GRE DAILY UPDATE: April 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

April - 29 - GRE Verbal QUE

Today’s Words:

1. Maverick(n): someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action.
Synonyms: nonconformist, independent, loner.

2.Meet(v): to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter; to become acquainted with;
Synonyms: get together, rendezvous, confront, intersect, converge, unite.
Antonyms: adjourn, scatter, diverge.

3. Embolden(v): to make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage

4. Prevaricate(v): to speak falsely or misleadingly; To stray from or evade the truth;
Synonyms: evade, shift, equivocate.

5. Lachrymose(adj): suggestive of or tending to cause tears; tearful; given to shedding tears readily;mournful.

6. Dilettante(n): a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement.
Synonyms: amateur.

7. Wardrobe(n): a stock of clothes or costumes; a room or place in which to keep clothes or costumes; a piece of furniture for holding clothes

8. Resilient(adj): springing back; rebounding; returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
Synonyms: elastic, flexible, springy.

9. Ethereal(adj): extremely delicate or refined; Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality;

Analogies:

1. Opera :music

2. Meet: embloden

3. wardrobe:garment

Issue topic:

1. People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.

Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell.
"Two years ago, the town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean View's tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. The best way to improve Hopewell's economy, and generate additional tax revenues, is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."

April -29- GRE Quants Que

Quants:

1. Col A: (1/9)/100
Col B: 1/1000+((1/9)/1000)

2. Which cannot be the sum of 3 or more consequetive integers
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

3.Given that 6 computers of type A,12 computers of type B are in a office, if 25%of the computers are connected to color printers and 33 1/3% of the computers are connected to color printers type B then
how many type A computers are connected to colour printers?

4. Given two circles of radius 3 and 5, if a line tangent to the smaller circle passes through the bigger circle at points Q and P. What is the length of PQ?

5. If the sum of a number and its reciprocal is less than 2 then what is the number?
A.1/3
B. 2
C.4/3
D.3/2
E. none of the above

6. If xy =!0
Col a: x^y
Col b: y^x

7. In the xy coordinate axis, two line equations P and Q were given, if these make two points on PQ then distance of PQ is? (Question is something like this)

8. Given two line equations
Col a: slope of line 1
Col b: slope of line 2

9. A rectangle ABCD with sides AB= 16, BC=5. If a point 'P' is ploted on the side CD of the rectangle then what is the probability that the length of the BP is 13?

Friday, April 25, 2008

April - 25 - GRE Verbal Que

Today's Words:

1. Stasis(n): the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces; A condition of balance among various forces; motionlessness.

2. Proffer(v): to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
Synonyms: bid, proposal, tender.

3. Belie(v): to show to be false; to misrepresent; to act unworthily according to the standards.
Synonyms: refute, disprove, controvert, repudiate, confute, gainsay.
Antonyms: prove, verify, support.

4. Repudiate(v): to reject as having no authority or binding force; to reject with disapproval or condemnation.
Synonyms: disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim, condemn, disapprove, deny, disacknowledge, reject.
Antonyms: accept, approve.

5. Aggrandize(v): to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend; to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor.
Synonyms: inflate, strengthen, exalt, magnify.
Antonyms: reduce, diminish, minimize.

6. Lithe(adj): bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible; Marked by effortless grace.

7. Happenstance(n): a chance happening or event

8. Spartan(adj): sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere; Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained, brave; undaunted.

9. Mulish(adj): as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack.

10. Persuaded(v): to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging; to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.

11. Impetuous(adj): of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, moving with great force; violent.
Antonyms: planned, careful.

Analogies:

1. Impetuous: hesitancy

2. Mulish : persuaded

Issue Topic:

1. Importance of general welfare of people of a country rather than its achievers.

Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University.
"Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated;
this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."

April- 25 - GRE Quants Que

Quants:

1. There are five numbers in a series, 19, 22, 25, 26, 28..each number is increased by k so that the new mean is 28.5, what is the new median?

