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GRE Text Completion Practice Test 01
1. With his sub-four minute mile Bannister broke a psychological barrier, and inspired thousands
of others to attempt to overcome seemingly ____ hurdles.
A. insurmountable
B. inane
C. trivial
D. traumatic
E. ineffable
2. Ricks has written extensively not only on the poetry of such (i)____ figures in English poetry
as Milton and Housman, but also on the less obviously (ii)____ lyrics of Bob Dylan.
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A. obscurantist D. canonical
B. arcane E. popular
C. established F. judicious
3. People who seek advice from (i)____ often find that what they are told can seem true, because
these seekers of information attribute significance to some predictions and ignore others. The
mind seeks to make sense of predictions that, in themselves, have no (ii)____ value, and thus it
becomes difficult to prove that the forecasts are (iii)____ .
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A. experts D. special G. genuine
B. philosophers E. general H. specious
C. clairvoyants F. legal I. accurate
4. Stress-induced amnesia is a rare and (i)____ phenomenon; it strikes the patient apparently
without warning and the memory loss can be as (i)____ as that induced by (iii)____ trauma.

A. devastating D. generic G. unexpected
B. venial E. limited H. mental
C. pervasive F. complete I. physical
5. The publishers, unwilling to (i)____ the entire risk, insisted that the author pay half the cost of
the initial print run of his (ii)____ new book.

A. hedge D. unexceptionable
B. shoulder E. controversial
C. mitigate F. jaundiced
6. Science advances (i)____ as (ii)____ change abruptly and we are forced to stop and reorient
ourselves to view old information in new ways.

A. exponentially D. paradigms
B. inexorably E. axioms
C. jerkily F. continuities
7. The game of chess is an example of a ___ information system: the pieces sit inertly on the
board until the players move them according to known rules.
A. interactive
B. passive
C. cybernetic
D. disruptive
E. logistic
8. A highly intelligent person often thinks (i)____; a few snippets of information can trigger a
(ii)____ conclusion that might not stand up to closer, and (iii)____, scrutiny.

A. too deeply D. firm G. slower
B. too warily E. labored H. precipitous
C. too quickly F. hasty I. overt
9. Major philosophical (i)____ about morality, identity and rationality, for example, can often be
(ii)____ by thought experiments: short and simple expositions that pose an abstract and complex
problem in a concrete manner with all the (iii)____ factors removed.

A. certitudes D. mimicked G. extraneous
B. dilemmas E. illuminated H. inherent
C. dogmas F. evoked I. pivotal
10. All good comic writers use humor to ____, not to side-step the problems of human behavior.
A. amuse
B. avert
C. juxtapose
D. confront
E. solve
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2. CD Not attempted
3. CDH Not attempted
4. AFI Not attempted
5. BE Not attempted
6. CD Not attempted
7. B Not attempted
8. CFG Not attempted
9. BEG Not attempted
10. D Not attempted
1. When staying in a hotel, Bernard would arrange for his valet to bring him his newspaper in the
dining room so that everyone would realize that he had a manservant; this (i)____ embarrassed
his nephew who, though equally rich, preferred a more (ii)____ life-style.

A. ostentation D. opulent
B. arrogance E. libertine
C. dissimulation F. understated
2. Although he was finally (i)____, the years of (ii)____ tore apart his social circle, ruined his
health and (iii)____ his mind.

A. incriminated D. dedication G. sharpened
B. vindicated E. self-doubt H. deranged
C. acclaimed F. suspicion I. mellowed
3. As Gerard (i)____ the (ii)____ that greeted his work, he became increasingly smug.

A. repudiated D. accolades
B. humbly accepted E. opprobrium
C. basked in F. lack of interest
4. It is a common complaint that people today have a short attention span. But is it that people
are (i)____ if the television camera (ii)____ a view, or is it that the (iii)____ from one angle to
another has trained the viewer to expect variety?

