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GRE VERBALSENTENCE EQUIVALENCE (TWO OPTIONS CORRECT)

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QUESTION 1

Truculent in defending their individual rights of sovereignty under the Articles of Confederation, the newly formed states ____________ constantly.

A. DigressedB. ConferredC. BickeredD. DismemberedE. RebuffedF. Squabbled


QUESTION 2

In Anglo Saxon times, the monastic scribes made _________ distinction between Latin texts in the vernacular by assigning the former an Anglo-Caroline script and reserving the pointed insular script for texts in Old English.

A. A niceB. A subtleC. A pointlessD. An obviousE. An unconventionalF. A judgmental


QUESTION 3

Written in an amiable style, the book provides a comprehensive overview of European wines that should prove ________ to both the virtual novice and the experienced connoisseur.

A. InvitingB. TediousC. EngagingD. InspirationalE. PerplexingF. opaque


QUESTION 4

Shy & hypochondriacal, Madison was uncomfortable at public gatherings; his character made him a most ________ orator and practicing politician.

A. ConscientiousB. UnlikelyC. FerventD. GregariousE. ImprobableF. effective


QUESTION 5

Alec Guinness has few equals among English speaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to possess an uncommonly ________ prose style as well.

A. AmbivalentB. InfamousC. FelicitousD. HappyE. RedundantF. ephemeral


QUESTION 6

Because Pauling stubbornly continued to believe in the power of Vitamin C to cure cancer despite much evidence to the contrary, his colleagues felt he had lost his scientific ____________.

A. TenacityB. InventivenessC. ContrarinessD. ImpartialityE. HypothesisF. objectivity


QUESTION 7

The distinctive qualities of African music were not appreciated or even ____________ by Westerners until fairly recently.

A. DeprecatedB. DiscernedC. IgnoredD. ReveredE. Remarked onF. neglected


QUESTION 8

Bored by the verbose and rambling prose of the typical Victorian novelist, the student welcomed the change to the _________ prose of Ernest Hemingway.

A. ConsistentB. TerseC. FloridD. EquivocalE. PithyF. Discursive


QUESTION 9

She is a pragmatist, as ____________ to base her future on impractical dreams as she would be to build a castle on shifting sand.

A. Determined B. DisinclinedC. LoathD. QuickE. DiligentF. foolhardy


QUESTION 10

Although eighteenth-century English society as a whole did not encourage learning for its own sake in women, it illogically _____________ women’s sad lack of education.

A. DecriedB. PostulatedC. CriticizedD. ToleratedE. VauntedF. Legitimized


QUESTION 11

Unlike the gregarious Capote, who was never happier than when he was in the center of a crowd of celebrities, Faulkner, in later years, grew somewhat ________ and shunned company.

A. DispassionateB. InfamousC. ReclusiveD. AmbivalentE. WithdrawnF. Notorious


QUESTION 12

Studded starfish are well protected from most predators and parasites by __________ surface whose studs are actually modified spines.

A. A vulnerableB. An armoredC. An obtuseD. A brittleE. A concaveF. A rugged


QUESTION 13

Traffic speed limits are set at a level that achieves some balance between the desire of most people to travel as quickly as possible and the danger of _______ speed.

A. InordinateB. MarginalC. InadvertentD. InadequateE. RegulatedF. Excessive


QUESTION 14

Baldwin’s brilliant The Fire Next Time is both so eloquent in its passion and so penetrating in its condor that it is bound to ________ any reader.

A. EmbarrassB. DisgustC. DisquietD. UnsettleE. DisappointF. bore


QUESTION 15

Glendon provides a dark underside to Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American society – an individualism that Glendon sees as _______ atomism.

A. Antithetical towardB. Skeptical ofC. Degenerating intoD. Aspiring toE. Regressing toF. Revitalized by


1. Cf2. Ab3. Ac4. Be5. Cd6. Df7. Be8. Be9. Bc10. Ac11. Ce12. Bf13. Af14. Cd15. Ce


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