Verbal Ability - Summary - A fundamental property of language Verbal Ability - Summary The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question A fundamental property of language is that it is slippery and messy and more liquid than solid, a gelatinous mass that changes shape to fit. As Wittgenstein would remind us, "usage has no sharp boundary." Oftentimes, the only way to determine the meaning of a word is to examine how it is used. This insight is often described as th

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Verbal Ability - Summary - Both Socrates and Bacon were Verbal Ability - Summary The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question Both Socrates and Bacon were very good at asking useful questions. In fact, Socrates is largely credited with corning up with a way of asking questions, 'the Socratic method/ which itself is at the core of the 'scientific method, 'popularised by Bacon. The Socratic method disproves arguments by finding exceptions to them, and can theref

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Verbal Ability - Summary - North American walnut sphinx Verbal Ability - Summary The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question North American walnut sphinx moth caterpillars (Amorpha juglandis) look like easy meals for birds, but they have a trick up their sleeves—they produce whistles that sound like bird alarm calls, scaring potential predators away. At first, scientists suspected birds were simply startled by the loud noise. But a new study suggests a more

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Verbal Ability - Summary - For each of the past three years Verbal Ability - Summary - Q3 The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question For each of the past three years, temperatures have hit peaks not seen since the birth of meteorology, and probably not for more than 110,000 years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is at its highest level in 4 million years. This does not cause storms like Harvey - there have always been storms and hurricanes along

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Verbal Ability - Summary - A translator of literary works Verbal Ability - Summary - Q2 The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question A translator of literary works needs a secure hold upon the two languages involved, supported by a good measure of familiarity with the two cultures. For an Indian translating works in an Indian language into English, finding satisfactory equivalents in a generalized western culture of practices and symbols in the original wo

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Verbal Ability - Summary - "To me, a classic means" Verbal Ability - Summary The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the summary that best captures the author's position. Question To me, a "classic" means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood: a work is classical by reason of its resistance to contemporaneity and supposed universality, by reason of its capacity to indicate human particularity and difference in that past epoch. The classic is not what tells me about shared humanity—or, more t

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Verbal Ability – Summary – The early optimism about sport's The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. The early optimism about sport's deterrent effects on delinquency was premature as researchers failed to find any consistent relationships between sports participation and deviance. As the initial studies were based upon cross-sectional data and the effects captured were short-term, it was problematic to test and verify the temporal sequencing of events suggested b

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Verbal Ability – Summary – Should the moral obligation to rescue The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. Should the moral obligation to rescue and aid persons in grave peril, felt by a few, be enforced by the criminal law? Should we follow the lead of a number of European countries and enact bad Samaritan laws? Proponents of bad Samaritan laws must overcome at least three different sorts of obstacles. First, they must show the laws are morally legitimate in princ

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Verbal Ability – Summary – A Japanese government panel announced The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position: A Japanese government panel announced that it recommends regulating only genetically modified organisms that have had foreign genes permanently introduced into their genomes and not those whose endogenous genes have been edited. The only stipulation is that researchers and businesses will have to register their modifications to plants or animals with the gover

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Verbal Ability – Summary - Artificial embryo twinning is a relatively low-tech The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author’s position. Artificial embryo twinning is a relatively low-tech way to make clones. As the name suggests, this technique mimics the natural process that creates identical twins. In nature, twins form very early in development when the embryo splits in two. Twinning happens in the first days after egg and sperm join, while the embryo is made of just a small n

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