GRE TEST 19
1. There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate the concept of the Renaissance to____not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.
(A) explain
(B) extol
(C) transmute
(D) regret
(E) contest
2. Broadway audiences have become inured to___and so___to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality..disinclined
(B) condescension..unlikely
(C) histrionics..reluctant
(D) cleverness..eager
(E) mediocrity..desperate
3. It is to the novelist's credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically,without any___ or playful supernatural tricks.
(A) elucidation
(B) discrimination
(C) artlessness
(D) authenticity
(E) whimsy
4. The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one,but what might be called an actively ___one,eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.
(A) adaptive
(B) selective
(C) inquisitive
(D) receptive
(E) intuitive
5. Changes of fashion and public taste are often____ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ____gauges of the state of the public's collective consciousness.
(A) transparent..useful
(B) ephemeral..sensitive
(C) faddish..underutilized
(D) arbitrary..problematic
(E) permanent..reliable
6. The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ___ such illnesses.
(A) disguise
(B) impede
(C) constrain
(D) precipitate
(E) consummate
7. Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often violate common sense and make seemingly___assumptions because existing theories simply do not___newly observed phenomena.
(A) radical..confirm
(B) vague..incorporate
(C) absurd..explain
(D) mistaken..reveal
(E) inexact..corroborate
8. Exposure to sustained noise has been claimed to___ blood pressure regulation in human beings and, particularly,to increase hypertension, even though some researchers have obtained inconclusive results that___ the relationship.
(A) sharpen..conflate
(B) increase..diminish
(C) aggravate..buttress
(D) disrupt..neutralize
(E) impair..obscure
9.Winsor McCay,the cartoonist,could draw with incredible ___: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
(A) sincerity
(B) efficiency
(C) virtuosity
(D) rapidity
(E) energy
10. If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed and ___, such medicines are too often considered ___, even when laboratory tests suggest caution.
(A) unremarkable..safe
(B) unpredictable..reliable
(C) frequent..outdated
(D) salutary..experimental
(E) complicated..useful
11. In retrospect, Gordon's students appreciated her ___ assignments, realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ___ original thought rather than to review the content of her course.
(A) didactic..ingrain
(B) intimidating..thwart
(C) difficult..discourage
(D) conventional..explicate
(E) enigmatic..stimulate
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GRE TEST 20
1. The attempt to breed suitable varieties of jojoba
by using hybridization to---favorable traits was
finally abandoned in favor of a simpler and much
faster---: the domestication of flourishing wild
strains.
(A) eliminate.. alternative
(B) reinforce.. method
(C) allow.. creation
(D) reduce.. idea
(E) concentrate.. theory
2. According to one political theorist, a regime that its goal absolute---, without any---law or
principle, has declared war on justice.
(A) respectability.. codification of
(B) supremacy .. suppression of
(C) autonomy .. accountability to
(D) fairness .. deviation from
(E) responsibility .. prioritization of
3. Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced, researchers have found that, paradoxically, the---disorientation inherent in jet
lag also may yield some mental health---.
(A) temporal.. benefits
(B) acquired.. hazards
(C) somatic .. disorders
(D) random .. deficiencies
(E) typical .. standards
4.Ironically, the proper use of language must be based on the meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this---meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
(A) esoteric
(B) literal
(C) latent
(D) allusive
(E) symbolic
5. Although it seems---that there would be a greater
risk of serious automobile accidents in densely
populated areas, such accidents are more likely to
occur in sparsely populated regions.
(A) paradoxical
(B) axiomatic
(C) anomalous
(D) irrelevant
(E) portentous
6. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the
transition from medieval---experience to modern
individualism, we confront an electronic
technology that seems likely to reverse the trend,
rendering individualism obsolete and
interdependence mandatory.
(A) literary
(B) intuitive
(C) corporate
(D) heroic
(E) spiritual
7. The author did not see the---inherent in her
scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to
her own.
