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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Cut off part of body; prune When the doctors had to ________ Ted Kennedy's leg to prevent the spread of cancer - he did not let the loss of his leg keep him from participating in sports.






2. Lively Her ________ expression indicated a keenness of intellect.






3. Curse The high priest ________ the heretic.






4. Thresh grain by hand; strike or slap; toss about In medieval times - warriors ________ed their foe with a metal ball attached to a handle.






5. Mechanism that imitates actions of humans Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots - writers were creating stories of ________ who could outperform humans.






6. Person who looks on the bright side The pessimist says the glass is half-empty; the ________ says it is half-full.






7. To make watertight (by plugging seams) When water from the shower leaked into the basement - we knew it was time to ________ the tiles at the edges of the shower stall.






8. Slavery; compulsory labor Born a slave - Douglass resented his wife of ________ and plotted to escape to the North.






9. Ancestor The Roth family - whose ________s emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century - settled in Peru - Illinois.






10. Pollute The sewage system of the city so ________d the water that swimming was forbidden.






11. Devoted to the pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptous I cannot understand what caused him to drop his ________ way of life and become so ascetic.






12. Premonition of evil Caeser ridiculed his wife's ________ about the Ides of March.






13. Having an evil influence; virulent This is a ________ disease; we must have to use drastic measures to stop its spread.






14. Effort; expenditure of much physical work The ________ involved in unscrewing the rusty bolt left her exhausted.






15. Weird In that ________ setting - it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.






16. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition The piece concluded with a distinctive ________ that strikingly brought together various motifs.






17. Aid; assistance; relief We shall be ever grateful for the ________ our country gave us when we were in need.






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






19. Not able to be perceived by touch; vague Though the financial benefits of his Oxford post were meager - Lewis was drawn to it by its ________ rewards: prestige - intellectual freedom - the fellowship of his peers.






20. Reserved or aloof; cold in manner His ________ greeting made me feel unwelcome from the start.






21. Powerful person The oil ________s made great profits when the price of gasoline rose.






22. Sullen; stubborn The man was ________ abd taciturn.






23. 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.






24. Items of business at a meeting We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an ________ that there was very little time for the meeting.






25. Partly transparent We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the ________ curtains that separated us.






26. Social outcast I am not a ________ to be shunned and ostracized.






27. Move troops so that the battle line is extended at the expense of depth The general ordered the battalion to ________ in order to meet the offensive of the enemy.






28. Brief and to the point Many of the characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood are ________ types: strong men of few words.






29. Private meeting He was present at all their ________s as an unofficial observer.






30. Friendly The dispute was settled in an ________ manner with no harsh words.






31. Confuse thoroughly His attempts to clarify the situation succeeded only on ________(ing) her further.






32. Capable of being repaired Fortunately - the damages we suffered in the accident were ________ and our car looks brand new.






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






34. Decisive; ending all debate When the stolen books turned up in John's locker - we finally had ________ evidence of the identity of the mysterious thief.






35. Make express conditions - specify Before agreeing to reduce American military forces in Europe - the president ________d that NATO teams be allowed to inspect Soviet bases.






36. Public records; place where public records are kept These documents should be part of the ________ so that historians may be able to evaluate them in the future.






37. Respectful His ________ attitude was appropriate in a house of worship.






38. Resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult She took ________ at his remarks and stormed away in a huff.






39. Controlling influence President Marcos failed to maintain his ________ over Philippines.






40. Lean and angular; barren His once-round face looked surprisingly ________ after he had lost weight.






41. Wrong name; incorrect designation His tyrannical conduct proved to all that his nickname - King Eric the Just - was a ________.






42. Emphasize Adressing the jogging class - Kim ________d the importance to runners of good nutrition.






43. Pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of ________ism To the existential philosopher - human reason is inadequate to explain an irrational - meaningless universe.






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






45. Burden; mental care; nightmare The ________ of financial worry helped bring on her nervous breakdown.






46. Lessen in value If you neglect this properly - it will ________.






47. Place into a case As soon as he recognized the approaching men - he ________d his dagger and hailed them as friends.






48. Fragment - generally of pottery The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware vessels from the ________s he had brought back from the expedition.






49. Changing in form; fickle His opinion were ________ and easily influenced by anyone who had any powers of persuasion.






50. Calmness; placidity The ________ of the sleepy town was shattered by a tremendous explosion.