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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Sticky; viscous Molasses is a ________ substance.






2. One opposed to force; antimilitarist The ________s urged that we reduce our military budget and recall our troops stationed overseas.






3. Reclining; lying down completely or in part The command "AT EASE" does not permit you to take a ________ position.






4. Defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements Unless you can prove your allegations - your remarks constitute ________.






5. Char or burn; brand Accidentally brushing against the hot grill - she ________ed her hand badly.






6. Approve formally; verify Before the treaty could go into effect - it had to be ________(ied) by the president.






7. Calm; impartial In a ________ analysis of the problem - he carefully examined the causes of the conflict and proceeded to suggest suitable remedies.






8. Abnormal or deviant - Given the ________ nature of the data - we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment.






9. Marginal; outer We lived - not in central London - but in one of those ________ suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of the great city.






10. Homeless wanderer Because he was a stranger in town with no visible means of support - Martin feared he would be jailed as a ________.






11. Speed of music I find the conductor's ________ too slow for such a brilliant piece of music.






12. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next - she was confused by the ________ of her feelings.






13. Falling off - as of leaves The oak is a ________ tree.






14. Boat or yacht race Many boating enthusiasts followed the ________ in their own yachts.






15. Ancestor The Roth family - whose ________s emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century - settled in Peru - Illinois.






16. Make shiny by rubbing; polish - The maid ________ed the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.






17. Combination (of two business corporations) When the firm's president married the director of financial planning - the office joke was that it wasn't a marriage - it was a ________.






18. Work together Two writers ________d in preparing this book.






19. Fame For many years an unheralded researcher - Barbara McClintock gained international ________ when she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.






20. Regretful; sorrowful; dejected The artist has captured the sadness of childhood in his portrait of the boy with the ________ countenance.






21. Tough; strong and firm The steak was too ________ to chew






22. Expel; drive out The world wondered if Aquino would be able to ________ Marcos from office.






23. Humorous imitation; travesty We enjoyed the clever ________(ies) of popular songs that the chorus sang.






24. Ornament worn on the shoulder (of a uniform - etc.) The shoulder loops on Sam Spade's trench coat are the nonmilitary counterparts of the fringed ________s on George Washington's uniform.






25. Shrewd; thrifty - The ________ Scotsman was more than a match for the swindlers.






26. Grow forth; send out buds - In the spring - the plants that ________ are a promise of the beauty that is to come.






27. Arsonist The fire spread in such an unusual manner that the fire department chiefs were certain that it had been set by an ________.






28. Framework and working parts of an automobile - Examining the car after the accident - the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the ________ was unharmed.






29. Depravity A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral ________.






30. Annoying; tedious He found working on the assembly line ________ because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform.






31. Lacking in seriousness; self-indulgently carefree; relatively unimportant Though Nancy enjoyed Bill's ________ - lighthearted companionship - she sometimes wondered whether he could ever be serious.






32. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal The church leaders decided not interfere in ________ matters.






33. Resistance to authority; insubordination His words - though not treasonous in themselves - were calculated to arouse thoughts of ________.






34. Insightful; aware; wise Although Maud was a generally ________ critic - she had her blind sports: she could never see flaws in the work of her friends.






35. Incapable of injury Achilles was ________ except in his heel.






36. Violent; rough; noisy The unruly crowd became even more ________ when he tried to quiet them.






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






38. Form into grains Sugar that has been ________d dissolves more readily than lump sugar.






39. Capricious; fanciful. He dismissed his generous gift to his college as a sentimental fancy - an old man's ________ gesture.






40. Inconspicuous; not blatant The secret service agents in charge of protecting the President tried to be as ________ as possible.






41. Formidable; causing fear During the Cold War period - neighboring countries tried not to offend the Russians because they could be ________ foes.






42. Serious or fatal accident - The number of automotive ________(ies) on this holiday weekend was high.






43. Drink with relish As we ________ed our ale - we listened to the gay songs of the students in the tavern.






44. Give an indication beforehand; portend; prefigure In retrospect - political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup ________ed his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.






45. Lash; whip; severe punishment They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly ________.






46. 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.






47. Move briskly The White Rabbit had to ________ to get to his appointment on time.






48. Pertaining to the lungs In his researches on ________ diseases - he discovered many facts about the lungs of animals and human beings.






49. Small hill The ascent of the ________ is not difficult and the view from the hilltop is ample reward tor the effort.






50. Rotting flesh of a dead body - Buzzards are nature's scavengers; they eat the ________ left behind by other predators.