Archive for the ‘Vocab’ Category

So if you think you are not good in sentence correction and need some good quality exercise then nothing is better than OG-11 (Official Guide-11) Review. It has 138 questions of Sentence Correction. Answer key is very descriptive. After all you can never doubt their grammar skills as every person who prepare for GMAT purchase it. ... Full story

Compare usually takes the preposition to when it refers to the activity of describing the resemblances between unlike things: He compared her to a summer day. Scientists sometimes compare the human brain to a computer. It takes with when it refers to the act of examining two like things in order to discern their similarities or differences: The police compared the forged signature with the ... Full story

Deliberate (v and Adj.):- Adj. 1. Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional: mistook the oversight for a deliberate insult. 2. Arising from or marked by careful consideration: a deliberate decision. See Synonyms at voluntary. 3. Unhurried in action, movement, or manner, as if trying to avoid error: moved at a ... Full story

So, atlast UPA proved its majority in Confidence Pole. Today while reading an editorial page of TOI I came across two new words whose meaning is not present in the free dictionary. Then I tried to find the answer through some of the experts in English. These words are, as mentioned in the title of this ... Full story

As I was going through my wren & martin, I came across a very nice thing and i.e the usage of older and elder. "Older and Oldest may be said either of persons or of things, while elder and eldest apply to persons only, and are besides, strictly speaking confined to members of the same family" ... Full story