GRE Questions

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech.  Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

“Are you going to eat with us?” he asked.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/Phrase.

From stem to stern

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Conceited

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

On inquiry at the

A-that there were several through

B-railway station we were informed

C-trains to Dehradun every day

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

From the early 1990s, salaries shot up and stock options (were introduced).

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

When I think of my family's history on the land. I experience a pang of regret. Unlike much of the arid West, where the land has gone virtually unchanged for centuries, my place of origin, western Kansas, has been torn up by agriculture. The flat plains, excellent soil, and sparse but just adequate rainfall permitted farming; therefore farming prevailed, and a good 90% of the original sod prairie is gone. The consequence, in human terms, is that our relationship to our place has always felt primarily mercantile. We used the land and denied, or held at bay, its effect on us. Yet from my earliest childhood, when the most of the Kansas prairie was still intact, I 've known that the land also had a romantic quality. I've felt moved by the expanse of it , enthralled by size. I take pride in my identity as a plains daughter.

From the passage, it may be determined that the word "mercantile" has something to do with