Graduate Record Examinations are an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States.
Graduate Record Examinations are an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States.
Questions tagged [gre]
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They might keep knowledge of its potential to effect social change from being widely disseminated
The title is an excerpt from a GRE question. The test-taker is asked to fill in the blank:
Those who fear the influence of television
deliberately ____ its persuasive power,
hoping that they might keep knowledge of its
potential to effect…
NonalcoholicBeer
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Why is "depredate" the correct answer?
I came across a question while practicing for my GRE.
That Egyptologists believe the ancient Egyptians’ memory of the
Pharaoh Tutankhamun quickly faded after his death is based on the fact
that the Pharaoh’s tomb was not _______ in antiquity,…
Pirate X
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A controversial GRE question
The profits that the corporation earns from the exclusive-supplier agreements with the universities are___, because the terms of agreements that they are inclined to protect the universities’ interests are…
NonalcoholicBeer
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GRE sentence completion, alternate choices
What is wrong with "celebrated" as the first choice and "experiment with" or "distill" as the second? It seems certainly possible that a playwright's approach is celebrated because he/she has experimented with new techniques or that she "extracted…
JobHunter69
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GRE word frequency
I was studying GRE sample questions, and thanks to google English meaning bar it shows the "Use over time for..." that word. After seeing a lot plots, I found a pattern. Most of them has been least used in last decade.
My question is why would words…
MAN-MADE
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Sentence Equivalence Question
This question is part of 5 lb. Book of GRE® Practice Problems Verbal Question Directory.
The following is a GRE-style sentence-equivalence question, where two of the six given options fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
James Joyce, the…
Caroline
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GRE sentence completion question - word ambiguity
The following is a GRE question from the Hard practice question set of the Official ETS guide, 2nd Edition.
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete
the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce…
dnclem
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Blank Questions in GRE
question: for the second blank, because of "But" we can decide to put "justified" and it's clear that the others do not make sense. but for the first blank I think all three answers can be placed there.
the answer is "surprising"!
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GRE Question : pair that expresses relationship similar to original pair
Frugal : miserly :: ...
confident : arrogant
courageous : pugnacious
famous : aggressive
rash : foolhardy
quiet : timid
Option 1 (A) was the answer. Can someone explain the logic ?
shrey
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Is not it better to use adopt rather then use revert to
Recently, I have faced a question like below:
The new systematic nomenclature was so (i)__ that many chemists preferred to (ii)__ the older trivial names that were at least shorter. At least, that is the ostensible reason. Actually, tradition seems…
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Very confusing GRE Reading Comprehension passage. My way of reasoning is mentioned. Please help with mistake in my way of reasoning
In own words:
The rapid gravitational collapse theory was challenged by the observation during the studies of moon craters. The study revealed that the craters were caused by impact of objects(probably planetesimals) that were in abundance 4.5…
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"Dramatic irony" context
I have the following GRE question.
Instructions: Fill in the blank.
_____ is achieved when the audience is made aware of a disparity between the facts of a situation and the characters understanding of it.
Which of the following will correctly…
TheMathNoob
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