List of top Questions asked in GRE

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SLACKEN: TENSION::

BIGOT: TOLERANCE::

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DILETTANTE: SUPERFICIALITY::

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Before adapting to changes in values, many prefer to ----, to ---- the universally agreed-on principles that have been upheld for centuries.

Although the records of colonial New England are ---- in comparison with those available in France or England, the records of other English colonies in America are even more ----.

High software prices are frequently said to ---- widespread illegal copying, although the opposite ---- that high prices are the cause of the copying -- is equally plausible.

Because early United States writers thought that the mark of great literature was grandiosity and elegance not to be found in common speech, they ---- the vernacular.

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COMBUSTIBLE: IGNITE::

In 1982, if the 1.8 billion dollars collected as child support payments was only 10 percent of the total court-ordered payments due, approximately how many billion dollars of court-ordered payments for child support were not collected?

If \(\frac{1}{4x} + \frac{1}{y} = \frac{1}{3} (\frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y})\), what is the ratio of x to y?
Note: The OCR from the scanned image is ambiguous. This solution assumes the most likely intended equation is with plus signs, as this leads to one of the answer choices.

Some activists believe that because the health-care system has become increasingly ---- to those it serves, individuals must ---- bureaucratic impediments in order to develop and promote new therapies.

The acts of vandalism that these pranksters had actually ---- were insignificant compared with those they had ---- but had not attempted.

Though one cannot say that Michelangelo was an impractical designer, he was, of all nonprofessional architects known, the most ---- in that he was the least constrained by tradition or precedent.

For how many of the years shown after 1950 was there a decrease from the previous year in the number of registered cars?