2. Math Diagnostic Test
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3. Text Completions
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4. Sentence Equivalence
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5. Reading Comprehension
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6. Logic-Based Reading Comprehension
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7. Arithmetic
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8. Algebra
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9. Inequalities and Absolute Values
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10. Functions, Formulas, and Sequences
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11. Fractions and Decimals
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12. Percents
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13. Divisibility and Primes
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14. Exponents and Roots
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15. Number Properties
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16. Word Problems
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17. Two-Variable Word Problems
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18. Rates and Work
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19. Variables-in-the-Choices Problems
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20. Ratios
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21. Averages, Weighted Averages, Median, and Mode
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22. Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution
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23. Probability, Combinatorics, and Overlapping Sets
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24. Data Interpretation
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25. Polygons and Rectangular Solids
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26. Circles and Cylinders
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27. Triangles
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28. Coordinate Geometry
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29. Mixed Geometry
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30. Advanced Quant
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31. Essays
32. Verbal Practice Sections
33. Math Practice Sections
Appendix A: Math Facts for the GRE
Appendix B: 100 Math Drills
Chapter 1
Verbal Diagnostic Test
In This Chapter…
Verbal Diagnostic Test
Verbal Diagnostic Test Answers
Verbal Diagnostic Test
20 Questions
Time: 30 Minutes
For each of Questions 1 to 6, select one entry for each blank from the
corresponding column of choices. Fill in the blank in the way that best
completes the text.
1. In interviews, despots are often surprisingly ___________; this helps to
explain how seemingly awful people are able to command so many
followers.
malign
indignant
forgiving
personable
munificent
2. The thriving health food company sells __________ meat products so
meat-like that vegetarians sometimes call the phone number on the box to
make sure that the product is really animal-free.
mendacious
nugatory
ersatz
parallel
clandestine
3. The successful tech company faces an ironic problem in the fall quarter;
people are so excited about the next (i) ________ of its product, which will
be released over the holidays, that they refuse to purchase the (ii)
_________ version.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
ingenuity
obsolete
implication current
iteration
practical
4. Newborn babies are perfectly (i) _____________ , as yet unable to be
concerned for others, or even to understand a difference between
themselves and the world around them. As young children mature, they
make the (ii) ______________ discovery that other people exist and have
their own needs and desires—in other words, that the entire world is not
about them.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
solipsistic
arresting
sophomoric selfish
quixotic
undue
5. Historically, arguments against women’s suffrage (i) ___________ from
the claim that women would cancel out their husbands’ votes to the charge
that women would merely (ii) ___________ their husbands’ preferences,
thus making their votes redundant. Such arguments, while once convincing,
today seem (iii) __________ indeed.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
ran the gauntlet override
ponderous
ran the gamut
ape
shabby
held the line
disclaim
cogent
6. His theory purported that “proper” enjoyment of art was a matter of pure
aesthetics—it is surely, he says, a baser pleasure being enjoyed by the
untrained (i) _________ , the museum “tourist” with (ii) _________
sensibilities, and even the art theorists and art historians who simply
appreciate cultural referents or narratives in art, a predilection he thinks
leads to (iii) _________ view of any art that includes such elements.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
cabal
incendiary
a facile
literati
parochial
an urbane
hoi-polloi
dulcet
a painstaking
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