GRE Verbal Sample Questions Set O
Categories: GRE (The Graduate Records Examination)
Questions 1-7: Each of the questions below contains a sentence that has one or two blanks. The blanks stand for a part of the sentence that has not been included. Following each sentence are five answer choices. Choose the answer choice that best completes the sentence.
Question.1. After an interview with the suspect, most of the detectives agreed that her explanation for possessing the contraband was _____ .
A. supercilious
B. appropriated
C. arresting
D. insipid
E. fabricated
Answer: (e)
Question.2. The insurance adjuster asked us the value of our damaged equipment.
A. extrapolate
B. embroider
C. equivocate
D. acerbate
E. hyperbolize
Answer: (a)
Question.3. The producer thought the young, frail girl would be _____ and unfit for the lead role, but she turned out to be a ______ performer.
A. reticent, gregarious
B. demonstrative, candid
C. aloof, restrained
D. frank, detached
E. unconstrained, taciturn
Answer: (a)
Question.4. The family didn’t realize that the abused dog they adopted would be so_____. They had to give him up.
A. jocund
B. truculent
C. blithe
D. convivial
E. pretentious
Answer: (b)
Question.5. Because he was ______ Jay sat in the back of the lecture hall and kept his eyes trained on his notebook as the professor asked for volunteers.
A. sanguine
B. impudent
C. brazen
D. diffident
E. presumptuous
Answer: (d)
Question.6. It is very difficult to _____ all of the facts without first figuring out some kind of _____ system to remember them.
A. surmise, arduous
B. evade, rudimentary
C. imbibe, mnemonic
D. conjecture, facile
E. challenge, abstruse
Answer: (c)
Question.7. It was looking increasingly likely that one person was responsible for spreading the ______ strain of the flu that overtook the university campus.
A. tedious
B. benign
C. clement
D. virulent
E. repugnant
Answer: (d)