(A) disinterest
(B) incongruity
(C) pessimism
(D) compliment
(E) symbolism
8.Our biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a substance must be verified by---experiments, even after thousands of tests of the effects of that substance on animals.
(A) controlled
(B) random
(C) replicated
(D) human
(E) evolutionary
9. Today water is more---in landscape architecture
than ever before, because technological advances
have made it easy, in some instances even ---to
install water features in public places.
(A) conspicuous.. prohibitive
(B) sporadic.. effortless
(C) indispensable.. intricate
(D) ubiquitous.. obligatory
(E) controversial.. unnecessary
10. While many Russian composers of the
nineteenth century contributed to an emerging
national style, other composers did not----
idiomatic Russian musical elements, ---- instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western
European Romanticism.
(A) utilize ..rejecting
(B) incorporate.. preferring
(C) exclude.. avoiding
(D) repudiate.. expanding
(E) esteem.. disdaining
11. Because the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was
obsessed with his ----perfection, he was rarely
----a painting, creating endless variations of a
scene on one canvas, one on top of another.
(A) quest for.. satisfied with
(B) insistence on .. displeased with
(C) contempt for.. disconcerted by
(D) alienation from.. immersed in
(E) need for.. concerned with
12. Objectively set standards can serve as a ----for physicians, providing them----unjustified malpractice claims.
(A) trial.. evidence of
(B) model.. experience with
(C) criterion.. reasons for
(D) test.. questions about
(E) safeguard.. protection from
13. In spite of ----reviews in the press,the production of her play was ----almost certain
oblivion by enthusiastic audiences whose acumen was greater than that of the critics.
(A) lukewarm.. condemned to
(B) scathing.. exposed to
(C) lackluster.. rescued from
(D) sensitive.. reduced to
(E) admiring.. insured against
14. The passions of love and pride are often found
in the same individual, but having little in common, they mutually ----, not to say destroy,
each other.
(A) reinforce
(B) annihilate
(C) enhance
(D) weaken
(E) embrace
15. A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of
Phaistos is often ----as the earliest example of
printing by scholars who have defended its claim
to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts.
(A) questioned
(B) overlooked
(C) adduced
(D) conceded
(E) dismissed
16. Punishment for violating moral rules is much more common than reward for following them; thus, ----- the rules goes almost ---- in society.
(A) association with .. undefended
(B) adherence to .. unnoticed
(C) affiliation of .. uncorrected
(D) opposition to .. unchecked
(E) ignorance of .. unresolved
17. Compassion is a great respecter of justice: we
pity those who suffer ----.
(A) shamelessly
(B) unwittingly
(C) vicariously
(D) intensively
(E) undeservedly
18. MacCrory's conversation was --------: she could
never tell a story, chiefly because she always forgot it, and she was never guilty of a witticism,
unless by accident.
(A) scintillating
(B) unambiguous
(C) perspicuous
(D) stultifying
(E) facetious
19. No work illustrated his disdain for a systematic approach to research better than his
dissertation, which was rejected primarily because his bibliography constituted, at best,----- survey of the major texts in his field.
(A) an unimaginative
(B) an orthodox
(C) a meticulous
(D) a comprehensive
(E) a haphazard
20. Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action, attempted to refine
the -----of the disease, primarily because no preventive strategy seemed at all likely to be
----- .
(A) definition .. necessary
(B) anticipation .. acceptable
(C) understanding .. costly
(D) treatment .. practicable
(E) symptoms .. feasible
21. Most plant species exhibit ----- in their
geographical distribution: often, a given species
is found over a large geographical area, but
individual populations within that range are
widely ----- .
(A) discontinuity .. separated
(B) density .. dispersed
(C) symmetry .. observed
(D) uniformity .. scattered
(E) concentration .. adaptable
22. In contrast to the----- with which the
acquisition of language by young children was
once regarded, the process by which such
learning occurs has now become the object
of ----- .
(A) intensity .. fascination
(B) incuriosity .. scrutiny
(C) anxiety .. criticism
(D) reverence .. admiration
(E) impatience .. training
23. There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people's social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be ------from one or another point of view, or even ------as simplistic or vapid.
