EnteringTheCatRace

Hi Friends,
My net connection is back so i am also back with a bang!!
I will definitely make up for the delays.

I will get back to you tomorrow with the next set of words.
I am gonna do some TSD (MY nightmares) today.

God save Nidi.

Regards,
Nidi.

Hi Friends,

There are these quizzes in totalgadha.
I have kind of become addicted to TG (Totalgadha.com), that has become the first site I open when I sit before a comp.
Today I completed the Number Theory quizz in TG. Got about 5.66 / 10 grade. There were about 120+ questions in all. If you want to crack cat better then you definitely would want to do these problems. They are good.
From today on I am planning to do atleast 2 RCs from TG 1000 RC set and a couple of PS problems.

Will keep you posted on the improvements.

Craving for the creepy cat
Niti

Hi,

Here is the list of words for the day
1) Brusque : Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.
Usage: Brusque, brusque'ly adv., brusque'ness n.
Root: brusco "sharp, tart, rough,"
Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, crusty, discourteous, gruff, hasty, impolite, sharp, short, snappy, snippy, surly, tart, terse, unmannerly
Eg: The CEOs brusque remarks hurt all the managers who sat in the meeting.
2) Decant :
1) To pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
2) To pour (a liquid) from one container to another.
Usage: Decant, Decantation, Decanted, Decanting, Decants
Eg: The bartender decanted the wine into my glass.
3) Burlesque :
1) Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject
2) An artistic composition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity
Usage: Burlesquely, Burlesquer, Burlesqued, Burlesquing, Burlesques
Root: burla, joke
Synonyms: caricatural, comic, ironical, ludicrous, mock, mocking, parodic, satirical
Eg: The burlesque comment made by the great Historian on the Great Indian diamond left all the audience agape.
4) Complacent :
Pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
Usage: Complacently
Root: com-, intensive pref.; see com- + placēre, to please
Synonyms: conceited, confident, easy-going, gratified, happy, obsequious, pleased, satisfied, self-assured, self-contented, self-possessed, self-righteous, self-satisfied, serene, smug, unconcerned.
Eg: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
5) Descant :
1) To comment or discourse at great length, Discourse
2) A melody
Eg: The descant sung by the Delhi University students was awesome.
6) Amiable : Friendly, sociable
Usage: Amiability, Amiableness, Amiably
Synonyms: affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy*, charming, cheerful, clubby*, complaisant, cool*, copacetic*, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly*, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking*, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, prince, pussycat*, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warm-hearted, winning
Eg: People like talking to amiable persons.
7) Amicable : Same as amiable
8) Esoteric :
1) understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
2) private; secret; confidential
Usage: Esoterically
Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, orphic, private, profound, recondite, secret
Eg: This poetry is full of esoteric allusions.
9) Exoteric :
Not belonging, limited, or pertaining to the inner or select circle, as of disciples or intimates.
Opp. of esoteric
Usage: Exoterically, Exotericism
Eg: The wikipedia site is very exoterically created.
10) Bedraggled : To make wet or limp
Usage: Bedraggling, Bedraggles
Eg: The rain bedraggled the entire garden.

The words again

1. Exoteric
2. Esoteric
3. Bedraggled
4. Complacent
5. Amiable
6. Amicable
7. Decant
8. Descant
9. Brusque
10. Burlesque

Happy Cracking,

Niti

Hi,

Its been a long time since i have written anything in my blog.
sorry about that. this is because the net connection has been horrible.
i will start being regular once our net connection is proper (that is expected in 3 to 4 days)

Meanwhile i have done quiet a few changes to my CAT preparation. Not that i have started the plan from scratch, i have done a few modifications to optimize it.

Remember i have spoken about the site www.totalgadha.com, i read an article in this. It was about the study plan and this lead to changes in my plan. According to this (And most other sources) the CAT question paper has around 50% of Quant questions coming from Number Theory and Geometry alone. Very less from Commercial maths (all put together).

In the Verbal also it is the same. Around 50% of questions is from RC.

So the main targets on which we have to live hard is Number Theory, Geometry and RC. Likewise is the time factor too.

Keep coming back to this blog for more words and my usuage struggles with CAT.

Cracking happily,
Niti

Hi,

i am extremely sorry i couldnt post the word list for so long. I believe its been almost a week. sorry i will try to post it regularly.
here is the word list for the day:

1) Coerce - Compel, to force
To remember: Coerce – force

2) Cogitate - Think deeply, meditate
To remember: Cogitate – Meditate (Not to agitate)

3) Compunction - Regret, Feeling for ones action
To remember: Compunction because of Comp(romised) (F)unction

4) Contrite - Deep sorrow for wrong doing
To remember: What was not right

5) Conciliatory - Soothing, Comforting

6) Concur - Agree in opinion
To remember: Concur to conquer

7) Condone - Forgive
To remember: Agree with what is done

8) Connotation - Suggestion, in addition to

9) Conspicuous - Easily seen important

10) Contentious - Argumentative
To remember: Argumentative Indian

11) Convoke - Call together
To remember: Convoke people to Invoke similar feelings

12) Convoluted - Complicated

13) Cornucopia - Abundant supply
To remember: The cornucopia of food in the cruise got everyone excited.