2. A parobola is given and was intersecting y-axis at one point given, y = x^2-3, and a point in xy-plane is P(2,k). What is the distance between the point P and that of intersecting on y-axis?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 2sqrt(5)
D. 3sqrt(3 )

3. If a person used to get a 30% discount on movie tickets. When the price of the movie ticket increased by 50%, the amount of discount in dollars remained the same. What is his discount with the new Ticket price in percent terms?

4. If -1 < x< 0
Col A: mod(x-1/2)
Col B: mod (-x-1/2)

5. A number x leaves remainder 7 when divided by 11
when divided by 5 leaves remainder 1
Col a: least possible value of x
Col b: 40

6. Given there are 50 numbers, if the average of the first 25 numbers is 16, next 10 numbers is 15 and the last set is 20. What is the average of the entire set ?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

April - 22 - GRE Verbal Que

Today’s Words:

1.Garbled(v) : to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble; to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.)

2.Confession(n): The act or process of confessing.; Something confessed, especially disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution; a public declaration of your faith
Synonyms: avowal; admission; acknowledgment

3.Succumb(v): to give way to superior force;to give way to superior force; To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
Synonyms: submit, accede, surrender.

4.Surfeit(n): excess; an excessive amount; excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
Synonyms: superabundance, superfluity, stuff, gorge.
Antonyms: lack

5. Laconic(adj): using few words; expressing much in few words; concise
Synonyms: brief, pithy, terse; succinct.
Antonyms: voluble.

6. Rotundity(n): the condition or quality of roundness or plumpness, as of an object or person; fullness, as in tone or speech

7. Benediction(n): an utterance of good wishes; a blessing, an invocation of divine blessing

8. Ablution(n): a cleansing with water or other liquid; a washing of the hands, body, etc.

9. Glutton(n): A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink; a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something;

10. Quaint(adj): having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way.
Synonyms: antiquated, archaic, curious, uncommon
Antonyms: ordinary.

11.Magniloquent(adj): speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful; Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.

12.Dust jacket(n): A removable paper cover used to protect the binding of a book.

13. Apocryphal(adj): of doubtful authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity

14. Authenticity(n): The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine
Synonyms: genuineness, realness, truthfulness, validity

15. Recant(v): to withdraw or disavow a statement, opinion, etc.; retract.

Analogies:

1.Dust jacket: books

2.Apocryphal: authenticity

3.Recant : spend

4.Glasses: vision

Issue Topic:

1.There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws.

April - 22 - GRE Quants Que

Quants:

1. If a set S consisting of 9 even consecutive integers, how many are divisible by 3.

2. Given that the sales of store A increases from 20% to 24% and sales of store B decreases from 24% to 20%
Col A: percentage increase in sales of store A
Col B: percentage decrease insales of store B

3. If x =3
Col A: x^(x^x)
Col B: (x^x)^x

4. Given a polygon which is marked 7t all the sides
col a: perimeter of the polygon
col b : 7t

5. Which cannot be the sum of 3 or more consequetive integers
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

6. If 2^-5 Col a : 4x
Col B : 1/12

7. A person buys two items of the same kind. If he sells one at 25% of profit and other at 25% of loss then what is the price of the item?(Question is something like this)

8. Given a1, a2, a3,......an, is a series such that an= an - a(n-1), for 2>n. If a1= -5, a2= 4, find the sum of first 50 numbers of the series?

Monday, April 21, 2008

April - 21 - GRE Quants Que

Quants:

1. Given that xy is not equal to 0
Col A: 1/x^3+1/y^3
Col B: 1/(x+y)^3

2. The profit made by a company is given by P and the tax the company has to pay to the government is $6000 + r% of the profit over $250000. If a company has to pay 3% of its profit as tax, what is the profit made by the company?

