Structured Practice

GRE Verbal 4: Vocabulary in context: mitigate

MCQ

MCQ 1 marks 2 minutes 0 words

Task instructions

Choose the best answer. For sentence equivalence in full practice, select two choices only when instructed.

In the sentence “trees can mitigate urban heat,” mitigate most nearly means:

A. reduce
B. measure
C. predict
D. intensify

Practice workspace

Write notes or your response

02:00
Reveal answer key / expected response

A — reduce

Suggested approach

Identify the tested relationship; eliminate choices that are grammatically or logically incompatible; verify the sentence or passage as a whole.

Official-style scoring criteria

Correct interpretation, vocabulary, and reasoning.