Verbal Reasoning

Select the word that is most nearly the same in meaning as the word below.

CHAGRIN:

• courtesy

• distress

• geniality

• temperance

Select the word that is most nearly the same in meaning as one of the words below.

PARSIMONIOUS

• artificial

• disorganized

• frugal

• voracious

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SIMULATE

• feign

• integrate

• oversimplify

• rouse

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Always __________, the journalist actively questioned the relevant viewpoints on both sides of the issue.

• enigmatic

• ignoble

• impartial

• partisan

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Because the Jackson House Inn on Martha's Vineyard maintains _____________ accommodations, guests routinely contribute ______________ comments on the inn's Web site.

• arbitrary...amiable

• immaculate...laudatory

• reprehensible...cordial

• utilitarian...inconsiderate

Select the word or pair of words that most correctly completes that sentence.

In recent years, poultry producers have been working to __________ the widespread __________ that eggs cannot be part of a healthy diet.

• ameliorate...credentials

• dispel...fallacy

• disperse...franchise

• invoke...reprimand

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Poet-novelist Rita Dove, a former United States Poet Laureate, was the _______ of the 1966 Heinz Award in the category of arts and humanities.

• contractor

• hero

• mentor

• recipient

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Alfred Jarry’s first play, Ubu Roi, is considered the first work of the theater of the absurd; although it caused a scandal when it opened in 1896, today it is ____________ for its innovative plot.

• acclaimed

• inspected

• rejected

• suspected

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Many people raise their voices in an argument, as though higher volume __________ a greater ability to persuade.

• balances

• necessitates

• provides

• recognizes

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Each afternoon the shepherd would drive his flock along the narrow road, effectively __________ the way for an hour.

• obstructing

• plundering

• renouncing

• transplanting