English Vocabulary Builder

BENE
BENE is Latin for well. A benefit is a good result or effect.
Something beneficial produces good results or effects. The Latin root can
be heard in other languages as well: Good! or Fine! in Spanish
is Bueno!; in French, it's Bon!; and in Italian, just say
Bene!
WORD FORMATION
1. Benediction: A prayer that asks for God's blessing, especially a prayer
that concludes a worship service.
Usage: The moment the bishop had finished his benediction, she
squeezed quickly out of her row and darted out the cathedral's side
entrance.
2. Benefactor: Someone who helps another person or group, especially
by giving money.
Usage: An anonymous benefactor had given $15 million to establish an
ecological institute at the university.
3. Beneficiary: A person or organization that benefits or is expected to
benefit from something, especially one that receives money or property
when someone dies.
Usage: Living in a trailer in near- poverty, she received word in the mail
that her father had died, naming her as the sole beneficiary of his lifeinsurance policy.
4. Benevolence: Kindness,generosity.
Usage: In those financially desperate years, the young couple was saved
only by the benevolence of her elderly great-uncle.
AM
AM comes from the Latin amare, to love. The Roman god of love
was known by two different names, Cupid and Amor. Amiable means
friendly or good-natured, and amigo is Spanish for friend.
WORD FORMATION
1. Amicable: Friendly, peaceful.
Usage: Their relations with their in-laws were generally amicable, despite
some bickering during the holidays.
2. Enamored: Charmed or fascinated; inflamed with love.
Usage: Rebecca quickly became enamored of the town's rustic
surroundings, its slow pace, and its eccentric characters.
3. Amorous: Having or showing strong feelings of attraction or love.
Usage: It turned out that the amorous Congressman had gotten his
girlfriend a good job and was paying for her apartment.
4. Paramour: A lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom.
Usage: He had been coming to the house for two years before her
brothers realized that he was actually the paramour of their shy and
withdrawn sister.

BELL
BELL comes from the Latin word meaning war. Bellona was the
little-known Roman goddess of war; her husband, Mars, was the god of
war.
WORD FORMATION
1. Antebellum: Existing before a war, especially before the American
Civil War (186165).
Usage: When World War I was over, the French nobility found it
impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life.
2. Bellicose: Warlike, aggressive,quarrelsome.
Usage: The more bellicose party always got elected whenever there
was tension along the border and the public believed that military action
would lead to security.
3. Belligerence: Aggressiveness, combativeness.
Usage: The belligerence in Turner's voice told them that the warning
was a serious threat.
4. Rebellion: Open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a
person or thing in authority.
Usage: A student rebellion that afternoon in Room 13 resulted in the new
substitute teacher racing out of the building in tears.
PAC
PAC is related to the Latin words for agree and peace. The
Pacific
Oceanthat is, the Peaceful Oceanwas named by Ferdinand
Magellan because it seemed so calm after he had sailed through the
storms near Cape Horn. (Magellan obviously had never witnessed a
Pacific typhoon.)
WORD FORMATION
1. Pacify: (1) To soothe anger or agitation. (2) To subdue by armed
action.
Usage: It took the police hours to pacify the angry demonstrators.
2. Pacifist: A person opposed to war or violence, especially someone who
refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds.
Usage: Her grandfather had fought in the Marines in World War II, but in
his later years he had become almost a pacifist, opposing every war for
one reason or another.
3. Pact: An agreement between two or more people or groups; a treaty or
formal agreement between nations to deal with a problem or to resolve a
dispute.
Usage: The girls made a pact never to reveal what had happened on that
terrifying night in the abandoned house.
4. Pace: Contrary to the opinion of.
Usage: She had only three husbands, pace some Hollywood historians
who claim she had as many as six.

CRIM
CRIM comes from the Latin words for fault or crime or
accusation.
It's obvious where the root shows up most commonly in English. A crime
is an act forbidden by the government, which the government itself will
punish you for, and for which you may be branded a criminal. A crime is
usually more serious than a tort, a civil wrong for which the
wronged person must himself sue if he wants to get repaid in some way.
WORD FORMATION
1. Criminology: The study of crime, criminals, law enforcement, and
punishment.
Usage: His growing interest in criminology led him to become a
probation officer.
2. Decriminalize: To remove or reduce the criminal status of.
Usage: An angry debate over decriminalizing doctor-assisted suicide
raged all day in the statehouse.
3. Incriminate: To show evidence of involvement in a crime or a fault.
Usage: The muddy tracks leading to and from the cookie jar were enough
to incriminate them.
4. Recrimination: (1) An accusation in answer to an accusation made
against oneself. (2) The making of such an accusation.
Usage: Their failure to find help led to endless and pointless
recriminations over responsibility for the accident.
PROB
PROB comes from the Latin words for prove or proof and honesty
or integrity. A probe, whether it's a little object for testing electrical
circuits or a spacecraft headed for Mars, is basically something that's
looking for evidence or proof. And probable originally described
something that wasn't certain but might be provable.
WORD FORMATION
1. Approbation: A formal or official act of approving; praise, usually
given with pleasure or enthusiasm.
Usage: The senate signaled its approbation of the new plan by voting for
it unanimously.
2. Probate: The process of proving in court that the will of someone who
has died is valid, and of administering the estate of a dead person.
Usage: When her father died, she thought she would be able to avoid
probate, but she wasn't that lucky.
3. Probity: Absolute honesty and up rightness.
Usage: Her unquestioned probity helped win her the respect of her fellow
judges.
4. Reprobate: A person of thoroughly bad character.
Usage: His wife finally left him, claiming he was a reprobate who would
disappear for weeks at a time, gambling and drinking away all his money.

