GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
221. In eighth-----century Japan, people who ----- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of ------ fields.
- cultivated - domestic
- located - desirable
- conserved - forested
- reclaimed - arable
222. Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have ----- not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory----- it should do.
- assumed - deducted
- estimated - accepted
- supposed - asserted
- doubted - warranted
223. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----- of ------
- deprived - polarity
- full - circumstantiality
- bereft - theatricality
- devoid - neutrality
224. Sponsors of the bill were-----because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
- well-intentioned
- persistent
- detained
- unreliable
225. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable ----- through a complex network of producers and consumers.
- nutrients
- dividends
- communications
- artifacts
226. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by ----- the leaders of the movement have recently ----- most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
- proclamation - codified
- coercion - repudiated
- participation - moderated
- intimidation - issued
227. It would be difficult for one so ------ to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, color and creed.
- tolerant
- democratic
- broadminded
- emotional
228. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical newspapers is not ----- or childish, but an assault on ----- essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
- insolent - sociability
- trivial - decorum
- belligerent - fallibility
- serious - propriety
229. The ----- tones of the flute succeeded in ----- his tense nerves.
- rhapsodic - minimising
- blatant - enhancing
- hovendous - calming
- vibrant - portraying
230. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is ----- and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in thercopy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to ----- it.
- lost - forget
- implicit - extend
- impaired - sacrifise
- ambiguous - apply