by Prasad Sawant | Jun 23, 2015 | Verbal
5 Words. What they mean, where they come from and relevant popular culture or literary references. Build your vocabulary by reading this all in one post. 1. punitive adjective. inflicting or intended as punishment. Pronunciation: [pyoo-ni-tiv] Related: punitively,...
by Prasad Sawant | Jun 15, 2015 | Verbal
I read Ceridwen Dovey’s piece ‘Can reading make you happier?’ in The New Yorker while trying to know more about bibliotherapy. “Reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence,” she says, “that elusive state in which the distance between the self...
by Prasad Sawant | Apr 21, 2015 | Verbal
5 Words. What they mean, where they come from and relevant popular culture or literary references. Build your vocabulary by reading this all in one post. 1. brindled adjective. gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots Pronunciation: [brin-dld] Related: brindle...
by Prasad Sawant | Apr 19, 2015 | Verbal
5 Words. What they mean, where they come from and relevant popular culture or literary references. Build your vocabulary by reading this all in one post. 1. bicker verb. argue about petty and trivial matters / flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise; patter...
by Prasad Sawant | Apr 17, 2015 | Verbal
5 Words. What they mean, where they come from and relevant popular culture or literary references. Build your vocabulary by reading this all in one post. 1. instigate verb. bring about or initiate (an action or event). incite someone to do something, especially...
by Sriram Krishnan | Jun 22, 2014 | Verbal
The Fact, Inference and Judgement section came as a bolt from the blue in the 2006 CAT paper catching many students by surprise. Of course, those were the days when the CAT paper was unpredictable and the mystery element made solving the exam all the more fun. OK,...
