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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Harass - annoy - torment; raid The guerrilla band ________(ied) the enemy nightly.






2. Abundant He had ________ opportunity to dispose of his loot before his police caught up with him.






3. Putrid; producing putrefaction The hospital was in such a filthy state that we were afraid that many of the patients would suffer from ________ poisoning.






4. Three-pronged spear Neptune is usually depicted as rising from the sea - carrying his ________ on his shoulder.






5. Division of a long poem - Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into ________s.






6. Put on When Clark Kent had to ________ his Superman outfit - he changed clothes in a convenient phone booth.






7. Forecasted course of a disease; prediction If the doctor's ________ is correct - the patient will be in a coma for at least twenty-four hours.






8. Excessively or elaborately decorated Furniture of the Baroque period can be recognized by its ________ carvings.






9. Verify; support I intend to ________ my statement by producing witnesses.






10. Mutilate; injure The hospital could not take care of all who had been mangled or ________ed in the railroad accident.






11. Able to live both on land and in water Frogs are classified as ________.






12. Stupid Your ________ remarks prove that you have not given this problem any serious consideration.






13. Poisonous We must seek an antidote for whatever ________ substance he has eaten.






14. Person who maintains opinions contrary to the doctrines of the church She was punished by the Spanish Inquisition because she was a ________.






15. Lacking in seriousness; self-indulgently carefree; relatively unimportant Though Nancy enjoyed Bill's ________ - lighthearted companionship - she sometimes wondered whether he could ever be serious.






16. Slang In the ________ of the underworld - she "was taken for a ride."






17. Disgraceful The country smarted under the ________ defeat and dreamed of the day when it would be victorious.






18. Guarantee; assurance by seller. The purchaser of this automobile is protected by the manufacturer's ________ that he will replace any defective part for five years or 50 -000 miles.






19. Omen; prophecy He interpreted the departures of the birds as an ________ of evil.






20. Stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing We will remove the ________s as soon as the wound heals.






21. Punish - I must ________ you for this offense.






22. Make impossible; eliminate This contract does not ________ my being employed by others at the same time that I am working for you.






23. Dry up A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to ________ food in order to preserve it.






24. Revengeful She was very ________ and never forgave an injury.






25. Extremely loud The town crier had ________ voice.






26. Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth The audience saw through his attempts to ________ on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.






27. Right granted by authority The city issued a ________ to the company to operate surface transit lines on the streets for ninety-nine years.






28. Courteous; faithful; brave - ________ behavior involves noble words and good deeds.






29. Turn to stone His sudden and unexpected appearance seemed to ________ her.






30. Ghost; phantom Hamlet was uncertain about the identity of the ________ that had appeared and spoken to him.






31. Disloyal Once the most loyal of Gorbachev's supporters - Shverdnaze found himself becoming increasingly ________.






32. Flexible Hours of ballet classes kept him ________.






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






34. Absorbing; engrossing The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a ________ tale: absorbed in the story - he had finished it in a single evening.






35. Gold and silver in the form of bars Much ________ is stored in the vaults at Fort Knox.






36. 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.






37. Causing sadness - compassion - pity; touching Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time he finished his ________ tale about the orphaned boy.






38. Division of a poem Do you know the last ________ of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?






39. Reluctant He was ________ to revealing the sources of his information.






40. Original work used as a model by others The crude typewriter on display in this museum is the ________ of the elaborate machines in use today.






41. Vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young Many people regard the whale as a fish and do not realize that it is a ________.






42. Drunken Emperor Nero attended the ________ orgy.






43. Tyranny The people rebelled against the ________ of the king.






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






45. Truthfulness Trying to prove Hill a liar - Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her ________.






46. Draftee; person forced into military service Did Rambo volunteer to fight in Vietnam - or was he a ________ - drafted against his will?






47. Crafty; double-dealing I do not think he will be a good embassador because he is not accustomed to the ________ maneuverings of foreign diplomats.






48. Offer as a sacrifice The tribal kind offered to ________ his daughter to quiet the angry gods.






49. Determined; natural talent or inclination bent on advancing in the business world - the secretary heroine of Working Girl had a true ________ for high finance.






50. Rejoicing There was great ________ when the armistice was announced.