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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Purgative - Some drugs act as laxatives when taken in small doses but act as ________s when taken in much larger doses.






2. Deadly It is unwise to leave ________ weapons where children may find them.






3. Banish; consign to inferior position If we ________ these experts to minor posts because of their political persuasions - we shall lose their valuable services.






4. Slow; lazy; lethargic After two nights without sleep - she felt ________ and incapable of exertion.






5. Cut away; trim With the help of her editor - she was able to ________ her manuscript into publishable form.






6. Skillful The magician was so ________ that we could not follow his movements as he performed his tricks.






7. Ghastly She shuddered at the ________ sight.






8. Rough-mannered Although he was blunt and ________ with most people - he was always gentle with children.






9. Member of the working class The aristocrats feared mob rule and gave the right to vote only to the wealthy - thus depending the ________s of a voice in government.






10. Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding As the river rose and threatened to overflow the ________ - emergency workers rushed to reinforce the walls with sandbags.






11. Ornate Modern architecture has discarded the ________ trimming on buildings and emphasizes simplicity of line.






12. Flair; flamboyance Many performers imitate Noel Coward - but few have his ________ and sense of style.






13. Change of form The ________ of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in animal life.






14. Connoisseur of food and drink The ________ stated that this was the best onion soup she had ever tasted.






15. Without deceit He is naive - simple - and ________; he cannot be guilty of fraud.






16. Analysis; cutting apart in order to examine The ________ of frogs on the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.






17. Curative Now better known for its racetrack - Saratoga Springs first gained attention for the ________ qualities of its famous "healing waters."






18. Emotional closeness; harmony In team teaching - it is important that all teachers in the group have good ________ with one another.






19. Trembling; slight quiver She had a nervous ________ in her right hand.






20. Relating to paradise; blissful An afternoon sail on the bay was for her an ________ journey.






21. Practical rule guiding conduct "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is a worthwhile ________.






22. One who fits glasses to remedy visual defects Although an ________ is qualified to treat many eye disorders - she may not use medicinesor surgery in her examinations.






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






24. Correction of errors; improvement Please initial all the ________s you have made in this contract.






25. Going from one state of action to another During the period of ________ from oil heat to gas heat - the furnace will have to be shut off.






26. Fitness; correct conduct I want you to behave at this dinner with ________; don't embarass me.






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






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






29. Beginning; origin Tracing the ________ of a family is the theme of "Roots."






30. Into parts; apart Their points of view are poles ________.






31. Rash Don't be ________. Get the advice of experienced people before undertaking this venture.






32. Porous; allowing passage through Glass is ________ to light.






33. Someone easily fooled While the gullible Watson often was made a ________ by unscrupulous parties - Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.






34. Understatement for emphasis To say - "He little realizes -" when we mean that he does not realize at all - is an example of the kind of understatement we call ________.






35. Counterfeit; not authentic The police quickly found the distributors of the ________ twenty-dollar bills.






36. Be revealed; happen When Austen writes the sentence "It had just ________d that he had left gaming debts behind him -" her meaning is not that the debts had just been incurred - but the the shocking news had just leaked out.






37. Please Her parents were ________(ied) by her success.






38. Motherly Many animals display ________ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.






39. Predict I ________ disaster unless we change our wasteful ways.






40. Having an aim; biased; designed to further a cause The editorials in this periodical are ________ rather than truth-seeking.






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






42. Experience; support; nourish He sustained such a severe injury that the doctors feared he would be unable to work to ________ his growing family.






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






44. Person competent to act as judge of art - ect.; a lover of an art She had developed into a ________ of fine china.






45. Accustomed; hardened She became ________ to the Alaskan cold.






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






47. Damp She could not stand the ________ climate and moved to a drier area.






48. Muddy; having the sediment disturbed The water was ________ after the children had waded through it.






49. Make amends for; pay for He knew no way in which he could ________ for his brutal crime.






50. Drink greedily Singing - "Yo - ho - ho - and a bottle of rum -" Long John Silver and his fellow pirates ________ed their grog.