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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Rash Don't be ________. Get the advice of experienced people before undertaking this venture.
mosaic
porous
foolhardy
concoct
2. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage countless get-rich-quick schemes to ________
eschew
reiterate
avocation
proliferate
3. Darken; extinguish; surpass The new stock market high ________d the previous record set in 1985.
recondite
euphemism
subaltern
eclipse
4. Easily understood; clear; intelligible Her explanation was ________ enought for a child to grasp.
carrion
leniency
lucid
impediment
5. Encouraging; exhortive The crowd listened to his ________ statements with ever-growing excitement; finally they rushed from the hall to carry to his suggestions.
hortatory
atrocity
singular
incentive
6. Crazy; comic. I can watch the Marx brothers'_________ antics for hours.
zany
wispy
shrew
contagion
7. Watching; guarding The FBI kept the house under constant ________ in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time.
purchase
authenticate
surveillance
amorous
8. Sleeping; lethargic; torpid Sometimes ________ talents in our friends surprise those of us who never realize how gifted our acquaintances really are.
aureole
fester
catharsis
dormant
9. Instruct; correct morally Although his purpose was to ________ and not to entertain his audience - many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.
edify
accede
besmirch
blithe
10. Taking up again; recommencement During the summer break - Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the ________ of classes - however - he felt marked excitement and pleasure.
tout
resumption
quack
laity
11. Feasible The board of directors decided that the plan was ________ and agreed to undertake the project.
practicable
delude
renown
robust
12. Trifles; unimportant matters Too many magazines ignore newsworthy subjects and feature ________.
receptive
theoretical
trivia
deducible
13. Plowed but sowed; uncultivated Farmers have learned that it is advisable to permit land to let ________ every few years.
cohere
fallow
ford
tonsure
14. Premonition; foreboding Hamlet felt a ________ about his meeting with Laertes.
presentiment
prostrate
impalpable
entomology
15. Soothing or softening remedy He applied an ________ to the inflamed area.
emollient
eccentric
macabre
cohorts
16. Adequate; deservedly severe The public approved the ________ punishment for the crime.
gullible
martrix
rusticate
condign
17. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.
episodic
suffragist
loathe
bemused
18. Mental keenness His business ________ helped him to succeed where others had failed.
acumen
lechery
remiss
carnal
19. Ill luck By ________ - he lost his week's salary.
mischance
paragon
equivocal
sophistry
20. Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess The good news we have been receiving lately indicates that there is little reason for your ________.
talon
egotism
posterity
pessimism
21. Reason; justify an improper act Do not try to ________ your behavior by blaming your companions.
desecrate
unconscionable
omnivorous
rationalize
22. Concise; abrupt; pithy I admire his ________ style of writing; he comes directly to the point.
terse
stipulate
colossus
galleon
23. Salty The slightly ________ taste of this mineral water is pleasant.
temperate
colossus
augment
saline
24. Expand;swell out I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins ________ on his forehead.
debacle
inequity
distend
piebald
25. Surviving remnant; memento Egypt's Department of Antiquities prohibits tourists from taking mummies and other ancient ________s out of the country.
relic
discrete
voyeur
equestrian
26. Propriety; seemliness Shocked by the unruly behavior - the teacher criticized the class for its lack of ________.
reciprocal
feign
decorum
provenance
27. Put on When Clark Kent had to ________ his Superman outfit - he changed clothes in a convenient phone booth.
don
regatta
clime
aggrandize
28. Indifference; lack of interest Few people could understand how he could listen to the news of the tragedy with such ________; the mahority regarded him as callous and unsympathetic.
nonchalance
bilk
pessimism
digression
29. Discipline; punish in order to correct - Whom God loves - God ________s.
retroactive
whittle
pretentious
chasten
30. Head off; forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself; supplant Hoping to ________ any attempts by the opposition to make educational reform a hot political issue - the candidate set out her own plan to revitalize the public schools.
warrant
preempt
convert
amputate
31. Skillful His ________ handling of the delicate situation pleased his employers.
frenetic
voracious
pretext
adroit
32. Spying In order to maintain its power - the government developed a system of ________ that penetrated every hosehold.
ramify
espionage
declivity
replenish
33. Not reciprocated Suffering the pangs of ________ love - Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hard-heartedness.
frailty
unrequited
demoniac
illimitable
34. Outward appearance; guise Although this book has a ________ of wisdom and scholarship - a careful examination will reveal many errors and omissions.
compilation
depredation
amalgamate
semblance
35. Honor; tribute In her speech she tried to pay ________ to a great man.
compensatory
homage
equine
mirage
36. Slang In the ________ of the underworld - she "was taken for a ride."
remiss
argot
profilgate
adulation
37. Feign He ________ insanity in order to avoid punishment for his crime.
acumen
quagmire
benediction
simulate
38. Profane; impious The people in the room were shocked by his his ________ language.
thrive
incantation
blasphemous
malign
39. Subside or moderate - Rather than leaving immediately - they waited for the storm to ________.
abate
elixir
forestall
redundant
40. Pertinent; referring to the case in hand Teri was impressed by how ________ Virginia Woolf's remarks were to her as a woman writer; it was as if Woolf had been writing with Teri's situation in mind.
replenish
rigid
ensue
relevant
41. Cast off Each spring - the snake ________s off its skin.
mosaic
magniloquent
slough
sophomoric
42. Separate; part Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously ________ed.
florid
entrepreneur
exemplary
sunder
43. Shine erratically; twinkle In the darkness of the cavern - the glowworms hanging from the cavern roof ________ed like distant stars.
glimmer
cartographer
bolster
olfactory
44. Pitiless The escaped convict was a dangerous and ________ murderer.
warranty
ruthless
faze
slough
45. Twistings; distortions As the effects of the opiate wore away - the ________ of the patient became more violent and demonstrated how much pain she was enduring.
insensate
influx
contortions
obviate
46. Dismay; shock We were ________led by the horrifying conditions in the city's jails.
fledgling
appal
titanic
avocation
47. Opposite The inevitable ________ of peace is not war but annihilation.
chauvinist
bovine
malicious
converse
48. Foretell; presage The king did not know what these omens might ________ and asked his soothsayers to interpret them.
irreverent
incentive
appellation
portend
49. Glance coquettishly at; make eyes at Sitting for hours at the sidewalk cafe - the old gentleman would ________ the young girls and recall his youthful romances.
ogle
practical
intransigence
preponderance
50. Relating to races Intolerance between ________ groups is deplorable and usually is based on lack of information.
nondescript
ethnic
succinct
rehabilitate