GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions

1. He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.

2. The teacher accused me of (1)____ because my essay was so similar to that of another student. Once I was able to (2)____ myself, the teacher viewed the other student’s denials with more (3)____.

3. We live in a ____ age; everyone thinks that maximizing pleasure is the point of life.

4. After having subjected the patient to an aggressive course of treatment that in itself could be
(1)____, the doctor was thankful that the disease had gone into (2)____ . He was able to tell the patient that symptoms might (3)____ for many years.

5. People from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the pure, (1)____ air in this mountain region to counteract the (2)____ effects of their urban existence.

6. As were many colonial administrators, Gregory was (1)____ in his knowledge of the grammar of the local language, though his accent was almost (2)____ .

7. Though Adam Bede is presented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there are none of the life-like meanderings of the story of Amos Barton.

8. There is a general (1)____ in the United States that our ethics are declining and that out moral
standards are (2)____ . That is not to say, however, that (3)____ will translate into action.

9. Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, (1)____ of the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly (2)____ of the sewers and soils – the microbe.

10. After centuries of (1)____, this philosopher's thesis is enjoying a surprising (2)____ .