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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Indirect or roundabout expression - He was afraid to call spade a spade and resorted to ________s to avoid direct reference to his subject.






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






3. General agreement The ________ indicates that we are opposed to entering into this pact.






4. Convenient features; courtesies In addition to the customary ________ for the business traveler -- fax machines - modems - a health club -- the hotel offers the services of a butler versed in social amenities.






5. Hatch; scheme Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off - we shall have to rely on the hens to ________ these eggs.






6. Fertility; fruitfulness The ________ of his mind is illustrated by the many vivid images in his poems.






7. Honor; tribute In her speech she tried to pay ________ to a great man.






8. Prototype; primitive pattern The Brooklyn Bridge was the ________ of the many spans that now connect Manhattan with Long Island and New Jersey.






9. Teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning You are using all the devices of a ________ in trying to prove your case; your argument is specious.






10. Guardianship; training Under the ________ of such masters of the instrument - she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.






11. Corpse - In some states - it is illegal to dissect ________s.






12. Division of a long poem - Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into ________s.






13. Reject; scorn The heroine ________ed the villain's advances.






14. Marshal; draw up in order His actions were bound to ________ public sentiment against him.






15. Offensive I find your behavior ________; please mend your ways.






16. Awkward He is an ________ young man; he trips over everything.






17. Like an emperor; related to an empire When hotel owner Leona Helmsley appeared in ads as Queen Leona standing guard over the Palace Hotel - her critics mocked her ________ fancies.






18. Book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer - He taught by engaging his pupils in a ________ until they gave him the correct answer.






19. Expressiveness; persuasive speech The crowds were stirred by Martin Luther King's ________.






20. Bloody The battle of lwo Jina was unexpectedly ________ with many casualties.






21. Wishing evil We must thwart his ________ schemes.






22. Endless Although his speech lasted for only twenty minutes - it seemed ________ to his bored audience.






23. Something that relieves pain Friendship is the finest ________ for the pangs of disappointed love.






24. Resorting to help when in trouble The boy's only ________ was to appeal to his father for aid.






25. Denial; disclaiming His ________ of his part in the conspiracy was not believed by the jury.






26. Fringes; outer borders Living ________ of Boston - Sarah sometimes felt as if she were cut off from the cultural heart of the city.






27. Untrue; made up To impress his friends - Tom invented ________ tales of his adventures in the big city.






28. Summit Let us drop a perpendicular line from the ________ of the triangle to the base.






29. 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.






30. Ghastly She shuddered at the ________ sight.






31. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect Let us not be misled by such ________ arguments.






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






33. Satisfy to the full; cloy Its hunger ________d - the lion dozed.






34. Basic; primary; essential The committee discussed all sorts of side issues without ever getting down to addressing the ________ problem.






35. Partial shadow (in an eclipse) During an eclipse - we can see an area of total darkness and a lighter area - which is the ________.






36. Private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy - At the opening of Congress the members of the Democratic Party held a ________ to elect the majority leader of the House and the party whip.






37. Deserving high respect We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our ________ leader.






38. Foreshadow; portend The gloomy skies and the sulfurious odors from the mineral springs seemed to ________ evil to those who settled in the area.






39. Felt in one's inner organs She disliked the ________ sensations she had whenever she rode the roller coaster.






40. Meager; insufficient Thinking his helping of food was ________ - Oliver Twist asked for more.






41. Target of a hunt; victim In Stalking the Wild Asparagus - Euell Gibbons has as his ________ not wild beasts but wild plants.






42. Harass; trouble Many problems ________ the American public school system.






43. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language The politician could bever speak simply; she was always ________.






44. Pretending to be virtuous; deceiving I resent his ________ posing as a friend for I know he is interested only in his own advancement.






45. Keen; shrewd; having insight He is much too ________ to be fooled by a trick like that.






46. Rushing stream; flood Day after day of heavy rain saturated the hillside until the water ran downhill in ________s.






47. Traitor The British considered Benedict Arnold a loyalist; the Americans considered him a ________.






48. Connection I fail to see the ________ that binds these two widely separated events.






49. Group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal As soon as he learned of its existence - the dictator ordered the execution of all of the members of the ________.






50. Make impossible; eliminate This contract does not ________ my being employed by others at the same time that I am working for you.