GRE TEST 13
1.She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane
2.Individual freedom of thought should be ____ more absolutely than individual freedom of action, given that the latter, though also desirable, must be ____ the limits imposed by the rights and freedom of others.
(A) protected.. subject to
(B) assessed.. measured by
(C) valued.. superior to
(D) exercised.. indifferent to
(E) curtailed.. conscious of
3.The technical know-how, if not the political ____, appears already at hand to feed the world's exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient scourges of malnutrition and famine.
(A) will.. weaken
(B) expertise.. articulate
(C) doubt.. banish
(D) power.. denounce
(E) commitment.. eradicate
4.In small farming communities, accident victims rarely sue or demand compensation: transforming a personal injury into a ____ someone else is viewed as an attempt to ____ responsibility for one's own actions.
(A) conspiracy against.. assume
(B) claim against.. elude
(C) boon for. .minimize
(D) distinction for.. shift
(E) trauma for.. proclaim
5.The pungent verbal give-and-take among the characters makes the novel ____ reading, and this very ____ suggests to me that some of the opinions voiced may be the author's.
(A) disturbing.. flatness
(B) tedious. inventiveness
(C) lively.. spiritedness
(D) necessary.. steadiness
(E) rewarding.. frivolousness
6.The development of containers, possibly made from bark or the skins of animals, although this is a matter of ____, allowed the extensive sharing of forage foods in prehistoric human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture
7.Even though political editorializing was not ____ under the new regime, journalists still experienced ____, though perceptible, governmental pressure to limit dissent.
(A) restricted.. clear
(B) encouraged.. strong
(C) forbidden.. discreet
(D) commended.. overt
(E) permitted.. regular
8.The trick for Michael was to ____ his son an illusory orderliness; only alone at night, when the boy was asleep. Could Michael ____ the chaos he kept hidden from his son.
(A) explore with.. demonstrate
(B) conjure for.. acknowledge
(C) conceal from.. dispel
(D) demystify for.. escape
(E) endure with.. abandon
9.While not ____ with the colorfully obvious forms of life that are found in a tropical rain forest, the desert is ____ to a surprisingly large number of species.
(A) brimming.. foreign
(B) endowed.. detrimental
(C) imbued.. hostile
(D) teeming.. host
(E) confronted.. home
10.The current demand for quality in the schools seems to ask not for the development of informed and active citizens, but for disciplined and productive workers with abilities that contribute to civic life only ____, if at all.
(A) indirectly
(B) politically
(C) intellectually
(D) sensibly
(E) sequentially
11.Increased governmental alarm about global warming ____ the concern among scientists that such warming is occurring, though when to expect major effects is still ____.
(A) echoes.. agreed on
(B) precludes.. under consideration
(C) reflects.. in dispute
(D) obviates.. in doubt
(E) encourages. confirmed
12. Future generations will probably consider current speculations about humanity's place in the universe to be ____ omissions and errors; even rigorous scientific views change, sometimes overnight.
(A) immune from
(B) marred by
(C) uncorrupted by
(D) correct despite
(E) abridged by
13. Marshal Philippe Petain, unlike any other French citizen of this century, has been. paradoxically, the object of both great veneration and great ____.
(A) reverence
(B) interest
(C) empathy
(D) contempt
(E) praise
14. All ____ biological traits fall into one of two categories: those giving their possessors greater ____ the environment and those rendering them more independent of it.
(A) widespread.. detachment from
(B) beneficial.. control over
(C) successful.. freedom from
(D) neutral.. compatibility with
(E) harmful.. advantage in
15. One of archaeology's central dilemmas is how to reconstruct the ____ of complex ancient societies from meager and often ____ physical evidence.
(A) riddles.. obsolete
(B) details.. irrefutable
(C) intricacies.. equivocal
(D) patterns.. flawless
(E) configurations.. explicit
16. Often the difficulties of growing up in the public eye cause child prodigies to ____ the world of achievement before reaching adulthood: happily, they sometimes later return to competition and succeed brilliantly.
