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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Separate; unconnected The universe is composed of ________ bodies.






2. Plunder If you do not yield - I am afraid the enemy will ________ the countryside.






3. Sediment; worthless residue David poured the wine carefully to avoid stirring up the ________.






4. Explain; interpret If I ________ your remarks correctly - you disagree with the theory already advanced.






5. Flowing into The ________ of refugees into the country has taxed the relief agencies severely.






6. Speed The train went by at considerable ________.






7. Treacherous plot Brutus and Cassius joined in the ________ to kill Julius Caesar.






8. Oversimplified Though Jack's solution dealt adequately with one aspect of the problem - it was ________ in failing to consider various complicating factors that might arise.






9. Paint or draw with dots Seurat carefully ________d dabs of pure color on the canvas - juxtaposing dots of blue and yellow that the viewer's eye would interpret as green.






10. Antiquated; ancient The ________ customs had apparently not changed for thousands of years.






11. Unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech Such ________ joy must be experienced; it cannot be described.






12. Person who supports or proposes (an idea) After the bill had been amended and re-amended in committee - even its original ________s didn't want to vote in its favor.






13. Demanding much work or care; tedious In putting together his dictionary of the English language - Doctor Johnson undertook a ________ task.






14. Path taken by a projectile The police tried to locate the spot from which the assassin had fired the fatal shot by tracing the ________ of the bullet.






15. Incompatible; not able to be resolved Because the separated couple were ________ - the marriage counselor recommended a divorce.






16. Unclear or doubtful in meaning His ________ instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take.






17. Unconquerable The founders of our country had ________ willpower.






18. Supporting bar The engineer calculated that the ________ supporting the rafter needed to be reinforced.






19. Person of no importance; nonexistence Don't dismiss John as a ________; in his quiet way - he's very important to the firm.






20. Cautious; sparing or restrained about giving - A prudent - thrifty New Englander - DeWitt was as ________ of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.






21. Time of greatest success; prime In their ________- the San Francisco Forty-Niners won the Super Bowl two years running.






22. Marked by changes in fortune - During his ________ career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.






23. Ability to foresee future happenings; prudence A wise investor - she had the ________ to buy land just before the current real estate boom.






24. Disgraceful The country smarted under the ________ defeat and dreamed of the day when it would be victorious.






25. Act of finding the total - summary In his s________ - the lawyer emphasized the testimony given by the two witnesses.






26. Irreverent The congregation was offended by her ________ remarks.






27. Protrusion; bulge A ganglionic cyst is a fluid-filled tumor (generally benign) that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath - and that bulges beneath the skin - forming a ________.






28. Echo; resound The entire valley ________d with the sound of the church bells.






29. Imposing; impressive His ________ manner impressed those who met him for the first time.






30. Mechanism that imitates actions of humans Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots - writers were creating stories of ________ who could outperform humans.






31. Depart secretly and hide The teller ________ed with the bonds and was not found.






32. Impartial; fair Do men and women receive ________ treatment from their teachers - or - as recent studies suggest - do teachers pay more attention to male students than to females?






33. Purest and highest embodiment Noel Coward displayed the ________ of wit.






34. Guardianship; training Under the ________ of such masters of the instrument - she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.






35. Excessive zeal The leader of the group was held responsible even though he could not control the ________ of his followers.






36. Crookedly; slanted; at an angle When he placed his hat ________ upon his head - his observers laughed.






37. Flowing; series of changes While conditions are in such a state of ________ - I do not wish to commit myself too deeply in this affair.






38. A disorderly or untidy state After the New Year's party - the once orderly house was in total ________.






39. Having a common center The target was made of ________ circles.






40. Marrigeable Mrs. Bennet - in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - was worried about finding suitable husbands for her five ________ daughters.






41. Tax of one-tenth Because he was an agnostic - he refused to pay his ________s to the clergy.






42. Reading desk The chaplain delivered his sermon from a hastily improvised ________.






43. To strip a priest or minister of church authority To disbar a lawyer - to ________ a priest - to suspend a doctor's license to practice--these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful consideration.






44. Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly He is preparing a ________ on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.






45. Overstock; fill to excess The many manufacturers ________ted the market and could not find purchasers for the many articles they had produced.






46. Throw overboard In order to enable the ship to ride safely through the storm - the captain had to ________ much of his cargo.






47. Unfriendly; hostile She felt that they were ________ and were hoping for her downfall.






48. Provide ofr the payment of Her employer offered to ________ the costs of her postgraduate education.






49. Charge in court; indict After his indictment by the Grand Jury - the accused man was ________ed in the County Criminal Court.






50. Done at night Mr. Jones obtained a watchdog to prevent the ________ raids on his chicken coops.







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