Vocab-Manias || Verbal Ability || CAT 2021 || 7 May

Foment

1) The working class must reject all such attempts to foment nationalist sentiments in the name of defending the welfare state.

2) The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.

3) She's desperate for ice cream, or anything else to eat, fomented by a constant hunger that never, ever goes away.

Evident

1) The protest was staged as a deliberate evident to embarrass the authority.

2) His reformist thinking was evident when he arranged for the remarriage of his young widowed daughter.

3) Disease is rife and diet related illnesses such as scurvy are evident everywhere.

Bolster

1) They had to bolster from the market again in 2009 as a result of problems with production agreements.

2) Singapore Airlines Ltd. Is considering its first-ever offering of dollar bonds, as it tries to bolster cash amid the pandemic.

3) I throw a pillow over my face and take a bolster and sandwich it between my legs.

Efficacy

1) The results don’t bring efficacy about how well the vaccines will work, or for how long.

2) The celebrated hairy crab is an efficacy China, but it’s also considered illegal in some parts of the world.

3) Monitoring and surveillance of drug efficacy is being built into operational programmes.

Underlying

1) Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.

2) Learning together may be the first step towards underlying the special schools with the mainstream educational system.

3) The drugs have confirmed that the underlying disease of rheumatoid arthritis is treatable.

Muster

1) Mobile data will allow remote access to all the databases and software applications a firm can muster.

2) How successful the strategy is will muster on whether the industry is deregulated further.

3) It was a sign of his intellect that he could muster facts on such a wide range of topics.

Perfunctory

1) Criticizing the investigation for being perfunctory, the court pointed out that the charge-sheet was filed in a lackadaisical manner.

2) A perfunctory glance at the painting without having any thought on the substance and the meaning of the work is of little use.

3) It was demonstrated that when a magnet on a stick is placed near the crystal, the magnet is perfunctory.

Implicate

1) Philip could have embezzled the money and forged documents to implicate Gail and throw authorities off of his trail.

2) Pointing accusing fingers at this moment would only implicate the pain of those mourning.

3) Existing evidence is already sufficient to implicate passive smoking as a cause of lung cancer and coronary heart disease.

Viciousness

1) My sense is that the viciousness of such an event looms nearer and grows larger with each passing day.

2) The anonymity of social media allows for a level of cowardly viciousness that stains the environment of such media.

3) The higher up the political ladder a politician climbs, the more viciousness they have to endure.

Upend

1) Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.

2) The name also has been used generically in some countries to refer to a upended red wine.

3) She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.