14) Corporeal - Physical of or for the body
To remember: Corpse

15) Covert - Disguised

16) Covetous - Eagerly, desire

17) Coy - Shy

18) Credulous - Ready to believe things

19) Curmudgeon - Bad tempered person
To remember: One who has a muddy behavior

20) Dainty - Difficult to please, pretty, delicate

The words once again

1. Curmudgeon
2. Coy
3. Covert
4. Covetous
5. Credulous
6. Corporeal
7. Cornucopia
8. Contrite
9. Compunction
10. Coerce
11. Cogitate
12. Conciliatory
13. Convoluted
14. Convoke
15. Contentious
16. Condone
17. Connotation
18. Dainty
19. Conspicuous
20. Concur

Keep CATtling!!

Enjoying the Convolutions of CAT -- Niti

Hi,

Here are the words for today

1) Rivulet - A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
To remember: River lets to flow (small)

2) Roborant - Strengthening
A tonic
Restoring vigor or strength

3) Belabor - Beat hard
To beat vigorously; Ply with heavy blows.

4) Belligerent - Of warlike character; aggressively hostile
1. warlike; given to waging war.
2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
3. Waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.
4. Pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights.

5) Bequest - Arrangement to give something at death
To remember: Bed + Request: Request to be granted on death bed

6) Bereft - Rob esp by death
To remember: Theft in grief
To deprive and make desolate, esp. by death (usually fol. by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.

7) Bigot - Stubborn, Narrow minded
A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

8) Blandishment - flattery, coaxing
To remember: To make the head baldish (Thalayay mottai adikarathukku ice vakrathu)
To coax or influence by gentle flattery; cajole: They blandished the guard into letting them through the gate.

9) Boorish - Crude, offensive, rude
To remember: Bearish
Of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
Syn: coarse, uncouth, loutish, churlish

10) Brook - To tolerate
To remember: To tolerate a person who broke your heart
OR
A small stream or natural stream of fresh water

11) Burgeon - Grow fast, budding
1. To grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
2. To begin to grow, as a bud; put forth buds, shoots, etc., as a plant (often fol. by out, forth).
3. To put forth, as buds.
4. A bud; sprout.

12) Burnish - To polish
To remember: To burn iron to make it smooth and bright
1. To polish (a surface) by friction.
2. To make smooth and bright.
3. Engraving. To flatten and enlarge the dots of (a halftone) by rubbing with a tool.

13) Cabal - A scheme or plot, a group of plotters
To remember: The cab people are always plotting something or the other
1. A small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
2. The plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue.

14) Cadge - To get by begging
To remember: Birds in the cage are begging to be released
To beg, to get by begging
1. To obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
2. To borrow without intent to repay.
3. To beg or obtain by begging.
4. To ask, expect, or encourage another person to pay for or provide one's drinks, meals, etc.
5. To beg.

15) Calumny - A false and malicious statement to injure someones reputation
To remember: Faulty statements as in the matrimonial columns
Slander, Aspersion
1. A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something: The speech was considered a calumny of the administration.
2. The act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation

16) Castigation - Severe punishment
To remember: To be cast out of a group. (A punishment in villages)
1. To criticize or reprimand severely.
2. To punish in order to correct.

17) Centurion - Leader of a group of 100 soldiers

18) Chary - Cautious wary
To remember: Remember that person Chary. What is your reaction?

19) Chicanery - Legal trickery \ false argument
1. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
2. A quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

20) Churl - Bad-tempered person
To remember: A person who makes your stomach curl
1. A rude, boorish, or surly person.
2. A peasant; rustic.
3. A niggard; miser: He was a churl in his affections.
4. English History. A freeman of the lowest rank.

The words once again
1) Bigot
2) Bequest
3) Rivulet
4) Brook
5) Cadge
6) Blandishment
7) Calumny
8) Bereft
9) Belabor
10) Roborant
11) Belligerent
12) Boorish
13) Burgeon
14) Burnish
15) Cabal
16) Castigation
17) Centurion
18) Chary
19) Chicanery
20) Churl

Enjoying the vacissitudes of CAT!!

Hi,

I have been publishing words for somewhere like 5 days now.
After having avowed to you that I am weak in Vocabulary you would be quiet confident that I won’t be reading all words in a dictionary.

Yeah I know it is obvious. But I wanted to let you know from where I am picking up words and their meanings.

Well I pick up most of the words from GRE wordlists online. The site I am visiting now is http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.html.
That is become this is the first site we come across when we hit google with “Word list”. From here I go to the http://www.dictionary.com/ where I pick up the meanings. You get loads to read about each word here that you would never forget them.

Then I cut short the meanings I get from these two places, optionally add my comments on how to remember and there you have the list.

CATling the way to success! - Meow

Hi,

Sorry I couldn’t publish the list yesterday.
As compensation I have come up with 20 words today.
I will compensate with 20 words for another 2 days.

