GRE Verbal Section- Analogy Questions and Answers

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Q221
In eighth-----century Japan, people who ----- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of ------ fields.
  • A cultivated - domestic
  • B located - desirable
  • C conserved - forested
  • D reclaimed - arable
Answer: Option D
Q222
Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have ----- not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory----- it should do.
  • A assumed - deducted
  • B estimated - accepted
  • C supposed - asserted
  • D doubted - warranted
Answer: Option
Q223
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 ------
  • A deprived - polarity
  • B full - circumstantiality
  • C bereft - theatricality
  • D devoid - neutrality
Answer: Option D
Q224
Sponsors of the bill were-----because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
  • A well-intentioned
  • B persistent
  • C detained
  • D unreliable
Answer: Option B
Q225
Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable ----- through a complex network of producers and consumers.
  • A nutrients
  • B dividends
  • C communications
  • D artifacts
Answer: Option C
Q226
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.
  • A proclamation - codified
  • B coercion - repudiated
  • C participation - moderated
  • D intimidation - issued
Answer: Option B
Q227
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.
  • A tolerant
  • B democratic
  • C broadminded
  • D emotional
Answer: Option
Q228
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.
  • A insolent - sociability
  • B trivial - decorum
  • C belligerent - fallibility
  • D serious - propriety
Answer: Option B
Q229
The ----- tones of the flute succeeded in ----- his tense nerves.
  • A rhapsodic - minimising
  • B blatant - enhancing
  • C hovendous - calming
  • D vibrant - portraying
Answer: Option
Q230
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.
  • A lost - forget
  • B implicit - extend
  • C impaired - sacrifise
  • D ambiguous - apply
Answer: Option C
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