Thursday, January 13, 2011

GRE ( Sentence Completion)

The __ tones of the flute succeeded in __ his tense nerves.

  1. rhapsodic - minimising

  1. blatant - enhancing

  1. hovendous - calming

  1. vibrant - portraying

  1. mellifluous - soothing

Ans :E

Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is __ and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in thercopy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to __ it.

  1. lost - forget

  1. implicit - extend

  1. impaired - sacrifise

  1. ambiguous - apply

  1. assumed - examine

Ans :C

Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look __ they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the __ of natural beauty and human glory.

  1. great - immutability

  1. joyful - mortality

  1. conventional - wildness

  1. cheerful - transitoriness

  1. colorful - abstractness

Ans :D

Despite the __ of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for __ the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.

  1. pedantry - reinstating

  1. enthusiasm - symbolizing

  1. skepticism - deciphering

  1. antipathy - involving

  1. discernment - evaluating

Ans :C

Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have __ not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory __ it should do.

  1. supposed - asserted

  1. voubted -warranted

  1. assumed - deduced

  1. demonstrated - predicted

  1. estimated - accepted

Ans :D

The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the __ of creation.

  1. variety

  1. economy

  1. profusion

  1. clarity

  1. precision

Ans :B

It is a great __ to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with __ effects.

  1. Disappointment - superfluous

  1. Convenience - exquisite

  1. Advantage - deleterious

  1. Accomplishment - profound

  1. Misfortune - unpredictable

Ans :C

While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective __ were simply not available.

  1. indeterminable - safeguards

  1. unusual - alternatives

  1. inconsequential - substitutes

  1. proven - antidotes

  1. increasing - procedures

Ans :C

Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that __ sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of __ facts.

  1. emotional - impersonal

  1. familiar : symbolic

  1. disturbing - ordinary

  1. material - remote

  1. defenitive - controvoisial

Ans :D

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