WITH WORDS IN SOLVING PROBLEMS

2. - ETS PREPARING FOR THE VERBAL AND QUANTITATIVE SECTIONS OF THE GRE GENERAL TEST 2. - ETS PREPARING FOR THE VERBAL AND QUANTITATIVE SECTIONS OF THE GRE GENERAL TEST
ETS PREPARING FOR THE VERBAL AND QUANTITATIVE SECTIONS OF THE GRE GENERAL TEST
2. HEADLONG : FORETHOUGHT : :with words in solving problems. Reasoning effectively in a verbal(A) barefaced : shame (B) mealymouthed : talentmedium depends primarily upon the ability to discern, comprehend,(C) heartbroken : emotion (D) levelheaded : resolveand analyze relationships among words or groups of words and(E) singlehanded : ambitionwithin larger units of discourse such as sentences and writtenpassages.The difficulty of this question probably derives primarily from theThe verbal measure consists of four question types: analogies,complexity of the relationship between headlong and forethoughtantonyms, sentence completions, and reading comprehension sets.rather than from any inherent difficulty in the words. Analysis of theThe examples of verbal questions in this section do not reflect pre-relationship between headlong and forethought reveals the follow-cisely the difficulty range of the verbal measure.ing: an action or behavior that is headlong is one that lacks fore-thought. Only answer choice (A) displays the same relationship ANALOGIESbetween its two terms.Analogy questions test the ability to recognize the relationship that ANTONYMSexists between the words in a word pair and to recognize when twoword pairs display parallel relationships. To answer an analogyAlthough antonym questions test knowledge of vocabulary morequestion, you must formulate the relationship between the words indirectly than do any of the other verbal question types, the purposethe given word pair and then must identify the answer choice con-of the antonym questions is to measure not merely the strength oftaining words that are related to one another in most nearly the sameyour vocabulary but also the ability to reason from a given conceptway. Some examples of relationships that might be found in anal-to its opposite. Antonyms may require only rather general knowl-ogy questions are relationships of kind, size, spatial contiguity,edge of a word, or they may require you to make fine distinctionsor degree.among answer choices. Antonyms are generally confined toSome approaches that may be helpful in answering analogynouns, verbs, and adjectives; answer choices may be singlequestions:words or phrases.Before looking at the answer choices, try to establish a preciseSome approaches that may be helpful in answering antonymrelationship between the words in the given pair. It is usuallyhelpful to express that relationship in a phrase or sentence. Next,Remember that you are looking for the word that is the mostlook for the answer choice with the pair of words whose relation-nearly opposite to the given word; you are not looking for aship is closest to that of the given pair and can be expressed in asynonym. Since many words do not have a precise opposite,similar fashion.you must look for the answer choice that expresses a conceptOccasionally, more than one of the answer choices may seem atmost nearly opposite to that of the given word.first to express a relationship similar to that of the given pair. TryIn some cases more than one of the answer choices may appear atto state the relationship more precisely or identify some aspect offirst to be opposite to the given word. Questions that require youthe relationship between the given pair of words that is paralleledto make fine distinctions among two or more answer choices arein only one choice pair.best handled by defining more precisely or in greater detail theRemember that a single word can have several different mean-meaning of the given word.ings. Check to be sure you have not overlooked a possible secondIt is often useful, in weighing answer choices, to make up ameaning for one of the words.sentence using the given word or words. Substituting the Never decide on the best answer without reading all the answeranswer choices in the phrase or sentence and seeing which bestchoices.“fits,” in that it reverses the meaning or tone of the sentence orPractice recognizing and formulating relationships between wordphrase, may help you determine the best answer.pairs. You can do this with the following sample questions.Remember that a particular word may have more than onemeaning.Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair ofUse your knowledge of root, prefix, and suffix meanings towords or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words orhelp you determine the meanings of words with which youphrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relation-are not entirely familiar.ship similar to that expressed in the original pair.Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed inDirections: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, eachcapital letters followed by five lettered words or phrases.blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath thesentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose theChoose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly oppositeword or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaningin meaning to the word in capital letters. Since some of theof the sentence as a whole.questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning,be sure to consider all the choices before deciding which oneis best.