List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions asked in GRE

It can be inferred from the passage that someone who wanted to analyze the “grammar and semantics” (line52) of the language of art would most appropriately comment on which of the following?

The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract ------is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, ------and as if by chance.

A century ago the physician’s word was ------ to doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious.

So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the autobiography fictionalized, that the ------sometimes seem largely------.

Robin’s words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful ------ imminent extremes.

OIL : LUBRICATE::

CONSTRUCT : REMODEL::

There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people’s social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be ------from one or another point of view, or even ------as simplistic or vapid.

Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ------ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.

Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to ------himself: it was his ------that had caused the debacle.

Five participants at an international conference are planning to take a car trip together. Two persons? the driver and one passenger? will sit in the front seat of the car, and three persons will sit in the back seat. The names of the five participants and all of the languages that each of them speaks are as follows:
Mohsen: Farsi and Hebrew
Orlando: Italian and Russian
Shelly: Hebrew and Russian
Theo: German and Italian
Ursula: Farsi, German, and Hebrew
The participants must be seated in the car according to the following restrictions:
The driver must be Orlando or else Shelly.
Two persons can be seated side by side only if at least one of the languages they speak is the same.

Yearly percents separated by point of origin of people commuting to jobs

The organizers of a music festival are scheduling exactly six master classes, one class per day for six consecutive days. Three of the classes will be given by violinists and three by pianists. The only musicians who can teach the classes are the violinists F, G, H, and J, and the pianists R, S, T, W, and Z. The festival's organizers must observe the following constraints:
No musician will teach more than one class.
F will not teach unless the first three classes are taught by violinists.
If J teaches a class, it will be the sixth.
R will teach only if T teaches the first class.
No pianist will teach on a day that immediately precedes or immediately follows a day on which W teaches.