Part 26 of our Verbal Ability reviewer has 20 practice questions in the style of the Civil Service Exam. Answer them in order, read the explanation after each one, and check your score against the 80% passing mark at the end. Questions and choices are reshuffled every time you retake the part.
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Here are a few questions from this part. Take the full test to answer all 20 and get your score.
Sample question 1
The senator's speech was full of empty ___, promising everything but offering no concrete plan.
- evidence
- statistics
- silence
- rhetoric
Sample question 2
Having ___ the evidence for months, the investigators were ___ to find that the missing ledger had been in their own files.
- overlooked; chagrined
- reviewed; relieved
- cataloged; unsurprised
- fabricated; vindicated
Sample question 3
The agency was ___ in its enforcement: it fined small stalls heavily while overlooking large violators.
- uniform
- inequitable
- lenient
- exacting
Sample question 4
The legislature's ___ pace on the bill contrasted sharply with the ___ with which it had passed the previous year's budget.
- glacial; alacrity
- frantic; alacrity
- glacial; reluctance
- brisk; alacrity
Sample question 5
Because of the typhoon, classes were ___ until the weather improved.
- suspended
- celebrated
- repeated
- promoted