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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Nearness The deer sensed the hunter's ________ and bounded away.






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






3. Crowd ________s of shoppers jammed the aisles.






4. Thin; rare; slim The allegiance of our allies is held by rather ________ ties; let us hope they will remain loyal.






5. Medieval chemistry The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of ________.






6. Refer indirectly Try not to ________ to this matter in his presence because the topic annoys him.






7. Too certain to be disputed In the face of these ________ statements - I withdraw my complaint.






8. Predicament from which there is no escape In this ________ - all turned to prayer as their last hope.






9. Hidden sarcasm or satire; use of words that convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning Gradually his listeners began to realize that the excessive praise he was lavishing was merely ________; he was actually denouncing his opponent.






10. Shaving of the head - especially by person entering religious orders His ________ - even more than his monastic garb - indicated that he was a member of the religious order.






11. Children; offspring He was proud of his ________ but regarded George as the most promising of all his children.






12. Tight; ready The captain maintained that he ran a ________ ship.






13. Cater to the low desires of others The reviewer accused the makers of Lethal Weapon of ________ing to the masses' taste of violence.






14. Familiar with The lawyer is ________ with all the evidence.






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






16. Back country They seldom had visitors - living as they did way out in the ________.






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






18. Evasive; baffling; hard to grasp His ________ dreams of wealth were costly to those of his friends who supported him financially.






19. Conceit; vanity She thought so much of herself that we found her ________ unwarranted and irritating.






20. Become engaged to marry The announcement that they had become ________ed surprised their friends who had not suspected any romance.






21. Remainder I suggest that you wait until the store places the ________s of these goods on sale.






22. Active; efficient A ________ government is necessary to meet the demands of a changing society.






23. Distinguishable; perceivable The ships in the harbor were not ________ in the fog.






24. Light-hearted; dizzy He felt his ________ youth was past.






25. Sleep producer; deadener of pain By such ________s - she made the people forget their difficulties and accept their unpleasant circumstances.






26. Explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally The debate coach warned her student not to bore the audience by ________ing his point.






27. Fantastic; comically hideous On Halloween people enjoy wearing ________ costumes.






28. Urge on He was ________ed by his friends until he yielded to their wishes.






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






30. Commit an offense Only an insane person could ________ such a horrible crime.






31. Resistance to authority; insubordination His words - though not treasonous in themselves - were calculated to arouse thoughts of ________.






32. Pithy - compact saying Proverbs are ________s that have become familiar sayings.






33. Thoroughly examine the condition of and repair if necessary It is necessary for the engineers of NASA to ________ the rocket everyday; otherwise - an incident similar to that of Challenger accident might happen.






34. Attacking cherished traditions George Bernard Shaw's ________ plays often startled more conventional people.






35. Intellectuals; members of the educated elite She preferred discussions about sports and politics to the literary conversations of the ________.






36. Critical comments; severe and adverse criticism His ________s on the author's style are prejudiced and unwarranted.






37. Poisonous snake The habitat of the horned ________ - a particularly venomous snake - is in sandy regions like the Sahara or the Sinai peninsula.






38. Pertaining to induction or preceeding from the specific to the general The discovery of the planet Pluto is an excellent example of the results that can be obtained from ________ reasoning.






39. Menacing; deadly Casting a ________ eye at his successful rival - the rejected suitor stole off - vowing to have his revenge.






40. Thorough; inclusive This book provides a ________ review of verbal and math skills for the SAT.






41. Outward appearance; guise Although this book has a ________ of wisdom and scholarship - a careful examination will reveal many errors and omissions.






42. Fleshly - The public was more interested in ________ pleasures than in spiritual matters.






43. Turn away from Do not ________ from the truth; you must face the facts.






44. Failure to do As a result of her husband's failure to appear in court - she was granted a divorce by ________.






45. Intentional; headstrong. Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly - her death was a case of deliberate - ________ murder - not a crime of passion committed by a hasty - willful youth unable to foresee the consequences of his deeds.






46. Capture; enslave From the moment he saw her picture - he was ________ed by her beauty.






47. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words A coven of witches beside a tree is a possible ________ for the town Coventry.






48. Renounce; abandon The captured knight could escape death only if he agreed to ________ Christianity and embrace Islam as the one true faith.






49. Pertaining to the people He lamented the passing of aristocratic society and maintained that a ________ society would lower the nation's standards.






50. Secret; hidden; not public We do not care for ________ chamber of government.






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