(A) accepted...praised
(B) intuited...exposed
(C) harangued...retracted
(D) defended...glorified
(E) challenged...dismissed
24. Although any destruction of vitamins caused by
food irradiation could be ------ the use of diet
supplements, there may be no protection from
carcinogens that some fear might be introduced
into foods by the process.
(A) counterbalanced by
(B) attributed to
(C) inferred from
(D) augmented with
(E) stimulated by
25. The prevailing union of passionate interest in
detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract --
----is a hallmark of our present society; in the
past this union appeared, at best, ------and as if
by chance.
(A) data...extensively
(B) philosophy...cyclically
(C) generalization...sporadically
(D) evaluation...opportunely
(E) intuition....selectively
26. A century ago the physician's word was ------ to
doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious
(A) inevitable
(B) intractable
(C) incontrovertible
(D) objective
(E) respectable
27. Robin's words were not without emotion: they
retained their level tone only by a careful ---
--- imminent extremes.
(A) equipoise between
(B) embrace of
(C) oscillation between
(D) limitation to
(E) Subjection to
28. Although a change in management may appear to
------- a shift in a company's fortunes, more
often than not its impact is --------
(A) hinder...measurable
(B) promote...demonstrable
(C) accelerate...profound
(D) betray...fundamental
(E) augur...inconsiderable
29. The skeleton of ------- bird that was recently
discovered indicated that this ancient creature -
----- today's birds in that, unlike earlier birds
and unlike reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth
in its head.
(A) a primeval... obscured
(B) a unique... preempted
(C) a primitive...anticipated
(D) a contemporary... foreshadowed
(E) an advanced...differed from
30. People of intelligence and achievement can none-
theless be so ------ and lacking in ------ that they gamble their reputations by breaking the law to further their own ends.
(A) devious...propensity
(B) culpable...prosperity
(C) obsequious...deference
(D) truculent... independence
(E) greedy... integrity
31. A number of scientists have published articles
------- global warming, stating ------- that there is no solid scientific evidence to support the theory that the Earth is warming because of
increases in greenhouse gases.
(A) debunking...categorically
(B) rejecting...paradoxically
(C) deploring...optimistically
(D) dismissing...hesitantly
(E) proving...candidly
32. The senator's attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second term is as -------- as her opponent's attempt to disguise his intention to run against her.
(A) biased
(B) unsuccessful
(C) inadvertent
(D) indecisive
(E) remote
33. Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defense
attorney's ____ to ensure that false testimony is
not knowingly put forward with the attorney's mandate to mount the most ____ defense conceivable for the client.
(A) efforts ... cautious
(B) duty ... powerful
(C) inability ... eloquent
(D) failure ... diversified
(E) promises ... informed
34. Originally, most intellectual criticism of
mass culture was ____ in character, being based
on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the
more ____ the product.
(A) unpredictable ... undesirable
(B) ironic ... popular
(C) extreme ... outlandish
(D) frivolous ... superfluous
(E) negative ... shoddy
35. Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the com crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.
(A) inadequate ... replenished
(B) encouraging ... depleted
(C) compromised ... salvaged
(D) abundant ... extended
(E) disappointing ... harmed
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GRE TEST 21
1.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
2.Having sufficient income of her own constituted for Alice ____ independence that made possible a degree of ____ in her emotional life as well.
(A) a material.. security
(B) a profound.. conformity
(C) a financial.. economy
(D) a psychological.. extravagance
(E) an unexpected.. uncertainty
3.The success of science is due in great part to its emphasis on ____ : the reliance on evidence rather than ____ and the willingness to draw conclusions even when they conflict with traditional beliefs.
(A) causality.. experimentation
(B) empiricism.. facts
(C) objectivity.. preconceptions
(D) creativity.. observation
(E) conservatism.. assumptions
4.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
5.One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic brain diseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to the brain, ____ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into the brain.
