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GRE Test Prep : Verbal Sentence Completion I


What words or sets of words fill the blanks and best fit the meanings of the sentences?

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1.

The management and the labor union reached an unexpected agreement in the best interests of the company after managing to _______ the conflicts they had.

  confound

  deride

  bolster

  delineate

  reconcile

 
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2.

Although several critics denounced his _______ techniques, there was unanimous praise for his _______ performances over the last season.

  precarious..unexceptional

  laudable..internecine

  anomalous..apocryphal

  innovative..mediocre

  unorthodox..unexceptionable

 
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3.

The _______ allowance he received as a pension forced him to spend the rest of his life in _______.

  mundane..malady

  meager..penury

  munificent..conundrum

  magnanimous..austerity

  mendacious..luxury

 
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4.

This _______ verse mourns for the valiant soldiers who lost their lives in the battle.

  derivative

  ironic

  desultory

  satiric

  elegiac

 
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5.

The air-conditioning unit was operated so as to strike some balance between the danger of _______ electricity bills and the desire of employees to be comfortable during the summer months.

  exigent

  inordinate

  prudent

  inchoate

  optimum

 
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6.

Scientific investigations of fluid flow behavior around objects like high-speed aircrafts are complex; however, the systems are _______ when experiments are performed in scaled-down versions such as wind tunnels.

  implacable

  turbulent

  permeable

  tractable

  malleable

 
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7.

She was _______ liar who had mastered the art of making untrue statements in a manner they sounded _______.

  a convincing..illogical

  a blatant..incongruous

  a congenital..creditable

  an incorrigible..plausible

  a mundane..credulous

 
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