3. If y = ax+b and y intercept is -2, Find x intercept?

4. Given a line Y = X and there is an another line L which doesn't intersect the first one anywhere(Questions is something like this and was asked to compare following)
Col A: Slope of that line L
Col B: 2

5.If p+6,q+6,r+6 has a standard Deviation 'S' then what will be the Standard Deviation for p, q, r?
a.6S+6
b.8S+18
c.6S
d. none

6. There are 20 coloured pencils in a pencil stand. The probability of choosing a yellow pencil is 0.8.There are 6 yellow pencils without an eraser. What is the probability that a yellow pencil chosen is that which has an eraser?

7. A group of 4 pumps are filling a tank. Each of the 3 smaller pumps works at 2/3rds the rate of the largest pump. If all 4 pumps work at the same time, they should fill the tank in what fraction of the time.... that it would have taken the largest pump if it operated alone?

Thursday, April 10, 2008

April - 10th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

April - 10th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

1. Insipid(adj): without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink.
Synonyms: anemic, arid, banal, beige, drab, dullsville, feeble, inane, innocuous, jejune, limp, mundane, nebbish, prosaic, stale, subdued, tedious, tenuous, trite, vapid, wearisome, yawn .
Antonyms: interesting

2. Secret(adj): done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others.
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, camouflaged, covert, enigmatical, esoteric, furtive, obscure, occult, recondite, shrouded, veiled.
Antonyms: known, public, visible.

3. Annul(v): to reduce to nothing; to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate.
Synonyms: abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, countermand, efface, expunge, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, repeal, rescind, vitiate.
Antonyms: ratify, validate.

4. Tantalising(adj): arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach;very pleasantly inviting.

5. Allude(v): to refer casually or indirectly;to contain a casual or indirect reference.
Synonyms: imply, insinuate, intimate, point, refer, suggest.
Antonyms: advertise, keep quiet, keep secret.

6. Virile(adj): having or exhibiting masculine energy, forcefulness, or strength in a marked degree.
Synonyms: colt, hairy, hunk, jock, jockstrap, lusty, mannism, procreative, robust, stud, vigorous.
Antonyms: effeminate, impotent, unmanly.

7. Demography(n): the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
Synonyms: anthropology, census-taking, population analysis, population density, population growth, population size, population studies, population vital statistics.

8. Opera(n): the form or branch of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions.

Analogies:

1. Demography: population

2. Singers: opera

3. Classroom: teacher

Issue Topic:

1. "Although many people know how to achieve success, but very few people achieve it".

April-10th -2008- GRE Quants

April-10th - 2008 - GRE Quants

1. Given a cuboid whose faces are painted red and the cuboid is cut vertically into 27 pieces. If the pieces are taken out after cutting vertically then how many of these 27 pieces had red color face?

2. If an amount of 10000 for an year with y% rate of interest yield 'm' amount of interest in dollars, then an amount of 'x' with 2r% of interest would yeild 'm/2' amount interest in dollars.
Col A: x
Col B: 5000

3. Balls are distributed one at a time, into six baskets.The 1st ball goes into basket one,the 2nd into basket two and so on. If this is repeated then 74th ball goes into which basket?
A. 4
B. 3
C. 2....... etc.

4.There are 75 numbers in a row and the nth term of a series is 2n+5. Find the median of the series when the numbers are from 1 to 75.
Col A: Median term
Col B: 81

5. If xy < 36.
col A: (x+1)(y+1)
col B: 49

6. If S = {15, 10, 11, x and y} and x + y = 11 then which is the least positive integer in the set S?
a.2
b.3
c.9
so on....

7. If A, B, C, D, E are arranged in a line. Find the total number of arrangements such that B and C lie side by side ?

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

April - 8th -2008-GRE Quants

April - 8th -2008-GRE Quants

1. A group can charter a particular aircraft at a fixed total cost.If 36 people charter aircraft rather than 40, loss per person is 12$. What is cost per person if 40 people charter it?