GRAV
GRAV comes from the Latin word
meaning heavy, weighty, serious.
Gravity is, of course, what makes
things heavy, and without it there
wouldn't be any life on earth,
since nothing would stay on earth
at all. This doesn't stop us from
yelling in outrage when the
familiar laws of gravity cause
something to drop to the floor and
break.
WORD FORMATION
1. Grave: (1) Requiring serious
thought or concern. (2) Serious and
formal in appearance or manner.
Usage: We realized that the
situation was grave and that the
slightest incident could spark allout war.
2. Gravitas: Great or very dignified
seriousness.
Usage: The head of the committee
never failed to carry herself with
the gravitas she felt was
appropriate to her office.
3. Gravitate: To move or be drawn
toward something, especially by
natural tendency or as if by an
invisible force.
Usage: On hot evenings, the town's
social life gravitated toward the
lakefront, where you could stroll
the long piers eating ice cream or
dance at the old Casino.
4. Aggravate: (1) To make (an
injury, problem, etc.) more serious
or severe. (2) To annoy or bother.
Usage: She went back to the soccer
team before the knee was
completely healed, which naturally
aggravated the injury.
LEV
LEV comes from the Latin adjective

levis, meaning light, and the verb

levare, meaning to raise or
lighten. So a lever is a bar used
to lift something, by means of
leverage. And levitation is the
magician's trick in which a body
seems to rise into the air by itself.
WORD FORMATION
1. Alleviate: To lighten, lessen, or
relieve, especially physical or
mental suffering.
Usage: Cold compresses alleviated
the pain of the physical injury, but
only time could alleviate the effect
of the insult.
2. Elevation: (1) The height of a
place. (2) The act or result of
lifting or raising someone or
something.
Usage: Her doctor is concerned
about the elevation of her blood
pressure since her last visit.
3. Cantilever: A long piece of
wood, metal, etc., that sticks out
from a wall to support something
above it.
Usage: The house's deck,
supported by cantilevers, jutted
out dramatically over the rocky
slope, and looking over the edge
made him dizzy.
4. Levity: Lack of appropriate
seriousness.
Usage:The Puritan elders tried to
ban levity of all sorts from the
community's meetings, but found it
increasingly difficult to control the
younger generation.
Idioms: A gate crasher
Meaning: Someone who attends a party without being invited
Sentence: Nitish warned his friendsto expect Gaurav and Ayushi at the
party because they are known to be a gate crasher.
Idioms: A heart-to-heart talk

Meaning: A frank and open discussion

Sentence: I, wet and Owen had a heart-to-heart talk about their troubled
friendship.
Idioms: A go-getter
Meaning: Someone who is determined to succeed in life
Sentence: Uma is a go-getter; she will do anything to achieve her
dreams.
Idioms: A necessary evil
Meaning: A negative / unpleasant thing that has to be done in order to
survive
Sentence: Divya needn't regret her decision as it was a necessary evil
ground her son in order to teach him an important lesson.
Idioms: A nest egg
Meaning: Money saved for the future
Sentence: Neeraj has very wisely started a nest egg for his retirement.
Idioms: A queer fish
Meaning: A strange person
Sentence: Geronimo is a queer fish--he behaves in the strangest way and
says the oddest things
Idioms: A rap on the knuckles
Meaning: A scolding , criticism
Sentence: The Mayor received a rap on the knuckles from the Prime
Minister for allowing the streets in the town to remain dirty .
Idioms: A rotten apple
Meaning: someone who is a bad influence on others
Sentence: Tom's friend avoid him because he is a rotten apple
Idioms : A skeleton in the cupboard
Meaning : A secret
Sentence : Roxy wanted to get more information from Layla as she knew
there was a skeleton in the cupboard.
Idioms : A sight for sore eyes
Meaning : Something very beautiful to look at.
Sentence : Khushi was a sight for sore eyes in her new party dress.
Idioms : drop in the bucket
Meaning : something that is not important because it is very small.
Sentence : "I'm sorry I scratched your car." Reply: "Don't worry about it.
It's just a drop in the bucket. That car has more scratches on it than I can
count."
Idioms : Give somebody The Slip
Meaning : to escape, or get away from that person
Sentence : Quick-there is a police car behind us; let's give him the slip.
Reasoning Quiz
Study the following information
carefully and answer the

questions given below:

