CAT Question of the Day Only one of the highlighted words labelled A and B fits meaningfully in the context. Choose the correct combination from the options that would give a set of meaningful sentences in 1 to 4. I. The opposition excoriated (A)/ execrated (B) the government for its weak policies. II. The bartender offered a gratified (A)/ gratuitous (B) drink to regular customers on the day of his retirement. III. A camel's environment (A)/ habitat (B) includes lack of potable water, desert plants and animals, hot and cold weather, etc. IV. Many people in our country still cannot afford healthy (A)/ healthful (B) practices such as nourishing food, preventative treatment, and clean shelter. | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | ABAB | | | 2) | ABBA | | | 3) | BABB | | | 4) | BBAA |
Tip of the Day Know your preferences before the exam starts, but be prepared to change them based on the nature and type of questions asked. Don't miss out on easy questions that are of a type that you do not like, or attempt too many difficult ones of a preferred type. Last year's Question of the day (14-Jul-11) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate set of words.
According to a lesser-known legend, described in the writings of the Masonic historian E.J. Marconis de Negre, who together with his father Gabriel M. Marconis is held to be the founder of the "Rite of Memphis-Misraim" of Freemasonry, based on earlier conjectures (1784) by a Rosicrucian scholar Baron de Westerode and also __________ by the 18th century secret society called the "Golden and Rosy Cross", the Rosicrucian Order was created in the year 46 when an Alexandrian Gnostic sage named Ormus and his six followers were converted by one of Jesus' disciples, Mark; their symbol was said to be a red cross surmounted by a rose, thus the __________ of Rosy Cross. From this conversion, Rosicrucianism was supposedly born, by purifying Egyptian mysteries with the new higher teachings of early Christianity. Many recent researchers take as granted the Alexandrian Ormus as the founder of "hermetic Rosicrucianism", via the medieval agency of the Templars. Members of modern organized para-Masonic groups, which call themselves "Rosicrucian", inherited this legend and date the beginning of the Order to much more ancient times than _________ by historians. However, students of modern Rosicrucian Christian groups state that the Order of the Rose Cross was founded in the early 14th century by a highly evolved entity having the symbolic name of Christian Rosenkreuz; nevertheless, they too hold - in the same line as summed up by the Catholic encyclopedia about the roots of the western mystery tradition, which reads "Its beginnings have long been a matter of controversy and are still largely a subject of research. The more these origins are studied, the farther they seem to recede in the past" - that the roots of the Rosicrucian Order, immersed in the western mystery tradition, are almost impossible to be _______ as "theirs is a work which aims to encourage the evolution of humanity, they have labored far back into antiquity--under one guise or another. | OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Solicited, name, recommended, inferred | | | 2) | Promulgated, designation, proposed, traced | | | 3) | Promoted, symbol, advocated, inferred | | | 4) | Stated, name, proposed, traced | | | 5) | Publicized, designation, recommended, referred |
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