List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions

Select the correct words to complete the passage: "While early astronomers believed that planets orbited the Earth, modern observations have ________ this theory, demonstrating that planets actually revolve around the Sun."

UNTOWARD: (A)

AWASH: (A)

SUPERCILIOUS: (A)

REDOLENT: (A)

PANEGYRIC: (A)

ZEALOTRY: (A)

TAUTEN: (A)

ENUNCIATE: (A)

DISSIPATE: (A)

GLUTINOUS: (A)

The second paragraph makes use of which of the following?

It can be inferred from the passage that the decision to study an organism may
sometimes be influenced by

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the author's claim (lines
56-57) that “it seems unlikely that the phylum is close to extinction”?

The author suggests that the scientists holding the conventional view mentioned
in lines 15-16 make which of the following errors?

MISREAD: (A)

Information in the passage supports which of the following statements about
brachiopods?
1. Few brachiopods living in prehistoric times were specialists.
2. A tendency toward specialization, though typical, is not inevitable.
3. Specialist species dominate in all but arctic and subarctic waters.
(A)

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following statements best summarizes a distinction mentioned in the passage between waitress unions and factory workers' unions?

The author of the passage mentions "particular employers" (line 8) primarily in order to

It can be inferred from the passage that many zoologists assume that a large diversity among species of a given class of organisms typically leads to which of the following?

According to the passage, which of the following was characteristic of the form of union that United States waitresses developed in the first half of the twentieth century?

EUPHEMISM : OFFENSIVE ::

EMBRACE: AFFECTION ::

ENTHUSIASM : MANIA ::