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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Uncertain; risky I think this stock is a ________ investment and advise against its purchase.






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






3. Pertaining to the stars He was the ________ attraction of the entire performance.






4. Intruder The merchant thought of his competitors as ________s who were stealing away his trade.






5. Narrow-mindedness; isolation The ________ of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anyuthing foreign.






6. Invulnerable Until the development of the airplane as a military weapon - the fort was considered ________.






7. Increase or intensify; raise in power - wealth - rank or honor The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may ________ his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.






8. Obligated; indebted Since I do not wish to be ________ to anyone - I cannot accept this favor.






9. Hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search - especially for food If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock - try ________ing for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.






10. Fasten together; unite Before you ________ two strips of tape together - be sure to line them up evenly.






11. Bottomless His arrogance is exceeded only by his ________ ignorance.






12. 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.






13. Scandinavian myth; any legend This is a ________ of the sea and the men who risk their lives on it.






14. Annoying; tedious He found working on the assembly line ________ because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform.






15. Deadly It is unwise to leave ________ weapons where children may find them.






16. Religious image; idol The ________s on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.






17. Hesitant; faltering Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a ________ fashion as they grope for the right words.






18. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him reading was purposeful - not ________.






19. Suggestive; implying A lack of appetite may be ________ of a major mental or physical disorder.






20. Repay in kind (usually for bad treatment) Fear that we will ________ immediately deters our foe from attacking us.






21. Refer to Since you ________ to this matter so frequently - you must regard it as important.






22. Dedicate; sanctify We shall ________ our lives to this noble purpose.






23. Sharp-cornered; stiff in manner His features - though ________ - were curiously attractive.






24. Capable of using either hand with equal ease A switch-hitter in baseball should be naturally ________.






25. Monumental tomb His body was placed in the family ________.






26. Give up temporarily; yield. I will ________ my rights in this matter in order to expedite our reaching a proper decision.






27. Retort; comeback; reply When someone has been rude to me - I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick ________.






28. Imagined; unreal You are resenting ________ insults. No one has ever said such things about you.






29. Supplicatory prayer On this solemn day - the congregation responded to the prayers of the priest during the ________ with fervor and intensity.






30. Period of equal days and nights; the beginning of spring and autumn The vernal ________ is usually marked by heavy rainstorms.






31. Trip - especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense Though she maintained she had gone abroad to collect firsthand data on the Common Market - the opposition claimed that her trip was merely a political ________.






32. Gay; joyous; careless Shelley called the skylark a "________ spirit" because of its happy song.






33. Put under a spell; carry away with emotion Shafts of sunlight on a wall could ________ her and leave her spellbound.






34. Dissolve; disperse The chess club ________ed after its disastrous initial season.






35. Indirect reference the ________s to mythological characters in Milton's poems bewilder the reader who has not studied Latin.






36. Loss of speech due to injury or illness After the automobile accident - the victim had periods of ________ when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.






37. Extremely loud The town crier had ________ voice.






38. Attractive The man I am seeking to fill this position must be ________ since he will be representing us before the public.






39. Capable of being stretched Mountain climbers must know the ________ strength of their ropes.






40. Emit (odor) The room ________ed with stale tobacco smoke.






41. Unruly The ________ horse unseated its rider.






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






43. Overcome He had to ________ many obstacles in order to succeed.






44. Fearful; demonstrating fear His ________ manner betrayed the fear he felt at the moment.






45. Turn into a god; idolize Admire the rock star all you want; just don't ________ him.






46. Cause of ruin Lack of public transportation is the ________ of urban life.






47. High praise; eulogy Uneasy with the ________s expressed by his supporters - Tolkien felt unworthy of such high praise.






48. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic Helen valued people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively ________ waiter or a fawning salesclerk.






49. Having a sawtoothed edge The beech tree is one of many plants that have ________ leaves.






50. Very generous The ________ gift was presented to the bride by her rich uncle.