GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
GRE Verbal Section- Analogy
241. Broadway audiences have become inured to ----- and so ----- to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
- cleverness : eager
- condescension : disinclined
- sentimentality : reluctant
- mediocrity : desperate
242. Nineteenth - century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical ----- or a brilliant ----- blending Egyptian and Assyruin art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
- conversion - annexation
- apparition - amalgam
- stratagem - appropriation
- paradigm - construct
243. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in western society during the current decade is ----- critical.
- archetypally
- perennially
- disturbingly
- uniquely
244. Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant to be ----- rather than -----
- seen - acted
- read - acted
- produced - acted
- quiet - loud
245. The little ----- known but rapidly expanding use of computers in mapmaking is technologically similar to the more ----- uses in designing everything from bolts to satellites.
- ingenuous
- recent
- secure
- publicized
246. Although his out numbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to ----- defeat and ---- a retreat.
- oversee - reject
- acknowledge - order
- hasten - suggest
- seek - try
247. No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the--- - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.
- guide
- assent
- reverence
- fortitude
248. The hostess attempted to ------- a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -------
- expand - fealty
- present - collusion
- simulate - conflict
- introduce - cacophony
249. Employers who retire people who are willing and able to continue working should realize that ------- age is not an effective ------- in determining whether an individual is capable of working.
- intellectual - criterion
- Chronological - criterion
- Physical - barrier
- deteriorating - value
250. As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the ------- like strands of -------
- whirlwind - flotsam
- wind - cactus
- morass - tundra
- zephyr - gossamer