McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2019

SECTION 3

Verbal Reasoning

25 questions — 35 minutes

This section includes three types of questions: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion,

and Sentence Equivalence. Read the following directions before you begin the section.

Directions

Reading Comprehension Questions

■ Multiple-Choice Questions—Select One Answer Choice: Select one answer choice

from a list of five choices.

■ Multiple-Choice Questions—Select One or More Answer Choices: From a list of

three answer choices, select all that are correct.

■ Select-in-Passage. Select the sentence in the passage that meets a certain

description.

Text Completion Questions

■ For each blank, select one choice from the corresponding list of choices. Fill all

blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Sentence Equivalence Questions

■ Select the two answer choices that (1) complete the sentence in a way that makes

sense and (2) produce sentences that are similar in meaning.

In Questions 1 to 6, for each blank, select the choice that best completes the text.

1. The professor regarded the student’s theory with ,
   considering the overall idea creative, but the logic behind the specific
   details unsound.

A deliberation

B ambivalence

C indifference

D condescension

E consternation

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