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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Nonentity; worthless person or thing - She claimed her ex-husband was a total ________ and wondered why she had ever married him.






2. Drive or hunt out of hiding She was ________ed out their secret.






3. Active; efficient A ________ government is necessary to meet the demands of a changing society.






4. Harass - annoy - torment; raid The guerrilla band ________(ied) the enemy nightly.






5. Arrest ( a criminal); dread; perceive The police will ________ the culprit and convict him before long.






6. Repetition He recited the passage by ________ and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.






7. Superfluous; more than needed or demanded We have more than enough witnesses to corroborate your statement; to present any more would be ________.






8. Pertaining to marriage Their dreams of ________ bliss were shattered as soon as their temperaments clashed.






9. Abdominal We shall now examine the ________ plates of this serpent - not the dorsal side.






10. Tomb Annabel Lee was buried in a ________ by the sea.






11. Savor; enjoy I ________ a good joke as much as anyone else.






12. Uncouple; separate; disconnect A standard movie routine involves the hero's desperate attempt to ________ a railroad car from a moving train.






13. Profligate. He was denounced as a ________ who had dissipated his inheritance.






14. 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.






15. Arise from Milton's problems in school ________ his poor study habits.






16. Odd; whimsical; irregular The comet passed close by the earth in its ________ orbit.






17. Conspicuously wicked We cannot condone such ________ violations of the rules.






18. Invigorate; make forceful and active Rather than exhausting Maggie - dancing ________d her.






19. Unreasonable or capricious; tyrannical The coach claimed the team lost because the umpire made some ________ calls.






20. Eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything Some animals - including humans - are ________ and eat both meat and vegetables; others are either carnivorous or herbivorous.






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






22. Assist - usually in doing something wrong - She was unwilling to ________ him in the swindle he had planned.






23. Amuse; delude; cheat I ________d himself during the long hours by playing solitaire.






24. Understood; not put into words We have a ________ agreement based on only a handshake.






25. Yielding; timid Crushed by his authoritarian father - Will had no defiance left in him; he was totally ________ in the face of authority.






26. Fit for plowing The land was no longer ________; erosion had removed the valuable topsoil.






27. Quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion Watching the tearful reunion of the long-separated mother and child - the social worker was touched by the ________ of the scene.






28. Untidy Your ________ appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.






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






30. Odd; unpredictable Investors become anxious when the stock market appears ________.






31. Pertaining to induction or preceeding from the specific to the general The discovery of the planet Pluto is an excellent example of the results that can be obtained from ________ reasoning.






32. Replace; usurp Corazon Aquino ________ed Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines.






33. Repentant When he realized the enormity of his crime - he became remorseful and ________.






34. Poisonous snake The habitat of the horned ________ - a particularly venomous snake - is in sandy regions like the Sahara or the Sinai peninsula.






35. Spot Her cheeks ________ed with tears - were testimony to the hours of weeping.






36. Blessing The appearance of the sun after the many rainy days was like a ________.






37. Firmly established by nature or habit His ________ love of justice compelled him to come to their aid.






38. Become engaged to marry The announcement that they had become ________ed surprised their friends who had not suspected any romance.






39. Vague statement This report is filled with ________(ies); you must be more specific in you statements.






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






41. Extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance The glitter and ________ of the ballroom took Cinderella's breath away.






42. Examination of accounts When the bank examiners arrived to hold their annual ________ - they discovered the embezzlements of the chief cashier.






43. Urge; start; provoke I am afraid that this statement will ________ a revolt.






44. Foolish; inane He is far too intelligent to utter such ________ remarks.






45. Pine tree; cone-bearing tree According to geologists - the ________s were the first plants to bear flowers.






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






47. Bulky; large Despite her family burdens - she kept up a ________ correspondence with her friends.






48. Satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything Every Thanksgiving we are ________ed with an overabundance of holiday treats.






49. Abstruse; profound; secret He read many ________ books in order to obtain the material for the scholarly thesis.






50. The smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance In chemistry - we study how atoms and ________s react to form new substances.







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