GRE Text Completion
The purpose of the Text Completion questions is to measure the ability to recognize words or phrases that both logically and stylistically complete the meaning of a sentence.
In deciding which of words or sets of words can best be substituted for blank spaces in a sentence, one must analyze the relationships among the component parts of the incomplete sentence.
One must consider each answer choice and decide which completes the sentence in such a way that the sentence has a logically satisfying meaning and can be read as a stylistically integrated whole.
By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king _________ the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.
#1
A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from ________, relating the ________ of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
#2
The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was ________ by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
#3
Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had ________ agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had ________ land ownership.
#4
Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their ________.
#5
No longer ________ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual ________ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
#6
People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be ________; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of ________.