GRE

20130707/20131205
Advertising, formerly called the last resort to create or distribute music, has transformed itself to ___of music that
would otherwise be unheard.
[A] a camouflage
[B] a derivative
[C] a champion
[D] an impediment/ foe
[E] an advocate
[F] an impetus
20130829
Although the parents do not think highly of the educational system as a whole, they fail to treat teachers with
______ equally.
[A] consideration
[B] veneration
[C] lucubration
[D] opprobrium
[E] reverence
[F] disdain

It is surprising to see such a child that is at his sixteenth manifest a great measure of ______, for he delivers too
cogent, brilliant a speech among adults.
[A] maturity
[B] precociousness
[C] convolution
[D] nefariousness
[E] navet
[F] ingenuousness

201108/201207
Economic growth has been identified as a ______ for poor countries to eradicate poverty, but this prescription also
triggers great environmental concerns.
[A] panacea
[B] refuge
[C] remedy
[D] heaven
[E] culprit
[F] recipe

People from one community always take each other as ______ since they automatically classify the others as their

family line.
[A] acquaintance
[B] consort
[C] neighborhood
[D] kinfolks
[E] relative
[F] patron

201108/20120812/201211/201303
Even the man was reserved in his speech, he thoroughly understood his mother, which made him far from ____ as
people usually thought.
[A] comprehensive
[B] ingenuous
[C] sophisticated
[D] foolish
[E] simple
[F] sententious

201108/201111/201206/201207/201208/201210/201211/20130519
Mark Messinas book The Simple Soybean and Your Health exudes recognition much less unrestrained in the
description of the soy's medical efficiency than its versatility, but the author s cautions arrest soy to be a ______.
[A] cure-all
[B] solitude
[C] efficacy
[D] effectuality
[E] panacea
[F] placebo

20130707
(bacteria)____
harmless (adj.)
20130829
(writer) ___ (infrastructure)
[A] prescience
[B] resolve
[C] foresightedness
[D] determination

201107
___
rampant , = luxuriant
20130707

Somebody writes as if he has already read and see it; however in less hand it seems _____.

201108/201111/201206/201207/201208/201210/201211/20130519
simple soybeanmuch less unrestrained in the description of the soy's
medical efficiency thancautions soy ____
panacea = cure-all

201210/20130323
The spacecraft's considerable heft made (force) an unusual ______ way (route) for a meander through the solar
system, under the influence of gravitational of three large bodies.
[A] indirect

[B] truncated
[C] shortened
[D] circuitous
[E]
[F]

201212/20130707
impeded____
insular = provincial
201301
Liquid water
impossible

20130323
Not only is threaten-life diseases ____, even if they have been detected,

A. overlooked
B. missed
C. misguided
D.

20130323
Her apparent ___her background and ancestry seems unconceivable in an age when people tend to think of
themselves as exhaustion.
A .rejection to
B. duplicity to
C. unfamiliar with
D. dishonesty with
E. ignorance of
20130323

The composition of a poem is neither intellectually nor _____, it reflects the setting of the society, the background
of the age.
[A] emotional
[B] intuitive
[C] solitary
[D] private
[E]

20130504
______
[A] negligible
[B] gradual
[C] imperceptible
[D] insignificant

20130519

___
trifling = minimal
20130519
(domino effect)___
comparison = analogy
20130519

witless = dense
20130601
___
retrospect =
20130601
___

perplex = confound

201108
___ product of
inevitable = unavoidable

201108
dustregiontwo percent___dust

highlight = accentuate
201108

Scientist worries if the connection between global warming and the rising of sea level continues, then this
simultaneity ____ bigger changes in the underlying dynamics of our climate.
[A] obscures

[B] forestalls

[C] presages
[D] averts
[E] exacerbates ;
[F] portends

201108/201205
Philosophy____ occupation, rather , general
esoteric= convoluted

201108/201201/201210
20 ____ corridors of the politics with the sparkly disparatevoices
consensus = accord ,

201109
, ___
cursory perfunctory

201109/201211
V1. My grandmother always affirms ______ sentiments/ feelings*; she say that the house we lived was always
haunted.
V2. My grandmother is a ______ person; she say that the house when she lived as a child was always haunted.
[A] clamorous
[B] invidious
[C] numinous
[D] empirical
[E] sonorous
[F] occult*
201111
Inhappiness___
oasis () = refuge

201111
Patentmust be non-obvious??
manifest = obvious

201111
A demagogue should never exude ______ near the surface in a campaign, but this politician gives enthusiastic
ovation when his opponent triumphs in a landslide.

[A] hauteur
[B] arrogance
[C] ecstasy
[D] euphoria
[E] deprecation

201111
The mid-20th century is sometimes remembered as an era of cozy political ______, but in fact the corridors of
power echoed then with starkly disparate voices.
[A] arcade
[B] accord
[C] tranquility
[D] chaos
[E] variant
[F] consensus

201203
(V1) strong opposing organization to ___ , focus on rancor (, ) on one
another?? ()
excoriate
(V2) rancor ___ ()

201204
It is perplexing that a man so prominent in the public eye, so highly praised and imitated, shouldexude a
persona of ____ and reticence
(A) decorum
(B) bravado
(C) diffidence
(D) dogmatism
(E) resignation
(F) indifference
201205
Donna
malinger

201205
Deserts are ______ in the large distances, but they give* a variety of micro-climate
homogeneous = unvaried
expansion

201205
___
pristine = unblemished

201205/201209
nuclear energy___

alleviating = mitigating

201205/201108
Philosophy ______ occupation. Rather, general.
[A] challenging
[B] exacting
[C] esoteric
[D] convoluted

