For CAT, a good vocabulary is very essential,
although CAT does not test candidates on their knowledge of difficult words
directly. This is because the passages and answer options given in the Reading
Comprehension section may have some difficult words. Not knowing their meaning
could decrease the candidate’s ability to understand the passage.
Questions based on testing one's vocabulary - the
plain "synonym - antonym" questions used to appear in CAT in the
early 2000's; these have become very rare over the past 10 years.
Although a good vocabulary definitely helps in
handling CAT, purely vocab-based questions are almost non-existent these days. Quite
a few words have an interesting origin, and there is a story, legend or myth
associated with them. A number of words come to us from Roman or Greek
mythology.
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