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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.

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

  bolstered

  stipulated

  belied

  substantiated

  buttressed

 
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2.

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

  munificent

  truculent

  amiable

  amicable

  gregarious

 
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3.

After the sudden death of their leader, the terrorists thought it best to be _______ for a period before resuming their attacks on their adversaries.

  prodigious

  bellicose

  belligerent

  quiescent

  audacious

 
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4.

Although she did not take any formal biology classes in school, her discovery _______ the notion that she was unfamiliar with the way living organisms behaved.

  underscored

  documented

  undermined

  substantiated

  disseminated

 
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5.

It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.

  anachronism

  propriety

  magnanimity

  conservatism

  effrontery

 
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6.

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

  ambivalent

  platitudinous

  pragmatic

  opprobrious

  labyrinthine

 
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7.

It is not mere fiction that a dolphin can carry on two conversations simultaneously, one by whistling and the other by making clicking sounds; in fact, the phenomenon is not even _______.

  pragmatic

  true

  substantiated

  explicable

  uncommon

 
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