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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Odd; old-fashioned; picturesque Her ________ clothes and old-fashioned language marked her as an eccentric.






2. Little - round hill Robert Louis Stevenson's grave is on a ________ in Samoa; to reach the grave site - you must climb uphill and walk a short distance along a marked path.






3. Hypnotize The incessant drone seemed to ________ him and place him in a trance.






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






5. Equip The fisherman was ________d with the best that the sporting goods store could supply






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






7. Producing motion Designers of the electric automobile find that their greatest obstacle lies in the development of light and efficient storage batteries - the source of the ________ energy needed to propel the vehicle.






8. Foil When the warden learned that several inmates were planning to escape - he took steps to ________ their attempt.






9. Be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers ________ on the littel rascals - too.






10. Most sacred; inviolable The brash insurance salesman invaded the ________ privacy of the office of the president of the company.






11. Ardent; hot She felt that the ________ praise was excessive and somewhat undeserved.






12. Something that discourages; hindrance Does the threat of capital punishment serve as a ________ to potential killers?






13. Advise against He could not ________ his friend from joining the conspirators.






14. Final; not susceptible to further analysis Scientists are searching for the ________ truths.






15. Obtaining The personnel department handles the ________ of new employees.






16. Study of prehistoric life The professor of ________ had a superb collection of fossils.






17. Dullness; impassivenss The earthquake shattered his usual ________; trembling - he crouched on the no longer stable ground.






18. Excessive The people grumbled at his ________ prices but paid them because he had a monopoly.






19. Marked by formality - Ordinary dress would be in appropriate at so ________ an affair.






20. Depravity A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral ________.






21. Privilege; unquestionable right The President cannot levy taxes; that is the ________ of the legislative branch of government.






22. Clear A ________ stream ran through his property.






23. Wretched; lacking pride On the streets of New York the homeless live in ________ poverty - huddling in doorways to find shelter from the wind.






24. Idle person; male bee Content to let his wife support him - the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a ________.






25. Picture; short literary sketch The New Yorker published her latest ________.






26. Unconquerable Superman is ________.






27. Scold strongly He feared she would ________ him for his forgetfulness.






28. Change in voting district lines in order to favor a political party The illogical pattern of the map of this congressional district is proof that the state legislature ________ed this area in order to favor the majority party.






29. Amuse The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantly increasing; each year - thousands more ________ themselves at Miami and Palm Beach.






30. Comment; make explanatory notes In the appendix to the novel - the critic sought to ________ many of the more esoteric references.






31. Profligate. He was denounced as a ________ who had dissipated his inheritance.






32. Gradual wearing down They decided to wage a war of ________ rather than to rely on all-out attack.






33. Rejoice We ________ed when our team won the victory.






34. Swagger; assumed air of defiance The ________ of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.






35. The smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance In chemistry - we study how atoms and ________s react to form new substances.






36. Enrage; infuriate Unkindness to children ________d her.






37. Prophetic; oracular Until their destruction by fire in 83 B.C. - the ________ books were often consulted by the Romans.






38. Candid; blunt The candidate was too ________ to be a successful politician; he had not yet learned to weigh his words carefully.






39. Disentangle; solve With equal ease Miss Marple ________ed tangled balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.






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






41. Very large number ________s of mosquitoes from the swamps invaded our village every twilight.






42. Remainder I suggest that you wait until the store places the ________s of these goods on sale.






43. Spcial usage in language I could not understand their ________s because literal translation made no sense.






44. Slow; sluggish The sailor had been taught not to be ________ in carrying out orders.






45. Be thrifty; set limits "Spare no expense -" the bride's father said - refusing to ________ on the wedding arrangements.






46. Sweet sound Noted for its ________ even when it is spoken - the Italian language is particularly pleasing to the ear when sung.






47. Soothing or softening remedy He applied an ________ to the inflamed area.






48. Corruption; turning from right to wrong Inasmuch as he had no motive for his crimes - we could not understand his ________.






49. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste Neither Jack's underbaked opinions nor his overcooked casseroles were ________ to me.






50. A light meal Tea sandwiches and cookies were offered at the ________.