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Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

1. He might make the opposite mistake; when I want to assign a name to this group of nuts, he might understand it as a numeral,

2. Now, one can ostensively define a proper name, the name of a colour, the name of a material, a numeral, the name of a point of the compass and so on.

3. The definition of the number two. "That is called 'two'" pointing to two nuts is perfectly exact. But how can two be defined like that?

4. He may suppose this; but perhaps he does not.

5. The person one gives the definition to doesn't know what one wants to call 'two'; he will suppose that 'two' is the name given to this group of nuts!

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Important Questions on Verbal and Logical Ability

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Widespread use of lectures in class-rooms in business schools leads to severe negative consequences. The first consequence is theoretically knowledgeable graduates who cannot apply theory to solve real world problems. The more serious consequence is that lectures encourage a feeling of total omniscience among them which persists for quite some time after graduating. This feeling prevents "them from learning from their subordinates and colleagues.

Which of the following can best help to reduce these negative consequences among the students in a business school?

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Social roles may either conflict or cooperate within any given person, depending upon the circumstances. They conflict when the behaviour patterns demanded by one role cannot be performed while performing the second role. Thus, one cannot easily be a saintly rake or a feminine brut, but given an understanding husband, a woman can be both a loving wife and a loving mother with no conflict between the roles. Which of the following methods is used by the author to make his or her point?
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While no one made any __________ the financial scandal while he was in the room, there was a feeling of awe to the ___________ created by the broker that had snared many unsuspecting investors under the _____________ that everyone would end up rich and the fact that he had been celebrating his ___________ of the legal authorities by attending parties.

The option that best fills the blanks in the above paragraph would be

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"So you want me to proscribe Ceecee...". The most suitable inference about Ceecee can be
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Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

1. Well, it may mean various things; but one very likely thinks first of all that a picture of the object comes before the child's mind when it hears the word.

2. But what does this mean?

3. I will call it "ostensive teaching of words". I say that it will form an important part of the training, because it is so with human beings; not because it could not be imagined otherwise.

4. But now, if this does happen - is it the purpose of the word? Yes, it may be the purpose. I can imagine such a use of words (of series of sounds).

5. This ostensive teaching of words can be said to establish an association between the word and the thing.

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The boss called to inform that he _________ be coming to office that day. However the employees did not take it easy as they know it was his ________ to give them a surprise by coming in and checking who was at work. Any employee, once caught not working, would then be required to __________ on the reasons for not working and if the boss was not satisfied the employee had to work on Sunday to ____________ the wrong.

The option that best fills the blanks in the above paragraph would be

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"The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's dignity without intruding upon the liberty of others", stated Sir Francis Bacon. If this is the case, then not intruding upon another's liberty is impossible. The conclusion strongly implied by the author of the passage is
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Gourmet is to gourmand as