So here is todays list

1) Cavort - To bound
1. To bound or prance about.2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner.
The men spent the next few weeks there drinking beer, eating hibachi-grilled fish, and cavorting with the young ladies.
Cavort is perhaps an alteration of curvet, "a light leap by a horse"

2) Arrant - In the highest degree
1. Downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
2. Wandering; errant.

3) Ascetic - Practicing self denial

4) Ascribe - consider to be the origin of or belonging to
To remember: Ascribe: Source; Subscribe: To join the ascribe / source
1. To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
2. To attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.

5) Asperity - roughness harshness
Ill temper irritability
To remember: Prosperity comes when you are humble and Asperity comes when you are ill mannered or harsh
1. Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony: The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
2. Hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather.
3. Roughness of surface; unevenness.
4. Something rough or harsh

6) Assiduous - Diligent , Hardworking
Industrious, Tireless
1. Constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
2. Constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.

7) Astute - Clever, quick at seeing to get an advantage
To remember: Always + Tuned to the surrounding environment.
1. Of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
2. Clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd: an astute merchandising program; an astute manipulation of facts.

8) Attenuate - Make thin. weaken enervate
1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
2. To make thin; make slender or fine.

9) Audacious - daring foolishly bold impudent
1. Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
2. Extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive: an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
3. Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
4. Lively; unrestrained; uninhibited: an audacious interpretation of her role.

10) Augury - Omen, sign

11) Austere - Severely moral, strict, simple
1. Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
2. Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
3. Grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
4. Without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
5. Severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.
6. Lacking softness; hard: an austere bed of straw.
7. rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor.

12) Auxiliary - Helping, support
Auxiliary verb – a helping verb

13) Aver - Affirm, assist, prove, justify
1. To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
2. Law. To allege as a fact.

14) Avid - Eager, greedy
1. Enthusiastic; ardent; dedicated; keen: an avid moviegoer.
2. Keenly desirous; eager; greedy (often fol. by for or of): avid for pleasure; avid of power.

15) Avow - Admit, Declare openly

16) Baleful - harmful ominous causing evil
To remember: Giving bail could be harmful.

17) Baneful - Causing harm or ruin or destruction

18) Balk - Obstruct purposefully
To get on the way

19) Barrage - Artificial obstacle built across a river

20) Beatify - To bless, make happy or ascribe a virtue to
Happiness makes them beautiful (Beatifying makes them beautiful)

The words once again:
1. Ascribe
2. Astute
3. Balk
4. Barrage
5. Avow
6. Baleful
7. Baneful
8. Aver
9. Avid
10. Augury
11. Auxiliary
12. Asperity
13. Cavort
14. Arrant
15. Ascetic
16. Austere
17. Assiduous
18. Attenuate
19. Audacious
20. Beatify

Die hard member of the CAT Maniac group!!

Hi,

I have come to you with a question today...
Read the below passage:

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness".

There is an excellent observation to be made in this sentence.
Look at this carefully and then if you are unable to answer / want to verify the answer read the below observation.

This is a sentence where the nth word is n letters long.
e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on.

If you are serious about CAT you should have said that at one glance!!

All the best for your CAT preps. Get back to you soon.

Craving The CAT way!!

Hi,

It has been not more than a week since i drew the schedules, but i am already running back logs.
The problem is not because i am not spending time for CAT, but there are a few of my week topics like Time, Speed & Dist, Ratio, Proportion & Variable and Races that were planned for last week.

Tomorrow I am supposed to finish the Quant (Arithmetic and Algebra) sections.
I should come back from office early and start with it soon.
Day after tomorrow, i have prepared for a revision and a test the day after that.

I will let you know what i am doing tomorrow

CAT crams....Niti

Hi Folks,

Wish you a very happy new year to all tamil speaking people.
Here is the word list for the day

1) Nautical - Marine, naval
Of or pertaining to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
Syn: cruising, deep-sea, marine, maritime, naval, navigating, navigational, oceangoing, oceanic, oceanographic, pelagic, rowing, sailing, sailorly, salty, sea-loving, seafaring, seagoing, ship, thalassic, yachting
2) Pillage - To plunder ruthlessly
To remember: Plunder + Village
1. To strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
2. To take as booty.
3) Pilfer - To steal, esp. in small quantities.
To remember: Pills kill slowly (small)
4) Sobriquet - Nick name
To remember: Sabari, As Sobri
An affectionate or humorous nickname.
An assumed name.
5) Vaudeville - Therukoothu
A Show
theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
6) Vicariously - Sacrificing
Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.
7) Vicissitudes - Interchange or alternation, as of states or things
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. Interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.
8) Vestige - Remainder of some condition, practice
1. A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
2. A surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3. A very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4. Archaic. a footprint; track.
9) Visitation - the act of visiting
10) Vivified - to give life to; animate
1. To give life to; animate; quicken.
2. To enliven; brighten; sharpen.

The words again
1) Pilfer
2) Pillage
3) Visitation
4) Vivified
5) Sobriquet
6) Vicarously
7) Vicissitudes
8) Vestige
9) Vaudeville
10) Nautical

Loving - CAT crack!