This is the end of the sample GRE Verbal questions. An answer key follows. Answer Key: Sample Verbal Reasoning Questions4 z9 C1 f) ?9 k6 n# l# N, U6 s
1. Sentence to be completed: It is truly paradoxical that the Amazon, the lushest of all rainforests, is rooted in the most BLANK of all soils.
9 M6 ^, @' n7 w. k* w, C H% | Answer: D-impoverished, E-infertile
$ v# Y+ F2 y3 n3 ?" G: j 2. Sentence to be completed: Cynics believe that people who BLANK compliments do so in order to be praised twice.8 y6 m8 R! M Z/ b8 P _. V& t
Answer: C-deflect, E-shrug off U1 `. m& w3 ^( A
3. Sentence to be completed: A restaurant's menu is generally reflected in its decor; however despite this restaurant's BLANK appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
% \) \5 w# R0 a Answer: A-elegant, F-chic
8 p X# `6 q, b 4. Sentence to be completed: International financial issues are typically BLANK by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
5 {8 q5 h7 ]) r) A/ E% n Answer: A-neglected, B-slighted
7 n6 b' O+ l5 q" y i 5. Sentence to be completed: While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different-she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was BLANK-they were surprisingly well suited.* j, L1 F( y0 E- G$ T
Answer: D-laconic, F-taciturn+ p3 x! ~: Q" y
6. D-spirituals
2 | t. y' w$ k C/ \* [ 7. B-They had little working familiarity with such forms of American music as jazz, blues, and popular songs.$ E3 S; K% X h; u/ s% _' c& T
8. E-neglected Johnson's contribution to classical symphonic music
1 A' V, w# A. f; t$ k 9. C-The editorial policies of some early United States newspapers became a counterweight to proponents of traditional values.3 h0 s1 v0 _8 f2 g
10. A-insincerely
e: O3 j& p5 q* j 11. Blank (i) C-multifaceted1 x0 L+ b- i+ k( |% y
Blank (ii) F-extraneous' V) P4 @4 Y( a3 d% Z
Answer in Context: The multifaceted nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there's nothing extraneous for time to erode.
) e2 U* L8 {: X* |9 c 12. Blank (i) C-ambivalence8 t# _' F7 Z9 g( Y9 n! I
Blank (ii) E-successful
7 ^" U; c/ ] f+ m; |1 M Blank (iii) H-assuage) I, \7 G9 p/ y% |8 L* g7 l% c
Answer in Context: Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with ambivalence, but the most successful of these paintings assuage all doubts.; p. ?) K' _5 J. N! r" u4 [
13. B-a doctrinaire$ p5 y' s% `8 U$ T
Answer in Context: Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as a doctrinaire thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like. |