This practice GRE test includes only sentence completion sample questions, which are part of the GRE Verbal section.
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Children not only provide cheap labor, but they are also _, as they do not complain about menial chores given to them or about harsh treatment meted out.
A. impertinent
B. facile
C. presumptuous
D. hesitant
E. docile
Since ancient times sculpture has been considered the ….................. of men; women sculptors have, until recently, consistently met with …....................
A. Realm….Condolence
B. Domain….Approbation
C. Prerogative …. Opposition
D. Right…. Acceptance
E. Domicile…. Ridicule
The explanations were written in a simple and ..................... manner so that students were immediately able to apply what they learned.
A. Lucid
B. Inscrutable
C. Incomprehensible
D. Circuitous
E. Unfathomable
In this biography we are given a glimpse of the young man …................. pursuing the path of the poet despite …................ and rejection slips.
A. Unsuccessfully…. Failure
B. Doggedly…. Disappointment
C. Sporadically…. Awards
D. Tirelessly…. Encouragement
E. Successfully….Acclaim
The editor found the articles so ___ that he hesitated to print them.
A. positive
B. comical
C. improbable
D. indecisive
E. interesting
After an initially warm reception by most reviewers and continued …................. by conservative thinkers, John’s work came under heavy fire.
A. Counterattack
B. Endorsement
C. Criticism
D. Refutation
E. Denigration
Paradoxically, industrialist Thomas Wood gained his reputation for …............... at the expense of his own factory workers, who were oppressed by the …..................steel magnate to an extent that would be considered by today’s standards of labor practice to be unconscionable.
A. Adeptness….Opulent
B. Novelty….Generous
C. Stinginess….Entrepreneurial
D. Ruthlessness….Shrewd
E. Philanthropy….Cost-Conscious
Although World War II ended more than half a century ago, Russia and Japan still have not signed a formal peace treaty; and both countries have been ___ to develop more ___ relations.
A. reticent . . amiable
B. inhibited . . colder
C. loath . . hostile
D. averse . . controversial
E. inimical . . blasé
To the dismay of the student body, the class leader was …................ berated by the dean at a school assembly.
A. Fortuitously
B. Mistakenly
C. Ignominiously
D. Covertly
E. Inconspicuously
No act of ….................... was more pronounced than his refusal of any rewards for his benevolence.
A. Abnegation
B. Tyro
C. Astuteness
D. Frugality
E. Hostility
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