In the long run, high-technology communications cannot ............. more traditional face-to-face family togetherness, in Ms. Aspinall’s view.
In the long run, high-technology communications cannot ............. more traditional face-to-face family togetherness, in Ms. Aspinall’s view.
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- ameliorate
- compromise
- supersede
- approximate
- enervate
supplant
The Correct Option is C
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: Understand the context.
The passage suggests that high-tech communication cannot replace or overpower traditional family togetherness. Both "supersede" and "supplant" fit the meaning of replacing something else.
Step 2: Analyze the options.
- (A): “Ameliorate” means to improve, which does not fit.
- (B): “Compromise” is not about replacing, but about making concessions.
- (C): “Supersede” fits perfectly, meaning to replace.
- (D): “Approximate” doesn’t fit in the context of replacement.
- (E): “Enervate” means to weaken, which is unrelated.
- (F): “Supplant” also fits, meaning to take the place of something.
Step 3: Conclusion.
The correct answers are (C) supersede and (F) supplant.
Even in this business, where ............. is part of everyday life, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one’s resume.
Even in this business, where ............. is part of everyday life, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one’s resume.
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- aspiration
- mendacity
- prevarication
- insensitivity
- baseness
avarice
The Correct Option is B
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: Context analysis.
The passage discusses lying, so words related to dishonesty will fit.
Step 2: Analyze the options.
- (A): “Aspiration” does not fit the context of lying.
- (B): “Mendacity” means untruthfulness, which fits perfectly.
- (C): “Prevarication” means the act of lying or misleading, which also fits.
- (D): “Insensitivity” doesn’t relate to lying.
- (E): “Baseness” refers to moral corruption, but doesn’t directly imply lying.
- (F): “Avarice” means greed, which is unrelated.
Step 3: Conclusion.
The correct answers are (B) mendacity and (C) prevarication.
A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its decor; however, despite this restaurant’s ............. appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its decor; however, despite this restaurant’s ............. appearance it is pedestrian in the menu it offers.
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- elegant
- tawdry
- modern
- traditional
- conventional
chic
The Correct Option is A
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: Context analysis.
The passage implies the restaurant has an appealing appearance, but a mundane menu, suggesting a contradiction between decor and food.
Step 2: Analyze the options.
- (A): “Elegant” fits as it describes a refined appearance.
- (B): “Tawdry” means cheap or showy, which would contradict the appearance of elegance.
- (C): “Modern” doesn’t fit with the overall idea of contrast.
- (D): “Traditional” doesn’t fit the idea of an appealing appearance.
- (E): “Conventional” doesn’t match the intended meaning.
- (F): “Chic” fits well, describing a stylish appearance.
Step 3: Conclusion.
The correct answers are (A) elegant and (F) chic.
International financial issues are typically ............. by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
International financial issues are typically ............. by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
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- neglected
- slighted
- overrated
- hidden
- criticized
repudiated
The Correct Option is A
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: Understand the context.
The passage suggests that financial issues are ignored by the media due to their complexity.
Step 2: Analyze the options.
- (A): “Neglected” fits as it means ignored or given insufficient attention.
- (B): “Slighted” also means treated with disregard.
- (C): “Overrated” doesn’t fit the meaning of being ignored.
- (D): “Hidden” could work but isn’t the best word here.
- (E): “Criticized” doesn’t fit the context of ignoring.
- (F): “Repudiated” is too strong and implies rejection, which doesn’t match.
Step 3: Conclusion.
The correct answers are (A) neglected and (B) slighted.
While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different—she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was .............—they were surprisingly well suited.
While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different—she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was .............—they were surprisingly well suited.
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- solicitous
- munificent
- irresolute
- laconic
- fastidious
taciturn
The Correct Option is D
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: Understand the context.
The sentence describes a contrast, where one person is garrulous (talkative) while the other is reserved or quiet.
Step 2: Analyze the options.
- (A): “Solicitous” means showing concern, but doesn't fit the idea of quietness.
- (B): “Munificent” means generous, which is unrelated.
- (C): “Irresolute” means uncertain, not reserved.
- (D): “Laconic” fits, meaning brief in speech.
- (E): “Fastidious” means difficult to please, which doesn’t match.
- (F): “Taciturn” fits, meaning quiet and reserved.
Step 3: Conclusion.
The correct answers are (D) laconic and (F) taciturn.
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For the past two years at FasCorp, there has been a policy to advertise any job opening to current employees and to give no job to an applicant from outside the company if a FasCorp employee applies who is qualified for the job. This policy has been strictly followed, yet even though numerous employees of FasCorp have been qualified for any given entry-level position, some entry-level jobs have been filled with people from outside the company.
If the information provided is true, which of the following must on the basis of it also be true about FasCorp during the past two years?- GRE - 2025
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As an example of the devastation wrought on music publishers by the photocopier, one executive noted that for a recent choral festival with 1,200 singers, the festival’s organizing committee purchased only 12 copies of the music published by her company that was 5 performed as part of the festival.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the support the example lends to the executive’s contention that music publishers have been devastated by the photocopier?- GRE - 2025
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- In the 1970s, two debates engaged many scholars of early United States history. One focused on the status of women, primarily White women. Turning on the so-called golden age theory, which posited that during the eighteenth-century colonial era, American women enjoyed a brief period of high status relative to their English contemporaries and to nineteenth-century American women, this debate pitted scholars who believed women’s lives deteriorated after 1800 against those who thought women’s lives had been no better before 1800. At issue were the causes of women’s subordination: were these causes already in place when the English first settled North America or did they emerge with the rise of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism?
The second debate, the so-called origins debate, concerned the emergence of racial slavery in the southern colonies: was slavery the inevitable result of the deep-rooted racial prejudice of early British colonists or did racial prejudice arise only after these planters instituted slave labor?
Although these debates are parallel in some respects, key differences distinguished them. Whereas the debate over women’s status revolved around implicit comparisons of colonial women to their counterparts in the antebellum period (1800--1860), thus inviting comment from scholars of both historical periods, the origins debate was primarily confined to a discussion about slavery in colonial America. Second, in contrast to the newness of the debate over women’s status and its continued currency throughout the early 1980s, the debate over race and slavery, begun in the 1950s, had lost some of its urgency with the publication of Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), widely regarded as the last word on the subject.
Each debate also assumed a different relationship to the groups whose histories it concerned. In its heyday, the origins debate focused mainly on White attitudes toward Africans rather than on Africans themselves. With few exceptions, such as Wood’s Black Majority (1974) and Mullin’s Flight and Rebellion (1972), which were centrally concerned with enslaved African men, most works pertaining to the origins debate focused on the White architects, mostly male, of racial slavery. In contrast, although women’s historians were interested in the institutions and ideologies contributing to women’s subordination, they were equally concerned with documenting women’s experiences. As in the origins debate, however, early scholarship on colonial women defined its historical constituency narrowly, women’s historians focusing mainly on affluent White women.
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the tax on a liter of fuel should be equal to the harm caused by using a liter of fuel.
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