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– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 19. PAPER : ORIGAMI 20. MACHIAVELLIAN : DUPLICITOUS a. china : fragile a. Faustian : pleasant b. syllabus : opus b. Orwellian : intrusive c. licorice : fennel c. Dickensian : palling d. lotion : emollient d. Emersonian : dispiriting e. osier : baskets e. Proustian : succinct Antonyms Instructions: In each of the following questions, you will be presented with a capitalized word followed by ﬁve answer choices lettered a—e. Select the answer word or phrase that has a meaning most nearly opposite to the initial word. Some of these questions will require you to discriminate among closely related word choices. Be sure you choose the answer that is most nearly opposed to the capitalized word. 1. AMBIVALENT : 4. OMNISCIENT : a. insecure a. resonant b. inconstant b. mutable c. positive c. ignorant d. cheerful d. superstitious e. insatiable e. phlegmatic 2. CATASTROPHIC : 5. CAPITULATE : a. bold a. embolden b. pleasurable b. simplify c. salubrious c. assuage d. nihilistic d. persevere e. beneﬁcial e. postulate 3. PALATIAL : 6. INDEMNIFY : a. chintzy a. call for assistance b. feudal b. put at risk c. democratic c. cause to collapse d. decorous d. resist attack e. subterranean e. protect from harm 125
– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 13. PALPABLE : 7. PALLIATE : a. without substance a. accumulate b. in lieu of b. exaggerate c. easily deceived c. aggravate d. not forceful d. extirpate e. damaging e. misconstrue 14. STAID : 8. SYCOPHANTIC : a. serious a. ﬂattering b. weak b. empathetic c. climactic c. self-serving d. solipsistic d. self-sufﬁcient e. frivolous e. selﬂess 15. LOQUACIOUS : 9. OUST : a. meddlesome a. veer b. productive b. ensconce c. pacify c. vivacious d. purge d. taciturn e. enslave e. piddling 10. ANOMALOUS : 16. PROTRACTED : a. abnormal a. abridged b. conﬁdent b. circumvented c. reserved c. excessive d. ordinary d. tangential e. careless e. monumental 11. BRUSQUE : 17. OBLIQUE : a. courteous a. hearty b. difﬁdent b. direct c. rancorous c. careful d. jaunty d. superlative e. timely e. insightful 12. AUDACIOUS : 18. DOLOROUS : a. deﬁant a. passive b. daring b. ﬁckle c. timid c. cheerful d. simple d. sincere e. possible e. incredulous 126
– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 19. MUTABLE : 20. SUPERFLUOUS : a. fatuous a. insouciant b. confusing b. genteel c. changeable c. essential d. elemental d. obtuse e. constant e. undeserved Sentence Completion Instructions: Each of the following sentences contains either one or two blanks. Below each question are answer choices lettered a—e. Select the lettered choice that best completes the sentence, bearing in mind its intended meaning. 4. The wayfarer, with no companion but his staff, 1. Chemical ﬁngerprints of space debris that has paused to exchange a word with the innkeeper, impacted the moon are similar to those found that the sense of ____________ might not in meteorites that have struck the earth, prov- utterly overwhelm him before he could reach ing that ____________ and ____________ the ﬁrst house in the valley. impacts derived from analogous sources. a. fatigue a. common…extraordinary b. rancor b. lunar…terrestrial c. insufﬁciency c. possibility…intergalactic d. loneliness d. dangerous…simultaneous e. miscalculation e. interstellar…other 5. In the twentieth century, artists found them- 2. The truth is the truth; neither childish absurdi- selves unshackled from the necessity to faith- ties, nor ____________ contradictions, can fully reproduce appearances; and they used make it otherwise. their liberation to develop a purely a. unscrupulous _____________ purpose in their b. true _____________. c. possible a. transparent…assertions d. certain b. commercial…idolatry e. unseemly c. aesthetic…oeuvres 3. Humans are necessarily social creatures, for d. benign…portfolios whom ____________ is a matter of survival; e. casual…attire however, as discrete entities, we often keenly experience yearnings for solitude. a. sustenance b. entertainment c. alienation d. encouragement e. collectivity 127
– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 9. Artistic expression is highly culture-speciﬁc; 6. One theory of ancient human migration that is to say, the forms art takes and the patterns holds that ____________ originated functions it performs vary radically according in Africa more than 100,000 years ago and to the ____________ location and from thence ____________ the remainder of ____________ of the artist. the world. a. original…temperament a. music…enchanted b. geographic…ethnicity b. culture…freed c. local…desires c. savannahs…dotted d. temperate…predilections d. glaciers…covered e. possible…opportunities e. Homo sapiens…colonized 10. The Industrial Revolution greatly improved 7. To the writings of the alchemists were almost physical living conditions for many European certainly added spurious elements, which inhabitants; however, it also initially fomented compounded the difﬁculty of deciphering the ____________ working conditions and ____________ from the ____________ in an human rights transgressions such as already disconcerting amalgam of fact and ____________ labor. allegory. a. radical…intensive a. genuine…apocryphal b. insufﬁcient…malicious b. gold…silver c. luxurious…inimical c. Latin…Greek d. unsafe…child d. witchcraft…wizardry e. regressive…hard e. wheat…chaff 11. In literature, a literal image is one that is 8. It is no wonder that insect displays are very unambiguously ____________ to sensory per- popular at zoological parks worldwide; ception, but a ____________ image is subject ____________ make up over 90% of all to wide-ranging interpretation. ____________ on Earth. a. apparent…ﬁgurative a. ants…insects b. open…closer b. zoos…museums c. subject…possible c. arthropods…animals d. interpretive…retractable d. administrators…bureaucrats e. closed…amorphous e. curators…people 128
– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 16. Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth 12. Voltaire espoused the philosophy that an without running into extremes; in fact, we enlightened monarch would rule with benevo- have frequently to exhaust the part of lence; such a ruler, he believed, would promote ____________, and even of ____________, ____________ in order to ____________ the before we work our way up to the noble goal of rights of the populace. tranquil wisdom. a. communication…clarify a. yoga…tai chi b. nutrition…purify b. opulence…complacency c. conservation…countermand c. parcel…obedience d. iniquity…evince d. error…folly e. reforms…enhance e. ourselves…others 13. Technical shortcomings hindered the advent of 17. Any grand quest commences with the blind, polyphonic music until the Renaissance era, intuitive calculation that, against all odds, the when ____________ arrangements became seeker will inevitably ____________. increasingly common. a. overreach a. popular b. commiserate b. romantic c. triumph c. complex d. dominate d. string e. participate e. electronic 18. Examining the means by which traditional 14. Metacognition is the term for what, why, and societies living in large groups keep all mem- how we know what we know; in other words, it bers supplied with food provides illuminating is ____________ about ____________. contrast between the objective material condi- a. much ado…nothing tions of life and the culture bearers’ b. thinking…thinking ____________ of those ____________. c. potentially…knowledge a. enchantment…groups d. convincing…explanation b. perceptions…conditions e. presumably…research c. scrutiny…societies 15. Science education can be greatly enhanced by d. contemplation…proofs the use of interactive videodisc technology; it e. illustrations…objects can be a tremendous ____________ to see a scientiﬁc principle in action, rather than merely to read about it. a. advantage b. challenge c. tedium d. calamity e. perception 129
– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 19. Let it be remembered that this plan is neither 20. Speak not but what may beneﬁt others or recommended to blind approbation, nor to yourself; avoid ____________ conversation. blind ____________, but to a sedate and can- a. triﬂing did consideration. b. assertive a. idiosyncrasy c. laudable b. pathology d. dormant c. appeasement e. implausible d. uniformity e. reprobation Reading Comprehension Instructions: Read the passages that follow. After each passage, answer the content-based questions about it. Each question must be answered using only the information that is either implied or stated in the passage. Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo. Listen to it carefully: It is not an articulate, clear, well- deﬁned sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain. Still, this reverberation cannot go on forever. It can travel within as wide a circle as (5) you please: The circle remains, nonetheless, a closed one. Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. It may, perchance, have happened to you, when seated in a railway carriage or at table d’hote, to hear travelers relating to one another’s stories which must have been comic to them, for they laughed heartily. Had you been one of their company, you would have laughed like them; but, as you were not, you had no desire whatsoever to do so. A man who was once asked why he did (10) not weep at a sermon, when everybody else was shedding tears, replied: “I don’t belong to the parish!” What that man thought of tears would be still more true of laughter. However sponta- neous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. How often has it been said that the fuller the theater, the more uncon- trolled the laughter of the audience! On the other hand, how often has the remark been made that (15) many comic effects are incapable of translation from one language to another, because they refer to the customs and ideas of a particular social group! It is through not understanding the impor- tance of this double fact that the comic has been looked upon as a mere curiosity in which the mind ﬁnds amusement, and laughter itself as a strange, isolated phenomenon, without any bear- ing on the rest of human activity. Hence those deﬁnitions that tend to make the comic into an (20) abstract relation between ideas: “an intellectual contrast,”“a palpable absurdity,” etc.,—deﬁnitions that, even were they really suitable to every form of the comic, would not in the least explain why the comic makes us laugh. How, indeed, should it come about that this particular logical relation, as soon as it is perceived, contracts, expands, and shakes our limbs, while all other relations leave the body unaffected? It is not from this point of view that we shall approach the problem. To 130