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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Menacing; threatening We must not treat the battle lightly for we are facing a ________ foe.






2. Capable of being bribed The ________ policeman accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.






3. Rustic; pastoral The meadow was the scene of ________ gaiety.






4. Not reciprocated Suffering the pangs of ________ love - Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hard-heartedness.






5. Shade of difference in meaning or color The unskilled eye of the layperson has difficulty in dicerning the ________s of color in the paintings.






6. Fit or attack of pain - laughter - rage When he heared of his son's misdeeds - he was seized by a ________ of rage.






7. Nearness The deer sensed the hunter's ________ and bounded away.






8. Notoriously bad Jesse James was an ________ outlaw.






9. Evolve - as in prenatal growth While this scheme was being ________d by the conspirators - they maintained complete silence about their intentions.






10. Mix; work dough Her hands grew strong from ________ing bread.






11. Similarity; parallelism Your ________ is not a good one because the two situations are not similar.






12. Meanly stingy; parsimonious The ________ pittance the widow receives from the government cannot keep her from poverty.






13. Seriousness; gravity The minister was concerned that nothing should disturb the ________ of the marriage service.






14. Swagger; assumed air of defiance The ________ of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.






15. Home of a hermit Even in his remote ________ he could not escape completely from the world.






16. Cunning; artful. She is as ________ as a fox in avoiding trouble.






17. Dethrone; remove form office The army attempted to ________ the king and set up a military government.






18. Empty; lacking in ideas; stupid The candidate's ________ remarks annoyed the audience - who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes






19. Stir up a fire; feed plentifully As a Scout - Marisa learned how to light a fire - how to ________ it if it started to die down - and how to extinguish it completely.






20. Suffering from indigestion All the talk about rich food made him feel ________.






21. Excessively careful He was ________ in checking his accounts and never made mistakes.






22. Waver; fluctuate Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry - the princess ________d - saying now one - now the other.






23. Recollection Her ________s of her experiences are so fascinating that she ought to write a book.






24. Rich - figured fabric The sofa was covered with expensive ________.






25. Painting in plaste (usually fresh) The cathedral is visited by many tourists who wish to admire the ________es by Glotto.






26. Morbid fear Her fear of flying was more than mere nervousness; it was a real ________.






27. Complete; full The union leader was given ________ power to negotiate a new contract with the employers.






28. Wanderer; tramp In summer - college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree ________s.






29. Renounce upon oath He ________d his allegiance to the king.






30. Fretful; whining His classmates were repelled by his ________ and complaining statements.






31. Substance causing vomiting The use of an ________ like mustard is useful in cases of poisoning.






32. Raise in rank or dignity; praise The actor Alec Guinness was ________ed to the rank of knighthood by the Queen; he now is known as Sir Alec Guinness.






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






34. Firm grasp or footing The mountaineer struggled to get a proper ________ on the slippery rock.






35. 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.






36. Nicety; cunning; guile; delicacy The ________ of his remarks was unnoticed by most of his audience.






37. Beginning; forming of a idea At the first ________ of the work - he was consulted.






38. Murder of a king or queen The beheading of Mary Queen of Scots was an act of ________.






39. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one The expression "he passed away" is a ________for "he died."






40. Lustful They objected to his ________ behavior.






41. Curse Roused from the bed at what he considered an ungodly hour - Roy muttered ________s under his breath.






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






43. Person with an insane desire to set things on fire The detectives searched the area for the ________ who had set these costly fires.






44. Rebellious We will not discuss reforms until the ________ troops have returned to their homes.






45. Present an obstacle; stump The detective was ________d by the contradictory evidence in the robbery investigation.






46. Strengthen the base of Whereas relativity theory ________d the Newtonian mechanics - cosmology was undergirded by it.






47. Agreement She was in complete ________ with the verdict.






48. Marked by formality - Ordinary dress would be in appropriate at so ________ an affair.






49. Hackneyed; commonplace Thr ________ and predictable situations in many television programs alienate many viewers.






50. Wordiness; spreading in all directions like a gas Your composition suffers from a ________ of ideas; try to be more compact.