AUGUST VERBAL

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 29th)




1. Mind

2. Descendent

3. Surplus

4. Munificent

5. Parsimony

6. Conciseness

7. Aphorism

8. Recalcitrant

9. Choir

10. Pariah

11. Ostracize

12. Peripatetic

13. Evoke

14. Zesty

15. Testy

16. Nonconformity

17. Diaphanous

18. Plummet

19. Subpoena

20. Succinct

21. Extraneous


Analogies:

1. Choir: Singer

2. Conciseness: Aphorism

3. Pariah: Ostracize


Issue Topic:

1. Too much emphasis is given to role models. Instead, we must think independently and make our own decisions.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 28th)


1. Formidable

2. Veracious

3. Galvanize

4. Creep

5. Awe

6. Puerile

7. Barbiturate

8. Quandary

9. Delegation

10. Erudite

11. Latent

12. Saunter

13. Harangue

14. Molify


Analogies:

1. Formidable: awe

2. Saunter: walk

3. Harangue: mollify


Issue Topic:

1. Education is effective only when it is designed to meet the individual needs and interests of every Student.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 27th)


1. Evoke

2. Denigrate

3. Relegate

4. Recalcitrant

5. Venerate

6. Prolong

7. Summarize

8. Merge

9. Telling

10. Quaff

11. Coagulate

12. Laconic

13. Lubrication

14. Extol


Analogies:

1. Lubrication: Friction

2. Quaff: Sip


Issue Topic:

1. To be a good leader one must have his, own principles and objective. The person who is influenced by the views and opinions of the others, can accomplish only little.


ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 26th)


1. Diaphanous

2. Translucent

3. Prolong

4. Extrinsic

5. Strictures

6. Recalcitrant

8. Sordid

9. Archaic

10. Assiduous

11. Zealot

12. Vindictive

13. Incogitant


Analogies:

1. Incogitant: thoughtfulness


Issue Topic:

1. "Human mind is more superior than machine because afterall humans made all machine and tools."

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 25th)


1.Sensitive

2.Supercilious

3.Serendipitous

4.Reel

5.Remote

6.Arcane

7.Antidote

8.Veto

9.Transience


Analogies:

1.Serendipitous: Effort

2.Antidote: Poison

3.Veto: Prohibitive

4.Analgesic: Pain


Issue Topic:

1.Students should develop skepticism rather than accepting the subjects passively.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 22nd)


1. Extricate

2. Zoning

3. Decentralization

4. Antique

5. Secrete

6. Extinct

7. Disclaim

8. Arcane

9. Remote

10. Anachronism

11. Barricade

12. Malleable


Analogies:

1. Barricade: traffic

2. Malleable: shape

3. Antidote: poison

4. Carpentry: Craft

5. Door: Wall

6. Porous: membrane


ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 21st)


1. Supercilious

2. Extol

3. Reel

4. Flagging

5. Tendentious

6. Exacerbate

7. Fatuous

8. Antidote

9. Connive


Analogies:

1. Journal: Entries

2. Antidote: Poison

3. Connive: Cooperate


Issue Topic:

1. Humanity has not developed to a great extent like technological innovation. War, violence and poverty exists in the world. Technological progress has led to the decline in humanity.

Argument Topic:

1.This article appeared in the Health and beauty magazine. "A group of volunteers who were customers participated in an experiment for the new Luxcess Face Cream. The volunteers washed their face with soap daily in the morning and applied Luxcess Face cream. After a month most of the volunteers experienced a marked improvement in the way their skin looked or felt. Truly, Laxness is an excellent face cream".

(Given topics were similar to the above)

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 20th)


1. Zenith

2. Nadir

3. Plummet

4. Assiduous

5. Ephemeral

6. Mordant

7. Extol

8. Qualified

9. Temerity

10. Acrimony

11. Precarious

12. Arcane

13. Crestfallen

14. Stygian

15. Cogent

16. Substantiate

17. Articulate

18. Squabble

19. Misanthrope

20. Amicable


Analogies:

1. Door: Wall

2. Pore: membrane

3. Squabble: dispute

4. Charity: Misanthrope

5. Amicable: friendly


Issue Topic:

1. "Looks and dress tell about a person attitude and behavior".

