Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Top 100 words for GRE And TOEFL:

Top 100 words for GRE And TOEFL
Abyss: hole so deep as to appear bottomless
Acquiesce: agree, accept without protest
Affable: polite and friendly, easy to talk to
Affliction: distress, suffering
Affluent: wealthy, abundant
Agitate: move, shake, stir up
Ambiguous: having more then one meaning
Annex: take possession of
Aqueous: of or like water
Arduous: demanding great effort, strenuous
Aroma: quality or surrounding atmosphere considered typical
Atone: make repayment
Avarice: greed
Bellicose: inclined to fighting
Calisthenics: exercises to develop strong bodies
Captor: person who takes smb captive
Concoct: invent, prepare by mixing together
Dangle: hand or swing loosely
Deprive: take away from, prevent from using
Diligent: hard-working
Disrobe: undress
Docile: easily trained or controlled
Doleful: dismal, mournful
Drought: a long period of dry weather
Dubious: feeling doubt
Dumbfound: astonish
Efface: rub or wipe out, obliterate
Elucidate to make understandable
Enchant charm, delight
endeavor to make an effort, to try very hard
endorse approve, support a claim or statement
enthral take the whole attention, enslave
exploit to use for selfish advantage or profit
extensive far-reaching
extol to praise highly
flimsy lacking solidarity, strength
fraud a fault, a deception
gaudy too bright and showy
ghastly death-like, pale and ill
grumble to complain
harass worry, trouble
heretic very busy; active
impediment smth that hinders (esp in speech)
indigenous native
insatiate never satisfied
intrepid fearless
irate angry
jeopardy danger
leash control
loafer an idle, lazy person
lucrative profitable
lustrous bright; shining
malign to slander
meddle to interfere, to intrude
mend to repair
mirth being merry and happy
nausea feeling of sickness
neglect pay no attention to
nocturnal of or in the night
obese very fat
obsolete no longer useful, outdated
perch take up a high position
pervade spread through every part of
petulant unreasonably impatient or irritable
pillage plunder (esp in war)
presumptuous too bold or self-confident
quashed annuled
quenching satisfy, put an end to, put out
refurbished make clean, as if like new
rejoicing happiness, joy
reticent in the habit of saying little
reverberate be sent back, again and again
rigor sternness, strictness, severe conditions
rotundity state of being round
salvage the saving of property from loss
scattered not situated together
shatter to break into many pieces
shunned avoided, kept away from
sketchy shortly, roughly, quickly
sporadic happening from time to time
stifled suppressed, kept back
strive to make great efforts, to struggle
subsequent following
succumb yield, die
taciturn unspoken, silent
tantalize raise hopes that cannot be realized
tentative uncertain, probable
torpid dull and slow
treacherous not to be trusted, perfidious
tremor thrill
tyro a beginner
uproar noise and excitement
vanity a foolish pride
vehemence forcefulness; intensity; conviction
vigilance watchfulness
vindicate prove the truth
voluptuous arousing sensual pleasures
wan looking ill, not bright
wile a trick
wrinkle make small lines (eg forehead)

PCS Sample Paper TEST1

PCS Sample Paper


Q. A man leaves office daily at 7pm A driver with car comes from his home to pick him from office and bring back home
One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards home.
In the way he meets the car and returns home on car He reaches home 20 minutes earlier than usual.
In how much time does the man reach home usually??
Ans. 1hr 20min

Q The following truth table is given What is Y equal to?? Freshers world.com
A B C Y
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0
0 1 1 0
1 0 0 0
1 0 1 0
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1
Ans. (A')(B')(AB) , where ' stands for complement.


Q. A works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number of days it would take to complete the work if both work together?
Ans. 22½days

Q. How many 1's are there in the binary form of 8*1024 + 3*64 + 3 Freshersworld.com
Ans. 4


Q. A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses the game he loses Re 1.
He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5.
Find the number of ways in which this is possible?
Ans. 16

Q. If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million colors Freshersworld.com
Find the memory required for this?
Ans. 4MB

Q. On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie.
C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying?
He answers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said B says "A says that he is a liar"
What is B speaking ?
(a) Truth
(b) Lie
(c) Truth when A lies
(d) Cannot be determined
Ans. (b)

Q. What is the angle between the two hands of a clock when time is 8:30
Ans. 75(approx)



Q. A man shows his friend a woman sitting in a park and says that she the daughter of my grandmother's only son.
What is the relation between the two
Ans. Daughter

PCS SAMPLE PAPERS

PCS Sample Paper


Q. A man leaves office daily at 7pm A driver with car comes from his home to pick him from office and bring back home
One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards home.
In the way he meets the car and returns home on car He reaches home 20 minutes earlier than usual.
In how much time does the man reach home usually??

Ans. 1hr 20min


Q The following truth table is given What is Y equal to?? Freshers world.com

A B C Y
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0
0 1 1 0
1 0 0 0
1 0 1 0
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1

Ans. (A')(B')(AB) , where ' stands for complement.


Q. A works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number of days it would take to complete the work if both work together?

Ans. 22½days


Q. How many 1's are there in the binary form of 8*1024 + 3*64 + 3 Freshersworld.com

Ans. 4


Q. In a digital circuit which was to implement (A B) + (A)XOR(B), the designer implements (A B) (A)XOR(B)
What is the probability of error in it ?


Q. A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses the game he loses Re 1.
He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5.
Find the number of ways in which this is possible?

Ans. 16


Q. If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million colors Freshersworld.com
Find the memory required for this?

Ans. 4MB


Q. On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie.
C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying?
He answers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said B says "A says that he is a liar"
What is B speaking ?

(a) Truth
(b) Lie
(c) Truth when A lies
(d) Cannot be determined

Ans. (b)


Q. What is the angle between the two hands of a clock when time is 8:30 Freshersworld.com

Ans. 75(approx)


Q. A student is ranked 13th from right and 8th from left. How many students are there in totality ?


Q. A man walks east and turns right and then from there to his left and then 45degrees to
his right.In which direction did he go

Ans. North west


Q. A student gets 70% in one subject, 80% in the other. To get an overall of 75% how much should get in third subject.


Q. A man shows his friend a woman sitting in a park and says that she the daughter of my grandmother's only son.
What is the relation between the two