A. satisfied D. lingers over G. constant shift
B. fascinated E. cuts short H. delay in moving
C. impatient F. rapidly changes I. inability to move
5. The (i)____ and virtuosity required of a jazz player make jazz seem to lack (ii)____; this
apparently amorphous flow can make it hard for people with traditional expectations of musical
stability to acquire a taste for this genre.
A. controlled playing D. inherent structure
B. inventiveness E. underlying rhythm
C. emotional distance F. controlled emotions
6. An artist’s preliminary sketches are often a ____of a subject; on the basis of these sketches the
artist makes a decision on his or her approach to the final painting.
A. reconnaissance
B. caricature
C. vignette
D. pastiche
E. cameo
7. Taking antibiotics for a viral infection may, it is true, be ____ ; however, in certain cases a
course of these drugs can actually ward off opportunistic bacterial infections.
A. justified
B. enough
C. recommended
D. ineffective
E. curative
8. Rock music has often been credited with (or decried for) containing (i)____ messages,
purportedly to influence the minds of (ii)____ listeners.

A. criminal D. preordained
B. overt E. unsuspecting
C. subliminal F. covert
9. It cannot be denied that without creative reasoning it would not have been possible to (i)____
of classical physics. Yet classical physics has no contribution to make to the understanding of
(ii)_____. This kind of (iii)____ is surprisingly common in logic as well as in life.

A. dispute the value D. creative reasoning G. circular reasoning
B. lay the foundations E. other sciences H. inflexibility
C. understand the basics F. the arts I. symmetry
10. During a decade of (i)____, social scientists sought to (ii)____ the idea of the family as a
healthy and stabilizing force, and replace it with the view that the family was (iii)____.

A. moderation D. promote G. moribund
B. conservatism E. debunk H. progressive
C. iconoclasm F. iconize I. paramount

1. AF Not attempted
2. BFH Not attempted
3. CD Not attempted
4. CDG Not attempted
5. BD Not attempted
6. A Not attempted
7. D Not attempted
8. CE Not attempted
9. BDI Not attempted
10. CEG Not attempted
1. Today Wegener's theory is (i)____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with (ii)____ by the
scientific establishment.

A. unsupported D. reverence
B. unchallenged E. disdain
C. undervalued F. impartiality
2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
A. trudges
B. meanders
C. edges
D. ambles
E. rages
3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example,
all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.
A. merits
B. disadvantages
C. rewards
D. jargon
E. problems
4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
A. garrulous
B. equivocal
C. taciturn
D. arrogant
E. gregarious
5. Biological clocks are of such (i)____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect
most organisms to (ii)____ them, and, indeed, we find that such clocks are virtually (iii)____.
A. meager D. eschew G. ubiquitous
B. ambivalent E. possess H. unknown
C. clear F. select I. compulsory
6. The revolutionaries working to improve the lives of the peasants faced an (i)____ task; the
peasants were the least (ii)____ of all people, bound by tradition and (iii)____ by superstitions.

A. unwarranted D. free G. rejected
B. uphill E. reactionary H. obscured
C. unacceptable F. enthralled I. fettered
7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that
many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
A. devoid of
B. teeming with
C. improved by
D. destroyed by
E. active against
8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on (i)____ , but their
intensity (ii)____ as they travel further from their source.

A. indefinitely D. alleviates
B. erratically E. diminishes
C. slowly F. mitigates
9. This recent evaluation of two artists whose works even experts find difficult to (i)____,
reveals a surprising (ii)____ in their temperaments: Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer
(iii)____ and boastful.

A. evaluate D. similarity G. choleric
B. distinguish E. difference H. tractable
C. critique F. constraint I. phlegmatic
10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been (i)____ in classrooms
where emphasis on British-American literature has not reflected the cultural (ii)____ of our
country.