2. In a triangle the three angles are given as X,X,Y. and the avg of two angles is 65, then what is the possible value of Y in the below options?
A. 60
B. 65
C. 70
D. 75
E. 80

3. A square was given and another square was formed by joining mid points of the square. Perimeter of larger square was given X.
Col a: perimeter of smaller square
Col b: X/2

4. Given a cylinder having volume V. There is one more cylinder that had radius and height both twice of that of the given cylinder, so what is the volume of 2nd cylinder in terms of V?

5. There are five persons A, B, C, D, E. What are the possible combinations they are seated provided C and D always sit nearby?

6. If the volume of a cube is 1 cubic centimeter, then the distance from any vertex to the centre point inside the cube is
A) 1/2
B) 1/sqrt2
C) sqrt2
D) sqrt3/2

7. If x and x+2 are both factors of y then which one is greater?
Col a: x(x+2)
Col b: y

April - 8th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

April - 8th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

1.Dissension(n):strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
Synonyms: altercation, contention, dissent, faction, fuss, strife, variance, wrangle.
Antonyms: accord, agreement, comity, harmony.

2.Enliven(v): to make vigorous or active; invigorate; To make lively or spirited; brighten.
Synonyms: animate, brace up, buoy, exhilarate, galvanize, invigorate, rejuvenate, vitalize, vify.
Antonyms: bore, dampen, dull, extinguish, subdue, tire.

3.Nugatory(adj): of no real value; trifling; worthless; of no force or effect; ineffective; futile

4.Zeitgeist(n): the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

5.Welsh(v): to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt; to go back on one's word.
Synonyms: bamboozle, con, defraud, dodge, flimflam, hoodwink, scam.

6.Yank(v): to pull or remove abruptly and vigorously; an abrupt, vigorous pull; jerk.

7.Feint(n): a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; a feigned or assumed appearance
Synonyms: artifice, bait, bluff, distraction, dodge, expedient, gambit, hoax, imposture, maneuver, pretension, ruse, snare, subterfuge, wile.

8.Exchequer(n): a treasury, as of a state or nation.

9.Gubernatorial(adj): of or pertaining to a state governor or the office of state governor.

10.Frieze(n): any decorative band on an outside wall, broader than a stringcourse and bearing lettering, sculpture, etc.

11.Expatiate(v): to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion; to expatiate upon a theme.

12.Rig(v): to put in proper order for working or use; to assemble, install, or prepare
Synonyms: accouterments, apparatus, equipage, fixtures, outfit, tackle.

13.Loom(n): the art or the process of weaving.
Synonyms: approach, be forthcoming, be imminent, brew, dawn, emanate, impend, menace, overhang, portend.

14.Dabble(v): to play and splash in or as if in water, esp. with the hands; to wet slightly in or with a liquid; splash;
Synonyms: boggle, boondoggle, dally, diddle, jerk off, potchky, trifle, twiddle.
Antonyms: be into, be proficient, take seriously.

15. Lurk(v): to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; to exist unperceived or unsuspected
Synonyms: creep, crouch, prowl, skulk, slink, sneak.

16.Libretto(n): the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.

17.Whit(n): a particle; bit; jot (used esp. in negative phrases);
Synonyms: atom, crumb, fragment, mite, modicum, speck, trace.
Antonyms: lot

18.Whiff(n): a slight gust or puff of wind, air, vapor, smoke; a slight trace of odor or smell.
Synonyms: aroma, blast, draught, flatus, gust, inhalation, smack, soupcon, trifle, waft.

19.Staccato(adj): shortened and detached when played or sung.

Monday, April 7, 2008

April - 7th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

April - 7th - 2008 - GRE Verbal

1.Cull(v): to choose; select; pick; pluck.
Synonyms: discriminate, elect, glean, optate, sift, winnow.

2.Seer(n): a person who sees; observer; a person who prophesies future events.
Synonyms: augur, channeller, oracle, soothsayer,

3.Tantamount(adj): equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification
Synonyms: commensurate, indistinguishable, synonymous.
Antonyms: different, opposite.