(A) suggesting
(B) intensifying
(C) elucidating
(D) satisfying
(E) obviating
6.Artificial light ____ the respiratory activity of some microorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because in the summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be ____
(A) stimulates.. lessened
(B) inhibits.. quickened
(C) reflects.. expanded
(D) elevates.. measured
(E) enhances.. increased
7.Even those siblings whose childhood was ____ familial feuding and intense rivalry for their parents' affection can nevertheless develop congenial and even ____ relationships with each other in their adult lives.
(A) scarred by.. vitriolic
(B) dominated by.. intimate
(C) filled with.. truculent
(D) replete with.. competitive
(E) devoid of.. tolerant
8.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
9.Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changing times and styles has been constantly ____ over the years, thereby reflecting its own mutability.
(A) appreciated
(B) emulated
(C) criticized
(D) revised
(E) reprinted
10.Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ____ of the blizzard of 1888.
(A) inevitability
(B) ferocity
(C) importance
(D) probability
(E) mildness
11.The architects of New York's early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the city's social strivings by ____ a history the city did not truly ____.
(A) revealing.. deserve
(B) displaying.. desire
(C) evoking.. possess
(D) preserving.. experience
(E) flouting.. believe
12.Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ____.
(A) astonishment
(B) vexation
(C) allusion
(D) innocence
(E) cunning
13.The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continue to be ____,but will probably be ____ by new ones under development.
(A) fruitful.. reversed
(B) refined.. upgraded
(C) inconvenient.. reassessed
(D) used.. supplemented
(E) harmless.. improved
14.There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ____ to the extent that they no longer ____ ecologists.
(A) perfected.. hinder
(B) exhausted.. interest
(C) prolonged.. require
(D) prevented.. challenge
(E) delayed.. benefit
15.Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ____ treatments are unsatisfactory.
(A) similar
(B) most
(C) dangerous
(D) uncommon
(E) alternative
16.The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its ____ provisions, but in its
broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.
(A) specific
(B) revolutionary
(C) implicit
(D) controversial
(E) finite
17.Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on
land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet
to become a ____ enterprise.
(A) scarce. . common
(B) accessible.. marginal
(C) unidentified.. subsidized
(D) conserved . . public
(E) plentiful.. profitable
18.Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to
his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ____ his works.
(A) praise
(B) revile
(C) scrutinize
(D) criticize
(E) neglect
19.Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a
powerful ____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent, the
duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.
(A) impulse.. surpassing
(B) referent.. recognizing
(C) force.. acknowledging
(D) inspiration.. emulating
(E) channel.. mimicking
20.It is ____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a
totally ____ disease.
(A) folly.. innocuous
(B) irresponsible.. preventable
(C) crucial.. fatal
(D) instinctive.. devastating
(E) detrimental.. insignificant
21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of
labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part
of the statute dealt with establishing wages.
(A) intricacy
(B) anxiety
(C) futility
(D) necessity
(E) decadence
22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class
Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for
them.
(A) deference.. remarkable
(B) suspicion.. uncanny
(C) reserve.. unexpected
(D) anger.. ironic
(E) appreciation.. deserved
23.The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that
all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.
(A) spurned.. boredom
(B) forgotten.. condescension
(C) classified. .self-righteousness
(D) plausible.. guilt
(E) gripping. .skepticism
24.In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of
treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to
participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
(A) independent.. amended by
(B) competent.. emphasized by
(C) mechanical.. controlled by
(D) swift. .associated with
(E) random.. reconciled with
25.Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the
art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so
fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.
(A) amateur's. .sensible
(B) expert's.. erratic
(C) investor's.. booming
(D) insider's.. predictable
(E) artist's.. irrational
26.Read's apology to Heflin was not exactly abject and did little to ____ their
decades-long quarrel, which had been as ____ as the academic etiquette of
scholarly journals permitted.
(A) encourage.. sporadic
(B) dampen.. courteous
(C) obscure.. ceremonious
(D) resolve.. acrimonious
(E) blur.. sarcastic
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