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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Kindle; light When Desi crooned - "Baby - light my fire -" literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ________.






2. Title; chapter heading; text under illustration - I find the ________s that accompany these cartoons very clever and humorous.






3. Spiritual rebirth Modern penologists strive for the ________ of the prisoners.






4. Eliminate from consideration; reject Believing in John's love for her - she ________ed the notion that he might be unfaithful.






5. Renovate; make bright by polishing The flood left a deposit of mud on everything; it was necessary to ________ our belongings.






6. Enclose; place in something Tales of actual historical figures like King Alfred have become ________ded in legends.






7. Sullen; stubborn The man was ________ abd taciturn.






8. Honor; tribute In her speech she tried to pay ________ to a great man.






9. Denying the existence of God His ________ remarks shocked the religious worshippers.






10. Fickle; incalculable - The storm was ________ and changed course constantly.






11. Combine; fuse The brooks ________ into one large river.






12. Charlatan; boastful pretender The patent medicine man was a ________.






13. Work laboriously; make slow painful progress You must ________ through 3500 words list in order to achieve a high score on GRE.






14. Harmony; agreement In ________ with our rules and regulations - I am calling a meeting of our organization.






15. Pertaining to money Jane held the family purse strings: she made all ________ decisions affecting the household.






16. Unattractive During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is ________.






17. Careful about money; economical A ________ shopper compares prices before making major purchases.






18. Something taken for granted; the taking over or taking possession of The young princess made the foolish ________ that the regent would not object to her Assumption of power.






19. Thin layer; cover Casual acquaintances were deceived by his ________ of sophistication and failed to recognize his fundamental shallowness.






20. Study industriously; ponder; scrutinize Determined to become a physician - Beth spends hours ________(ing) over her anatomy text.






21. Tilt; lean over That flagpole should be absolutely vertical; instead - it ________s to one side.






22. Stubborn He was ________ in his refusal to listen to our complaints.






23. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback Martin seemed an ________ to his Tuscan ancestors who lavished great care on their small plots of soil.






24. Lover of luxury Rich people are not always ________s; some of them have little taste for a life of luxury.






25. Staff officer assisting the commander; assistant Though Wellington delegated many tasks to his chief ________ - Lord Fitzroy Somerset - Somerset was in no doubt as to who made all major decisions.






26. Rude; insensitive Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife - she ignored his ________ behavior - for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy.






27. Bombastic; stiffly pompous His ________ rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances.






28. Deck opening; lid covering a deck opening The latch on the ________ failed to catch - so the hatch remained unlatched.






29. Strict disciplinarian The commanding officer was a ________ who observed each regulation to the ltter.






30. Obtaining The personnel department handles the ________ of new employees.






31. Tease; torture with disappointment Tom loved to ________ his younger brother with candy; he knew the boy was forbidden to have it.






32. Person who rebels against the established order Only the total overthrow of all governmental regulations would satisfy the ________.






33. Beautiful writing; excellent penmanship - As we examine ancient manuscripts - we became impressed with the ________ of the scribes.






34. Open widely The huge pit ________d before him; if he stumbled - he would fall in.






35. Dry up A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to ________ food in order to preserve it.






36. Not identical on both sides of a dividing central line Because one eyebrow was set markedly higher than the other - William's face had a particularly ________ appearance.






37. Mixture of writings on various subjects This is an interesting ________ of nineteenth-century prose and poetry.






38. Explore with tools The surgeon ________d the wound for foreign matter before suturing it.






39. Consider; ponder; unhurried Offered the new job - she asked for time to ________ before she made her decision.






40. Shapeless; vague; indeterminate John was subject to panic attacks that left him prey to vague - ________ fears: he knew he was terrified - but could neither define nor explain the cause of his terror.






41. Secret; mysterious What was ________ to us was clear to the psychologist.






42. Immaterial; without a material body We must devote time to the needs of our ________ mind as well as our corporeal body.






43. Highly ornate Accustomed to the severe - angular lines of modern skyscrapers - they found the flamboyance of ________ architecture amusing.






44. Laziness Such ________ in a young person is deplorable; go to work!






45. Border; edge Madame Curie knew she was on the ________ of discovering the secrets of radioactive elements.






46. Calmness; placidity The ________ of the sleepy town was shattered by a tremendous explosion.






47. Ransack; thoroughly search When we ________d through the trunks in the attic - we found many souvenirs of our childhood days.






48. Person who looks on the bright side The pessimist says the glass is half-empty; the ________ says it is half-full.






49. Departure The ________ from the hot and stuffy city was particularly noticeable on Friday evenings.






50. Physician specializing in children's diseases. The family doctor advised the parents to consult a ________ about their child's ailment.