List of practice Questions

PROCRASTINATION:
Which of the following best describes the function of the last paragraph in relation to the passage as a whole?
BADGER: BOTHER::
CONGRUENT: DIMENSIONS::
ROSTRUM: ORATOR::
MISUNDERSTOOD: CLARIFY::
REFINERY: PETROLEUM::
TEDIOUS: ENERGY::
GRACEFUL: MOVEMENT::
BRAVURA: PERFORMANCE::
Despite a string of dismal earnings reports, the two-year-old strategy to return the company to profitability is beginning to ----.
The President reached a decision only after lengthy ----, painstakingly weighing the ---- opinions expressed by cabinet members.
Although just barely ---- as a writer of lucid prose, Jones was an extremely ---- editor who worked superbly with other writers in helping them improve the clarity of their writing.
The accusations we bring against others should be ---- ourselves; they should not ---- complacency and easy judgments on our part concerning our own moral conduct.
Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, ----.
ELEGIAC: SORROW::
If \(x = \frac{1}{y}\) and \(y = \frac{1}{1-x}\), then y=
If 720 is the product of the consecutive integers beginning with 2 and ending with n, what is the value of n-1?
When it was found that 150 more tickets for the school play were sold than the seating capacity of the auditorium. It was decided to have two performances. if the total number of tickets sold was equal to the total number who attended and if the auditorium was \(\frac{2}{3}\) full for each of the two performances, what is the seating capacity of the auditorium?
If n = pqr, where p, q, and r are three different positive prime numbers, how many different positive divisors does n have, including 1 and n?
Though ---- to some degree, telling a small lie sometimes enables one to avoid --- another's feelings.
Perhaps because scientists have been so intrigued by dogs' superior senses of smell and hearing, researchers have long --- their eyesight, assuming that they inhabit a drab, black-and-white world, devoid of color.
Two beads are to be independently and randomly selected, one from each of two bags. If \(\frac{2}{7}\) of the beads in one bag and \(\frac{3}{7}\) of the beads in the other bag are yellow, what is the probability that both beads selected will be yellow?
Mr. Gifford wishes to put 372 eggs into cartons that can hold 12 eggs each. If he has 50 empty cartons and completely fills as many of them as possible with the 327 eggs, how many of the cartons will remain empty?
Which of the following numbers is greatest?