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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Trembling; slight quiver She had a nervous ________ in her right hand.






2. Explanatory; serving to explain The mannual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of ________ prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.






3. Purgative - Some drugs act as laxatives when taken in small doses but act as ________s when taken in much larger doses.






4. Last demand; warning Since they have ignored our ________ - our only recourse is to declare war.






5. Cowardly; fainthearted You should be ashamed of your ________ conduct during this dispute.






6. Unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold - He gave her a diamond that weighed three ________s and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.






7. Green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting Judging by the ________ on this bronze statue - we can conclude that this is the work of a medieval artist.






8. Deliver officially; entrust; set apart The court ________d the child to her paternal grandmother's care.






9. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged Sucked into the ________ of the tornado - Dorothy and Toto were carried from Kansas to Oz.






10. Uneasiness; distress She felt a sudden vague ________ when she heard sounds at the door.






11. Resonant His ________ voice resounded through the hall.






12. Coarse food for cattle - horses etc. One of Nancy's chores ar the ranch was to put fresh supplies of ________ in the horses' stalls.






13. Stick together Solids have a greater tendency to ________ than liquids.






14. Aid; assistance; relief We shall be ever grateful for the ________ our country gave us when we were in need.






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






16. Turn to stone His sudden and unexpected appearance seemed to ________ her.






17. Wanton; profane He sang a ________ song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.






18. Flattery; admiration The rock star thrived on the ________ of his groupies and yes-men.






19. Absurd; ridiculous When the candidate tried to downplay his youthful experiments with marijuana by saying he hadn't inhaled -we all thought - "What a ________ excuse!"






20. Correct I want to ________ my error before it is too late.






21. Treat as a celebrity She enjoyed being ________d and adored by the public.






22. Worn out; exhausted; barren The literature of the age reflected the ________ condition of the writers; no new ideas were forthcoming.






23. Natural inclination Convinced of his own talent - Sol has an unfortunate ________ to belittle the talents of others.






24. Tentative The appointment is ________; only on the approval of the board of directors will it be made permanent.






25. Not to be taken away; nontransferable The Declaration of Independence mentions the ________ rights that all of us possess.






26. Surrender of prisoner by one state to another The lawyers opposed the ________ of their client on the grounds that for more than five years he had been a model citizen.






27. Watching; guarding The FBI kept the house under constant ________ in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time.






28. Eager enthusiasm. Wang's _________ was contagious; soon all his fellow students were busily making posters - inspired by his ardent enthusiasm for the cause.






29. Feeble - ineffective; unthinking - irresponsible Einstein was noted for his extraordinary inspirations; on the other hand - he was noted for being ________ in his daily chores.






30. Impressiveness; stateliness; majesty No matter how often he hiked through the mountains - David never failed to be struck by the ________ of the Sierra Nevada range.






31. Quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion Watching the tearful reunion of the long-separated mother and child - the social worker was touched by the ________ of the scene.






32. Art of debate I am not skilled in ________ and therefore - cannot answer your arguments as forcefully as I wish.






33. Striking one object against another sharply The drum is a ________ instrument.






34. Treasury He had been Chancellor of the ________ before his promotion to the office he now holds.






35. Picture; short literary sketch The New Yorker published her latest ________.






36. Tranquil; steady; uniform After the hot summers and cold winters of New England - he found the climate of the West Indies ________ and pleasant.






37. Form of government of nation or state Our ________ should be devoted to the concept that the government should strive for the good of all citizens.






38. Mischance; ill luck The young explorer met death by ________.






39. Calamity - The Johnstown flood was a ________.






40. Showing hard work; taking great care The new high-frequency word list is the result of ________ efforts on the part of our research staff.






41. Condescend He felt that he would debase himself if he ________ed to answer his critics.






42. Extremely dry; very thirsty The ________ desert landscape seemed hostile to life.






43. Broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing The manufacturers of this frying pan recommended the use of a rubber ________ to avoid scratching the specially treated surface.






44. Pertinent; referring to the case in hand Teri was impressed by how ________ Virginia Woolf's remarks were to her as a woman writer; it was as if Woolf had been writing with Teri's situation in mind.






45. Make less difficult He tried to ________ repayment of the loan by getting a part-time job.






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






47. Sober; sedate Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was ________ and solemn.






48. Repentant When he realized the enormity of his crime - he became remorseful and ________.






49. Green; lush in vegetation Monet's paintings of the ________ meadows were symphonies in green.






50. Unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China - but the repressive response of the ________ hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.