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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. A disorderly or untidy state After the New Year's party - the once orderly house was in total ________.






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






3. Friendship Student exchange programs such as the Experiment in International Living were established to promote international ________.






4. Malleability; flexibility; ability to be drawn out Copper wire has many industrial uses because of its extreme ________.






5. Great influence (especially political or social) - Gatsby wondered whether he had enough ________ to be admitted to the exclusive club.






6. Harmful We must trace the source of these ________ gases before they asphyxiate us.






7. Capricious; fanciful. He dismissed his generous gift to his college as a sentimental fancy - an old man's ________ gesture.






8. Make thin; weaken By withdrawing their forces - the generals hoped to ________ the enemy lines.






9. Hang around; linger The policeman told him not to ________in the alley.






10. Slope; inclined plane The house was built with ________s instead of stairs in order to enable the man in the wheelchair to move easily from room to room and floor to floor.






11. 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.






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






13. Unwilling; reluctant; stingy We received only ________ support from the mayor despite his earlier promises of aid.






14. Having a fixed order of procedure; invariable At the royal wedding - the procession of the nobles followed a ________ order of precedence.






15. Without definite purpose - plan - or aim; haphazard Although the sponsor of the raffle claimed all winners were chosen at ________ - people had their suspicions when the grand prize went to the sponsor's brother-in-law.






16. Corruption; wickedness The ________ of the tyrant's behavior shocked us all.






17. Discipline; punish in order to correct - Whom God loves - God ________s.






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






19. Well-paid position with little responsibility My job is no ________; I work long hours and have much responsibility.






20. Undertaker The ________ prepared the corpse for burial.






21. Having an odor This variety of hybrid tea rose is more ________ than the one you have in your garden.






22. Quench; sate When we reached the oasis - we were able to ________ our thirst.






23. Ruined because of neglect We felt that the ________ building needed several coats of paint.






24. Sleight of hand The magician demonstrated his renowned ________.






25. Vex Johnny often ________ his mother with his pranks.






26. Absorbing; engrossing The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a ________ tale: absorbed in the story - he had finished it in a single evening.






27. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until he has examined the evidence supporting a point of view. In this matter - I am a ________; I want proof.






28. Very small quantity She hadn't an ________ of common sense.






29. Causing sadness - compassion - pity; touching Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time he finished his ________ tale about the orphaned boy.






30. Soothing; mild She used a ________ ointment for her sunburn.






31. Expand;swell out I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins ________ on his forehead.






32. Live in a monotonous way I do not understand how you can ________ in this quiet village after the adventurous life you have led.






33. Behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious He was proud and dignified; he refused to be ________ to anyone.






34. Preoccupation with physical comforts and things By its nature - ________ is opposed to idealism - for where the materialist emphasizes the needs of the body - the idealist emphasizes the needs of the soul.






35. Put down; quiet The police used fire hoses and teat gas to ________ the rioters.






36. Ash-colored; deadly pale Her face was ________ with fear.






37. Living at the same time as; contemporary ________ with the dinosaur - the pterodactyl flourished during the Mesozoic era.






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






39. Resonant His ________ voice resounded through the hall.






40. Expose to slander His opponents tried to ________ the candidate's reputation by spreading rumors about his past.






41. Mournful The ________ howling of the dogs added to our sadness.






42. Ability to foretell the future Given the current wave of Japan-bashing - it does not take ________ for me to foresee problems in our future trade relations with Japan.






43. Slow down Seeing the emergency blinkers in the road ahead - he ________d quickly.






44. Wanderer; tramp In summer - college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree ________s.






45. Purging or cleansing of any passage of the body - Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a ________ by purging the soul of base concepts.






46. Producing motion Designers of the electric automobile find that their greatest obstacle lies in the development of light and efficient storage batteries - the source of the ________ energy needed to propel the vehicle.






47. Easily burned After the recent outbreak of fires in private homes - the fire commissioner ordered that all ________ materials be kept in safe containers.






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






49. Strengthen the base of Whereas relativity theory ________d the Newtonian mechanics - cosmology was undergirded by it.






50. 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.