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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Filled to capacity; abundantly supplied The book is ________ with humorous situations.






2. Insult to one's character or reputation; slander Polls revealed that the front-runner's standing had been damaged by the ________s and innuendoes circulated by his opponent's staff.






3. Abandon I will ________ my claims to this property if you promise to retain my employees.






4. Echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound The deep - ________ voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particulary effective when he appears on stage.






5. Logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable You're going to have to come up with a better argument if you want to convince me that your reasoning is ________.






6. Prepare by combining; make up in concert How did the inventive chef ever ________ such strange dish?






7. Expressing a low opinion I resent your ________ remarks.






8. Custom; habitual procedure. As was his _________ - he jogged two miles every morning before going to work.






9. Pester; annoy She was forced to change her telephone number because she was ________ed by obscene phone calls.






10. Highest point When the moon in its orbit is furthest away from the earth - it is at its ________.






11. 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.






12. Without previous preparation Her listeners were amazed that such a thorough presentation could be made in an ________ speech.






13. Subside or moderate - Rather than leaving immediately - they waited for the storm to ________.






14. Daring; bold Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their ________ - death-defying leap to freedom and escaped Darth Vader's troops.






15. False; counterfeit; forged; illogical The hero of Jonathan Gash's mystery novels is an antique dealer who gives the reader advice on how to tell ________ antiques from the real things.






16. Irreverent The congregation was offended by her ________ remarks.






17. Pretend He ________med sickness to get out of going to school.






18. Opposite The inevitable ________ of peace is not war but annihilation.






19. Capable of grasping or holding Monkeys use not only their arms and legs but also their ________e tails in traveling through the trees.






20. Lay eggs Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to ________ in their native streams.






21. Person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a ________.






22. Overstock; fill to excess The many manufacturers ________ted the market and could not find purchasers for the many articles they had produced.






23. Keep away from Cherishing his solitude - the recluse ________ned the company of other human beings.






24. Expurgate After the film editors had ________d the language in the script - the motion picture's rating was changed from "R" to "PG."






25. Urge; start; provoke I am afraid that this statement will ________ a revolt.






26. Repetition He recited the passage by ________ and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.






27. Twisting force; force producing rotation With her wrench she applied sufficient ________ to the nut the loosen it.






28. Observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation We kept careful records of the ________ we noted in the course of these experiments.






29. Unsuccessful; fruitless We had to abandon our ________ attempts.






30. Waste matter; worhtless impurities Many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the ________.






31. Protective; pertaining to a guardianship I am acting in my ________ capacity when I refuse to grant you permission to leave the campus.






32. Rear; encourage According to the legend - Romulus and Remus were ________ed by a she-wolf that raised the abandoned infants as her own.






33. Abandon; disown; repudiate Even though she knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch - Joan of Arc refused to ________ her belief that her voices came from God.






34. Security given for loan The sum you wish to borrow is so large that it must be secured by ________.






35. Element; ingredient I wish all the ________s of my stereo system were working at the same time.






36. Satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything Every Thanksgiving we are ________ed with an overabundance of holiday treats.






37. Pertaining to earthquakes The Richter scale is a measurement of ________ disturbances.






38. Unsatisfied; not soothed Her anger is ________ by your apology.






39. Conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to The design for the new school had to be in ________ with the local building code.






40. Complicated situation; perplexity; entanglement He was called in to settle the ________ but failed to bring harmony into the situation.






41. Vigorously active; nimble She was eighty years old - yet still ________ and alert.






42. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste Neither Jack's underbaked opinions nor his overcooked casseroles were ________ to me.






43. Implying a cause-and-effect relationship - The psychologist maintained there was a ________ relationship between the nature of one's early childhood experiences and one's adult personality.






44. Tasty; pleasing - attractive - or agreeable Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create ________ delicacies for their guests.






45. Boaster Modest by nature - she was no ________ - preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.






46. Having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar) All that remained of the ancient building were the ________ columns.






47. Noble ambition Youth's ________s should be as lofty as the stars.






48. Profitable He turned his hobby into a ________ profession.






49. Poverty Neither the economists nor the political scientists have found a way to wipe out the inequities of wealth and eliminate ________ from our society.






50. Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal. It is good to have a few _________s in our group for their enthusiasm is contagious.






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