201205

this claritylimpid = pellucid

201206/201208
Although she usually is the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular
experiment she let a number of ______ results slip by.
[A] inaccurate/ anomalous
[B] redundant
[C] incongruous
[D] salient
[E] divergent
[F] verifiable

201206
, fellow------
itinerant = peripatetic

201206/201212/20130707
international communication impeded ___
[A] parochial
[B] insular
[C] provincial
international communicationXXX------ ()
parochial = provincial
201206
----- inspective , readings, but the subtle words explains why

confound = obscure

201206
Scholars ______ the division of the decade before and the one after it, but they ignore that in the middle of
the twenty years fell into a considerable economic* and society continuous*
overrated = exaggerated

201207/201208
The movie was very quiet, the music ___ and, drawing attention to the aural nuance as it does to visual details.
[A] creatively
[B] liberally
[C] sparingly
[D] judiciously
[E] negatively
[F] generously

201207
Most people who read correspondence is surprised that there is more stuff of professional than personal, but
the distinction is------: every letter reveals stamps of his personality
A. unique
B. clear-cut
C. unanimous
D. significant
E. artificial
F.

201208
The ___ parts of the book threaten to disappear beneath repetitive and familiar depictions of the city as a busy
world.
innovative ; original ;
201207
Although the progress of chemistry is not the greatest, it------the dullness that most progress of science is
associated with.
A. belie
B. belittle
C. conceal
D. contradict
E.

201208
new act always hits those familiar themes, however,
___.
appropriation pilferage ;

201208
There must be someone who was not ______. Since before the performance, the plot has been widespread.
[A] prudent

[B] circumspect ;

201208
The recent news being good, ______.
[A] alarm
[B] hostility
[C] dismay

201208
complain, ___
dilatory ; remiss ;

201208
volcanic clouds
however, the material is not ____ enough to do any harm to the spacecraft.
dense ; concentrated ,

201208
(,) computing in work, ___

about computing

, and computing
uncertain ;

201208
There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ___ to the extent that they no longer
interest ecologists.
exhausted

201208
Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiment she let a
number of ___ results slip by.
incongruous ; divergent

201208
Tigers have idiosyncratic features which include a wide arrange of features that its hard to ___ them (tigers).
pigeonhole

201209/201211
intellectspare

-___
verbose = prolix ,

201209/201210
The apparent flaws in the sculptor's work didn't ___ the respect critics gave him.
preclude = prevent = hinder

201209
___
dispatch = celerity

201209
___
contemptuous

201209/201211/201212
definitely danger observation
data ------
A. meager ;
B. uncertain
C. paltry ,

201209

inimical = antagonistic

201210
Although an author repeats that he is a ______ uncle in his book, he makes a persuasive case to prove the safety of
mutating genes to create new foods in his book.
A. reticent
B. reserved
C. garrulous
D. verbose
E.

201210
appears to be hallucination___
concrete = substantial

201210
incisive ___
vitriol , = opprobrium

201210
querulous ___
pugnacious = belligerent

201210
plethora ___
vacuous paucity

201210
It's ___ and even surprising for many people who XXX()that
XXX XXXX
deplorable reprehensible typical (typical )

201210
______ of repackaged old CDs

[A] dearth
[B] glut
[C] deficiency
[D] surfeit
glut , = surfeit ,

201210
___ diversity
fitting = apposite ;

201211
criticsauthentic ______
[A] derivative
[B] spurious
[C] specious
critics authentic ___
spurious derivative specious

201211
An audition, someone __ any attempt to make a melody. Nothing more unpleasant was possible.
A. warbling
B. cooing
C. shrieking

201211

XXX __
skillful = adroit ;

201211
XXX's efforts to facilitate the ___ of xxx and xxxblueprint of a final agreement.
rapprochement ; reconciliation ;

201211
ladys role in public is ______: she is a
(journalist)
[A] protean
[B] versatile
[C] pedestrian
xxx ladys role in public is ___ : she is journalist

protean ; versatile
pedestrian ;

201211
Patentmust be non-obvious??
manifest = obvious
201211/201212
xxx, in order to emphasis the erect posture of his subject matter has startlingly contrasted it with the ------ of the
trees in the windswept xxx.
list = tilt

201212
___

disregard to ; contempt ;

201212
___
indirectness = circuitousness ,


acknowledged = recognized conceivable
ambiguous = equivocal
adroit ; = dexterous
assert = insist
bland = insipid
borrow , = appropriate ,
bucolic = pastoral
disinterested , = impartial ;
elegance = courtliness, gracefulness, majesty, refinement, stateliness
exemplar , = model
fortuitous = accidental
garrulous = loquacious
glean = collect
imaginable = conceivable
inconsequential , = trivial ,
inexperienced = puerile, unfledged, unripe, dilettante, jackleg
lethargic , = somnolent sluggish ,
liquidity = mutability
lugubrious = gloomy
nimble = adroit
original ; = inventive innovative ;
pacific = dovish
question ; = doubt ;
reasonable , , = sensible ,
rebut = debate
recondite = esoteric
soften = mitigate ,
sweeping = comprehensive
precursor = forerunner
stylistically infelicity = minor minor infelicities
mendacity hypocrisy , deceit ()

hypocrisy mendacity

= deceit
mendacity1 : the quality or state of being mendacious 2 : LIE
mendaciousgiven to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
hypocrisy a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not especially : the false assumption of an
mappearance of virtue or religion
deceitthe act or practice of deceiving : DECEPTION