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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Place side by side Comparison will be easier if you ________ the two objects.






2. Warn; reprove He ________ed his listeners to change their wicked ways.






3. 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 ________.






4. Gather; assemble Washington mustered his forces at Trenton.






5. Wandering; traveling He was an ________ peddler and traveled through Pennsylvania and Virginia selling his wares.






6. Oily; bland; insincerely suave Uriah Heep disguised his nefarious actions by ________ protestations of his "'umility."






7. Draw; outline; describe Parodoxically - the more realistic the details this artist chooses - the better able to ________ her fantastic - other- worldly landscapes.






8. Fair; impartial I am seeking an ________ solution to this dispute - one which will be fair and acceptable to both sides.






9. Uprightness; incorruptibility Everyone took his ________ for granted; his defalcations - therefore - shocked us all.






10. Marked with parallel bands; grooved The glacier left many ________ rocks.






11. Cancel Because of public resentment - the king had to ________ his order.






12. Charmingly carefree; simple Far from the city - she led an ________ existence in her rural retreat.






13. Make young again The charlatan claimed that his elixir would ________ the aged and weary.






14. Differing; deviating The two witnesses presented the jury with remarkably ________ accounts of the same epipode.






15. Uprightness; wholeness Lincoln - whose personal ________ has inspired millions - fought a civil war to maintain the integrity of the republic - that these United States might remain undivided for all time.






16. Breaking of contract or duty; fissure; gap They found a ________ in the enemy's fortifications and penetrated their lines.






17. Unwholesome; not healthful The mosquito-ridden swamp was an ________ place - a breeding ground for malarial contagion.






18. Narrow valley with steep sides Steeper than a gully - less precipitous than a canyon - a ________ is - like them - the product of years of erosion.






19. Agreeable; gracious; engaging. By her _________ manner - she made herself liked by everyone who met her.






20. Insult to one's character or reputation; slander Polls revealed that the front-runner's standing had been damaged by the ________s and innuendoes circulated by his opponent's staff.






21. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive - unspoiled This area has been preserved in all its ________ wildness.






22. Painful labor How long do you think a man can endure such ________ and degradation without rebelling?






23. Stimulate by shock; stir up The entire nation was ________d into strong military activity by the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.






24. Divided into two branches; forked With a ________ branch and a piece of elastic rubber - he made a crude but effective slingshot.






25. Secret code - Lacking his code book - the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in ________.






26. Perceive intuitively; foresee the future Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to ________ when he was not telling the truth.






27. Venomous spider We need an antitoxin to counteract the bite of the ________.






28. Defeat; frustrate In the end - Skywalker is able to ________ Vader's diabolical schemes.






29. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver It is interesting to note how public opinion ________s between the extremes of optimism and pessimism.






30. Delay in punishment; interval of relief; rest The judge granted the condemned man a ________ to enable his attorneys to file an appeal.






31. Word for word He repeated the message ________.






32. Antiquated "Methinks -" "thee -" and "thou" are ________ words that are no longer part of our normal vocabulary.






33. Oval building with tiers of seats The spectators in the ________ cheered the gladiators.






34. Correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship The student demonstrated the ________ of the two triangles by using the hypotenuse-arm theorem.






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






36. Refutation; response with contrary evidence The defense lawyer confidently listened to the prosecutor sum up his case - sure that she could answer his arguments in her ________.






37. Pollute The sewage system of the city so ________d the water that swimming was forbidden.






38. Quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus The car lost ________ as it tried to ascend the steep hill.






39. Act of turning aside; pastime After studying for several hours - he needed a ________ from work.






40. Wanton; profane He sang a ________ song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.






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






42. Having foresight; fortuneteller - Cassandra's ________ warning was not heeded by the Trojans.






43. Narrow-minded; limited in scope As university chaplain - she sought to address universal religious issues and not limit herself to mere ________ concerns.






44. Comment; make explanatory notes In the appendix to the novel - the critic sought to ________ many of the more esoteric references.






45. Pertaining to the aurora borealis The ________ display was particularly spectacular that evening.






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






47. Premonition of evil Caeser ridiculed his wife's ________ about the Ides of March.






48. Pantry; place where food is kept The first thing Bill did on returning home from school was to check what snacks his mother had in the ________.






49. Made of bone; bony The hollow "soft spot" found at the top of the infant's skull gradually closes as new ________ tissue fills in the gap.






50. Point at which the sun is farthest from the equator The winter ________ usually occurs on December 21.







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