GRE Practice Test (Verbal Reasoning) 1

Question 1

The city has been plagued by  _____ in recent years, and the mayor's chances of reelection appear  _____.

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Violence….slim

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Improvements…likely

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Visitors…certain

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Tourists…grim

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Gardeners….unlikely

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Violence….slim was correct.

Question 2

As we got to know Andreas better, we realized that all of his stories of fortune and fame were _____.

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Ruse

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Lullaby

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Biography

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Lunacy

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Secret

Question 3

Thomas, who is a musical _____, showed off his amazing _____ at an early age.

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Prodigy….talent

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Vagabond…travels

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Teacher….painting

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Mendicant….treats

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Helper….compassion

Question 4

Since she grew up in southern Florida, Zoe was ____to harsh winters, and got to be very ____when she found
 herself driving through a Chicago snowstorm.

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Unaccustomed….nervous

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Resigned….confused

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Immune….giddy

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Impervious….apathetic

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Nostalgic…tearful

Question 5

David had already won wide ____ as a documentary filmmaker by the time he was thirty.

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Acclaim

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Hostility

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Blame

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Novelty

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Creativity

Question 6

Thousands of _____ original copies were an unfortunate _____of the region’s most recent conflict.

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Irreplaceable….casualty

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Medical….consequence

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Modern…..growth

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Worthless….addition

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Paper….admiration

Question 7

He may barely have imagined that he would be _____ into a conspire to outwit the government.

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Thrust

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Held

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Welcomed

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Journeyed

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Pirated

Question 8

In a ponder of linguistics, analysts _____ the ordinary discourse designs of juvenile ladies in eight _____ countries.

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Compared….European

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Challenged….foreign

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Watched….populated

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Plagiarized….European

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Annotated….unfortunate

Question 9

I didn’t gain my degree with the deliberate of utilizing it to seek after a career; I did it for my own _____.

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Edification

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Ramification

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Elements

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Resonance

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Doctrine

Question 10

Choose the sentence from the passage that best expresses Picasso's artistic individuality.
(1) Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that 
occurred over this period. (2) To say that Pablo Picasso conquered western art is, by today, the merest usual place.
 (3) Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most 
distinct style and eye for artistic creation. (4) There had been no other artists, prior to Picasso, who had such an impact
 on the art world, or had a mass following of fans and critics alike, as he did.

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Sentence (3)

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Sentence (1)

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Sentence (2)

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Sentence (4)