List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions on Analytical Reasoning asked in GRE

Select the correct words to complete the passage: "While early astronomers believed that planets orbited the Earth, modern observations have _________ this theory, demonstrating that planets actually revolve around the Sun."

Although she was a highly accomplished scientist, her public lectures were often so _________ that even a well-educated audience struggled to understand her main points.

The novelist was known for her _________ prose, which, though admired by literary critics, often left casual readers confused and disengaged.

Five participants at an international conference are planning to take a car trip together. Two persons? the driver and one passenger? will sit in the front seat of the car, and three persons will sit in the back seat. The names of the five participants and all of the languages that each of them speaks are as follows:
Mohsen: Farsi and Hebrew
Orlando: Italian and Russian
Shelly: Hebrew and Russian
Theo: German and Italian
Ursula: Farsi, German, and Hebrew
The participants must be seated in the car according to the following restrictions:
The driver must be Orlando or else Shelly.
Two persons can be seated side by side only if at least one of the languages they speak is the same.

The organizers of a music festival are scheduling exactly six master classes, one class per day for six consecutive days. Three of the classes will be given by violinists and three by pianists. The only musicians who can teach the classes are the violinists F, G, H, and J, and the pianists R, S, T, W, and Z. The festival's organizers must observe the following constraints:
No musician will teach more than one class.
F will not teach unless the first three classes are taught by violinists.
If J teaches a class, it will be the sixth.
R will teach only if T teaches the first class.
No pianist will teach on a day that immediately precedes or immediately follows a day on which W teaches.

In a small office suite, six offices are arranged in a straight line, one after another, and are consecutively numbered 1 through 6. Exactly six people? P, Q, R, S, T and U? are to be assigned to these six offices, exactly one person to an office, according to the following conditions:
P must be assigned to an office immediately adjacent to the office to which T is assigned.
Q cannot be assigned to an office immediately adjacent to the office to which S is assigned.
R must be assigned either to office 1 or to office 6.
S must be assigned to a lower-numbered office than the office to which U is assigned.

Seven science students— John, Kate, Luz, Mark, Nelson, Olga, and Pat— are to be divided into three groups. One group will consist of three students, and the other groups will consist of two students each. The following conditions apply to the assignment of students to groups:
John cannot be assigned to the group to which Luz is assigned
Nelson must be assigned to the group to which Pat is assigned.
Olga must be assigned to the group consisting of three students.

A circus magician has a "magic box " that has exactly six chambers designed to hold at least two animals each. There are five trained animals— a frog, a hen, a mouse, a parakeet, and a rabbit. On the front of the box, chambers 1, 2, and 3 are arranged in a straight line so that chamber 1 is directly adjacent to chamber 2, and chamber 2 is directly adjacent to chamber 3. On the back of the box, the cham- bers are also arranged in a straight line with chamber 4 directly adjacent to chamber 5, and chamber 5 directly adjacent to chamber 6. No chamber in the front of the box is directly adjacent to a chamber in the back. When working with the animals, the magician must obey the following restrictions:
None of the chambers can contain more than two animals at the same time.
The mouse cannot be in the same chamber as any other animal, and any chamber directly adjacent to the chamber that the mouse occupies must remain empty.
Neither the hen nor the frog can be in the same chamber as the parakeet.

A landscape designer has available two trees each of eight different species — linden, maple, pine, quince, redbud, spruce, tupelo, and walnut— from which a selection must be made for planting at two different locations. For planting at each location, the designer will select exactly four trees, representing four different tree species, according to the following conditions:
If quince is planted at location 1, spruce cannot be planted at location 2.
If linden and quince are planted at location 1, pine must be planted at location 2.
If pine is planted at location 2, quince and tupelo must be planted at location 1.
Spruce cannot be planted at location 1 unless linden and pine are planted at location 2.

A circus has seven fenced enclosures, numbered 1 through 7, for two animals: a lion and a tiger. Each enclosure is connected to adjacent enclosures by interior gates. There are exactly eight such gates, each connecting one enclosure to exactly one other enclosure: enclosure 1 is connected to enclosures 2, 3 and 4; enclosure 3 to enclosures 1, 2, 4, and 5; and enclosure 5 to enclosures 3, 6, and 7. These gates provide the only connections between enclosures. Occasionally a trainer moves the animals. Taking either animals from one enclosure to an adjacent enclosure through a gate is called a "transfer."
The following conditions are strictly observed:
The two animals cannot be together in any enclosure or gate.
Transfers cannot occur simultaneously In moving either one animal or both to a specified enclosure or enclosures, the minimum number of trans- fers needed to achieve the specified result are used.

Exactly six lectures will be given one at a time at a one- day conference. Two of the lectures— S and T— will be given by resident speakers, the other four— W, X, Y, and Z— will be given by visiting speakers. At least two but no more than four of the lectures will be given before lunch; the remaining lectures will be given after lunch.
The following conditions must be observed:
S will be the fourth lecture.
Exactly one of the lectures by a resident will be given before lunch.
Y will be given at some time before T is given.
If W is given before lunch, Y will be given after lunch

A newsstand will display exactly one copy each of six different magazines— M, O, P, S, T, and V— in a single row on a rack. Each magazine will occupy exactly one of the six positions, numbered consecutively 1 through 6. The magazines must be displayed in accordance with the following rules:
Either P or else T occupies position 1.
Either S or else T occupies position 6.
M and O, not necessarily in that order, occupy consecutively numbered positions.
V and T, not necessarily in that order, occupy consecutively numbered positions.

On each day of the Monday through Friday workweek, exactly two of three employees—George, Hilda, and Irene—must remain on duty in the office to answer tele- phones during the noon to 1 p.m. lunch break. In the scheduling of telephone duty, the following constraints must be met：
Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together on Tuesday.
George and Hilda have telephone duty together on Thursday.
No one can have telephone duty on more than four of the five days of the week.

In a benefit concert each of exactly seven solo performers— Harris, Jones, McIntyre, Nelson, Strapp, Trevino, and Williams— will sing. The concert director is deciding the order in which the performers will sing and is assigning each to exactly one of seven time slots, numbered consecutively 1 through 7, according to the following conditions：
Harris must sing at some time before McIntyre sings. Strapp must sing at some time before Jones sings.
Trevino must sing either immediately before or immediately after Nelson sings.
Williams must be assigned to time slot 3.

Along a street that is currently without trees, seven trees are to be planted in the pattern

Where each number designates the position of a tree. No more than two kinds of trees can be planted. If maples are used, no maple can be planted adjacent to or immediately diagonally opposite another maple. Two trees are adjacent to each other if the numbers of their positions differ by two, and immediately diagonally opposite if their numbers differ by one. The following trees, of three kinds, are available for planting:
Three red oaks
Four maples Four sycamores