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(#M40151681) GRE QUESTION Fill in the blank Keep an EYE

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James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great modern biographer; yet the claim of …………………. could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage.
(A) partisanship
(B) omniscience
(C) precedence
(D) opportunism
(E) perseverance

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(#M40151788) GRE QUESTION Select one entry for blank Keep an EYE

There is nothing that (i) ___________ scientists more than having an old problem in their field solved by someone from outside. If you doubt this (ii) ___________, just think about the (iii) ___________ reaction of paleontologists to the hypothesis of Luis Alvarez—a physicist—and Walter Alvarez—a geologist—that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a large meteor on the surface of the planet.

Blank (i)
A) amazes
B) pleases
C) nettles

Blank (ii)
D) exposition
E) objurgation
F) observation

Blank (iii)
G) contemptuous
H) indifferent
I) insincere

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(#M40151682) GRE QUESTION Fill in the blank Keep an EYE

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This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather than for their ……………… ones.
(A) polemical
(B) cinematic
(C) narrative
(D) commercial
(E) dramatic

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(#M40151668) GRE QUESTION Fit the meaning of the sentence Keep an EYE

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Female video artists’ rise to prominence over the past 30 years has …………… the ascent of video as an art form: it is only within the past three decades that video art has attained its current, respected status.
(A) matched
(B) politicized
(C) paralleled
(D) obviated
(E) accelerated
(F) forestalled

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(#M40151712) GRE QUESTION Fill in the blank Keep an EYE

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Vain and prone to violence, Caravaggio could not handle success: the more his (i)__________ as an artist increased, the more (ii)__________ his life became.
Blank (i)
(a) temperance
(b) notoriety
(c) eminence
Blank (ii)
(d) tumultuous
(e) providential
(f) dispassionate

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(#M40151686) GRE QUESTION Fit the meaning of the sentence Keep an EYE

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The detective’s conviction that there were few inept crimes in her district led her to impute some degree of to every suspect she studied.
(A) deceit
(B) acumen
(C) duplicity
(D) shrewdness
(E) evasiveness
(F) equivocation

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Although he has long had a reputation for (i) ___________ , his behavior toward his coworkers has always been (ii) ___________ , suggesting he may not be as insolent as people generally think.
Blank (i)
A) inscrutability
B) venality
C) impudence
Blank (ii)
D) brazen
E) courteous
F) predictable

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(#M40151689) GRE QUESTION Fit the meaning of the sentence Keep an EYE

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By about age eight, children’s phonetic capacities are fully developed but still …………………; thus children at that age can learn to speak a new language with a native speaker’s accent.
(A) plastic
(B) vestigial
(C) inarticulate
(D) unformed
(E) nascent
(F) malleable

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(#M40151673) GRE QUESTION Question based on passage Keep an EYE

Questions 1 and 2 are based on this passage.
Computers cannot accurately predict climate change unless the mathematical equations fed into them adequately capture the natural meteorological processes they are intended to simulate. Moreover, there are processes that influence climate, such as modifications in land use, that scientists do not know how to simulate. The failure to incorporate such a process into a computer climate model can lead the model astray because a small initial effect can initiate a feedback cycle: a perturbation in one variable modifies a second variable, which in turn amplifies the original disturbance. An increase in temperature, for example, can boost the moisture content of the atmosphere, which then causes further warming because water vapor is a greenhouse gas.

Question 1
The passage mentions which of the following as adversely affecting the accuracy of computer predictions of climate change?
(A) Failure to allow for some of the processes that influence climate
(B) Mathematical equations that do not accurately reflect natural phenomena
(C) An overestimate of the role of feedback cycles

Question 2
In the context in which it appears, “amplifies” most nearly means
(A) exacerbates
(B) explicates
(C) expatiates
(D) adds detail to
(E) makes louder

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The unironic representation of objects from everyday life is (i) ___________ serious American art of the twentieth century: “high” artists ceded the straight for-ward depiction of the (ii) ___________ to illustrators, advertisers, and packaging designers.
Blank (i)
A) missing from
B) valued in
C) crucial to
Blank (ii)
D) beautiful
E) commonplace
F) complex

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