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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Opinion contrary to popular belief or to accepted religion He was threatened with excommunication because his remarks were considered to be pure ________.






2. Half-stifled laugh The boy could not suppress a ________ when the teacher sat on the tack.






3. Powerful; strong; potent We must keep his friendship for he will make a ________ ally.






4. Pierce; put a hole through Before you can open the aspirin bottle - you must first ________ the plastic safety seal that covers the cap.






5. Change or harden into bone When he called his opponent a "bonehead -" he implied that his adversary's brain had ________(ied) and that he was not capable of clear thinking.






6. Be disturbed; boil The nation was ________ing with discontent as the nobleman continued their arrogant ways.






7. Fill up again Before she could take another backpacking trip - Carla had to ________ her stock of freeze-dried foods.






8. Blessed; consecrated She was laid to rest in ________ ground.






9. One who commits sabotage; destroyer of property Members of the Resistance acted as ________s - blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.






10. Trifles; unimportant matters Too many magazines ignore newsworthy subjects and feature ________.






11. Defensive mound on earth "From the ________s we watched" as the fighting continued.






12. Neat and trim In "The Odd Couple -" Tony Randall played Felix Unger - an excessively ________ soul who could not stand to have a hair out of place.






13. Confuse; mix up His thoughts were ________d and chaotic.






14. Well-bred; elegant We are looking for a man with a ________ apperance who can inspire confidence by his cultivated manner.






15. Pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores During the course of his ________ research - the scientist developed a steel alloy of tremendous strength.






16. Wakefulness; inability to sleep He refused to join us in a midnight cup of coffee because he claimed it gave him ________.






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






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






19. Marrigeable Mrs. Bennet - in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - was worried about finding suitable husbands for her five ________ daughters.






20. Person who collects coins The ________ had a splendid collection of antique coins.






21. Journey Auntie Mame was a world traveler whose ________s took her from Tiajuana to Timbuctoo.






22. Irregularity A bird that cannot fly is an ________.






23. Droop; grow feeble When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first period - the home team's spirits ________ged.






24. Babble The children ________ endlessly about their new toys.






25. Legal delay of payment If we declare a ________ and delay collection of debts for six months - I am sure the farmers will be able to meet their bills.






26. Parched; dry After the unseasonably dry winter the Berkeley hills looked dusty and ________.






27. Non-moral The ________ individual lacks a code of ethics; he should not be classified as immoral.






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






29. Heat; passion; zeal Katya's ________ was contagious; soon all her fellow demonstrators were busily making posters and handing out flyers - inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.






30. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste. Pointing to the stack of bills - Sheldon criticized Sarah for her wanton expenditures. In response - Sara accused Sheldon of making an unfounded - wanton attack.






31. Burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment The rags ________ed for hours before they burst into flame.






32. Iridescent The Ancient Mariner admired the ________ sheen on the water.






33. Mark from beating or whipping. The evidence of child abuse was very clear; Jennifer's small body was covered with ________s and bruises.






34. Cure-all; something invigorating The news of her chance to go abroad acted on her like an ________.






35. Protrusion; bulge A ganglionic cyst is a fluid-filled tumor (generally benign) that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath - and that bulges beneath the skin - forming a ________.






36. Repetition of beginning sound in poetry "The furrow followed free" is an example of ________.






37. Composed; grave The parents were worried because they felt their son was too quiet and ________.






38. Meeting place The two fleets met at the ________ at the appointed time.






39. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.






40. Mercy killing Many people support ________ for terminally ill patients who wish to die.






41. Unerring We must remember that none of us is ________; we all make mistakes.






42. Agent; messenger The secretary of State was sent as the President's special ________ to the conference on disarmament.






43. Moving at an easy pace When she first mounted the horse - she was afraid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble.






44. Divine gift; great popular charm or appeal - Political commentators have deplored the importance of a candidate's ________ in these days of television campaigning.






45. Flexible Hours of ballet classes kept him ________.






46. Abundantly fruitful She was a ________ writer who produced as many as three books a year.






47. Relating to the stars She was amazed at the number of ________ bodies the new telescope revealed.






48. Selected passage (written or musical) The cinematic equivalent of an ________ from a novel is a clip from a film.






49. State of being immovable Modern armies cannot afford the luxury of ________ - as they are vulnerable to attack while standing still.






50. Harmonious; in harmony with They were ________ neighbors - never quarreling over unimportant matters.







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