Saturday, March 08, 2014

Miscellaneous Synonyms and Antonyms (word list)

The general notion regarding IBA's MBA admission test is you need to know a whole lot of words, especially synonyms and antonyms, analogies- all these take a lot of everyone's time and at the same time force the common student to buy a bunch of books. Now if you ARE weak regarding words, you really DO NEED all the help you can get.
My compilation list sort of works like an actual visual list to get a grip on what words popped up in the test. Also it should prevent some better test-takers out there to stop memorizing every word in a dictionary.

2012 December SYNONYMS

COMMOTION  turmoil
DELINQUENT  offending 
RIFE                  extensive
STAUNCH        steadfast
CAPITULATE   submit

2012 June SYNONYMS

WITHER            fade
INDIGNANT    offended
ORDEAL          suffering

2011 June ANTONYMS

LACKLUSTER  lively
SQUANDER     save
PLACATE         enrage
CALLOW          mature

2005-2006 SYNONYMS

OXIDIZE                rust
TAMPER                interfere
MONSTROUS       --
FOE                       enemy
PLACID                 serene
MISDEMEANOR  peccadillo

2004-2005 ANTONYMS

UNPREDICTABLE  dependable
PLASTICITY           rigidity
BOMBASTIC          unimpressive
FLUCTUATE          remain steady
FUMBLE                 handle adroitly
MUTTER                 speak distinctly

2003-2004

ANTONYMS

TRIVIAL          significant
PERIPHERAL central
MALIGN          praise
COHERENT    illogical
EFFICACY      inefficiency

SYNONYMS

ANECDOTE         fable
PERTURB            agitate
REITERATE        repeat
RAMIFICATION consequences
INADVERTENT  unintentional

I have with me, questions starting from 1989 right down to 2012 December. Now for the time I am only going through 2001 to 2012. The list above should make one point clear, memorizing the vast number of words is not going to help anybody. Particularly in the December exam of 2013, there were no analogies. 
Also in the new GRE and GMAT systems, there are no more synonyms or antonyms and analogies. So, if IBA wants to keep the exam standard up to those, then word lists should be low priority.
Detail oriented fill the blanks and sentences are more in "style", all things considered. Concentrate on those.

Note:
There is also the other side of the coin where low priority elements of the last few years are suddenly put into high gear for the current year.

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