GRE Verbal – Practice Questions

211.Without the psychiatrist’s promise of confidentiality, trust is and the patient’s communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to it.

(A) implicit … extend
(B) ambiguous … apply
(C) prevented … uphold
(D) assumed … examine
(E) impaired … sacrifice

212.Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by , the leaders of the movement have recently most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.

(A) intimidation issued
(B) participation moderated
(C) proclamation codified
(D) demonstration deliberated
(E) coercion repudiated

213.The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were their few and simple desires.

(A) simultaneous with
(B) commensurate with
(C) substantiated by
(D) circumscribed by
(E) ruined by

214.Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of resulting from the carbon atom’s ability to form an unending series of different molecules.

(A) deviation
(B) stability
(C) reproduction
(D) variety
(E) invigoration

215.Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as that required deciphering.

(A) collaborative … an aberration
(B) historical … a symbol
(C) technical … a hieroglyph
(D) mechanical … an imitation
(E) visual … an illusion

216. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than , an education in agriculture was .

(A) instruction … vital
(B) effort … difficult
(C) learning … useless
(D) science … intellectual
(E) luck … senseless

217. In spite of the nature of Scotland’s terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe .

(A) rocky … weather
(B) mountainous … grades
(C) uncharted … flooding
(D) unpredictable … damage
(E) landlocked … slipperiness

218. Walpole’s art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who him as, at best, .

(A) dismissed … insignificant
(B) judged … worthwhile
(C) revered … talented
(D) reviled … meager
(E) taunted … dangerous

219.Since the author frequently other scholars, his objection to disputes is not only irrelevant but also .

(A) supports … overbearing
(B) provokes … frightening
(C) quotes … curious
(D) ignores … peevish
(E) attacks … surprising

220. Long dale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

(A) manufacture … accomplished
(B) reveal … repeated
(C) exhibit … determined
(D) share … explained
(E) maintain … contradicted

221.Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations, there will be, among scientists, considerable the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause long-term warming effects.

(A) interest in
(B) uncertainty about
(C) enthusiasm for
(D) worry about
(E) experimentation on

222.Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the of society, the conventionality of academe.

(A) ethos
(B) idealism
(C) romance
(D) paradoxes
(E) commonplaces

223.Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday , the wooden storage boxes made in America’s Shaker communities are now for their beauty.

(A) environment … accepted
(B) owners … employed
(C) function … valued
(D) reality … transformed
(E) image … seen

224. In order to her theory that the reactions are , the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.

(A) support … different
(B) comprehend … constant
(C) evaluate … concentrated
(D) capture … valuable
(E) demonstrate … problematic

225.The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.

(A) insular
(B) investigative
(C) synoptic
(D) subjective
(E) sensational

226.William James lacked the usual death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without about the old man’s impending death.

(A) longing for … regret
(B) awe of … inhibition
(C) curiosity about … rancor
(D) apprehension of … eloquence
(E) anticipation of … commiseration

227.Current data suggest that, although states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically.

(A) simultaneous
(B) serious
(C) exceptional
(D) partial
(E) transitional

228. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever others, in the end, all his has only worked against him.

(A) dedicating … self-procession
(B) leading … self-righteousness
(C) consigning … self-adulation
(D) relegating … self-sacrifice
(E) condemning … self-analysis

229.Famous among job seekers for its , the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.

(A) magnanimity … reparations
(B) inventiveness … benefits
(C) largesse … perquisites
(D) discernment … prerogatives
(E) altruism … credits

230.There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is other forms.

(A) segregated from
(B) parallel to
(C) dependent on
(D) overshadowed by
(E) mimicked by

231.The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to its own continental coastline.

(A) negligence … fortify
(B) custom … maintain
(C) convenience … stabilize
(D) expediency … defend
(E) exigency … reinforce

232. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a between them.

(A) generality
(B) fusion
(C) congruity
(D) dichotomy
(E) reciprocity

233. A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist’s subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.

(A) facilitates
(B) averts
(C) neutralizes
(D) implies
(E) represses

234.While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly by their lively criticism.

(A) humiliated
(B) discomfited
(C) deluded
(D) disgraced
(E) tantalized

235.In eighth-century Japan, people who wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of fields.

(A) conserved … forested
(B) reclaimed … arable
(C) cultivated … domestic
(D) irrigated … accessible
(E) located … desirable

236.If duty is the natural of one‘s the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.

(A) correlate … understanding of
(B) outgrowth … control over
(C) determinant … involvement in
(D) mitigant … preoccupation with
(E) arbiter … responsibility for

237.Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it some problems, it also produced new .

(A) clarified … data
(B) eased … interpretations
(C) resolved … complications
(D) caused … hypotheses
(E) revealed … inconsistencies

238.During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, _ both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed.

(A) regaining
(B) denying
(C) pursuing
(D) insuring
(E) losing

239.The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of facts is flawed.

(A) demographic … intrinsically
(B) ecological … marginally
(C) cultural … substantively
(D) psychological … philosophically
(E) political … demonstratively

240.It is puzzling to observe that Jones’s novel has recently been criticized for its structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework.

(A) attention to … preoccupation
(B) speculation about … characteristic
(C) parody of … disparity
(D) violation of … contradiction
(E) lack of … flaw

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