


Issue Topic:

1. "The purpose of science is to reassure and that of art is to upset".

2. Now-a- days people choose their career on the basis of economy, money and job opportunities in future rather than talent, skill and interest.

1. Torpor

2. Esteem

3. Occluded

4. Inveterate

5. Succinct

6. Rant

7. Inept

8. Recalcitrant

9. Cession

10. Congeal

11. Contrite

12. Saboteur

13. Obscured



Analogies:

1. Obscured: Recognize

2. Pore: membrane

3. Actor: Playwright

1. Squall

2. Inept

3. Garbled

4. Refractory

5. Smirk

6. Resilience

7. Intriguing

8. Qurush

9. Temerity

10. Cacophonous

11. Impeachable


Analogies:

1. Cacophonous: harmony

2. Impeachable: blame

3. Friction: oil



Argument Topic:

1. 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."

1. Plethora

2. Cacophony

3. Brevity

4. Fatuous

5. Remorse

6. Pernicious

7. Discordant

8. Oblivious

9. Stoical

10. Lackluster

11. Diatribe

12. Exonerate

13. Ineluctable

14. Mishap



Analogies:

1. Exonerate: Blame

2. Ineluctable: Avoid

3. Mishap: accident

1. Extraneous

2. Limpid

3. Crotch

4. Gully

5. Candid

6. Repudiate

7. Didactic

8. Mirth

9. Vapid

10. Peremptory

11. Obdurate

12. Intangible

13. Skullduggery

14. Stoical

15. Revel


Analogies:

1. Friction: Oil

2. Novelist: Book


Issue Topic:

1. "The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives. Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little".

1. Extraneous

2. Limpid

3. Crotch

4. Gully

5. Candid

6. Repudiate

7. Didactic

8. Mirth

9. Vapid

10. Peremptory

11. Obdurate

12. Intangible

13. Skullduggery

14. Stoical

15. Revel


Analogies:

1. Friction: Oil

2. Novelist: Book


Issue Topic:

1. "The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives. Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little".

1. Contumacious

2. Sustain

3. Salubrious

4. Prudent

5. Whet

6. Camaraderie

7. Ruminative

8. Inept

9. Bilious

10. Pedant

11. Grouch


Analogies:

1. Pedant: Scholar

2. Grouch: Respect


Issue Topic:

1. In order to improve the quality of education in universities and colleges the faculty must be required to work outside the academic world in the industries pertaining to the subjects they teach.

1. Teem

2. Deteriorate

3. Expatiate

4. Candy

5. Spurious

6. Glacier

7. Embrace

8. Reticent

9. Panegyric

10. Forthright

11. Puissant

12. Saga

13. Caulk



Analogies:


1. Saga: Poem

2. Caulk: Moistness

1.Timid

2.Scurrilous

3.Taint

4.Exalt

5.Skimp

6.Nuance

7.Pittance

8.Hapless

9.Irrepressible

10. Quell

11.Annul



Analogies:

1.Pittance: Money

2.Irrepressible: Quell

3.Annul: Marriage



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.”

1. Clairvoyant

2. Gratuitous

3. Pervasive

4. Ignominy

5. Reticent

6. Lackluster

7. Deplore

8. Vile



Analogies:

1. Canvas: painting

2. Deplore: vile



Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in a newspaper feature story. "At the small, non-profit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the near by city of Megaville, the average patient's stay is six days.Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital.Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, non-profit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for profit hospitals".

1. Proficient

2. Impecunious

3. Flounder

4. Revere

5. Equivocation

6. Fretwork

7. Bestow

8. Gainsay

9. Mirth

10. Schism

11. Encipher

12. Candy

13. Gratuitous


ANALOGIES :

1. Candy: Sugar

2. Gratuitous: Justification


ISSUE TOPIC :

1. "An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time."