Chapter 1 GRE Verbal

According to the ETS, the Verbal Reasoning section measures your ability to:

analyze and draw conclusions from discourse; reason from incomplete data; identify author’s assumptions and/or perspective; understand multiple levels of meaning, such as literal, figurative and author’s intent
select important points; distinguish major from minor or irrelevant points; summarize text; understand the structure of a text
understand the meaning of individual words, sentences and entire texts; understand relationships among words and among concepts