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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Propriety; seemliness Shocked by the unruly behavior - the teacher criticized the class for its lack of ________.






2. Study of word parts A knowledge of ________ can help you on many English tests.






3. Gradual intrusion The ________ of the factories upon the neighborhood lowered the value of the real estate.






4. Tendency to keep together A firm believer in the maxim "Divide and conquer -" the emperor - by lies and trickery - sought to disrupt the ________ of the free nations.






5. Set of bells capable of being played - The carillon in the bell tower of the Coca-Cola pavilion at the New York World's Fair provided musical entertainment every hour.






6. Eye defect that prevents proper focus As soon as his parents discovered that the boy suffered from ________ - they took him to the optometrist for corrective glasses.






7. Conceited person A ________ is his own best friend.






8. Examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order They ________d the newly found manuscripts to determine their age.






9. Incipient; coming into being If we could identify these revolutionary movements in their ________ state - we would be able to eliminate serious trouble in later years.






10. Dominance - especially of one nation over others As one Eastern European nation after another declared its independence - commentators marveled at the sudden breakdown of the once monolithic Soviet ________.






11. Brighten; clear up or make understandable; enlighten Just as a lamp can ________ a dark room - a perceptive comment can illuminate a knotty problem.






12. Controversy; argument in support of point of view Her essays were - for the main part - ________s for the party's policy.






13. Make impure by mixing with baser substances It is a crime to ________ foods without informing the buyer.






14. Relating to space It is difficult to visualize the ________ extent of our universe.






15. Stocky; short and thick Tolkien's hobbits are somewhat ________ - sturdy little creatures - fond of good ale - good music - and good food.






16. Addition of details; intricacy Tell what happened simply - without any ________.






17. Severe trial or affliction Terry Anderson spoke movingly of his long ________ as a hostage in Lebanon.






18. Self-governing This island is a colony; however - in most matters - it is ________ and receives no orders from the mother country.






19. Malicious misrepresentation - He could endure his financial failure - but he could not bear the ________ that his foes heaped upon him.






20. Reddish; healthy-looking His ________ features indicated that he had spent much time in the open.






21. Likely to change; unstable Because the hormonal changes they undergo affect their spirits - adolescents may become emotionally ________ and experience sudden shifts of mood.






22. Sticky - gluey Melted tar is a ________ substance.






23. Punish - I must ________ you for this offense.






24. Outcry When her purse was snatched - she raised such a ________ and cry that the thief was captured.






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. Discord Some contemporary musicians deliberately use ________ to achieve certain effects.






27. Insert improperly; palm off I will not permit you to ________ such ridiculous ideas upon the membership of this group.






28. Not developed; elementary His dancing was limited to a few ________ steps.






29. Half-human - half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus - portrayed as wanton and cunning He was like a ________ in his lustful conduct.






30. Slang In the ________ of the underworld - she "was taken for a ride."






31. Fight The captain tried to ascertain the cause of the ________ that had broken out among the crew members.






32. Combination (of two business corporations) When the firm's president married the director of financial planning - the office joke was that it wasn't a marriage - it was a ________.






33. Opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed The player was afraid to accept his opponent's ________ because he feared a trap which as yet he could not see.






34. Binding; rigid I think these regulations are too ________.






35. Humorous; jocular Your ________ remarks are not appropriate at this serious moment.






36. Precede The invention of the radiotelegraph ________d the development of television by a quarter of a century.






37. Not penetrable; not permitting passage through You cannot change their habits for their minds are ________ to reasoning.






38. Split; tear apart In his grief - he tried to ________ his garments.






39. Breathing; exhalation The doctor found that the patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of ________.






40. A tendency to disbelief Your ________ in the face of all the evidence is hard to understand.






41. Winding; bending in and out; not morally honest The snake moved in a ________ manner.






42. Many-colored Without her glasses - Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a ________ blur.






43. Going from one state of action to another During the period of ________ from oil heat to gas heat - the furnace will have to be shut off.






44. Free; disentangle He found that he could not ________ himself from the trap.






45. Hint She ________d rather than stated her preferences.






46. Lacking caution; injudicious It is ________ to exercise vigorously and become overheated when you are unwell.






47. Denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) On the ________ thermometer - the freezing point of water is zero degrees.






48. Unbeliever The Saracens made war against tne ________s.






49. Calming drug or influence It is dangerous to drive after taking the ________; it brings drowsiness.






50. Vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young Many people regard the whale as a fish and do not realize that it is a ________.