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GRE verbal practice is essential to understanding the unique way in which the GRE tests your verbal reasoning skills. Try all the question types, concepts, and difficulty levels you'll encounter on test day. Then review your work and practice some more!

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27 GRE Verbal Practice Questions with Explanations

By David Recine In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

Looking for extra verbal practice? Test your skills with 27 free GRE verbal practice questions and explanations to help you crush the GRE!

Magoosh GRE Verbal Diagnostic Test

By Rachel Kapelke-Dale In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

To determine your GRE verbal level, try the Magoosh GRE Verbal Diagnostic Test!

GRE Reading Practice: Writers in The New York Times

By Kevin Rocci In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

Looking for a place to begin preparing for GRE Reading? Here is a list of writers from The New York Times to help you get started!

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GRE Reading Comprehension Practice: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and More!

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal Practice

Wondering how to improve your GRE reading comprehension practice? We'll show you how to analyze GRE-level passages from these publications!

Critical Reasoning on the GRE: Practice Questions and Explanations

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

Critical reasoning GRE questions are not easy. Our GRE expert, Chris, breaks down sample GRE critical reasoning practice questions to help you understand!

GRE Text Completions – It’s Not Always About the Vocab

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

Magoosh’s expert Chris Lele teaches you how to recognize the context of the sentence on the GRE Text Completions questions.

Text Completion Challenge

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

GRE expert Chris Lele offers up some GRE Text Completion questions to test and assess your abilities in the area.

GRE Reading Comprehension Passage Outlines

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

Need more GRE Reading Comprehension practice? Check out how to create a passage outline to discover the way in which the passage develops!

Snippets of GRE-type Prose on the Internet

By Chris Lele In: GRE Verbal, GRE Verbal Practice

The first excerpt is a paragraph from a two-paragraph write-up on a review of Cusk’s memoir. The reviewer uses some tough GRE-level vocabulary, including the word ‘portentous’, which was recently on the GRE paper-based test. (I have bolded the vocabulary words). Her reaction to the book is rendered in prose reminiscent of a short Reading […]

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GRE Verbal Practice

Most Popular GRE Verbal Practice

27 GRE Verbal Practice Questions with Explanations

Magoosh GRE Verbal Diagnostic Test

GRE Reading Practice: Writers in The New York Times

Most Recent GRE Verbal Practice

GRE Reading Comprehension Practice: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and More!

Critical Reasoning on the GRE: Practice Questions and Explanations

GRE Text Completions – It’s Not Always About the Vocab

Text Completion Challenge

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GRE Reading Comprehension Passage Outlines

Snippets of GRE-type Prose on the Internet

GRE Short Reading Passages

GRE Critical Reasoning Question: The Logic of “Except”

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GRE Reading Comprehension: Meaning in Context

GRE Reading Comprehension Passages: Movie Review Exercise

The Really Fun, Hard, Dense Science Passage: Part II

Columbus Day: Vocabulary in Context Exercise

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A Difficult Text Completion – Advanced Strategies