A. inculcated D. unanimity
B. encouraged E. diversity
C. stifled F. aspirations
1. BE Not attempted
2. E Not attempted
3. D Not attempted
4. C Not attempted
5. CEG Not attempted
6. BDI Not attempted
7. B Not attempted
8. AE Not attempted
9. BEG Not attempted
10. CE Not attempted
1. Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with
more data obtained from dubious sources.
A. ascertain
B. buttress
C. refute
D. absolve
E. dispute
2. Archaeology is a poor profession; modest sums are available for excavating sites and even
more (i)____ amounts for preserving the excavations. As a result many sites that are still to
reveal even a fraction of their potentially vital information have been (ii)____ and left to the
forces of Nature. Re-opening such sites in the future will be all but (iii)____.

A. paltry D. abandoned G. trivial
B. controversial E. overworked H. impossible
C. abundant F. denuded I. rewarding
3. The student was extremely foolhardy; he had the ____ to question the senior professor's
judgment.
A. wisdom
B. temerity
C. interest
D. trepidation
E. condescension
4. The formerly (i)____ waters of the lake have become (ii)____. So even though the waters are
teeming with life, fish are no longer visible from the surface.

A. murky D. tranquil
B. stagnant E. verdant
C. pellucid F. turbid
5. After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles ____ through
disuse.
A. atrophied
B. contracted
C. elongated
D. invigorated
E. dwindled
6. Some critics maintain that Tennyson's poetry is uneven, ranging from the (i)____ to the
(ii)____.

A. succinct D. laconic
B. trite E. sonorous
C. sublime F. inspired
7. The immune system is capable of distinguishing self from other at the cellular level. After
grafting, unless the immune system is effectively (i)____, there is a (ii)____ of lymphocytes in
the lymph glands; the newly produced lymphocytes then move in to (iii)____ the foreign tissue.

A. primed D. reduction G. stimulate
B. suppressed E. proliferation H. regenerate
C. activated F. stasis I. attack
8. One (i)____ of the new scheme is that it might actually (ii)____ just those applicants that it
was intended to encourage.

A. attraction D. induce
B. highlight E. daunt
C. drawback F. attract
9. Corruption is (i)____ our society; the integrity of even senior officials is (ii)____.

A. rife in D. suspect
B. endangered throughout E. intact
C. alien to F. unquestioned
10. In their day to day decision making, many senior managers do not follow the apparently
(i)____ model favored by orthodox management experts, but rather rely on intuitive processes
that often appear (ii)____ and (iii)____.

A. conscientious D. thoughtful G. logical
B. normal E. cerebral H. iconoclastic
C. rational F. capricious I. deliberate
1. B Not attempted
2. ADH Not attempted
3. B Not attempted
4. CF Not attempted
5. A Not attempted
6. BF Not attempted
7. BEI Not attempted
8. CE Not attempted
9. AD Not attempted
10. CFH Not attempted
1. He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.
A. ascetic
B. prodigy
C. prodigal
D. pariah
E. tyro
2. The teacher accused me of (i)____ because my essay was so similar to that of another student.
Once I was able to (ii)____ myself, the teacher viewed the other student’s denials with more
(iii)____.

A. plagiarism D. vindicate G. credulity
B. procrastination E. inculpate H. cognizance
C. decorum F. reprieve I. skepticism
3. We live in a ____ age; everyone thinks that maximizing pleasure is the point of life.
A. ubiquitous
B. propitious
C. sporadic
D. corrupt
E. hedonistic
4. After having subjected the patient to an aggressive course of treatment that in itself could be
(i)____, the doctor was thankful that the disease had gone into (ii)____ . He was able to tell the
patient that symptoms might (iii)____ for many years.

A. refulgent D. remission G. not recur
B. life-enhancing E. quarantine H. persist
C. life-threatening F. sequestration I. malinger
5. People from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the pure, (i)____ air in this
mountain region to counteract the (ii)____ effects of their urban existence.
A. insalubrious D. deracinating
B. soporific E. stimulating
C. invigorating F. debilitating
6. As were many colonial administrators, Gregory was (i)____ in his knowledge of the grammar
of the local language, though his accent was almost (ii)____ .

