Verbal Workout for the GRE by Princeton Review

Author:Princeton Review
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2017-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Practice Drill #1

Directions: For each sentence, select the two answer choices that when used to complete the sentence blank, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Remember to use your scratch paper and POE. The answers are on this page.

1. After successfully conning the investors out of millions of dollars, the crook _______ with the money in the middle of the night and managed to avoid arrest.

indicted

absconded

squandered

converged

divested

decamped

2. Because there is now such a _______ of vampire novels on the market, the excitement they once evoked has been deadened by their sheer number.

lack of

dogma

glut

inundation

dearth

deviance

3. Although the accusations against the politician were _______, they were believed by enough voters to seriously damage his bid for office.

credible

specious

ephemeral

presumptuous

spurious

transient

4. Even though the curator actually spent several months arranging the exhibit, the paintings seemed as if they had been hung with _______.

guile

haste

deliberateness

creativity

celerity

slowness

5. The critical analysis of the works of Shakespeare is not, as yet, _______; the sheer volume and complexity of his writings ensure that there will always be more to analyze.

abstruse

pedantic

comprehensive

elaborate

learned

exhaustive

6. Both Darius and Xerxes continued the Persian tradition of showing leniency to beaten foes who showed themselves to be _______, while punishing ruthlessly those who chose to remain defiant.

bellicose

complaisant

obeisant

prolix

turbulent

venerated

7. Most historians credit the influence of Clovis’s deeply religious wife, Clotild, for his decision to _______ paganism in favor of Christianity.

desiccate

abjure

exacerbate

legitimize

espouse

renounce

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