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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Blessing The appearance of the sun after the many rainy days was like a ________.






2. Flowing together; crowd They built the city at the ________ of two rivers.






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






4. Request earnestly; seek Knowing she needed to have a solid majority for the budget to pass - the mayor telephoned all the members of the city council to ________ their votes.






5. Cold; cheerless The Aleutian Islands are ________ military outposts.






6. Stimulate by shock; stir up The entire nation was ________d into strong military activity by the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.






7. Include; encompass Does the general theory of relativity contradict Newtonian physics - or is Newton's law of gravity ________d into Einstein's larger scheme?






8. Behavior; bearing His sober ________ quieted the noisy revelers.






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






10. Explain; interpret If I ________ your remarks correctly - you disagree with the theory already advanced.






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






12. Scornful remarks - stinging rebuke His feelings were hurt by the ________ of his supposed friends.






13. State of reacting readily to appeals - order - etc. The audience cheered and applauded - delighting the performers by its ________.






14. Whim - She was an unpredictable creature - acting on ________ - never taking thought of the consequences.






15. Supplement to the body of a will This ________ was drawn up five years after the writing of the original will.






16. Rickety; falling apart The boys propped up the ________ clubhouse with a couple of boards.






17. Peculiarity; eccentricity One of his personal ________(ies) was his habit of rinsing all cutlery given him in a restaurant.






18. Pithy maxim An ________ differs from an adage in that it is more philosophical or scientific.






19. Immature; shallow Your ________ remarks are a sign of your youth and indicate that you have not given much thought to the problem.






20. Close; squeeze; The ________ed the package under her arm.






21. Pride; arrogance I resent his ________ because he is no better than we are.






22. Disregard Be prepared to ________ what he has to say about his ex-wife.






23. 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.






24. Spotted The sunlight filtering though the screens created a ________ effect on the wall.






25. Every two years The group held ________ meetings instead of annual ones.






26. 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.






27. Hanging; suspended The ________ chandeliers swayed in the breeze as if they were about to fall from the ceiling.






28. Spotted; stained Instead of writing that Gorbachev had a birthmark on his forehead - the pompous young poet sang of the former premier's ________ brow.






29. Gigantic statue The legendary ________ of Rhodes - bronze statue of the sun god that dominated the harbor of the Greek seaport - was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.






30. Variety; dissimilitude The ________ of colleges in this country indicates that many levels of ability are being served.






31. Unit of light energy (one candle's worth) In buying light bulbs - she checked not only their power - as measured in watts - but their brightness - as measured in ________s.






32. Speed The train went by at considerable ________.






33. Lacking He was ________ of any personal desire for gain in his endeavor to secure improvement in the community.






34. Clak volcanic rock The deposits of ________ on the mountain slopes were an indiacation that volcano had erupted in ancient times.






35. Drink in The dry soil ________d the rain quickly.






36. Small ring; band - This tiny ________ is very costly because it is set with precious stones.






37. Records; history In the ________ of this period - we find no mention of democratic movements.






38. Long - passionate - and vehement speech In her lengthy ________ - the principal berated the offenders.






39. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity Stop giggling abd wriggling around in the pew; such ________ is improper in church.






40. Shining; issuing light The sun is a ________ body.






41. Show by example; furnish an example Three-time winner of the Super Bowl - Joe Montana ________(ies) the ideal quarterback.






42. Cure-all; remedy for all diseases There is no easy ________ that will solve our complicated international situation.






43. Laziness Such ________ in a young person is deplorable; go to work!






44. Hint This came as a complete surprise to me as I did not have the slightest ________ of your plans.






45. Impression produced by achievements or reputation The wealthy man sought to obtain social ________ by contributing to popular charities.






46. Split asunder - The lightening ________s the tree in two.






47. Something or someone misplaced in time; Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an ________; no clocks existed in Caesar's time.






48. Harshness; plainness The newspapers disapproved of the ________ of the sentence.






49. Disable During the winter - many people were ________d by respiratory ailments.






50. Pertaining to passionate love The ________ passages in this novel should be removed as they are merely pornographic.






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