(A) ridicule
(B) conquer
(C) retire from
(D) antagonize
(E) examine
17. Professional photographers generally regard inadvertent surrealism in a photograph as a curse rather than a blessing; magazine photographers, in particular, consider themselves ____ to the extent that they can ____ its presence in their photographs.
(A) skillful.. enhance
(B) inadequate.. eliminate
(C) original.. demonstrate
(D) fortunate.. minimize
(E) conventional.. highlight
18. Candidates who oppose the present state income tax must be able to propose ____ ways to ____ the financing of state operations.
(A) intelligent.. initiate
(B) individual.. diversify
(C) innovative.. alleviate
(D) arbitrary.. maintain
(E) alternate.. continue
19. Although strong legal remedies for nonpayment of child support are ___ the delay and expense associated with these remedies make it ____ to develop other options.
(A) unpopular.. useful
(B) required.. impossible
(C) available.. imperative
(D) unavailing.. impractical
(E) nonexistent.. ridiculous
20. Prior to the work of Heckel, illustrations of fish were often beautiful but rarely ___; this fact, combined with the ___ nature of most nineteenth-century taxonomic descriptions, often kept scientists from recognizing differences between species.
(A) impressive.. inaccurate
(B) realistic.. detailed
(C) traditional.. progressive
(D) precise.. inexact
(E) distinctive.. sophisticated
21. Experienced and proficient, Susan is a good, ____ trumpeter her music is often more satisfying than Carol's brilliant but ____ playing.
(A) virtuoso.. inimitable
(B) mediocre.. eccentric
(C) competent.. influential
(D) amateur.. renowned
(E) reliable.. erratic
22. Marshall's confrontational style could alienate almost anyone: he even antagonized a board of directors that included a number of his supporters and that had a reputation for not being easily ____.
(A) intimidated
(B) mollified
(C) reconciled
(D) provoked
(E) motivated
23. As is often the case with collections of lectures by ____ authors, the book as a whole is ____, although the individual contributions are outstanding in themselves.
(A) different.. disconnected
(B) incompetent.. abysmal
(C) famous.. systematic
(D) mediocre.. unexciting
(E) various.. coherent
24. The popularity of pseudoscience and quack medicines in the nineteenth century suggests that people were very ____, but the gullibility of the public today makes citizens of yesterday look like hard-nosed ____.
(A) cautious.. educators
(B) sophisticated.. realists
(C) rational.. pragmatists
(D) naive.. idealists
(E) credulous.. skeptics
25. Though extremely ____ about his own plans, the man allowed his associates no such privacy and was constantly ____ information about what they intended to do next.
(A) idiosyncratic.. altering
(B) guarded.. eschewing
(C) candid.. uncovering
(D) reticent.. soliciting
(E) fastidious.. ruining
26. Copyright and patent laws attempt to encourage innovation by ensuring that inventors are paid for creative work, so it would be ____ if expanded protection under these laws discouraged entrepreneurial innovation by increasing fears of lawsuits.
(A) desirable
(B) coincidental
(C) ironic
(D) natural
(E) sensible
27. Unfortunately, since courses in nutrition are often ____ medical school curriculums. a family physician is ____ to be an enlightening source of general information about diet.
(A) questioned by.. encouraged
(B) encountered among.. unable
(C) unappreciated by.. expected
(D) neglected in.. unlikely
(E) squeezed into.. intended
28. James had idolized the professor so much for so long that even after lunching with her several times he remained quite ____ in her presence and as a result, he could not really be himself.
(A) pleased
(B) disregarded
(C) heartened
(D) relaxed
(E) inhibited
29. To believe that a culture's achievement can be measured by the ____ of its written material requires one to accept that a page of junk mail is as ____ as a page of great literature.
(A) nature.. readable
(B) quality.. prevalent
(C) timelessness.. understandable
(D) applicability.. eloquent
(E) volume.. valuable
30. Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate the results of Dr. Johnson's experiment, only the most ____ supporters of her hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had been adequately ____.
(A) fastidious.. defined
(B) partisan.. verified
(C) vigilant.. publicized
(D) enlightened.. researched
(E) fervent.. undermined
31. Roman historians who study the period 30 B.C. to A.D. 180 can ____ the "Augustan peace" only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resembled that of death.
