Vocab Usage Questions for CAT with Answers PDF

A government in which one person has absolute power is 'autocracy' or dictatorship.

'Swindle' is an act of cheating a person out of his money under false pretences.

'Transient' is 'passing away with time; not permanent'.

'Abate' means 'to become less in scope or intensity gradually'. 'Distend' is an opposite. The other options do not relate to decrease in 'intensity'.

(A) 'Site' is the piece of land on which something is located; 'cite' means 'make reference to'.
(B) 'Envelope' is 'a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.' 'Envelop' is a verb.
(A) 'Wreak' is to perpetrate; 'reek' is to smell.
(B) 'Haven' is 'a place of safety'. The keyword is 'tax'; 'tax haven' is a country or independent area where taxes are levied at a low rate.

(B) 'Further' is an expression of figurative, metaphorical distance; 'farther' is expression of physical distance (mark the words 'into the cave').
(A) A flagrant speech inflames. Blatant is 'out and out; done openly and unashamedly'.
(B) An understudy is a 'novice'; 'amateur' is one who does something for the love of it, not for money.
(A) 'Peal' is loud sound of laughter; 'peel' is only outer skin as of a fruit/ vegetable.

(B) 'Plait' is a braid; 'pleat' is double folded, as in a garment.
(B) 'Ingenuous' is innocent and unsuspecting; 'ingenious' is skillful. With 'laurels,' only (B) fits.
(A) Mark the words 'shivers down the spine' (as if he were experiencing the suffering). The feeling will then be empathy (fellow feeling).
(B) 'Complement' is for completion; 'compliment' is for praise. 'Left-handed compliment' means 'a compliment with two meanings, one of which is unflattering to the receiver'.

(A) 'Ordinance' is an executive order; 'ordnance' is about weapons.
(A) 'Marshal' means 'make ready for action or use'; 'martial' is related to war.
(A) 'Libertarian' is a person who advocates civil liberty; 'libertine' is someone lustful or immoral.
(B) 'Isle' is a tiny island; 'aisle' a passageway.

The word is 'casually.'
'Casually' means in an unconcerned manner or carelessly.

The word is 'truculent.'
'Truculent' means 'defiantly aggressive or ferocious.'
The other words mean -
Sinister - giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.
Amiable - having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner.
Reserved - slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
Earnest - resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.