7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

• MindTree Consultancy has announced its public issue on Feb 9.

• Engineering and B-schools on rented premisis to be shut: order by AICTE.

• NATO’s new chief: UK General David Richards has handed over control of the NATO force in Afghanisthan to US General Dave McNeil.

2.

• Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal delivered its water sharing to the respective states.

          Total Availability: 740 tmcft (Thousand million cubic feet).

    Total Allocation:       Tamil Nadu-419 tmcft.

                                         Karnataka-270 tmcft.

                                         Kerala-30 tmcft.

                                         Puducherry-7 tmcft.

3.

• Indra Nooyi elected as the Pepsico chairperson.

• Moser Baer acquires 81% stake in Philips R&D unit.

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) opens its first office in India(Bangalore).

• India’s GDP to grow 9.2% this fiscal year(Central Statistical Organisation).

• Inflation to go up by 5.2%.

4.

• The device to convert alternating current into direct current is- rectifier.

• ‘Moving Forward’ is the punchline of- Toyota Motors.

• The winner of the ‘Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006′ is Kiran Desai.

• Kim Jong II is the president of North Korea.

5.

• The author of The War of The World is Niall Ferguson.

• Trent is the retail chain store owned by the Tata Group.

6.

• The Nobel Prize 2006 for medicine was given to - Andrew Fire and Craig Mello of USA.
• Chairman of ZEE Group - Subhash Chandra.
• The only Arab to win a Nobel Prize in literature - Naguib Mahfouz.
• Who headed the Committee on Capital Account Convertibility - S.S.Tapore.
• The Chrysanthemum Throne is associated with - Japan.
• Vande Mataram first appeared in Anandamath in the year - 1882.
• Where was the 14th NAM Summit held in September 2006 - Havana, Cuba.

7.

• The author of  ‘ To Kill A mocking Bird ‘ - Harper Lee.
• The headquarters of The Asian Development Bank is - Manila.
• Which year RBI was nationalised - 1949.
• Which is the second largest muslim nation in the world - Bangaladesh.
• ‘Invented For Life’ is the punch line of - Bosch.
• Which is the smallest country in Africa by area - Seychelles.

8.

• The CEO of Daimler Chrysler is - Dieter Zetsche.
• The ‘ Great Hural ‘ is the parliament of - Mongolia.
• The world’s oldest surviving parliament - Folketing, Iceland.
• Europe’s first muslim state - Albania (in 1992).

     9.

• Which city is known as the ‘Detroit of India’ - Chennai.
• The book ‘A Fine Balance’ is written by - Rohinton Mistry.
• Mossad is the secret service of which country - Israel.
• Japan is currently the second largest econony by GDP.

10.

• The CEO of L’Oreal is - James Lindsay Owen.
• ‘ like.no.other’ is the punch-line of - Sony.
• World Human Rights Day is on - December 10.
• Fort St. George is synonymous with which state in India - Chennai

11.

• Who is the CEO of Motorola - Ed Zander.
• Which country has the longest coastline in the world - Canada.
• Which company was founded as C-T-R in 1911? - IBM.
• Sofia is the capital of - Bulgaria.
• ‘Soltions for a lifetime’ is the punch-line of UTI Bank.

12.

• ‘Trade With Trust’ is the punch line of - MCX.
• The CEO and President of ABB is - Fred Kindle.
• Which company promotes itself as the ‘global cooling partner’ - Voltas.
• Which two countries lie on either side of the ‘Durand Line’ - Pakistan & Afghanistan.
• ‘Anna Arivalayam’ is the headquaters of - DMK.
• ‘Instep’ is the global internship program of - Infosys.

13.

• World Tourism Day is observed on - September 27.
• In which city is the ‘Western Wall’ (or The Wailing Wall) located - Bethlehem.
• The chairman of ING Group is - Michel Tilmant.
• Who is the chairman of NASSCOM : Ramalinga Raju.

14.

• Who endorses Accenture - Tiger Woods.
• Dili is the capital of - East Timor.
• Which corporate group group owns and controls Idea Cellular - Aditya Birla.
• Who is the author of ‘ God’s Little Soilder’ - Kiran Nagarkar.

 

 

Day 1.

• Alleviate (v): To relieve,to make less or reduce.

               This medicine should alleviate the  pain.

               He alleviated the poverty of the poor.

• Badger (v): To pester; annoy.

               He was forced to change his mobile number because he was badgered by obscene calls.

• Capacious (adj): Spacious.

               Children require capacious areas to play.

               The businessman’s house was very capacious.

• Dabble (v): To work at in a nonseroius way.

               The kid dabbled at his paintings, but rarely completed any.

• Ebullient (adj): Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm.

               He always spoke with great ebullience.

               An ebullient nature cannot replace hard-work.

• Fallacious (adj): False; misleading.

               A Fallacious person cannot be trusted.

• Gainsay (v): Deny.

               She was too honest to gainsay the truth of the report.