Mixed Vocab - II Questions for CAT with Answers PDF

Divide, divorce, sunder and dismember all refer to separation by parting. Heresy is non-dogmatic belief.

All, except (D) are blunders.

All except `subterfuge` are `confusions`.

All except `vale` are `hills`.

The words subversion, sedition, chicanery and subterfuge are all negative words used in context of revolt, sabotage, double dealing etc. Incipience implies the beginning of something, and can be easily seen not related to others.

‘Prehensile’ is adapted to grasping, as in the case of monkeys.

Flimsy’ is weak and unimportant. Hence, 'sturdy' is the correct answer.

One who is less social is reticent.Exceptionable is what we can take exception to; exceptional is highly positive.Not interested is uninterested; disinterested is not having a vested interest. Descendants are offspring; descendents are coming down. 

(A) 'Amiable' is a disposition; 'amicable' is a situation.
(A) 'Moat' is a water body; 'mote' a tiny particle (mite).
(A) 'Tepid' is lukewarm; 'torpid' is sluggish.
(A) 'Turgidity' is high flown; 'turbidity' is sedimentation.

'Bait' is to trap; 'bate' is to hold back. 'Bourgeois' is akin to the class of exploiters; 'proletariat' to the class of the exploited. Only the former will be 'rotten'. Only 'contagious' is connected with touch. Nape of neck is 'scruff'; 'scuff' is scrape or drag.