GRE UPDATE- september 2007 verbal update

Hi fellow students,

I have completed my database for the GRE Verbal section of September 2007 with the addition of the following questions. They contain antonyms and a few analogy questions. I get repeated requests from several students through mail and scraps on orkut asking me to provide the other choices for all antonym and analogy questions. You must understand that I am trying my best to furnish all the possible choices I can confirm from the information I get from my contacts. And, I dont think it is surprising to find that many of them dont remember the other choices, except a few that too for only a minimum no. of questions that tried to confuse them woth choices that were closer in meanings or deceptilvely misleading. I am doing my best to decipher the right answers and the other choices as well. Keep looking for updates.

Antonyms :

1) INVIDIOUS :
Ans: inoffensive (defensive and candid were other choices)

2) MACERATE :
Ans: assess by observing (confuse by lying was one other choice)

3) SKEPTICISM :
Ans: without doubt (circumspection and without cover were two other options)

4) PALTRY :
Ans: excessive

5) MANUMIT :
Ans: enslave (emancipate and exonerate were other options, exonerate is pretty close, but it does not mean free from bondage, but free from indictment)

6) GENUFLECT :
Ans: stand erect (prostrate and pronounce correctly were other choices)

7) INNOCUOUS :
Ans : toxic (This is pretty simple, I think anybody can handle any kind of alternatives this word appears with !!)

8) PERSPICACIOUS :
Ans: inane ( diligent, lacking value and devoted were other options)

ANALOGIES :

1) GROW : BURGEON
Ans: beat : palpitate

2) HOAX : DECEIVE
Ans: filibuster : delay (Filibuster is a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches)

3) MUFFLE : SOUND
Ans: assauge : grief ( I agree the bridge is not exactly the same, but then the other choices were either absurd or had bridges that were way too weak)

4) FOOTBALL : GRIDIRON
Ans: baseball : diamond (court : tennis was one of the choices. That is wrong because it reverses the bridge. This is a pretty confusing one. A diamond is what the field on which baseball is played is actually called )

5) IMPECUNIOUS : HOVEL
Ans: affluent : mansion ( a hovel is small crude shelter used as a dwelling )

6) TERMAGANT : SHREW
Ans: virago : harpy ( this question simply tests the depth of your vocabulary. All the four words mean the same 'shrew' a bad tempered obstinate woman )

7) APOSTATE : RELIGION
Ans: traitor : country (loyal : faith , ingrate : friendship were other choices, an apostate is a person who is not faithful to his religion, the bridge goes perfect with traitor and country )

Keep looking for updates.

Also see: for GRE Quant and Verbal database links for the month of August and September

GRE UPDATE- sept'07 Verbal
GRE UPDATE- sept'07 Quants
GRE UPDATE- sept'07 Quants updated
GRE UPDATE- august'07

Another friend of mine called Swaminathan, a 1460 scorer in the GRE is collecting free GRE material available online and furnishing links to them on his blog. you may want to check that out :

http://www.sparklingswami.blogspot.com/


I thank all those who have been instrumental in producing this material.
Thank you
All the best.

sincerely,
Praveen Chandar.