A. deficient D. unintelligible
B. faultless E. germane
C. erratic F. stentorian
7. Though Adam Bede is presented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there are none of the life-
like meanderings of the story of Amos Barton.
A. realistic
B. romantic
C. imaginative
D. educational
E. entertaining
8. There is a general (i)____ in the United States that our ethics are declining and that out moral
standards are (ii)____ . That is not to say, however, that (iii)____ will translate into action.

A. complaint D. improving G. morality
B. optimism E. deteriorating H. awareness
C. cliché F. resurgent I. belligerence
9. Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, (i)____ of
the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly (ii)____ of the sewers and soils – the microbe.

A. designer D. creation
B. author E. denizen
C. decipherer F. rodent
10. After centuries of (i)____, this philosopher's thesis is enjoying a surprising (ii)____ .

A. limelight D. renaissance
B. obscurity E. decimation
C. longevity F. neglect
1. D Not attempted
2. ADI Not attempted
3. E Not attempted
4. CDG Not attempted
5. CF Not attempted
6. BD Not attempted
7. A Not attempted
8. AEH Not attempted
9. CE Not attempted
10. BD Not attempted
1. Scrooge, in the famous novel by Dickens, was a ____ ; he hated the rest of mankind.
A. misanthrope
B. hypochondriac
C. philanthropist
D. hedonist
E. sybarite
2. A businessman must (i)____ his horizons; a (ii)____ attitude will get you nowhere in this age
of global communications.

A. limit D. parochial
B. foresee E. moderate
C. widen F. comprehensive
3. Our bookshelves at home display a range of books on wide-ranging subjects and in many
languages, reflecting the ____ tastes of our family members.
A. anomalous
B. limited
C. arcane
D. furtive
E. eclectic
4. We humans are selfish creatures, continuing to (i)____ the use of plastic bags, those (ii)____
symbols of consumer society. Wherever you travel you see them clogging drains, polluting
beaches and generally threatening the well-being of the biosphere.

A. condone D. ubiquitous
B. attenuate E. fleeting
C. abrogate F. covert
5. The preliminary review concludes that Dr. Stuart needs to (i)____ his argument with more
experimental data. In its current avatar his thesis is so (ii)____ that it must be deemed (iii)____.

A. define D. exigent G. succinct
B. bolster E. monumental H. profound
C. culminate F. slight I. inadequate
6. After an initially warm reception by most reviewers and continued ____ by conservative
thinkers, Bloom's work came under heavy fire.
A. criticism
B. endorsement
C. denigration
D. counterattack
E. refutation
7. Through the 19th Century, the classics of Western Civilization were considered the (i)____ of
wisdom and culture, and an (ii)____ person – by definition – knew them well.

A. repository D. educated
B. obituary E. ecclesiastical
C. frontispiece F. obtuse
8. In this biography we are given a glimpse of the young man (i)____ pursuing the path of the
poet despite (ii)____ and rejection slips.

A. unsuccessfully D. acclaim
B. sporadically E. disappointment
C. doggedly F. encouragement
9. While unwilling to forgo the benefits of standardized testing, many European countries are
seeking to (i)____ individual (ii)____ which state examinations with their (iii)____ growth have
bought in their train.

A. increase control over D. spontaneity G. randomizing effects
B. diminish the check on E. limitations H. tyrannous growth
C. increase awareness of F. persecution I. empowering actions
10. In keeping with his own (i)____ in international diplomacy, Churchill proposed a personal
meeting of heads of government, but the effort was (ii)____ , as the temper of the times was
(iii)____.

A. peccadilloes D. doomed to failure G. amicable
B. aversions E. instantly accepted H. auspicious
C. predilections F. considered worthwhile I. inimical

1. A Not attempted
2. CD Not attempted
3. E Not attempted
4. AD Not attempted
5. BFI Not attempted
6. B Not attempted
7. AD Not attempted
8. CE Not attempted
9. BDH Not attempted
10. CDI Not attempted
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