Question - Text completion
But that they are going together, while companionably ignoring one another, seems of paramount importance. I believe this is called community.” This going together, travelling through the city in fellowship with strangers, is the true subject of Elkin’s book, and the most _______ drawn element of it.
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But that they are going together, while companionably ignoring one another, seems of paramount importance. I believe this is called community.” This going together, travelling through the city in fellowship with strangers, is the true subject of Elkin’s book, and the most _______ drawn element of it.
(answer choices in below poll)
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- the answer
- option that makes sense but isn't the best answer
- option that's opposite the answer
- option that's close to an antonym of the answer
- the answer
- option that makes sense but isn't the best answer
- option that's opposite the answer
- option that's close to an antonym of the answer
But certainty is nothing like wisdom; it might in fact be something closer to wisdom’s opposite. Wisdom: a kind of knowing ever-riven with contradiction, a knowing _______ with the inevitability of uncertainty.
Anonymous Quiz
34%
incoherent
31%
incomprehensible
21%
complete
15%
intimate
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Perfunctory is used in a sentence as such:
“I stood up and then another guard jumped up and said, ‘You don’t stand unless you’re allowed permission to stand,’ and threatened to pepper-spray me.” Three days after his arrest, he appeared before Judge Davenport. She seemed hostile, he says, the hearing perfunctory.
Perfunctory means (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort.
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“I stood up and then another guard jumped up and said, ‘You don’t stand unless you’re allowed permission to stand,’ and threatened to pepper-spray me.” Three days after his arrest, he appeared before Judge Davenport. She seemed hostile, he says, the hearing perfunctory.
Perfunctory means (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort.
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No matter what happens during Brazil’s elections, the country’s democracy faces a major test. Even the United States’ willingness to pressure Bolsonaro over his antidemocratic _____ and policies is limited
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37%
rhetoric
11%
story
26%
grandiosity
26%
pomposity
If history is any guide, once the door to reviewing past Presidential records is ajar, future Congresses and Presidents could swing it open further as politics warrant. It’s a path followed by other Washington norms in the increasingly __________ capital.
Anonymous Quiz
17%
tolerant
8%
loving
50%
rancorous
24%
desolate
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Question-
We listen to a long recording of Holmes answering questions from investors about when the company will go public, whether it works with the military and its competition. Her answers, as the Pfizer guy eloquently put it, are “non-informative, ________, deflective and evasive.” Erin Griffith In the recording, Holmes says Theranos was growing on “cash from operations".
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We listen to a long recording of Holmes answering questions from investors about when the company will go public, whether it works with the military and its competition. Her answers, as the Pfizer guy eloquently put it, are “non-informative, ________, deflective and evasive.” Erin Griffith In the recording, Holmes says Theranos was growing on “cash from operations".
(options in poll below)
Single blank text completion question:
As Guynn and McCoy point out, particularly noxious, outlying content was provided to users by Facebook’s “reshare” feature in which posts not involving “friends” were shared to the user, based on assumptions about their interests. The long and short of this social media paradigm is that people become radicalized by a(n) ____ system designed to reward and thereby encourage the spread of divisive content, to increase user engagement.
(options below)
As Guynn and McCoy point out, particularly noxious, outlying content was provided to users by Facebook’s “reshare” feature in which posts not involving “friends” were shared to the user, based on assumptions about their interests. The long and short of this social media paradigm is that people become radicalized by a(n) ____ system designed to reward and thereby encourage the spread of divisive content, to increase user engagement.
(options below)
Read this article for reading practice. You'll find important GRE words such as sporadic, provident, aversion and more.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/how-kidnappers-zealots-and-rebels-are-making-nigeria-ungovernable/21805737
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https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/how-kidnappers-zealots-and-rebels-are-making-nigeria-ungovernable/21805737
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The Economist
How kidnappers, zealots and rebels are making Nigeria ungovernable
President Buhari has allowed the rot to deepen
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/20/global-planetary-defense-earth-asteroids-523072
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/20/global-planetary-defense-earth-asteroids-523072
It has several important vocabulary words and the language used is of GRE quality.
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POLITICO
Whose job is it to prevent Armageddon?
Calls grow for a global planetary defense strategy as thousands of near-Earth asteroids are discovered each year.
Communist Party of India councillor Rakhi Ravikumar accused Mr. Ajith of raising baseless allegations and targetting women leaders. The BJP councillors took ________ to a comment she made against Mr. Ajith and wanted the remark to be withdrawn.
Anonymous Quiz
32%
notice
40%
umbrage
7%
pride
21%
cognizance
In the 18th century, Montesquieu challenged the prevailing European belief in cultural superiority, arguing that each society's norms and customs are tailored to its unique context
Q: What can be inferred about Montesquieu’s view on cultural superiority?
Q: What can be inferred about Montesquieu’s view on cultural superiority?
Anonymous Quiz
20%
He believed European culture was unequivocally superior to others.
61%
He thought that no culture is inherently superior to others.
11%
He supported the idea that geographical factors make a culture superior.
8%
He considered historical achievements the most important measure of cultural superiority.
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