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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Rash Don't be ________. Get the advice of experienced people before undertaking this venture.






2. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage countless get-rich-quick schemes to ________






3. Darken; extinguish; surpass The new stock market high ________d the previous record set in 1985.






4. Easily understood; clear; intelligible Her explanation was ________ enought for a child to grasp.






5. Encouraging; exhortive The crowd listened to his ________ statements with ever-growing excitement; finally they rushed from the hall to carry to his suggestions.






6. Crazy; comic. I can watch the Marx brothers'_________ antics for hours.






7. Watching; guarding The FBI kept the house under constant ________ in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time.






8. Sleeping; lethargic; torpid Sometimes ________ talents in our friends surprise those of us who never realize how gifted our acquaintances really are.






9. Instruct; correct morally Although his purpose was to ________ and not to entertain his audience - many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.






10. Taking up again; recommencement During the summer break - Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the ________ of classes - however - he felt marked excitement and pleasure.






11. Feasible The board of directors decided that the plan was ________ and agreed to undertake the project.






12. Trifles; unimportant matters Too many magazines ignore newsworthy subjects and feature ________.






13. Plowed but sowed; uncultivated Farmers have learned that it is advisable to permit land to let ________ every few years.






14. Premonition; foreboding Hamlet felt a ________ about his meeting with Laertes.






15. Soothing or softening remedy He applied an ________ to the inflamed area.






16. Adequate; deservedly severe The public approved the ________ punishment for the crime.






17. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.






18. Mental keenness His business ________ helped him to succeed where others had failed.






19. Ill luck By ________ - he lost his week's salary.






20. Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess The good news we have been receiving lately indicates that there is little reason for your ________.






21. Reason; justify an improper act Do not try to ________ your behavior by blaming your companions.






22. Concise; abrupt; pithy I admire his ________ style of writing; he comes directly to the point.






23. Salty The slightly ________ taste of this mineral water is pleasant.






24. Expand;swell out I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins ________ on his forehead.






25. Surviving remnant; memento Egypt's Department of Antiquities prohibits tourists from taking mummies and other ancient ________s out of the country.






26. Propriety; seemliness Shocked by the unruly behavior - the teacher criticized the class for its lack of ________.






27. Put on When Clark Kent had to ________ his Superman outfit - he changed clothes in a convenient phone booth.






28. Indifference; lack of interest Few people could understand how he could listen to the news of the tragedy with such ________; the mahority regarded him as callous and unsympathetic.






29. Discipline; punish in order to correct - Whom God loves - God ________s.






30. Head off; forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself; supplant Hoping to ________ any attempts by the opposition to make educational reform a hot political issue - the candidate set out her own plan to revitalize the public schools.






31. Skillful His ________ handling of the delicate situation pleased his employers.






32. Spying In order to maintain its power - the government developed a system of ________ that penetrated every hosehold.






33. Not reciprocated Suffering the pangs of ________ love - Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hard-heartedness.






34. Outward appearance; guise Although this book has a ________ of wisdom and scholarship - a careful examination will reveal many errors and omissions.






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






36. Slang In the ________ of the underworld - she "was taken for a ride."






37. Feign He ________ insanity in order to avoid punishment for his crime.






38. Profane; impious The people in the room were shocked by his his ________ language.






39. Subside or moderate - Rather than leaving immediately - they waited for the storm to ________.






40. Pertinent; referring to the case in hand Teri was impressed by how ________ Virginia Woolf's remarks were to her as a woman writer; it was as if Woolf had been writing with Teri's situation in mind.






41. Cast off Each spring - the snake ________s off its skin.






42. Separate; part Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously ________ed.






43. Shine erratically; twinkle In the darkness of the cavern - the glowworms hanging from the cavern roof ________ed like distant stars.






44. Pitiless The escaped convict was a dangerous and ________ murderer.






45. Twistings; distortions As the effects of the opiate wore away - the ________ of the patient became more violent and demonstrated how much pain she was enduring.






46. Dismay; shock We were ________led by the horrifying conditions in the city's jails.






47. Opposite The inevitable ________ of peace is not war but annihilation.






48. Foretell; presage The king did not know what these omens might ________ and asked his soothsayers to interpret them.






49. Glance coquettishly at; make eyes at Sitting for hours at the sidewalk cafe - the old gentleman would ________ the young girls and recall his youthful romances.






50. Relating to races Intolerance between ________ groups is deplorable and usually is based on lack of information.