New GRE (Revised) Text Completion Sample Questions - I
Blank (i) (A) overshadowed, (B) invalidated, (C) illuminated
Blank (ii) (D) enhance, (E) obscure, (F) underscore
Blank (iii) (G) plausibility of our hypotheses, (H) certainty of our entitlement, (I) superficiality of our theories
2. 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
3. In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so _______ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea.
(A) permanently, (B) imperceptibly, (C) irregularly, (D) precariously, (E) slightly