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GRE Verbal Reasoning 2025 past questions and answers

This 2025 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 2025 set with instant marking.

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1. Because the archivist had already uncovered several forged letters in the collection, she approached the newly discovered diary with ____: its elegant prose did not exempt it from scrutiny.
  1. credulity
  2. skepticism
  3. exultation
  4. nostalgia

Answer: B. skepticism

Prior discoveries of forgeries explain why the archivist treats the diary with skepticism rather than accepting it at face value.

2. The committee's report was not a repudiation of the earlier study but a ____ account of its findings, acknowledging the study's useful measurements while noting that its sample was too narrow to support sweeping conclusions.
  1. strident
  2. perfunctory
  3. qualified
  4. exculpatory

Answer: C. qualified

A qualified account recognizes the study's value while limiting the conclusions its narrow sample can justify.

3. Though celebrated for his flamboyant lectures, the historian was remarkably ____ in private, preferring careful listening to prolonged conversation.
  1. reticent
  2. garrulous
  3. imperious
  4. volatile

Answer: A. reticent

Someone who prefers listening over talking in private is reticent, despite being flamboyant at work.

4. The apparent precision of the forecast proved ____, since its decimal-level estimates shifted dramatically whenever analysts changed a minor assumption.
  1. robust
  2. intuitive
  3. incidental
  4. spurious

Answer: D. spurious

The forecast's precision is spurious because it is superficial and fails to withstand small changes in assumptions.

5. The biographer's treatment of the reformer was neither ____ nor hostile: it acknowledged the reformer's courage while also tracing the damaging consequences of several decisions.
  1. evasive
  2. hagiographic
  3. impartial
  4. cursory

Answer: B. hagiographic

Hagiographic writing idealizes its subject, whereas this account balances praise with criticism.

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