Verbal Questions - June 2009

June 30

1. Dabbler

2. Extant

3. Rotund

4. Scant

5. Impervious

6. Fretwork

7. Accolade

8. Ostentatious

9. Gainsay

10. Revere

11. Veneration

12. Speck

13. Mite

14. Subvert

15. Potable


Issue Topic:

1. "Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it."

June 26

1. Pertinacious

2. Obloquy

3. Heretical

4. Scant

5. Meld

6. Transience

7. Scant

8. Tantalizing

9. Beguile

10. Inkling

11. Panegyric

12. Veneer

13. Fretwork


Analogies:

1. Veneer: Furniture

2. Fretwork: Ornamentation


Issue Topic:

1."It is the artist, not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value”

June 23

1.Myriad

2.Roil

3.Plethora

4.Buoyant

5.Cultivated

6.Preeminent

7.Tendentious

8.Rapacious

9.Exonerate

10.Tranquil

11.Digression

12.Misdemeanor


Analogies:

1. Disturbance: Tranquil

2. Aside: Digression

3. Topic: Digress

4. Misdemeanor: Crime


Issue Topic:

1. "Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity."

2. "Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other."

Argument Topic:

1. Milk and dairy products are rich in vitamin D and calcium, substances essential for building and maintaining bones. Many people therefore believe that a diet rich in dairy products can help prevent osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones weaken significantly with age and that is linked to both environmental and genetic factors. But a long-term study of a large number of people has found that those who have consistently consumed dairy products throughout the years of the study have a higher rate of bone fractures than any other participants in the study. Since bone fractures are a symptom of osteoporosis, this study result shows that a diet rich in dairy products may actually increase, rather than decrease, the risk of osteoporosis.

June 19

1. Detrimental

2. Trespass

3. Ignominy

4. Proscribe

5. Myriad

6. Scant

7. Castigate

8. Wax

9. Euphoria

10. Lamentation

11. Heresy

12. Orthodox

13. Loquacious

14. Lethargic

15. Hospitable

16. Misanthrope

Analogies:

1. Heresy: Orthodox

2. Loquacious: Talk

3. Lethargic: Energy

4. Hospitable: Misanthrope


Issue Topic:

1. "Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts. Students who have learned only facts have learned very little."

June 17

1.Awry

2.Endorsement

3.Gully

4.Anticipating

5.Countenance

6.Euphemism

7.Reify

8.Fustian

9.Intermittent

10.Pulchritude

11.Lubricant

12.Inkling


Analogies:

1.Lubricant: Friction

2.Vision: Manipulation

3.Inkling: Knowledge

June 11

1.Profuse

2.Rescind

3.Fragile

4.Prodigal

5.Exude

6.Penurious

7.Spartan

8.Impeccable

9.Altruism

Analogies:

1.Government:Food

2.Rib:Skeleton