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GRE aspirants, it’s time to rack your brain and crack this question of the week! Our expert GRE faculty will drop in interesting questions for you every week to help you think logically and get closer to acing the GRE! Type your answers in the comments section below!
We will publish the correct answers and explanations in the comments section every Friday! STAY TUNED!
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Dear Reader,
One of the easiest ways to learn new words is through association. Instead of trying to learn by remembering the equivalent of a word in your mother tongue or its usage in English, you can learn by thinking of words in groups. These groupings can be grammatical: all action verbs or nouns related to knowledge (ending with -logy), for instance; or logical: as found in our VocabApp.
Today, all our links and questions are about pictures and photographs, which can be helpful in recollecting a bunch of words. Here are some of those words, see how many you can guess correctly.
Question 1
For a ______ like myself, there was no wrong age to take up photography: I just had to get a smartphone!
A] tyro
B] sage
C] transgressor
Question 2
The light cast by the setting sun is the most _____________ and hence, it is known as the Golden Hour in Hollywood.
A] voluble
B] voluminous
C] luminous
Question 3
Whenever I look at these pictures of people from my past, I am filled with _________.
A] nostalgia
B] animosity
C] catharsis
Question 4
4] The only surviving picture of my great-grandmother is a small painted __________.
A] frieze
B] vignette
C] coda
Question 5
Editors often __________ black-and-white photos with colour images to choose the best ones.
A] riddle
B] amalgamate
C] juxtapose
Tell us your guesses in the comments section and look for the answers in our next edition!
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Answers for last week’s questions:
1] “We found the glass splashed on little pieces of bone that were by the hearth, so we know that the molten glass had landed in this village while people were living there,” said coauthor Allen West, a member of the Comet Research Group, a nonprofit organization aimed at studying this particular cosmic impact and its consequences.
2] B] No magnetic marks, characteristic of lightning strikes, were found.
3] A] Climatic changes
4] B] exceptional D] atypical
5] A] imitate D] prevalent
Dear Reader,
As promised, from this week onwards, we will present some old and some new articles along with questions on Reading Comprehension, Sentence Equivalence, and Text Completion from the Verbal Reasoning section.
Tell us your guesses in the comments section and look for the answers in our next edition!
Dinosaurs weren’t the only ones!
Question 1
Select a sentence in the article that provides evidence that the comet struck while the village was under human habitation.
Question 2
Why did the scientists rule out earthly causes such as volcanic activity or thunderstorms for the fires? Select all that apply.
A] They found evidence that natural sources of fire can also reach such high temperatures.
B] No magnetic marks, characteristic of lightning strikes, were found.
C] Molten metal was not found at the site.
Question 3
None of the following were reasons for the Abu Hureyra culture becoming agrarian EXCEPT
A] Climatic changes
B] Technological modifications
C] Survival of a few people
D] Animal husbandry
E] Ground-breaking invention of systematic agriculture
Question 1
The presence of halos as identifying appurtenances of holy figures in early Netherlandish paintings is as ________ an occurrence as it is commonplace in Italian paintings of the same period.
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole, and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
A] trite
B] exceptional
C] recognizable
D] atypical
E] perceptible
F] sacral
The representation of mortals as saints, reflecting a desire to (i) ________ the lives of the saints and to follow their sacrifices and devotion to Christ, becomes increasingly (ii) _______ in the early sixteenth century. The practice reflects an extension of the beliefs of and widespread adherence to the Modern Devotion, a popular reform movement begun by Geert Grote in the late fourteenth century and initially practiced by the Brothers of the Common Life.
Question 2
For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
| A] imitate | D] prevalent |
| B] animate | E] predictable |
| C] stipple | F] pretentious |
So, you are preparing for the GRE test. You know that the Verbal section is going to be demanding. What are the big challenges in the Verbal section of the Revised General GRE?
First, a bit of good bit of news: the Reading Comprehension passages on the Revised GRE test are short. A Verbal section generally contains 5 Reading Comprehension passages, most which are 20-25 lines long; and one of them may be as short as 3-5 lines. The longest passages are of about 40 lines or so. (See ETS’s introduction to reading comprehension, sample questions and tips)
But Reading Comprehension is never very easy. Firstly, the passages cover a wide variety of topics, most of which are very unfamiliar. Here are some topics that have appeared in the past:
