REAP 2010 Entrance Test- Verbal Section

Directions: For questions 1-5, one or more words have been left out of each sentence.
Fill in the answer (A-E), which contains the word or words that best fit the meaning of
the entire sentence.

1. The food server admitted that her work was just a job and that she was doing it for
the sake of _____ and nothing else.
A) approbation
B) remuneration
C) emulation
D) exoneration
E) procrastination
2. According to the minority political party, the major problem with national health
insurance reform, as a _____ alternative to more government spending, is that it’s
a tax _____.
A) purported; increase
B) cheery; standard
C) feasible; revolt
D) sarcastic; statement
E) toxic; shelter

3. Because the bulk of tax revenue comes from various sales taxes, the burden of
payment falls _____ on the shoulders of poor and middle-income Americans who
spend roughly 16% of their incomes on taxable goods, while the richest
Americans spend only about 3.1%.
A) disproportionately
B) diminutively
C) lightly
D) inadequately
E) equitably

4. After the wind blew away the musician’s music, she _____ so cleverly that the
people watching were not _____ of the mishap.
A) extemporized; cognizant
B) digressed; unappreciative
C) improvised; warned
D) wafted; aware
E) denigrated; mindful

5. The dermatologist was _____ that the new surgical procedure he worked ten years
to invent would be able to _____ all signs of having a tattoo.
A) unwavering; expunge
B) incredulous; erase
C) sentient; obliterate
D) timorous; eradicate
E) euphoric; exacerbate
Directions: For questions 6-8, determine the relationship between the two words given in
capital letters. Then, from the choices listed (A-E), select the one pair that has a
relationship most similar to that of the capitalized pair.

6. STATESMAN :GOVERNMENT::
A) teacher: faculty
B) potter: art
C) raconteur: anecdote
D) dowager: marriage
E) shepherd: farm

7. SURREPTITIOUS: CANDOR:
A) stealthy: mystery
B) confident: honesty
C) fearless: pride
D) fatuous: sense
E) subtle: cunning

8. FORUM: DISCUSSION::
A) papacy: absolution
B) space: exploration
C) parliament: legislation
D) rostrum: peroration
E) speakeasy: gossip

Directions: For questions 9-12, select the lettered choice most nearly opposite in the
meaning to the word given in CAPITAL letters.

9. UNANIMOUS:
A) luminous
B) agreeable
C) discordant
D) united
E) uniform

10. LATENT:
A) dormant
B) rubber
C) patent
D) plastic
E) paternal

11. WAX:
A) Melt
B) Wave
C) Dull
D) Shine
E) Wane
12. PERVIOUS:
A) Permeable
B) Previous
C) Pernicious
D) Prescient
E) Impenetrable

13. In 1919, 35% of the US population drank alcoholic beverages just before the 18th
Amendment to the US Constitution was passed to prohibit its sale, manufacture,
and consumption. One year later, nearly 45% of the population drank alcoholic
beverages.

Which of the following, if true, would help to account for the phenomenon
described above?
A) After prohibition, alcoholic beverages were available only through illegal
sources.
B) The younger generation was most likely to violate the new amendment.
C) The prohibition highlighted the dangers of drinking alcoholic beverages.
D) Gangs in Chicago committed notoriously reckless acts of violence during
the Prohibition period.
E) The prohibition of alcohol consumption somehow turned drinking into a
fashionable activity.

14. A seismology lab studying behavior of animals noted that animals display certain
behaviors prior to any earthquake that measure over 3.75 on the Richter scale. In
dogs, this behavior consists of rhythmic barking and head shaking, which the lab
has named carpoid response. Because records from the past five years show that
the laboratory dogs displayed the carpoid response immediately before 92% of
earthquakes, the chief scientist concluded that using the carpoid response as a cue
could predict earthquakes with 92% accuracy.

The head scientist’s claim would be most seriously weakened if it were shown
that:
A) Cats have no analogous behavior to the carpoid response.
B) The carpoid response was often recorded when no earthquakes occurred.
C) Most seismologists have studied the psychology of animal behavior.
D) Of the three types of earthquake waves, only the long waves cause damage
at the earth’s surface.
E) Mayan rulers are known to have maintained zoological preserves in order
to predict earthquakes.

15. The Armstrong Foundation has established a fish farming program in the
Peruvian highlands that allows three types of fish to be grown in the same take:
magills, freshurs, and peshaws. Corn is the optimal food for peshaws and
freshurs, but is deadly for magills. Only freshurs eat rice. Magills feed on bean
curd only when peshaws are feeding in the same tank. Quinoa is an excellent
food for peshaws and magills, but only when both fish are not in the same tank.
If the fish farmers have only corn and bean curd to feed the three kinds of fish,
which of the following must be true?
A) No tank contains both magills on peshaws.
B) Some magills will die since they must eat corn.
C) The fish farmers cannot raise peshaws
D) Each tank has only one type of fish.
E) At least one tank contains two types of fish.