2. History teaches us only one thing: history does not help us to take our current decisions.


Argument Topic:

1. There is a toy factory which has reported 20% loss in last 3 quarters, therefore the president of the company should be fired and replaced with another one, who is from a company which has made profits.(The topic is some thing like this)

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 19th)


1. Timorous

2. Prudent

3. Moderate

4. Hasten

5. Abase

6. Quench

7. Descry

8. Jarred

9. Accolade

10. Qualified

11. Castle

12. Moat

13. Mnemonics

14. Antidote

15. Balm

16. Sedative

17. Nitpick

18. Vaunt

19. Pliable

20. Unassuming

21. Secrete


Analogies:

1. Castle: Moat

2. Mnemonics: Word

3. Antidote: Poison

4. Balm: Itching

5. Sedative: Sleep

6. Zoning: Land

7. Journal: Entries

8. Nitpick: Criticize


Issue Topic:

1. Technology is used to degrade the human life than to improve it.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 18th)


1. Connive

2. Assiduous

3. Superficial

4. Discordant

5. Sequential

6. Tether

7. Haphazard


Analogies:

1. Spy: watch

2. Haphazard: order

3. Orchestra: musician


Issue Topic:

1. "Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity."

2. The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."


Argument Topic:

1. The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station. "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 14th)


1. Enervate

2. Vindictive

3. Querulous

4. Adumbration

5. Accrue

6. Elucidate

7. Prognosis

8. Pervasive

9. Effrontery

10. Congeal

11. Camouflage

12. Vehemence

13. Charlatan

14. Doctrine

15. Distress

16. Banal

17. Hackneyed

18. Suppress

19. Prosaic

20. Thwart

21. Venerate

22. Quell

23. Nebulous

24. Exalted

25. Perpetual

26. Desiccant

27. Palliate

28. Disabuse

29. Enfeeble

30. Vigor

31. Exonerate

32. Disdain


Issue Topic:

1. Though many people know the ways to success, only great people utilize it effectively.

2. In present day professions and academics, importance is given to imagination than knowledge.

3. The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time.

4. It is difficult to follow tradition and technology, when one has to choose between them.

5. The Laws should not always be rigid. They should be flexible and take into account the circumstances, times and places of the occurrence of crime.


Argument Topic:

1. Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how the Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision. Since archeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, to create these statues. This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statues were abstract and entirely different in style: molds could only be used for life-size sculptures. It also explains why few ancient Kalinese sculpting tools have been found. In light of this development, collectors should expect the life-size sculptures to decrease in value and the miniatures to increase in value.

2. The following was posted on an Internet real estate discussion site.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents. In contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch, and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: Ten years ago, I listed my home with Fitch and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams."

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 13th)


1. Maligner

2. Infuse

3. Camouflaged

4. Liken

5. Congeal

6. Slump

7. Tether

8. Mottled

9. Pliant

10. Tortuous

11. Gregarious

12. Sociability

13. Nebulous

14. Teeter

15. Serpentine

16. Blighted

17. Everlasting

18. Eulogy

19. Shirk

20. Philanthropist


Analogies:

1. Eulogy: speech

2. Shirk: duty

3. Philanthropist: generosity


Issue Topic:

1.Video recording is more important means of documenting ontemporary life than a written record.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 12th)


1. Aggrieve

2. Proselytizer

3. Vacillate

4. Obdurate

5. Slight

6. Haphazard

7. Camouflage

8. Celerity

9. Polarize

10. Limp


Analogies:

1. Unmatched: equaled

2. Limp: Walk

3. Artisan: potter

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 11th)


1.Haphazard

2.Caustic

3.Instill

4.Decentralization

5.Peripheral

6.Oblivious

7.Quell

8.Assuage

9.Finicky

10.Gourmet

11.Disband.

12.Dodder

13.Wince

14.Instill

15.Integral

16.Desecrate

17.Disgruntle

18.Facetious

19.Curb

20.Prairie

21.Sycophant

22.Ballad

23.Limp


Analogies:

1.Zoning: land

2.Pain: wince

3.Dodder : walk

4.Grandstand: impress

5.Prairie : trees

6.Flattery : sycophant

7.Song : ballad

8.Limp : Walk


ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 8th)


1. Natatorium

2. Gainsay

3. Procrastinate

4. Disabashment

5. Embarassment

6. Vituperative

7. Torpor

8. Scathed

9. Vacillate

10. Transcend

11. Subpoena

12. Fraught

13. Placidity


Analogies:

