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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Utter impulsively Before she could stop him - he ________ed out the news.






2. Stale; spoiled by age The attic was dark and ________.






3. Most favorable If you wait for the ________ moment to act - you may never begin your project .






4. Revere In China - the people ________ their ancestors.






5. Machine that separates substances by whirling them - At the dairy - we employ a ________ to separate cream from milk.






6. Give an imitation that ridicules - In his caricature - he ________d the mannerisms of his adversary.






7. Make void The parents of the eloped couple tried to ________ the marriage.






8. Female warrior Ever since the days of Greek mythology we refer to strong and aggressive women as ________s.






9. Retire from public life; segregate; seclude Although he had hoped for a long time to ________ himself in a small community - he never was able to drop his busy round of activities in the city.






10. Menacing; threatening We must not treat the battle lightly for we are facing a ________ foe.






11. Society ruled by the wealthy From the way the government caters to the rich - you might think our society is a ________ rather than a democracy.






12. Immature; shallow Your ________ remarks are a sign of your youth and indicate that you have not given much thought to the problem.






13. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged Sucked into the ________ of the tornado - Dorothy and Toto were carried from Kansas to Oz.






14. Relating to the highest point - When he reached the ________ portions of the book - he could not stop reading.






15. A tendency to disbelief Your ________ in the face of all the evidence is hard to understand.






16. Healthy After a brief illness - he was soon ________.






17. Ability to move spontaneously Certain organisms exhibit remarkable ________; motile spores - for example - may travel for miles before coming to rest.






18. Scarcity The ________ of skilled labor compelled the employers to open trade schools.






19. Split - Erosion caused a ________ in the huge boulder.






20. Conspicuous; notable; protruding Have you ever noticed that Prince Charles's ________ ears make him resemble the big-eared character in Mad comics?






21. Oddity; idiosyncrasy Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the ________ of genius.






22. Irritable; easily angered Her ________ temper frightened me.






23. Emotional closeness; harmony In team teaching - it is important that all teachers in the group have good ________ with one another.






24. Pertaining to mental derangement The ________ patient suffers more frequently from a disorder of the nervous system than from a diseased brain.






25. Commemorate Let us ________ his great contribution by dedicating this library in his honor.






26. Stingy; mean The ________ old man hoarded his coins not out of prudence but out of greed.






27. Unjust; wicked I cannot approve of the ________ methods you used to gain your present position.






28. Boorish; rude - Dismayed by his ________ manners at the party - the girls vowed never to invite him again.






29. Prank; flighty conduct The headmaster could not regard this latest ________ as a boyish joke and expelled the young man.






30. Disobedient; lawless The only way to curb this ________ mob is to use tear gas.






31. Give an indication beforehand; portend; prefigure In retrospect - political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup ________ed his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.






32. Marked by commotion; extremely funny; very noisy The ________ comedy hit Home Alone featured Macaulay Culkin - whose mugging and comic antics provoked gales of uproarious laughter from audiences coast to coast.






33. Flimsy; unsubstantial This is a ________ fabric; it will not wear well.






34. Unique; extraordinary; odd Though the young man tried to understand Father William's ________ behavior - he still found it odd that the old man incessantly stood on his head.






35. Home Althoughhis legal ________ was in New York City - his work kept him away from his residence for many years.






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






37. Mutually agreed on; done together The girl scouts in the troop made a ________ effort to raise funds for their annual outing - and emitted a concerted sigh when their leader announced that they had reached their goal.






38. Conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to The design for the new school had to be in ________ with the local building code.






39. Storehouse Libraries are ________(ies) of the world's best thoughts.






40. Order; charge In his inaugural address - the President stated that he had a ________ from the people to seek an end to social evils such as poverty and poor housing.






41. Idealistic but impractical His head is in the clouds; he is constantly presenting these ________ schemes.






42. Vary; go in different directionsfrom the same point The spokes of the wheel ________ from the hub.






43. Smallest speck. There is not a ________ of intelligence or understanding in your observations.






44. Friendly; aiming to please The ________ youth was liked by all who met him - because of his cheerful and obliging manner.






45. Spread over A blush ________d her cheeks when we teased her about her love affair.






46. Bully; intimidate Billy resisted Ted's attempts to ________ him into handing over his lunch money.






47. Epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink ________s lack self-restraint; if they enjoy a particular cuisine - they eat far too much of it.






48. Tie with a Before we went to sleep - we ________ed the horses to prevent their wandering off during the night.






49. Wasting away Polio victims need physiotherapy to prevent the ________ of affected limbs.






50. Join together - unite. I don't wish to be yoked to him in marriage - as if we were cattle pulling a plow.