GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
231. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look -----they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ----- of natural beauty and human glory.
- great - immutability
- joyful - mortality
- conventional - wildness
- cheerful - transitoriness
232. Despite the ----- of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for ----- the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
- pedantry - reinstating
- enthusiasm - symbolizing
- skepticism - deciphering
- antipathy - involving
233. Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have ----- not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory ----- it should do.
- supposed - asserted
- voubted -warranted
- assumed - deduced
- demonstrated - predicted
234. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the ----- of creation.
- variety
- economy
- profusion
- clarity
235. It is a great ----- to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with ----- effects.
- Disappointment - superfluous
- Convenience - exquisite
- Advantage - deleterious
- Accomplishment - profound
236. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not ----- the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective ----- were simply not available.
- indeterminable - safeguards
- unusual - alternatives
- inconsequential - substitutes
- proven - antidotes
237. Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that ----- sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of ----- facts.
- emotional - impersonal
- familiar : symbolic
- disturbing - ordinary
- material - remote
238. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on earth because of the possibility of ----- resulting from the carbon atom's ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
- variety
- stability
- deviations
- invigorations
239. 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.
- intolerant
- democratic
- emotional
- patient
240. An occasional ----- remark spoiled the ----- that made the paper memorable.
- colloquial
- trite - cliches
- urbane - sophisticated
- hackneyed - originality