4.Fastidious(adj): excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please.
Synonyms: captious, dainty, discriminating, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, meticulous, nitpicky, punctilious, queasy, squeamish, stickling.
Antonyms: indifferent, sloppy, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding.

5.Daft(adj): senseless, stupid, or foolish; insane; crazy.
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, demented, giddy, lunatic, ridiculous, wacky.
Antonyms: rational, sane, sensible, sound, wise.

6.Feckless(adj): ineffective; incompetent; futile;having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
Synonyms: feeble, fustian, futile, incautious, ineffectual, , wild.
Antonyms: competent, efficient, important, purposeful, responsible, useful.

7.Bravura(n): a display of daring; brilliant performance; A piece or passage that emphasizes a performer's virtuosity;(adj)--> Showy; ostentatious.

8.Perspicuous(adj): clearly expressed or presented; lucid; easy to understand.
Synonyms: apparent, comprehensible, explicit, limpid, pellucid, unambiguous, unblurred.

9.Exoteric(adj): suitable for or communicated to the general public;Not confined to an inner circle of disciples or initiates.

10.Gargoyle(n): a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.

11.Weltschmerz(n): sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.

12.Garbled(v): to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.)

13.Physiognomy(n): the face or countenance, esp. when considered as an index to the character;the outward appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into its character.

14.Spat(n): a petty quarrel; a light blow; slap; smack.
Synonyms: altercation, argument, bickering, discord, dissension, embroilment, feud, fracas, fuss, hubbub, squabble, strife, tiff.

15.Wrench(v): to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
Synonyms: coerce, contort, dislodge, pervert, rend, tweak, yank.

16.Jibe(v): to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
Synonyms: accord, dovetail, harmonize, tally.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

April - 3rd- 2008 - GRE Quants

April - 3rd- 2008 - GRE Quants

1. Which is the greatest among the following
A. (0.3)^2
B. (0.03)^2
C. (3/10)^3
D. (3/100)^3

2. If x is a positive number
Col A: x^(x^x)
Col B: (x^x)^x

3. If -1Col A: (1/x)^2
Col B: x^2

4. Given a cylinder of radius 5 and height 8. Find the largest line that can be drawn joining any two points in the cylinder?
A. 2Sqrt41
B. Sqrt81
C. Sqrt154
and so on....

5. Given a rectangular box with sides 5inches, 6inches, 10inches and has weight 17kgs. What is its density in kg/cubic feet?

6. Given Principal amount as P,rate of interest as R ,and the amount increases from 1995 to 2000 and 2000 to 2005 each time by r%, so that the total amount was (7/5)P at the end of 2 yrs .
Col A : R
Cola B: 20

7. Given a triangle ABC, in which a square is inscribed. If the base of the triangle is 4 times the side of the square, then
Col A: The altitude CD (D is the mid point of AB)
Col B: Side of the square

8. Col A: Standard Deviation of 23, 24, 25, 26, 26, 26
Col B: Standard Deviation of 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

9. If the circumference of a circle 'C' is equal to perimeter of a square 'S' then
Col A: area of a square 'S'
Col B: area of circle 'C'

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

April - 1st- 2008-GRE Quants

April - 1st- 2008-GRE Quants

1. If 'x' is a positive integer.
Col A: (x)^(x)^x
Col B: (x)^x

2. Given a cuboid whose faces are painted red and the cuboid is cut vertically into 27 pieces. If the pieces are taken out after cutting vertically then how many of these 27 pieces had red color face?

3. For a product 'M' if the selling price is increased by 25% and for a product 'N' if selling price is decreased by 25%.
Col A: Cost price of product M
Col B: Cost price of product N

4. Col A: Standard Deviation of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Col B: Standard Deviation of 33, 33, 34, 34, 35, 35

5. Given that -1 > x > 0 and assume that x=!0

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