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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Obscene; indecent Your ________ remarks are especially offensive because they are untrue.






2. Respectful; obedient The ________ child grew up to be a conscientious adult aware of his civic obligations.






3. Stubborn; persistent He is bound to succeed because his ________ nature will not permit him to quit.






4. Beauty; comeliness I do not envy the judges who have to select this year's Miss America from this collection of female ________.






5. Uprightness He was renowned for his ________ and integrity.






6. Fickle; incalculable - The storm was ________ and changed course constantly.






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






8. Stir up anger; cause retaliation In order to prevent a sudden outbreak of hostilities - we must not ________ our foe.






9. Easily deceived He preyed upon ________ people - who believed his stories of easy wealth.






10. Tasty; pleasing - attractive - or agreeable Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create ________ delicacies for their guests.






11. Intention; meaning If the ________ of your speech was to arouse the rabble - you succeeded admirably.






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






13. Dig up; unearth They ________red the body and held an autopsy.






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






15. Porous; allowing passage through Glass is ________ to light.






16. Postpone; delay It is wise not to ________; otherwise - we find ourselves bogged down in a mass of work that should have been finished long ago.






17. Taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax) Because the new pension law was ________ to the first of the year - even though Martha had retired in February she was eligible for the pension.






18. Scatter; drive away; cause to vanish The bright sunlight eventually ________led the morning mist.






19. Appropriate; fitting He was always able to find the ________ phrase - the correct expression for every occasion.






20. Cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven As bread dough is ________ed - it puffs up - expanding in volume.






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






22. Pleasant; friendly My father loved to go out for a meal with ________ companions.






23. Balance After the divorce - he needed some time to regain his ________.






24. Speechless; producing indistinct speech He became ________ with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.






25. Worldly as opposed to spiritual He was concerned only with ________ matters - especially the daily stock market quotations.






26. Instruct; correct morally Although his purpose was to ________ and not to entertain his audience - many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.






27. Enormously large or extensive The government seemed willing to spend ________ sums on weapons development.






28. Simultaneous firing or outburs (of missiles - questions - etc.) Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture concludes with a thunderous ________ of cannon fire.






29. Repay in kind If they attack us - we shall be compelled to ________ and bomb their territory.






30. Brawl; melee The military police stopped the ________ in the bar and arrested the belligerents.






31. Brutal deed In time of war - many ________(ies) are committed by invading armies.






32. Perfectionist; person who insists things be exactly right The Internal Revenue Service agent was a ________ for accuracy; no approximations or rough estimates would satisfy him.






33. Existing at the beginning (of time); rudimentary The Neanderthal Man is one of our ________ ancestors.






34. Isolation of a person - place - or ship to prevent spread of infection We will have to place this house under ________ until we determine the nature of the disease.






35. Conceited smile Wipe that ________ off your face!






36. Infringe; touch; collide with How could they be married without ________ing on one another's freedom?






37. Absurd; ridiculous When the candidate tried to downplay his youthful experiments with marijuana by saying he hadn't inhaled -we all thought - "What a ________ excuse!"






38. Guilt; self-reproach The murderer felt no ________ for his crime.






39. Denounce; utter censure or invective He ________ed against the demagoguery of the previous speaker and urged that the audience reject his philosophy as dangerous.






40. Untidy Your ________ appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.






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






42. Eat away The limestone was ________d by the dripping water






43. Very poor person Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income - she was by no means a ________.






44. Distance around something; circunference It took an extra-large cummerbund to fit around Andrew Carnegie's considerable ________.






45. Impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious Experienced poker players try to keep their expressions ________ - hiding their reactions to the cards behind a so-called poker face.






46. Reckon; calculate He failed to ________ the interest - so his bank balance was not accurate.






47. Unselfishly generous; concerned for others In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships to hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths - Eugene Lang performed a truly ________ deed.






48. Gloomy Do not be misled by his ________ countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.






49. A facial distortion to show feeling such as pain - disgust - etc. Even though he remained silent - his ________ indicated his displeasure.






50. Young wolf - dog - tiger - etc. This collie ________ won't do for breeding - but he'd make a fine pet.