GATECounsellor I

Words for Practice-I Answers

Word
1. Loquacious
2. Bellicose

Meaning
talkative, garrulous

having or showing a ready disposition to fight

3. Benediction

blessing (speak good)

5. Belligerent

someone who fights, fighter

4. Benefactor
6. Epicentre

7. Perambulate
8. Loquacity

person who helps people/institutions (esp. financially)

the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of
an earthquake
walk around
quality of being wordy/talkative, garrulousness

* We do not claim for the origin of any word.

Reference/Hint
VPL-1
VPL-6

VPL-6 dictare- to speak

DICTATE- read (something) aloud

VALEDICTORY- a farewell speech

VPL-6
VPL-6
VPL-6
VPL-1
VPL-1

9. Preclude

10. Eugenics

prevent, forestall

11. Salvage

study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective

breeding
prevent being ruined, destroyed, lost, or harmed

13. Extrospective

examining what is outside yourself (not introspective)

12. Introspect
14. Vertigo

15. Pervert

reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings

a feeling that you are about to fall, dizziness

VPL-1

GATECounsellor I

VPL-2
VPL-2
VPL-2
VPL-2

VPL-2 (Vertical + go dizziness)

17. Ambivalent

person whose behaviour deviates from what is acceptable VPL-2

especially in sexual behaviour
look back upon
Retrace, Retrieve, Return, Reaction
(RETALIATE, Reappraisal, )
unable to decide about what course to follow
VPL-2

19. Misapprehend

misinterpret, misunderstand

16. Retrospect
18. Peccant

20. Misandrist

liable to sin, peccable

VPL-4

person who hates men

VPL-3

* We do not claim for the origin of any word.

VPL-3

21. Inanimate

appearing dead, "an inanimate body"

VPL-6

23. Nausea

the state that precedes vomiting

VPL-3

22. Algophobia
24. Autocracy

25. Autotroph

a morbid fear of pain

political system governed by a single individual, autarchy

26. Peccable

plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple

organic substances
liable to sin

28. Ambisexual

unisex; fit for persons of either sex;

27. Commend

29. Animadversion
30. Benevolence

VPL-1
VPL-3
VPL-3
VPL-4

express approval of

VPL-4

harsh criticism or disapproval, censure

VPL-6

inclination to do kind or charitable acts (ANT: Malevolence)

* We do not claim for the origin of any word.

VPL-2
VPL-6

GATECounsellor I