List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions

CONCLUDE:
RITE:
BLATANT:
It can be inferred that which of the following is most likely to be among the "issues" mentioned in line 38?
It can be inferred that the author of the passage considers traditional scholarly methods courses to be
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::
ELEGIAC: SORROW::
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, ----.
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.

A circus has seven fenced enclosures, numbered 1 through 7, for two animals: a lion and a tiger. Each enclosure is connected to adjacent enclosures by interior gates. There are exactly eight such gates, each connecting one enclosure to exactly one other enclosure: enclosure 1 is connected to enclosures 2, 3 and 4; enclosure 3 to enclosures 1, 2, 4, and 5; and enclosure 5 to enclosures 3, 6, and 7. These gates provide the only connections between enclosures. Occasionally a trainer moves the animals. Taking either animals from one enclosure to an adjacent enclosure through a gate is called a "transfer."  
The following conditions are strictly observed: 
The two animals cannot be together in any enclosure or gate. 
Transfers cannot occur simultaneously In moving either one animal or both to a specified enclosure or enclosures, the minimum number of trans- fers needed to achieve the specified result are used.

Exactly six lectures will be given one at a time at a one- day conference. Two of the lectures— S and T— will be given by resident speakers, the other four— W, X, Y, and Z— will be given by visiting speakers. At least two but no more than four of the lectures will be given before lunch; the remaining lectures will be given after lunch.
The following conditions must be observed:
S will be the fourth lecture.
Exactly one of the lectures by a resident will be given before lunch.
Y will be given at some time before T is given.
If W is given before lunch, Y will be given after lunch