GRE Verbal Section- Analogy Questions and Answers

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Q241
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.
  • A cleverness : eager
  • B condescension : disinclined
  • C sentimentality : reluctant
  • D mediocrity : desperate
Answer: Option D
Q242
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.
  • A conversion - annexation
  • B apparition - amalgam
  • C stratagem - appropriation
  • D paradigm - construct
Answer: Option B
Q243
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.
  • A archetypally
  • B perennially
  • C disturbingly
  • D uniquely
Answer: Option D
Q244
Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant to be ----- rather than -----
  • A seen - acted
  • B read - acted
  • C produced - acted
  • D quiet - loud
Answer: Option B
Q245
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.
  • A ingenuous
  • B recent
  • C secure
  • D publicized
Answer: Option D
Q246
Although his out numbered troops fought bravely, the general felt he had no choice but to ----- defeat and ---- a retreat.
  • A oversee - reject
  • B acknowledge - order
  • C hasten - suggest
  • D seek - try
Answer: Option B
Q247
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.
  • A guide
  • B assent
  • C reverence
  • D fortitude
Answer: Option D
Q248
The hostess attempted to ------- a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -------
  • A expand - fealty
  • B present - collusion
  • C simulate - conflict
  • D introduce - cacophony
Answer: Option
Q249
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.
  • A intellectual - criterion
  • B Chronological - criterion
  • C Physical - barrier
  • D deteriorating - value
Answer: Option B
Q250
As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the ------- like strands of -------
  • A whirlwind - flotsam
  • B wind - cactus
  • C morass - tundra
  • D zephyr - gossamer
Answer: Option D
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