1. Disabashment:Embarrassement

2. Fraught: placidity

3. Novelist: book


Issue Topic:

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

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 7th)


1. Quarantine

2. Accolade

3. Grill

4. Invigorate

5. Delegation

6. Imprudent

7. Contrite

8. Laconic

9. Deftness

10. Mirth

11. Pulchritude

12. Harangue

13. Mollify

14. Ladle


Analogies:

1. Spectacles : Look

2. Soup: ladle

3. Harangue: mollify


Argument Topic:

1. The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a five-hundred-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read costs only $500 per employee — a small price to pay when you consider the benefits to Acme. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 6th)


1. Charlatan

2. Facetious

3. Harebrained

4. Hasten

5. Tantalizing

6. Instill

7. Lampoon

8. Shun

9. Clairvoyant

10. Decentralization

11. Lubrication

12. Saboteur


Analogies:

1. Lubrication: Friction

2. Saboteur: Disrupt


Issue Topic:

1. Luxurious life is a hindrance for the growth of individualism in the youth.

2. 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.

3. In any field, imagination is more important than knowledge.

4. 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.

5. Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.


Argument Topic:

1. A college dean in his memo "This college needs a new dormitory to be built as it will be inadequate for the new students keeping in view the increasing admissions in the college and its protraction after 50 years. Moreover the new building would attract more prospective students."
(It is something like that)

2. In order to curb the growing cases of cheating in educational institutes we should adopt the Groverton system.The Grovertan calls for a honour council where students themselves are made members and they should report cheating cases to the faculty. Statistics of the report conducted in two years indicated that in use of such system the cases reported dropped by half in the next year. Hence all college can adopt this system.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 5th)


1. Evoke

2. Indispensable

3. Cognizance

4. Stringent

5. Chary

6. Decentralization

7. Hygiene

8. Effervescive

9. Instill

10. Snarl

11. Facetious

12. Harebrained

13. Measly

14. Disgruntled

15. Predilection

16. Bestow



Analogies:

1. Song: ballad

2. Stanza: poem


Issue Topic:

1. High speed electronic media like electronic mails and televisions are tending to prevent effective and thoughtful communication.

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 4th)


1.Maveric

2. Hasten

3. Ambivalence

3. Obfuscate

4. Argentums

5. Sacrosanct


Issue topic:

1. "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain is justifiable."

ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Aug 1st)


1. Instill(v): to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings; to introduce by gradual, persistent efforts;To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop; to introduce (feelings, etc.) little by little; fill, as with a certain quality.
Synonyms: inculcate, engender, imbue, impart, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix, infuse, inject, insert, insinuate.

2. Decentralization(v): to disperse (something) from an area of concentration; to distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities; To undergo redistribution or dispersal away from a central location or authority.

3. Peripheral(adj): concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question; Related to, located in, or constituting an outer boundary or periphery; Of minor relevance or importance; External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.
Synonyms: circumferential, distal, distant, external, incidental, marginal, secondary, surface.

4. Oblivious(adj): unmindful; unconscious; unaware; forgetful; without remembrance or memory; lacking all memory; lacking conscious awareness; unmindful; unaware of or not paying attention to.
Synonyms: absentminded, disregardful, heedless, inattentive, preoccupied, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unnoticing, unwitting.

5. Zoning(v): to divide (a city, town, neighborhood, etc.) into areas subject to special restrictions on any existing or proposed buildings; to surround or encircle with or as if with a belt or girdle; to designate or mark off into zones.
(Adj): (esp. in city planning) of or pertaining to the division of an area into zones, as to restrict the number and types of buildings and their uses.

6. Wince(v): to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; to shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress; make a face indicating disgust or dislike; to start or jump with pain.
Synonyms: cower, cringe, flinch, gesture, grimace, movement, quail, recoil, reel, shrink; blench.


Analogies:

1. Zoning: Land

2. Pain: Wince


Issue Topic:

1. It is often necessary and desirable for the political leaders to withhold information from public.

Argument Topic:

1. A letter is written to the head of the tourism of tria island. The island is facing a great problem of errosion so we have to charge the people visiting . This may decrease the no of visitors. With the fund raised we can replenish the sand in the island. Like the island Batia did we can protect the buildings from damage by replenishing sand. in the long term tourism can be developed and more people are attracted.