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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Agree; accept It gives me great pleasure to ________ to your request.






2. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste Neither Jack's underbaked opinions nor his overcooked casseroles were ________ to me.






3. Easy to approach; obtainable We asked our guide whether the ruins were ________ on foot.






4. Throb We could see the blood vessels in his temple ________ as he became more angry.






5. Offer as a sacrifice The tribal kind offered to ________ his daughter to quiet the angry gods.






6. Disregard Be prepared to ________ what he has to say about his ex-wife.






7. Positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath Despite Tom's ________ of innocence - Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.






8. Split - Erosion caused a ________ in the huge boulder.






9. Supposed He is the ________ father of the child.






10. False; counterfeit; forged; illogical The hero of Jonathan Gash's mystery novels is an antique dealer who gives the reader advice on how to tell ________ antiques from the real things.






11. Specialist in classifying (animals - etc.) Dental patterns often enable the ________ to distinguish members of one rodent species from those of another.






12. Contemptuous; haughty I prefer Jill's modesty to Jack's ________ and arrogant attitude.






13. Needlessly repetitious In the sentence "It was visible to the eye -" the phrase "to the eye" is ________.






14. Affectedly dainty Yum-Yum walked across the stage with ________ steps.






15. Cautious; careful A miser hoards money not because he is ________ but because he is greedy.






16. Entice; attract ________d by the song of the sirens - the helmsman steered the ship toward the reef.






17. Transfer; yield title to - I intend to ________ this property to the city.






18. Mouthlike opening; small opening The Howe Caverns were discovered when someone observed that a cold wind was issuing from an ________ in the hillside.






19. One who studies the skin and its diseases I advise you to consult a ________ about your acne.






20. Harmful Smoking cigarettes can be ________ to your health.






21. Give up; do without Determined to lose weight for the summer - Ida decided to ________ dessert until she could fit into a size eight again.






22. Idle person; male bee Content to let his wife support him - the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a ________.






23. Increase The new contract calls for a 10 percent ________in salary for each employee for the next two years.






24. Induce; triumph over He tried to ________ on her to type his essays for him.






25. Those of gentle birth; refinement Her family was proud of its ________ and elegance.






26. Pride; arrogance I resent his ________ because he is no better than we are.






27. Foretell; presage The king did not know what these omens might ________ and asked his soothsayers to interpret them.






28. Become worse; deteriorate As the fight dragged on - the champion's style________ until he could barely keep on his feet.






29. Persuade; bring about After the quarrel - Tina said nothing could ________ her to talk to Tony again.






30. Confuse; puzzle No mystery could ________ Sherlock Holmes for long.






31. Ruined because of neglect We felt that the ________ building needed several coats of paint.






32. Having an odor This variety of hybrid tea rose is more ________ than the one you have in your garden.






33. Given freely; unwarranted; uncalled for Quit making ________ comments about my driving; no one asked you for your opinion.






34. Separate; part Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously ________ed.






35. Gather leavings After the crops had been harvested by the machines - the peasants were permitted to ________ the wheat left in the fields.






36. Pacify; conciliate The teacher tried to ________ the angry mother.






37. Noble ambition Youth's ________s should be as lofty as the stars.






38. Deeply established; firmly rooted Try as they would - the missionaries were unable to uproot the ________ superstitions of the natives.






39. Deny; go back on He ________d on paying off his debt.






40. Imagined; unreal You are resenting ________ insults. No one has ever said such things about you.






41. Retort; comeback; reply When someone has been rude to me - I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick ________.






42. 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 ________.






43. Disloyal Once the most loyal of Gorbachev's supporters - Shverdnaze found himself becoming increasingly ________.






44. Combining parts into a whole Now that we have succeeded in isolating this drug - our next problem is to plan its ________ in the laboratory.






45. Provide with some quality; endow He was ________d with a lion's courage.






46. Forgetfulness Her work had fallen into a state of ________; no one bothered to read them.






47. Secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place We set the post in concrete to ________ it in place.






48. Merry Santa Claus is always vivacious and ________.






49. Beggar From the moment we left the ship - we were surrounded by ________s and peddlers.






50. Informal discussion I enjoy our ________(ies) but I sometimes wish that they could be made more formal and more searching.