GRE Verbal Section- Analogy Questions and Answers

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Q211
President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt, disregarding  criticism in the Alab world and in his own Government, ------ accepted prime minister Menahem Begin's invitation to visit Israel in order to address the Israeli parliament.
  • A acrimonious - formally
  • B blemished - stiffly
  • C categorical - previously
  • D malignant - plaintively
Answer: Option A
Q212
In his usual ------ manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
  • A pensive
  • B providential
  • C indifferent
  • D circumspect
Answer: Option D
Q213
We never believed that he would resort to ------ in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a ------ man.
  • A charm - insincere
  • B necromancy - pietistic
  • C logic - honorable
  • D prestidigitation - articulate
Answer: Option
Q214
The Sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was ------ by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
  • A unproven
  • B banal
  • C superficial
  • D complex
Answer: Option
Q215
Despite assorted effusion to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and quite possibly, there may be something of a ------between them.
  • A dichotomy
  • B congruity
  • C reciprocity
  • D fusion
Answer: Option
Q216
The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest ------ indeed savagery seems to be indirect proposition to ------
  • A inventions - know-how
  • B wars - viciousness
  • C triumphs - civilizations
  • D atrocities - development
Answer: Option D
Q217
Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ------ their efforts to build as Progressive Party than the ------ of the progressive alreadyelected to the legislature.
  • A obstacle to - resistance
  • B support for - advocacy
  • C praise for - reputation
  • D threat to - promise
Answer: Option A
Q218
The simplicity of the theory - its main attraction  ------ is also its - for only by ----- the assumptions of the theory is it possible to explain the most recent observations made by researchers.
  • A glory - rejecting
  • B liability - accepting
  • C undoing - supplementing
  • D downfall - considering
Answer: Option C
Q219
That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not ----- eyewitness reports of its commander's extra-ordinary ----- in deploying his forces.
  • A invalidate - brutality
  • B gainsay - cleverness
  • C underscore - ineptitude
  • D justify - rapidity
Answer: Option B
Q220
No longer ----- by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual ----- for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
  • A satisfied - reasons
  • B reassured - justifications
  • C restricted - parallels
  • D sustained - substitutes
Answer: Option D
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