(A) decry
(B) applaud
(C) ridicule
(D) demand
(E) disprove
32. It is no accident that most people find Davis' book disturbing, for it is ____ to undermine a number of beliefs they have long ____.
(A) calculated.. cherished
(B) annotated.. assimilated
(C) intended.. denied
(D) anxious.. misunderstood
(E) reputed.. anticipated
33. Doreen justifiably felt she deserved recognition for the fact that the research institute had been ____ a position of preeminence, since it was she who had ____ the transformation.
(A) reduced to.. controlled
(B) raised to.. observed
(C) mired in.. imagined
(D) maintained in.. created
(E) returned to.. directed
34. The prospects of discovering new aspects of the life of a painter as thoroughly studied as Vermeer are not, on the surface, ____.
(A) unpromising
(B) daunting
(C) encouraging
(D) superficial
(E) challenging
35. Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have ____ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people.
(A) described
(B) acknowledged
(C) overlooked
(D) defended
(E) authenticated
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GRE TEST 14
1. The sea was not an ____ the ____ of the windmill; on the contrary, while the concept of the new invention passed quickly from seaport to seaport, it made little headway inland.
(A) element in.. evolution
(B) issue in . . acceptance
(C) aid to.. designers
(D) obstacle to.. diffusion
(E) impediment to.. creation
2. By ____ scientific rigor with a quantitative approach, researchers in the social sciences may often have ____ their scope to those narrowly circumscribed topics that are well suited to quantitative methods.
(A) undermining.. diminished
(B) equating.. enlarged
(C) vitiating.. expanded
(D) identifying.. limited
(E) imbuing.. broadened
3. As early as the seventeenth century, philosophers called attention to the ____ character of the issue, and their twentieth-century counter-parts still approach it with ____.
(A) absorbing.. indifference
(B) unusual.. composure
(C) complex.. antipathy
(D) auspicious.. caution
(E) problematic.. uneasiness
4. The new ____ of knowledge has created ____ people: everyone believes that his or her subject cannot and possibly should not be understood by others.
(A) specialization.. barriers between
(B) decline.. associations among
(C) redundancy.. complacency in
(D) disrepute.. concern for
(E) promulgation.. ignorance among
5. The author argues for serious treatment of such arts as crochet and needlework, finding in too many art historians a cultural blindness __ __ to their ____ textiles as a medium in which women artists predominate.
(A) traceable.. prejudice against
(B) opposed.. distrust of
(C) referring.. need for
(D) reduced.. respect for
(E) corresponding.. expertise in
6. Those who fear the influence of television deliberately _____ its persuasive power, hoping that they might keep knowledge of its potential to effect social change from being widely disseminated.
(A) promote
(B) underplay
(C) excuse
(D) laud
(E) suspect
7. Although just barely ____ as a writer of lucid prose, Jones was an extremely ____ editor who worked superbly with other writers in helping them improve the clarity of their writing.
(A) deficient.. muddling
(B) proficient.. contentious
(C) adequate.. capable
(D) appalling.. competent
(E) engaging.. inept
8. The accusations we bring against others should be ____ ourselves; they should not ____ complacency and easy judgments on our part concerning our own moral conduct.
(A) definitions of.. produce
(B) instructions to.. equate
(C) denigrations of.. exclude
(D) warnings to.. justify
(E) parodies of.. satirize
9. Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, ____.
(A) arbitrary
(B) superfluous
(C) interesting
(D) flexible
(E) constant
10. Some activists believe that because the health-care system has become increasingly ____ to those it serves, individuals must ____ bureaucratic impediments in order to develop and promote new therapies.
(A) attuned.. avoid
(B) inimical.. utilize
(C) unresponsive ..circumvent
(D) indifferent.. supplement
(E) sensitized.. forsake
11. The acts of vandalism that these pranksters had actually ____ were insignificant compared with those they had ___ but had not attempted.
