GRE Verbal – Practice Questions

181.Psychology has slowly evolved into an scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

(A) independent
(B) unusual
(C) outmoded
(D) uncontrolled
(E) inactive

182.A major goal of law, to deter potential criminals by punishing wrongdoers, is not served when the penalty is so seldom invoked that it to be a threat.

(A) tends … serious
(B) appears … real
(C) ceases … credible
(D) fails … deceptive
(E) seems … coercive

183.When people are happy, they tend to give _ interpretations of events they witness: the eye of the beholder is by the emotions of the beholder.

(A) charitable … colored
(B) elaborate … disquieted
(C) conscientious … deceived
(D) vague … sharpened
(E) coherent … confused

184.Even those who disagreed with Carmen’s views rarely faulted her for expressing them, for the positions she took were as as they were controversial.

(A) complicated
(B) political
(C) subjective
(D) commonplace
(E) thoughtful

185.New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly _ design features generally over looked in most analyses of public works projects or industrial machinery, actually social choices of profound significance.

(A) insignificant … mask
(B) inexpensive … produce
(C) innovative … represent
(D) ingenious … permit
(E) inopportune … hasten

186.Paradoxically, Robinson’s excessive denials of the worth of early works of science fiction suggest that she has become quite them.

(A) reflective about
(B) enamored of
(C) skeptical of
(D) encouraged by
(E) offended by

187.Cezanne’s delicate watercolor sketches often served as or a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist’s final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.

(A) an abstraction
(B) an enhancement
(C) a synthesis
(D) a reconnaissance
(E) a transcription

188.Though it would be to expect Barnard to have worked out all of the limitations of his experiment, he must be for his neglect of quantitative analysis.

(A) unjust … pardoned
(B) impudent … dismissed
(C) unrealistic … criticized
(D) pointless … examined
(E) inexcusable … recognized

189.The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a system; its strata remain and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.

(A) health … skilled
(B) delivery … basic
(C) regimental … flexible
(D) training … inferior
(E) caste … intact

190.Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some occupation.

(A) treacherous
(B) prestigious
(C) ill-paying
(D) illegitimate
(E) sedentary

191.In Germany her startling powers as a novelist are widely , but she is almost unknown in the English speaking world because of the difficulties of her eccentric prose.

(A) ignored … editing
(B) admired … translating
(C) espoused … revealing
(D) obscured … comprehending
(E) dispersed … transcribing

192. Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an _ fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a canary, safe and secure in its cage.

(A) unfriendly … fragile
(B) aging … young
(C) angry … content
(D) imperious … lethargic
(E) unfettered … well-fed

193.Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in and production costs.

(A) distribution
(B) salvage
(C) storage
(D) procurement
(E) research

194.Johnson never to ignore the standards of decent conduct mandated by company policy if compliance with instructions from his superiors enabled him to do so, whatever the effects on his subordinates.

(A) deigned … tacit
(B) attempted … halfhearted
(C) intended … direct
(D) scrupled … literal
(E) wished … feigned

195. Despite the apparently bewildering complexity of this procedure, the underlying is quite.

(A) simplicity … calculated
(B) principle … elementary
(C) confusion … imaginary
(D) purpose … effective
(E) theory … modern

196. In television programming, a later viewing time often a more audience and, therefore, more challenging subjects and themes.

(A) requires … critical
(B) evinces … affluent
(C) implies … mature
(D) eliminates … realistic
(E) invites … general

197. The cultivation of the emotion of natsukashii, interpretable as “pleasant sorrow,” brings Japanese to Kyoto in the spring, not to the cherry blossoms in full bloom but to the fading, falling flowers.

(A) mourn … exclaim over
(B) honor … protect
(C) describe … rejoice over
(D) arrange … preserve
(E) savor … grieve over

198. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current of Smith’s valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the of present-day economics.

(A) disregard … outgrowths
(B) reaffirmation … concerns
(C) relevance … precursors
(D) acceptance … byproducts
(E) importance … vestiges

199. At several points in his discussion, graves, in effect, evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

(A) addresses
(B) creates
(C) alters
(D) suppresses
(E) substitutes

200.Regardless of what theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent? Nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.

(A) vague
(B) assertive
(C) casual
(D) vicious
(E) tidy

201.Exposure to sustained noise has been claimed to _ blood pressure regulation in human beings and, particularly, to increase hypertension, even though some researchers have obtained inconclusive results that the relationship.

(A) sharpen … conflate
(B) increase … diminish
(C) aggravate … buttress
(D) disrupt … neutralize
(E) impair … obscure

202. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as to increasingly expensive conventional housing.

(A) reaction
(B) an addition
(C) an introduction
(D) an alternative
(E) a challenge

203.Just as such apparently basic things as rocks, clouds, and clams are, in fact, intricately structured entities, so the self, too, is not an “elementary particle,” but is construction.

(A) a complicated
(B) a convoluted
(C) a distorted
(D) an amorphous
(E) an illusory

204.Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously .

(A) meditative
(B) tepid
(C) categorical
(D) unoriginal
(E) insightful

205.The successful of an archaeological site requires scientific knowledge as well as cultural.

(A) evolution … awareness
(B) revelation … depth
(C) reconstruction … sensitivity
(D) analysis … aesthetics
(E) synthesis … understanding

206.As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic ; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual .

(A) intensity … boredom
(B) complacence … detachment
(C) serenity … tension
(D) vitality … excitement
(E) nostalgia … placidity

207.Our times seem especially bad ideas, probably because in throwing off the shackles of tradition, we have ended up being quite untested theories and untried remedies.

(A) impervious … tolerant of
(B) hostile … dependent on
(C) hospitable … vulnerable to
(D) prone … wary of
(E) indifferent … devoid of

208.Although he attempted repeatedly to her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained in her judgment.

(A) remind … forceful
(B) convince … unfeigned
(C) exorcise … indulgent
(D) disabuse … adamant
(E) free … unsure

209.Dreams are in and of themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

(A) uninformative
(B) startling
(C) harmless
(D) unregulated
(E) uncontrollable

210.The Muses are deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.

(A) rueful
(B) ingenuous
(C) solicitous
(D) vindictive
(E) dispassionate

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