GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions

1. To date, most of the tobacco control efforts of this administration have focused on ___ young people, especially teenagers and younger children, from taking up smoking.

2. Because this is a democracy, there is a widespread conviction in our society that having opinion is our responsibility as citizens — a conviction ____ by our fast-forward multimedia culture.

3. Faced with such discrimination, people with stigmatizing conditions often use ___ coping strategies to establish the most favorable identity possible.

4. A variation of the belief in competitive individualism is the argument that the poor as a group possess beliefs, norms, values, and goals that are significantly different from the rest of society and that ____ a particular life style that keeps the poor.

5. Combined data from both Voyagers I and II enabled the rotation rate of Saturn to be determined for the first time whilst Voyager I was still ____ to Saturn.

6. Although editorial cartoons can stand on their own, they are frequently featured on editorial pages in newspapers that include commentary on the topic they _____.

7. Barnacles, is a type of arthropod like crabs and lobsters, have the largest penises, relative to body size,in the animal kingdom, and now some are going into the record books for yet another feat: they can _____ sperm directly from water.

8. Music is also found in every culture and when used in combination with a good story can clarify, define, elaborate on or even _____ the original story.