Verbal Ability

1. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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A VARCTEST – PREPVELVET INITIATIVE
TASK 1
MAKE SENTENCES WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND SUBMIT IN
THE GOOGLE FORM LINK GIVEN BELOW
a) askew = crooked, tilted
b) aspersion = slander, false rumor, damaging report
c) assail = attack
d)assent = to express agreement
e) assiduous = hard-working, diligent, persistent
f) assuage = lessen (pain), to make less severe,

2. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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TASK 2
MAKE SENTENCES WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS TO SHOW THE
DIFFERENCE IN MEANING AND SUBMIT IN THE GOOGLE FORM LINK
GIVEN BELOW
A Abdicate / Abnegate
B Ability / Capacity
C Abjure / Adjure
D Ablution / Absolution
E Abrogate / Arrogate
F Accolade / Acolyte

3. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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What are phrasal verbs?
Phrasal verhs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle.
Particles are small words which you already know as prepositions or adverbs.
Here are some of the most common phrasal verb particles:
about (a)round at away back down for in into off on out over through to up
Task 3
Find out the the twelve phrasal verbs in these sentences and fill up the PV in the
Google Doc
1 I sent off the order last week but the goods haven't turned up yet.
2 I came across an interesting book in the library. I took down the title. Here it is.
3 We asked some friends around to watch a film, but the video was playing up and it
eventually broke down.
4 I brought up this problem at the last meeting. It's really time to sort out the problem.
5 I wish he'd stop messing us about! He's put the meeting off three times and now he
wants to call it off altogether.

4. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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IDIOMS
Task 4
Form sentences with the following Idioms and fill up in the Google Doc
A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned:
By not spending money, you are saving money (little by little).
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words:
A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.
A Piece of Cake:
A task that can be accomplished very easily.
A Slap on the Wrist:
A very mild punishment.
A Toss-Up:
A result that is still unclear and can go either way.

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Task 5 Read and Understand
Commas are so widely misused that it is worth discussing their function in
some detail. First, let us make it very clear when commas cannot be used.
(a) A comma should never divide a subject from its verb. The two go
together:
My parents, had very strict views.
My parents had very strict views.
Take extra care with compound
subjects:
The grandparents, the parents, and
the children, were in some ways to
blame.
The grandparents, the parents, and
the children were in some ways to
blame.
(b) Commas should never be used in an attempt to string sentences together.
Sentences must be either properly joined (and commas don’t have this
function) or clearly separated by full stops, question marks or exclamation
marks.

6. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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7. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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TASK 6 – MINI TEST
1 But China‘s growth spurt is also presenting a new set of challenges, including
questions about the _______
of the growth and worries that record bank lending could result in wasteful spending and
a large_______ in non-
performing loans.
(1) Extent, dip (2) Certainty, dwindle (3) Maintainability, rebate (4) Sustainability, jump
2. The undertaker, in a black top hat, began his slow march, followed by eight
gleaming____, each carrying the
_________of a fallen British soldier wrapped in the Union Flag.
(1) Sarcophagus, coffin (2) Hearses, coffin (3) Heresies, coffin (4) Hearsays, coffin
3. Iran's most senior______ cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, leveled serious
_____last week at the
government's response to the protests.
(1) Benevolent, attack (2) Erudite, exegesis (3) Bounderish, censure (4) Dissident,
criticism

8. VARCTEST 27 - VERBAL PREP –
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TASK 6 – MINI TEST
4. By 1789 revolution was in the air and bourgeois gentlemen such as Maître
d‘Anton needed to take sides;
______with liberal and classical ideals, he joined the revolutionaries.
(1) Imbued (2) Fomented (3) Instigated (4) Provoked
5. Danton was a headstrong_________, a swashbuckling political showman
with a _________ memory, whose
spectacular oratory held audiences in thrall.
(1) Despot, slipshod (2) Conjuror, elephantine (3) Intractable, retentive (4)
Firebrand, prodigious