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GRE Test Prep : Verbal Sentence Completion II


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

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1.

Many business schools are avoiding an _______ narrow management curriculum because a good manager in today's competitive economic conditions must be well-versed in diverse aspects such as finance, marketing, operations and technology.

  ambiguous

  overly

  inadvertently

  unwittingly

  endemic

 
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2.

The media reports on cross-border terrorism _______ all assertions made by the government that peace had been restored.

  bolstered

  substantiated

  buttressed

  belied

  stipulated

 
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3.

People have limited patience when browsing the internet; as a result, the individual's interest _______ if the web page does not appear on the screen within a few seconds.

  flags

  infiltrates

  flays

  incubates

  entails

 
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4.

At the farewell function, the dignitary's address to the young graduates was _______, offering no new words of wisdom but common knowledge.

  ambivalent

  labyrinthine

  platitudinous

  pragmatic

  opprobrious

 
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5.

She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.

  amiable

  amicable

  gregarious

  munificent

  truculent

 
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6.

The biologist described how vultures _______ portions of carcasses and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance as _______.

  hunt..carnivores

  depend on..parasites

  seize..predators

  gobble..xenophobes

  devour..scavengers

 
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7.

Although the closed system did not encourage individuals to _______ out on their own, nonetheless it irrationally _______ the lack of the spirit of entrepreneurship in the people.

  gouge..condoned

  explore..eulogized

  venture..decried

  hazard..mollified

  risk..stimulated

 
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