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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Wordy This article is too ________; we must edit it.






2. Remembering; honoring The new ________ stamp honors the late Martin Luther King - Jr.






3. Blessedness; state of bliss Growing closer to God each day - the mystic achieved a state of indescribable ________.






4. Cause of ruin Lack of public transportation is the ________ of urban life.






5. Lose animation; lose strength In stories - lovelorn damsels used to ________ and pine away.






6. Small ornamental statuette In the Maltese Falcon - Sam Spade was hired to trace the missing ________ of a black bird.






7. Pay out When you ________ money on the company's behalf - be sure to get a receipt.






8. Inexperienced While it is necessary to provide these ________ poets with an opportunity to present their work - it is not essential that we admire everything they write.






9. Emotional urges behind human activity The psychiatrist maintained that suppression of the ________ often resulted in maladjustment and neuroses.






10. Assume an affected pose; act artificially No matter how much Arnold boasted or ________d - I could not believe he was as important as he pretended to be.






11. Stout; corpulent The salesclerk tactfully referred to the overweight customer as ________ rather than fat.






12. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources His style of interior decoration was ________: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods - strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique color.






13. Remainder I suggest that you wait until the store places the ________s of these goods on sale.






14. Chew We must ________ our food carefully and slowly in order to avoid digestive disorders.






15. Interdependent relationship (between groups - species) - often mutually beneficial Both the crocodile bird and the crocodile derive benefit from their ________; pecking away at food particles embedded in the crocodile's teeth - the bird derives nouri






16. Meantime The company will not consider our proposal until next week; in the ________ - let us proceed as we have in the past.






17. Short account of an amusing or interesting event Rather than make concrete proposals for welfare reform - President Raegan told ________s about poor people who became wealthy despite their impoverished backgrounds.






18. Pertaining to mental derangement The ________ patient suffers more frequently from a disorder of the nervous system than from a diseased brain.






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






20. Devoted to the pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptous I cannot understand what caused him to drop his ________ way of life and become so ascetic.






21. Ability to foretell the future Given the current wave of Japan-bashing - it does not take ________ for me to foresee problems in our future trade relations with Japan.






22. Security from being destroyed - corrupted or profaned They respected the ________ of her faith and did not try to change her manner of living.






23. Petty criticism; fault-finding - Welcoming constructive criticism - Lexy appreciated her editor's comments - finding them free of ________.






24. Lustful They objected to his ________ behavior.






25. Flashy; tawdry; falsely attractive Her jewels were inexpensive but not ________.






26. Recover The doctors were worried because the patient did not ________ as rapidly as they had expected.






27. Parchment used for second time after original writing has been erased Using chemical reagents - scientists have been able to restore the original writings on many ________s.






28. Sharpness; stinging quality The ________ of the cigarette smoke made me cough.






29. Make amends for; pay for He knew no way in which he could ________ for his brutal crime.






30. Reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises While Watson was a man of average intelligence - Holmes was a genius - whose gift for ________ made him a superb detective.






31. Whirlpool The canoe was tossed about in the ________.






32. Approach and speak first to a person When the two young men ________ed me - I was frightened because I thought they were going to attack me.






33. Humorous; jocular Your ________ remarks are not appropriate at this serious moment.






34. Favoring success With favorable weather conditions - it was an auspicious moment to set sail.






35. Something preceding in time that may be used as an authority or guide for future action This decision sets a ________ for future cases of a similar nature.






36. Debauched person - roue Although she was aware of his reputation as a ________ - she felt she could reform him and help him break his dissolute way of life.






37. Correct; change - generally for the better Hoping to ________ his condition - he left Vietnam for the United States.






38. Lacking in flavor; dull Flat prose and flat ginger ale are equally ________: both lack sparkle.






39. Excessively grasping; plundering Hawks and other ________ birds prey on variety of small animals.






40. Pious phraseology; jargon of criminals - Angry that the president had slashed the education budget - we dismissed his speech on the importance of education as mere ________.






41. Command I cannot accept government by ________; I feel that I must be consulted.






42. Deviate; turn aside sharply The car ________d wildly as the driver struggled to regain control of the wheel.






43. Erase; strike out If you ________ this paragraph - the composition will have more appeal.






44. Talkative boaster After all Sol's talk about his big show business connections led nowhere - Sally decided he was just another ________.






45. Flexible; easily influenced Catherine's disposition was ________; she was like putty in her suitor's hands.






46. Decorate Parsley was used to ________ the boiled potato.






47. Lassitude; depression His friends tried to overcome the ________ into which he had fallen by taking him to parties and to the theater.






48. Beat The severity with which he was ________ed was indicated by the bruises he displayed on his head and face.






49. Unselfishly generous; concerned for others In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships to hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths - Eugene Lang performed a truly ________ deed.






50. Malleability; flexibility; ability to be drawn out Copper wire has many industrial uses because of its extreme ________.