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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. 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.






2. Noise - The ________ of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.






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






4. Casual; done without prior thought Expecting to be treated with due propriety by her costs - Great-Aunt Maud was offended by their ________ manner.






5. Swollen; distended The ________ river threatened to overflow the levees and flood the contryside.






6. Undeveloped; rudimentary The evil of class and race hatred must be eliminated while it is still in an ________ state; otherwise - it may grow to dangerous proportions.






7. Insolent Her ________ contempt for authority angered the officials.






8. Somewhat saline He found the only wells in the area were ________; drinking the water made him nauseous.






9. Measure; distribute He tried to be impartial in his efforts to ________ out justice.






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






11. Pertaining to cultivation of gardens When he bought his house - he beganto look for flowers and decorative shrubs - and began to read books dealing with ________ matters.






12. Lower; degrade; humiliate - Anna expected to have to curtsy to the King of Siam; when told to cast herself down on the ground before him - however she refused to ________ herself.






13. Rebound; reverberation; reaction I am afraid that this event will have serious ________s.






14. Without feeling; not affected by pain The Native American has been incorrectly depicted as an ________ individual - undemonstrative and stoical.






15. Clear A ________ stream ran through his property.






16. Hairs on back and neck - especially of a dog The dog's ________ rose and he began to growl as the sound of footsteps grew louder.






17. Unlikely; unbelievable Though her alibi seened ________ - it in fact turned out to be true.






18. Conditional The continuation of this contract is ________ on the quality of your first output.






19. Lascivious; lustful Chaucer's monk is not pious but ________ - a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.






20. Substitute For a fatherless child - a male teacher may become a father ________.






21. Practical This is an entirely ________ proposal. I suggest we adopt it.






22. Pastoral song His program of folk songs included several ________s which he sang to the accompaniment of a lute.






23. Chance; luck In his poem ________ - Thomas Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives.






24. Prevent by taking action in advance By setting up a prenuptial agreement - the prospective bride and groom hoped to ________ any potential arguments about money in the event of a divorce.






25. Dress with vulgar finery The witch doctors were ________ed in their gaudiest costumes.






26. Kindle; light When Desi crooned - "Baby - light my fire -" literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ________.






27. Increase; grow. With proper handling - his fortunes ________ed and he became rich.






28. Grieve; express sorrow Even advocates of the war ________ed the loss of so many lives in combat.






29. Rascality We cannot condone such ________ in public officials.






30. Fragrant; odorous; suggestive of an odor Even though it is February - the air is ________ of spring.






31. Spcial usage in language I could not understand their ________s because literal translation made no sense.






32. Person who has a compulsive desire to steal They discovered that the wealthy customer was a ________ when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.






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






34. Foretelling; mysterious Oedipus could not understand the ________ warning he received.






35. Strict - stern His ________ demeanor prevented us from engaging in our usual frivolous activities.






36. Outward decorations; ornaments He loved the ________ of success: the limousines - the stock options - the company jet.






37. Acquit; exculpate I am sure this letter naming the actual culprit will ________ you.






38. Work together Two writers ________d in preparing this book.






39. Harmony; agreement Her agitation seemed out of ________ with her usual calm.






40. Perfect example or embodiment Singing "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" in The Pirates of Penzance - Major-General Stanley proclaimed himself the ________ of an officer and a gentleman.






41. Surpass; outdo Jesse Owens easily ________ped his competitors to win the gold metal at the Olympic Games.






42. Winemaker; seller of wine The poet wondered what the ________s could buy that would be half as precious as the wine they sold.






43. Lawsuit Try to settle this amicably; I do not want to start ________.






44. Horrified He was ________ at the nerve of the speaker who had insulted his host.






45. One who has adopted a different religion or opinion On his trip to Japan - though the President spoke at length about the merits of American automobiles - he made few ________s to his beliefs.






46. Dizziness We test potential plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of ________.






47. Make express conditions - specify Before agreeing to reduce American military forces in Europe - the president ________d that NATO teams be allowed to inspect Soviet bases.






48. Comic misuse of a word When Mrs. Malaprop criticizes Lydia for being "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile -" she confuses "allegory" and "allegator" in a typical ________.






49. Dark; vague; unclear Even after I read the poem a fourth time - its meaning was still ________.






50. Having many talents; capable of working in many fields He was a ________ athlete; at college he had earned varsity letters in baseball - football - and track.