GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions
Sentence Equivalence Questions (Set 8)
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Questions 1 to 9 below are Sentence Equivalence Questions.Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
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1. The energetic guy jumped onto the stage wearing a ________ suit, dark shirt, no tie and what looked like several days’ growth of facial hair at the unveiling the brand new car.
 | demanding |
| modish |
| fashionable |
| fortitude |
| black |
| top-les |
2. The sophisticated and weird buildings along with _________ shelled dome looks as if it is about to sprout legs.
| heavy |
| spiny |
| smooth |
| terse |
| unique |
| barbed |
3. Law makers demanded that central regulators must strengthen the proposed banking rules and ____________ trading closely in the wake of industry’s biggest player’s disclosures of trading losses.
| scrutinize |
| gloss over |
| pore over |
| condone |
| overlook |
| demur |
4. Peaceful demonstrators are forced to sleep on the ground, and in _______ weather under plastic sheets.
| inclement |
| rough |
| buoyant |
| balmy |
| toxic |
| torpid |
5. The city mayor plans to _______ decrepit buildings in the town so that the skyline of the city attracts more tourists in the city and generate more revenue.
| impede |
| strengthen |
| raze |
| demolish |
| establish |
| refurbish |
6. 1. The colorful, hazardous world in which both of the famous scientists lived and worked–the courts, universities, cities, palaces, and hovels of Renaissance Europe– __________ them little tranquility.
| afforded |
| instigated |
| allowed |
| elated |
| withheld |
| deviated |
7. In sixteenth century Europe, the branch of a student’s education depended heavily on whose household he belonged to– a theologist’s house were most likely to ____________ new theologist.
| dominate |
| control |
| develope |
| retarde |
| produce |
| force |
8. When Greek, Alexandarian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman, and Arabian peered at the night sky, they saw the same ___________ that is visible with the naked eye on a clear night, far enough away from a city light.
| panorama |
| vista |
| skyline |
| skyscrapers |
| dark matter |
| stars |
9. Long before the modern era, ancient sky-watchers, by ____________ the sky with great care over long periods of time, had invented that motions of heavenly bodies are intricate by not random.
| scanning |
| peeping |
| scrutinizing |
| glancing |
| examining |
| modeling |