Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Veteran-Word to Learn: Somnambulist
If a person is somnambulist, he walks in sleep
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Veteran Admires:
If you can dream it, you can do it.-Walt Disney

Veteran Movie Suggestion:
Stranger than Fiction
(A must watch for IELTS/TOEFL/GRE aspirants)
Veteran's Observation:
The movie will help you learn new words as the dialogues contain a high level of vocabulary. Also, a good practice for listening as the movie has good American accent.


Veteran Book Suggestion:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
(A must read for CAT/CMAT/GRE aspirants)

QA (Percentage- Level : Average)
In a History examination, the average for the entire class was 80 marks. If 10% of the students scored 95 marks and 20% scored 90 marks, what was the average marks of the remaining students of the class?
1. 60
2. 72
3. 75
4. 85
QA (Percentage- Level : Average)
The sum of the number of boys and girls in a school is 150. If the number of boys is x, then the number of girls becomes x% of the total number of students. The number of boys is:
1. 51
2. 65
3. 60
4. 95
Veteran- Word to Learn: Taciturn
If you describe someone as taciturn, the person does not speak much.
VeteranWord to Learn: Loquacious
If you describe someone as loquacious, the person talks a lot.
Veteran-Word to Learn: Intrepid
If you describe someone as intrepid the person is fearless. In other words he is not afraid of anything or anyone.

Word to Learn: Browbeat
When you browbeat someone, you bully, harass or frighten the person.
Veteran-Word to Learn: Agility
When you do something with agility, you do it with ease, quickness and flexibility.