List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions

Which of the following sentences implies a negative outcome that might occur if graduate students no longer were required to study (and be examined in) foreign languages?
What is the overall purpose of the passage?
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The use of the underlined phrase "hard limits" in the context of the fourth paragraph most closely means \(\underline{\hspace{4cm}}\).
The company 'Dreams' has been producing most of its products in Costa. The government of Costa has passed a new ruling that states that all workers including that of 'Dreams' will have to be provided with double the wages. Hence the cost of products of company 'Dreams' will increase. The conclusion above assumes that...
No known language lacks an organized system of sounds, selected from the vast array human beings can make, that does not have rules for combining these sounds into meaningful words
Choose the option that best summarizes the passage given below. Although almost all climate scientists agree that the earth is gradually warming,they have long been of two minds about the process of rapid climate shifts within larger periods of change.Some have speculated that the process works like a giant oven freezer,warming or cooling the whole planet at the same time.Others think that shifts occur on opposing schedules in the northern and southern hemispheres, like exaggerated seasons.recent research in Germany examining climate patterns in the southern hemisphere at the end of last ice age strengthens the idea that warming and cooling occurs at alternate times in the two hemispheres. A more definitive answer to this debate will allow scientists to better predict when and how quickly the next climate shift will happen.
According to the Indian Census Report of 2011, the number of girls enrolled in government schools has grown every year since 1990.
Choose the option that best summarizes the passage given below. Some decisions will be fairly obvious - "no brainers." Your bank account is low, but you have a two week vacation coming up and you want to get away to some place warm to relax with your family. Will you accept your in-laws' offer of free use of their Florida beach front condo? Sure. You like your current employer and feel ready to move forward in career. Will you step in for your boss for three weeks while she attends a professional development course? Of course.
The author implies that the essays in Smith's book refers specifically to which of the following?
Choose the option that best summarizes the passage given below. Modern bourgeois society, said Nietzsche, was decadent and enfeebled-a victim of the excessive development of rational faculties at the expense of will and instinct. Against the liberal-rationalist stress on the intellect, Nietzsche urged recognition of the dark mysterious world of instinctual desires-the true forces of life. Smother the will with excessive intellectualizing and you destroy the spontaneity that sparks cultural creativity and ignites a zest for living. The critical and theoretical outlook destroyed the creative instincts. For man's manifold potential to be realized, he must forego relying on the intellect and nurture again the instinctual roots of human existence
According to the author, which of the following is true of Smith's Black Soldiers in Blue compared with previous studies on the same topic?
Dropping faster than any other country's, the projected decline of the United States' home values is 6% during the next half year.
In order to gauge the productivity of employees, a particular call centre uses the number of calls handled per hour as a measure. However, the number of calls handled per hour is not a correct measure to measure productivity since the number of queries effectively resolved is not being taken into consideration. Therefore, calls handled per hour is not the correct way to measure productivity of workers. Which of the following statements, if true, most weakens the above argument.
Concerning the connection between electricity and magnetism, the author of the passage takes the opinion that:
It can be surmised from the passage that:
What would be a modern-day parallel to the underlying viewpoint expressed in the passage?
Which of the following best describes the tone used by the author of this passage?
Once the computer generates the financial reports, they are then used to program a company-wide balance sheet, named the way it is named because it demonstrates that every department's accounting elements are in balance.
For Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism was his professed ideal over a century before the contemporary American environmental movement was launched with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and he outlined his beliefs in his essay, "Nature," arguing that man does not fully accept nature's beauty and all that it has to offer.
There are also, unfortunately, of the myriad of concerns facing our nation, especial reason to be concerned about government corruption both within and without the legislative and executive branches these bodies require careful scrutiny and oversight by experts.
Due to the slow-moving nature of tectonic plates, the oldest ocean crust is thought to date from the Jurassic period, formed from huge fragments of the Earth's lithosphere and lasted 200 million years.
The passage offers support for the inference that Oersted was:
The speed with which Oersted's pamphlet was translated and disseminated attests to:
No attempt was made on the part of SteelCo to ensure that information that was provided to the consumer about product offerings was accurate.