Seven professionals A, B, C, D, E, F and G are practicing their
professions in different cities Chennai, Banglore, Hyderabad, Mumbai,
Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Bhubaneshwar not necessarily in the same
order.Each has a
different profession Doctor, Engineer, Pharmacist, Lawyer, Counsellor,
Professor and Artist not necessarily in the same order.
A is a Pharmacist and practises in Bhubaneshwar. D practises in Banglore
but is not Doctor or an Artist. The one who practises in Hyderabad is a
Professor. G is a Counsellor and does not practice in Mumbai or Chennai.
E is a Lawyer and practises in Ahmedabad. F practises in Chennai but is
not an artist. C practises in Mumbai.
1. What is D's profession?
(a) Doctor
(b) Professor
(c) Engineer
(d) Cannot be determined
(e) None of these
Ans : (c)
2. Who is the professor?
(a)B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) None of these
Ans : (a)
3. Which of the following
combinations of profession and
place is correct?
(a) Pharmacist - Jaipur
(b) Engineer - Chennai
(c) Doctor - Bangalore
(d) Artist - Mumbai
Ans : (d)
(e) None of these
4. Which of the following persons
work in Jaipur?
(a) B
(b) G
(c) C
(d) B or G
(e) None of these
Ans : (b)
5. Who is the Doctor?

(a) D
(b) B
(c) C
(d) B or C
(e) None of these
Ans : (e)
Ques. Three ladies and four men are a group of friends i.e. P, K, R, Q, J,
V and X. Each one has a different profession i.e. Lawyer, Travel Agent,
Air-hostess, Doctor, Professor, Consultant and Jeweller and each one
owns a different car i.e. Alto, Corolla, Santro, Lancer, Ikon, Scorpio and
Esteem, not necessarily in that order. None of the ladies is a Consultant or
a Lawyer. R is an Air-hostess and she owns a Ikon car. P owns a Scorpio.
K is not a Doctor. J is a Jeweller and he owns a Corolla. V is a Lawyer
and does not own Alto. X is a Consultant and owns Santro. The Doctor
owns Esteem
car whereas the Professor owns Scorpio. The Travel Agent owns an Alto.
None of the ladies owns a Scorpio.
6. Who are the three ladies in the group?
(a) V, R, K
(b) R, P, J
(c) R, K, Q
(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
Ans : (c)
7. What car does Q own?
(a) Esteem
(b) Lancer
(c) Alto
(d) Santro
(e) None of these
Ans : (a)
8. Who owns the car Lancer?
(a) V
(b) X
(c) K
(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
Ans : (a)
9. What is the profession of K?
(a) Doctor
(b) Professor
(c) Travel Agent
(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these

Ans : (c)
10. Which car does V own?
(a) Alto
(b) Lancer
(c) Esteem
(d) Can't be determined
(e) None of these
Ans : (b)
Quantitative Aptitude Quiz
Directions (1-3) : What should come in place of the question mark (?) in
the following question ?
1. 186 x ? 14 = 1302
(1) 98
(2) 92
(3) 88
(4) 84
(5) None of these
Ans : (1)
2. 18.4 x ? x 8= 1840
(1) 11.0
(2) 12.5
(3) 14.5
(4) 10.0
(5) None of these
Ans : (2)
3. 5482.24 + 2548.56 + ? = 9626.26
(1) 1959.46
(2) 1546.95
(3) 1946.56
(4) 1569.45
(5) None of these
Ans : (5)
Directions (4-6) : What approximate value should come In place of the
question mark (?) in the following question ?
4. 18.505% of 550.010 = ?
(1) 135
(2) 85
(3) 100
(4) 120
(5) 90
Ans : (3)
5. 969.69 + 996.96 + 966.66 = ?

(1) 2560
(2) 2870
(3) 2930
(4) 2390
(5) 2900
Ans : (3)
6. 8599.999 420.002 x 14.996 = ?
(1) 250
(2) 325
(3) 275
(4) 300
(5) 350
Ans : (4)
Directions (7-11) : In the following number series only one number is
wrong. Find out the wrong number.
7. 5, 348, 564, 689, 716, 780, 788
(1) 716
(2) 788
(3) 348
(4)689
(5) 780
Ans : (1)
8. 4444, 2224, 1114, 556, 281.5,
142.75, 73.375
(1) 2224
(2) 281.5
(3) 1114
(4) 556
(5) 142.75
Ans : (4)
9. 4.5, 16, 25, 33, 38.5, 42, 43.5
(1) 33
(2) 38.5
(3) 42
(4) 43.5
(5) 25
Ans : (5)
10. 180, 181, 210, 333, 676, 1405
(1) 181
(2) 210
(3) 333
(4) 676
(5) 1405
Ans : (2)

11. 38, 567, 998, 1369, 1658, 1883

(1) 567
(2) 998
(3) 1369
(4) 1658
(5) 1883
Ans : (2)