GRE Verbal Test

Directions: Each GRE sample sentence completion question below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each GRE sample sentence completion question five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.

The Sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was - by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.

1. unproven

2. banal

3. superficial

4. complex

5. heretical

Ans :E

Despite assorted effusion to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and quite possibly, there may be something of a - between them.

1. dichotomy

2. congruity

3. reciprocity

4. fusion

5. generosity

Ans :E

The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest - indeed savagery seems to be indirect proposition to -

1. inventions - know-how

2. wars - viciousness

3. triumphs - civilizations

4. atrocities - development

5. catastrophes - ill-will

Ans :D

Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater - their efforts to build as Progressive Party than the - of the progressive already elected to the legislature.

1. obstacle to - resistance

2. support for - advocacy

3. praise for - reputation

4. threat to - promise

5. benefit - success

Ans :A

The simplicity of the theory - its main attraction - is also its - for only by - the assumptions of the theory is it possible to explain the most recent observations made by researchers.

1. glory - rejecting

2. liability - accepting

3. undoing - supplementing

4. downfall - considering

5. virtue - qualifying

Ans : C