GRE Questions

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The abuse of phrases and the misuse of words rife among us can be checked __________ diligent exercises in good English, such as this book provides. ___________exercises, in conjunction __________ others to be found in different volumes by the same author, will serve to correct careless diction and slovenly speech, and lead to the art of speaking and writing correctly; for, after all, ___________ in the use of words is more a matter of habit than of theory, and once it is acquired it becomes just as easy to speak or to write good English _____________ bad English.

after all, ___________ in the use of words

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary. They have a knowledge of hundreds of desirable wordswhich they do not put _________ practical use in their speech or writing. Many, too, are conscious __________ a poverty of language, which engenders in them a senseof timidity and self-___________. The method used for building a large vocabulary has __________ been confined to the study of single words.

large vocabulary has __________ been confined

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

Conflagration

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Concern for one's own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If asentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

The two men were(1)/ quarrelling with one another(2)/ claiming the same watch as their own.(3)/ No Error(4)

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".

May be Karishma wasn't the only one who (had been overlooked) by Mrs Shah when it came to inheritance.

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

At the eleventh hour

In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.