PassSparkGRE Verbal Reasoning 2022 past questions and answers
This 2022 GRE Verbal Reasoning set has 29 practice questions. Try these 5 free sample questions, tap a question to reveal the answer and explanation. Then practise the whole 2022 set with instant marking.
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1. Although archivists once treated the map as a definitive record, newly uncovered shipping logs made their confidence ______: the coastline may have shifted considerably during the decade the map was drawn.
- dogmatic
- provisional
- perfunctory
- immutable
Answer: B. provisional
The new evidence makes the archivists' confidence tentative rather than settled, so provisional fits.
2. Because the field notes were assembled by dozens of observers using different instruments, the apparent precision of the final map was ______; its uniform lines concealed substantial variation in the underlying measurements.
- meticulous
- incontrovertible
- incidental
- illusory
Answer: D. illusory
The map's precision only appeared real because inconsistent measurements were hidden, making it illusory.
3. The biographer's portrait is notably ______: it records the subject's generosity but also dwells on envy and calculation, resisting the temptation to turn complexity into virtue.
- unvarnished
- hagiographic
- derivative
- oblique
Answer: A. unvarnished
By showing both admirable and unflattering traits without idealizing the subject, the portrait is unvarnished.
4. The curator's decision initially seemed ______: she removed the explanatory labels from the exhibit, yet visitors subsequently spent longer examining the objects and formed more varied interpretations.
- unremarkable
- conciliatory
- counterintuitive
- redundant
Answer: C. counterintuitive
Removing labels seems contrary to the expectation that explanations help visitors engage, so counterintuitive fits.
5. Because the surviving letters are sparse, the historian's account is deliberately ______, distinguishing documented actions from conjecture instead of filling gaps with plausible motives.
- perfunctory
- circumspect
- polemical
- erratic
Answer: B. circumspect
The historian carefully avoids unsupported claims, which is the defining caution of a circumspect account.
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