GRE verbal

Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)
____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________ exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.

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prospect

subsidized

tokens

advent

engendered

windfalls

triumph

ameliorated

assets

Question 1 of 62

Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, is doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life has not seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, public servants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist, able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ with broad strokes of his pen.

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civility

fawning

errors

subterfuge

supportive

foibles

obsequiousness

independent

tendencies

Question 2 of 62

For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i)
____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. The yam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene, characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.
One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,” back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown in
Tropical America.

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analogous to

correlates

codified

commensurate with

simulacrum

anglicized

tantamount to

ersatz

integrated

Question 3 of 62

To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)
____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)
____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines
(iii)____________ very little.

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rubric

hinder

overlap

repertoire

abjure

cooperate

ratio

perturb

interfere

Question 4 of 62