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Gre Prep Text Completion & Sentence Completion from Big Book

1. The commission criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ------ further education.

   (A) entitled to

   (B) striving for

   (C) deprived of @

   (D) uninterested in

   (E) participating in

clue : "dependent on the ability to pay" => as a result => if young people who are qualified are poor, they can't get a college education.

The suit contended the Corps unconstitutionally deprivedplaintiffs of their land, essentially taking it without compensation.

Seattle TimesMar 13, 2018

“In the end they get our oil money and we remain deprived.”

Wall Street JournalMar 12, 2018

Supreme Court Chief Justice Stephen Markman dissented in Friday’s order, writing that Wafer was “deprived of a critical protection at trial” which “prejudiced the outcome.”

Seattle TimesMar 9, 2018

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2. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ------ than a similar article intended for ------ use.

   (A) delicately..vocational

   (B) colorfully..festive

   (C) creatively..religious

   (D) subtly..commercial

   (E) lavishly..everyday @

1 clue : extraordinary attention to ~ details => colon(meaning "that is") => heavily decorated

2 clue : it(for prayer or ritual) is decorated => more ~ than (negative signal) => practical use

The EU’s Anti-Fraud Office alleges the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban —who fenced off his entire southern border from migrants— helped his son-in-law win lavishcontracts for street lamps that were shoddily done.

Wall Street JournalMar 14, 2018

By contrast, Pompeo on Sunday lavished praise on Trump’s strategy with Pyongyang.

Washington PostMar 13, 2018

He was not the sort of designer who would try to dazzle the eye with elaborate embroidery or lavish beading.

Washington PostMar 12, 2018

During the port visit, Francis returned the favor by hosting Branch and about 20 other officers from the Nimitz for 

a lavish dinner at a restaurant overlooking Hong Kong harbor.

Washington PostMar 12, 2018

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3. Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he ------ childhood processes from adult ------.

   (A) reconstructed..memory @

   (B) condoned..experience

   (C) incorporated..behavior

   (D) released..monotony

   (E) inferred..anticipation

1 clue: derived ~ indirectly => colon(positive signal) => I think "reconstructed" and "inferred" is appropriate.

2 clue : anticipation is related with future and childhood is past, so I think memory is proper.

Before McCabe began overseeing the Clinton Foundation case, his wife ran an unsuccessful campaign for Virginia office as a Democrat during which she benefitted indirectly from a fundraiser at which Clinton appeared.

SlateMar 14, 2018

He said the most likely explanation was Russia that was "directly or indirectly responsible" for the attack but "culpability takes many forms".

BBCMar 14, 2018

It also reveals the incoherence of the United States’ war on drugs, which indirectly fueled so much of Colombia’s suffering.

SlateMar 14, 2018

This means that I’m deducting the donations indirectly — but effectively.

Washington PostMar 13, 2018

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4. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers--the incomprehension of her colleagues-- octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ------ the triumph of her once ------ scientific theories.

   (A) descry..innovative

   (B) regret..insignificant

   (C) perpetuate..tentative

   (D) enjoy..authoritative

   (E) savor..heterodox @

2 clue : "initially suffered ~ the incomprehension of her colleagues" means "in the past her theories was not mainstream." => once heterodox

But giving heterodox views a hearing only works if the people seeking advice are themselves open-minded thinkers, willing to put in the hard work of understanding opposing views and assessing the evidence.

Seattle TimesMar 13, 2018

His platform, then, was a heterodox mash-up of initiatives that span the political spectrum, from lefty measures like raising corporate taxes to conservative models of policing.

New York TimesMar 1, 2018

Republicans are more heterodox — some favoring a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, while others want wholesale deportations.

Seattle TimesJan 12, 2018

Dr Hossenfelder’s remains a minority opinion, but other heterodox approaches, perhaps because they offer the possibility of 

experimental testing, are also gaining ground.

EconomistJan 11, 2018

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5. Broadway audiences have become inured to ------ and so ------ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.

   (A) sentimentality..reluctant

   (B) condescension..disinclined

   (C) histrionics..unlikely

   (D) cleverness..eager

   (E) mediocrity..desperate @

First, inured means accustomed, or "used to". The second part of the reading says their ovations, which indicate praise, are meaningless, so they must really want to be pleased, so the answer must be D or E. Getting used to cleverness would not really result in the false praise, but getting used to mediocrity would, so the answer is E.

The 30-year stretch of stellar economic performance and wealth creation that began in the mid-1980s, in this view, was a “parenthesis” in a country capable only of mediocrity.

Wall Street JournalMar 11, 2018

“You are going to overpay, for lack of a better word, for mediocrity.”

Seattle TimesMar 8, 2018

Team Obama wrote off the years of mediocrity as simply an inevitable result of Baby Boomers hitting retirement.

Wall Street JournalMar 8, 2018

A sophisticated fan base, when frustrated to the breaking point by perpetual mediocrity, isn’t always turned off by the notion 

of tanking.

Washington PostMar 2, 2018