(A) hidden .. renounced
(B) advocated .. meditated
(C) inflicted .. dismissed
(D) committed .. effected
(E) perpetrated .. contemplated
12. Although the records of colonial New England are ____ in comparison with those available in France or England, the records of other English colonies in America are even more ____.
(A) sporadic.. irrefutable
(B) sparse.. incontrovertible
(C) ambiguous.. authoritative
(D) sketchy.. fragmentary
(E) puzzling .. unquestionable
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GRE TEST 15
1. It has been argued that politics as ___, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common hatreds.
(A) a theory
(B) an ideal
(C) a practice
(D) a contest
(E) an enigma
2. Eric was frustrated because, although he was adept at making lies sound ___, when telling the truth, he___ the power to make himself believed.
(A) plausible. . lacked
(B) convincing. held
(C) honest.. found
(D) true.. acquired
(E) logical.. claimed
3. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers ,and because of this ,can claim humanity's longest continuous___ of natural events.
(A) defiance
(B) documentation
(C) maintenance
(D) theory
(E) domination
4. The transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic era is viewed by most art historians ___because, instead of an increasingly___ pictorial art , we find degeneration.
(A) milestone. .debased
(B) consolidation. .diverse
(C) calamity.. aberrant
(D) regression.. sophisticated
(E) continuation. .improved
5. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from___ , relating the ___of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
(A) age.. ancestry
(B) classification..appearance
(C) size..movement
(D) structure..behavior
(E) location..habitat
6. The breathing spell provided by the ___arms shipments should give all the combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.
(A) plethora of
(B) moratorium on
(C) reciprocation of
(D) concentration on
(E) development of
7. Charlotte Salomon's biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by ___public events, retain their hold on the___ recording them.
(A) transitory.. culture
(B) dramatic.. majority
(C) overpowering. .individual
(D) conventional.. audience
(E) relentless. .institution
8. The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a literary___ that permits very little ___ .
(A) text.. clarity
(B) work.. tradition
(C) genre.. deviation
(D) oration.. grandiloquence
(E) achievement.. rigidity
9. In a most impressive demonstration, Pavarotti sailed through Verdi's "Celeste Aida "normally a tenor's___ , with the casual enthusiasm of a fold singer performing one of his favorite___ .
(A) pitfall.. recitals
(B) glory. .chorales
(C) nightmare.. ballads
(D) delight.. chanteys
(E) routine.. composers
10. Although___ , almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong___ publicity and controversy.
(A) conventional. .interest in
(B) monotonous.. reliance on
(C) shy.. aversion toward
(D) retiring. .penchant for
(E) evasive.. impatience with
11. In sharp contrast to the intense___ of the young republic, with its utopian faith in democracy and hopes for eternal human progress , recent developments suggest a mood of almost unrelieved___ .
(A) idealism.. cynicism
(B) individualism. escapism
(C) sectarianism.. recklessness
(D) assertiveness. .ambition
(E) righteousness.. egalitarianism
12. Within the next decade, sophisticated telescopes now orbiting the Earth will determine whether the continents really are moving, ___the incipient___ among geologists about the validity of the theory of continental drift.
(A) obviating.. consensus
(B) forestalling.. rift
(C) escalating.. debates
(D) engendering.. speculation
(E) resolving.. rumors
13. The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ___between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are___ to the maintenance of community.
(A) a compromise. .inimical
(B) an interdependence. .subsidiary
(C) a counterpoint.. incidental
(D) an equivalence. .prerequisite
(E) a reciprocity.. conducive
14. For someone as ___ as she, who preferred to speak only when absolutely necessary , his relentless chatter was completely___ .
(A) ingenuous.. ignorant
(B) curt.. enchanting
(C) cheerful.. idle
(D) laconic.. maddening
(E) forward. .pointless
15. Fashion is partly a search for a new language to discredit the old, a way in which each generation can ___its immediate predecessor and distinguish itself.
(A) honor
(B) repudiate
(C) condone
(D) placate
(E) emulate
16. During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed___ , without necessary relation to what had gone before.
(A) tedious
(B) melodious
(C) capricious
(D) compelling
(E) cautious
17. 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
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