In a 100 yards race,Jim can beat Roger by 5 yards and Rogger can beat Taylor by 10 yards.By what distance can Jim beat Taylor in the race? A) 15 yards B) 14.5 yards C) 13.5 yards D) 12.75 yards E) 12 ards (Asked by Raghu Kiran)
In a 100 yards race,Jim can beat Roger by 5 yards and Rogger can beat Taylor by 10 yards.By what distance can Jim beat Taylor in the race? A) 15 yards B) 14.5 yards C) 13.5 yards D) 12.75 yards E) 12 ards (Asked by Raghu Kiran)
A manager has $6,000 budgeted for raises for 4 full-time and 2 part-time employees. Each of the full-time employees receives the same raise, which is twice the raise that each of the part-time employees receives. What is the amount of the raise that each full-time employee receives? (A) $750 (B) $1,000 (C) $1,200 (D) $1,500 [...]
At a certain bowling alley, it costs $0.50 to rent bowling shoes for the day and $1.25 to bowl 1 game. If a person has $12.80 and must rent shoes, what is the greatest number of complete games that person can bowl in one day? (A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
Of a group of people surveyed in a political poll, 60 percent said that they would vote for candidate R. Of those who said they would vote for R. 90 percent actually voted for R. and of those who did not say that they would vote for R. 5 percent actually voted for R. What [...]
RESOUND : MURMUR :: (A) Disown : Define (B) Desert : Recede (C) Harangue : Recount (D) Reflect : Ponder (E) Dazzle : Glimmer
RECLAIM : LAND :: (A) Salvage : Deliverer (B) Reiterate : Emphasis (C) Withdraw : Product (D) Recycle : Waste (E) Irrigate : field
obloquy a) tortuousness b) directness c) praise d) kindling e) migration
Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be__ which makes them _____ unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing. (A) contested .. provisional (B) circumvented .. antiquated (C) repealed .. vulnerable (D) violated .. ineffective (E) modified .. unstable
A family made a down payment of $75 and borrowed the balance on a set of encyclopedias that cost $400. The balance with interest was paid in 23 monthly payments of $16 each and a final payment of $9. The amount of interest paid was what percent of the amount borrowed? (A) 6% (B) 12% [...]
The spellings of many Old English words have been__ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed. (A) preserved (B) shortened (C) preempted (D) revised (E) improved
Although economists have traditionally considered the district to be solely an agricultural one, the of the inhabitants’ occupations makes such a classification obsolete. (A) productivity (B) diversity (C) predictability (D) profitability (E) stability
If a motorist had driven 1 hour longer on a certain day and at an average rate of 5 miles per hour faster, he would have covered 70 more miles than he actually did. How many more miles would he have covered than he actually did if he had driven 2 hours longer and at [...]
One explanation for the tendency of animals to be more vigilant in smaller groups than in larger ones assumes that the vigilant behavior—looking up, for example—is aimed at predators. If individuals on the edge of a group are more vigilant because they are at greater risk of being captured, then individuals on average would have [...]
Hey guys, can u solve the following sentence completion? An obvious style, easily identified by some superficial quirk, is properly ——- as a mere mannerism, whereas a complex and subtle style ——- reduction to a formula. a) avoided. .risks b) decried. .resists c) prized. .withstands d) identified. .consists of e) cultivated. .demands
Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction of his poetry, even now only a few independent …………. works. (A) praise (B) revile (C) scrutinize (D) criticize (E) neglect
unfeigned a) pretentious b) simulated c) designed d) cautious e) controlled
churlish a) doltish b) servile c) gracious d) crude e) ruddy
unruly a) curly b) bright c) tortuous d) tractable e) blue
Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being__ by massive infusions of new information from everywhere. (A) harsh..unconfirmed (B) surrounding. .upheld (C) immediate..transformed (D) natural..mechanized (E) limited..superseded
Reformatted Reading Passages in Reading Comprehension Questions in January 2008* Beginning in January 2008, the GRE Program will begin including reformatted reading passages in the Verbal Reasoning section of the computer-based GRE® General Test. Currently, reading passages accompanying Reading Comprehension questions contain line numbers that reference specific parts of the passages. Those line numbers will [...]