List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions

The author refers to the terms "wildlife" (line 11), "taking" (line 13), and "critical habitats" (line 16) most likely in order to

It can be inferred from the passage that if business interests had won the debate on provisions of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which of the following would have resulted?

According to the passage, which of the following is an explanation for the degree of support that the Endangered Species Act received in Congress?

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the adherents of "certain theories of nonrepresentational art" (lines 9-10) ?

The passage asserts which of the following about commercial art?

The author's statement regarding how artists use the language of art (lines 48-52) implies that

According to the passage, which of the following does the Endangered Species Act define as a “critical habitat"?

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?

NITPICK : CRITICIZE::

The author of the passage explicitly disagrees with which of the following statements?

The author suggests which of the following about art historians?

Which of the following best states the author's attitude toward comics, as expressed in the passage?

SPOKE : HUB::

ILLUSTRATE : PICTURES::

PANTRY : FOOD::

MIRTH : LAUGHTER::

ABRADED : FRICTION::

PARSIMONY : MISER::

OIL : LUBRICATE::

CONSTRUCT : REMODEL::

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.

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.