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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Vehicle; transfer During the transit strike - commuters used various kinds of ________s.






2. Absorbing; engrossing The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a ________ tale: absorbed in the story - he had finished it in a single evening.






3. Severe trial or affliction Terry Anderson spoke movingly of his long ________ as a hostage in Lebanon.






4. Confusion; strife Conscious he had sinned - he was in a state of spiritual ________.






5. Hatred of marriage He remained a bachelor not because of ________ but because of ill fate: his fiancee died before the wedding.






6. Heterogeneous mixture; medley He offered a ________ of folk songs from many lands.






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






8. Records; history In the ________ of this period - we find no mention of democratic movements.






9. Spacious - In the ________ areas of the railroad terminal - thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.






10. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback Martin seemed an ________ to his Tuscan ancestors who lavished great care on their small plots of soil.






11. Untrue; made up To impress his friends - Tom invented ________ tales of his adventures in the big city.






12. Hollow The back-packers found partial shelter from the storm by huddling against the ________ wall of the cliff.






13. Effusively sentimental I do not like such ________ pictures. I call them tearjerkers.






14. Unruly; rebellious The captain had to use force to quiet his ________ crew.






15. Pleasantly tart-tasting; stimulating The ________sauce added to our enjoyment of the meal.






16. Harshness; plainness The newspapers disapproved of the ________ of the sentence.






17. Outer boundary To find the ________ of any quadrilateral - we add the lengths of the four sides.






18. Raid The company staged a midnight ________ against the enemy outpost.






19. Malleability; flexibility; ability to be drawn out Copper wire has many industrial uses because of its extreme ________.






20. Study of fish Jacques Cousteau's rpograms about sea life have advanced the cause of ________.






21. Ornamental band on a wall The ________ of the church was adorned with sculpture.






22. Soften by soaking in liquid; waste away The strawberries had been soaking in the champagn for so long that they had begun to ________: they literally fell apart at the touch of a spoon.






23. Stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending By living with a man to whom she was not married - George Eliot broke Victorian society's most ________ rule of respectable behavior.






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






25. Cure-all; remedy for all diseases There is no easy ________ that will solve our complicated international situation.






26. Wool coat of a sheep They shear sheep of their ________ - which they then comb into separate strands of wool.






27. Combative; bellicose Although at this time he was advocating a policy of neutrality - one could usually find him adopting a more ________ attitude.






28. Change in voting district lines in order to favor a political party The illogical pattern of the map of this congressional district is proof that the state legislature ________ed this area in order to favor the majority party.






29. Unattractive During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is ________.






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






31. Pertaining to money Jane held the family purse strings: she made all ________ decisions affecting the household.






32. Drive our evil spirits By incantation and prayer - the medicine man sought to ________ the evil spirits that had taken possession of the young warrior.






33. 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.






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






35. Remainder; balance In his will - he requested that after payment of debts - taxes - and funeral expenses - the ________ be given to his wife.






36. Small plane surface (of a gem); a side The stonecutter decided to improve the rough diamond by providing it with several ________s.






37. Cruel; deadly The newspapers told of the tragic spread of the ________ disease






38. Pertaining to cultivation of gardens When he bought his house - he beganto look for flowers and decorative shrubs - and began to read books dealing with ________ matters.






39. Fiendish The Spanish Inquisition devised many ________ means of torture.






40. Unit of light energy (one candle's worth) In buying light bulbs - she checked not only their power - as measured in watts - but their brightness - as measured in ________s.






41. Pertaining to the people He lamented the passing of aristocratic society and maintained that a ________ society would lower the nation's standards.






42. Multiply; spread Since bacteria ________ more quickly in unsanitary environments - it is important to keep hospital rooms clean.






43. Averse; reluctant They were both ________ for him to go.






44. Charlatan; boastful pretender The patent medicine man was a ________.






45. Supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work He performed his daily ________ cheerfully and willingly.






46. Generous; showing bounty She distributed gifts in a ________ and gracious manner.






47. Phrase culled in meaning by repetition - High school compositions are often marred by such ________s as "strong as an ox."






48. Mocking The humor of cartoonists Gary Trudeau often is ________; though the comments of the Doonesbury characters - Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.






49. Huge; enormous The ________ wrestler was terrified of mice.






50. Handle roughly The rock star was ________ed by his overexcited fans.