GRE – Section 1: Test 4

Let it be remembered that this plan is neither recommended to blind approbation, nor to blind ____________, but to a sedate and candid consideration.

A frequently distributed piece of social advice recommends that one should speak naught but what may benefit others or oneself and avoid ____________ conversation.

The eighteenth-century French writer, historian, and philosopher Voltaire espoused the philosophy that an enlightened monarch would rule with benevolence; such a ruler, he believed, would promote (i) ____________ in order to (ii) ____________ the rights of the general populace.

Educational psychologists frequently use the term metacognition to describe the what, why, and how we know what we know; in other words, the term can be referred to as (i) ____________ about (ii) ____________.

Examining the means by which traditional societies living in large groups keep all members supplied with food provides illuminating contrast between the objective material conditions of life and the culture bearers’ (i) ____________ of those (ii) ____________.

Rarely is it feasible to achieve the summit of truth without running into extremes; in fact, it is nearly a necessity to habitually exhaust the part of (i) ____________, and even of (ii)____________ , before one is able to work all the way up to the noble goal of tranquil (iii) ____________.

To the luminous writings of the wizardly alchemists were almost certainly added spurious elements, which compounded the difficulty of deciphering the (i)____________ from the (ii)____________ in an already disconcerting (iii)____________ of fact and allegory.

Though our land may be young and full with still unknown escapades, it can be said at last that we approach our day of (i) ____________, our seemingly endless (ii) ____________ to the learning of other lands inches ever closer to its (iii) ____________.