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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Produced by fire; volcanic Lava - pumice - and other ________ rocks are found in great abundance around Mount Vesuvius near Naples.






2. Like wood Petrified wood may be ________ in appearance - but it is stonelike in composition.






3. Half-human - half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus - portrayed as wanton and cunning He was like a ________ in his lustful conduct.






4. Explanatory; serving to explain The mannual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of ________ prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.






5. Grant condescendingly; guarantee I can safely ________ you fair return on your investment.






6. Green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting Judging by the ________ on this bronze statue - we can conclude that this is the work of a medieval artist.






7. Warm and damp August in New York City is often ________.






8. Refer; attribute; assign I can ________ no motive for her acts.






9. Variegated; multicolored The ________ piper of Hamelin got his name from the multicolored clothing he wore.






10. Participation; involvement You cannot keep your ________ in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.






11. Come together Marchers ________d on Washington for the great Save Our Cities-Save Our Children March.






12. Vibrant and lively; critical; living - breathing The ________ - highly energetic first aid instructor stressed that it was vital in examining accident victims to note their vital signs.






13. Form of literature in which irony - sarcasm - and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly Gulliver's Travels - which is regarded by many as a tale for children - is actually a bitter ________ attacking human folly.






14. Edge - especially of a round surface He sensed that there was something just beyond the ________ of his vision.






15. Having to do with citizens or the state; courteous and polite - Although internal Revenue Service agents are ________ servants - they are not always civil to suspected tax evaders.






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






17. Ancestors Reverence for one's ________ (sometimes referred to as ancestor worship) plays an important part in many Oriental cultures.






18. Everlasting Ponce de Leon hoped to find ________ youth.






19. Flabby His sedentary life had left him with ________ muscles.






20. Determination Nothing could shake his ________ to succeed despite all difficulties.






21. Insipid; inane She delivered an uninspired and ________ address.






22. Liberal; wasteful The actor's ________ gifts pleased her.






23. Aversion; dislike His extreme ________ to dispute caused him to avoid argumentative discussions with his friends.






24. Courage; spirit When challenged by the other horses in the race - the thoroughbred proved its ________ by its determination to hold the lead.






25. Separate; unconnected The universe is composed of ________ bodies.






26. Mixed indiscriminately; haphazard; irregular - particularly sexually In the opera La Boheme - we get a picture of the ________ life led by the young artists of Paris.






27. Eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything Some animals - including humans - are ________ and eat both meat and vegetables; others are either carnivorous or herbivorous.






28. Living language; natural style Cut out those old-fashioned "thee's" and "thou's" and write in the ________.






29. Burdensome He asked for an assistant because his work load was too ________.






30. Belief that events are determined by forces beyond one's control With ________ - he accepted the hardships that beset him.






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






32. Be revealed; happen When Austen writes the sentence "It had just ________d that he had left gaming debts behind him -" her meaning is not that the debts had just been incurred - but the the shocking news had just leaked out.






33. Short account of an amusing or interesting event Rather than make concrete proposals for welfare reform - President Raegan told ________s about poor people who became wealthy despite their impoverished backgrounds.






34. Excessively frugal person; misernJill called Jack a ________ because he never picked up the check.






35. Conceit; vanity She thought so much of herself that we found her ________ unwarranted and irritating.






36. Repentant When he realized the enormity of his crime - he became remorseful and ________.






37. Scientific student of birds Auduborn's drawings of American bird life have been of interest not only to the ________s but also to the general public.






38. Unbeliever The Saracens made war against tne ________s.






39. Associate with We frequently judge people by the company with whom they ________.






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






41. Court of justice The decision of the ________ was final and the prisoner was sentenced to death.






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






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






44. Quack; pretender to knowledge - When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas - Dorothy and her friends were sure they'd been duped by a ________.






45. Not lasting forever; limited by time; secular At one time in our history - ________ rulers assumed that they had been given their thrones by divine right.






46. Fail completely; sink After hitting the submerged iceberg - the Titanic started taking in water rapidly and soon ________ed.






47. Testimony under oath He made his ________ in the judge's chamber.






48. Used to prevent disease Despite all ________ measures introduced by the authorities - the epidemic raged until cool weather set in.






49. Vex Johnny often ________ his mother with his pranks.






50. One who feigns illness to escape duty The captain ordered the sergeant to punish all ________s and force them to work.