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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Strong emotion Margo was a creature of extremes - at one moment in ________s of joy over a vivid sunset - at another moment in transports of grief over a dying bird.






2. Art of dancing - Martha Graham introduced a form of ________ that seemed awkward and alien to those who had been brought up on classic ballet.






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






4. Thought - Mathematics problems sometimes require much ________.






5. Mix; work dough Her hands grew strong from ________ing bread.






6. Slightly sour; sharp; caustic James was unpopular because of his sarcastic and ________ remarks.






7. Goal; aim A degree in medicine was her ultimate ________.






8. Unaccustomed He hesitated to assume the ________ role of master of ceremonies at the dinner.






9. Scold; rant You may ________ at him all you want; you will never change him.






10. Appearance; costume In the ________ of a plumber - the detective investigated the murder case.






11. Block legislation by making long speeches Even though we disapproved of Senator Foghorn's political goals - we were impressed by his ability to ________ endlessly to keep an issue from coming to a vote.






12. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.






13. Extremely poor The costs of the father's illness left the family ________.






14. 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.






15. Foremost in importance; supreme Proper nutrition and hygiene are of ________ importance in adolescent development and growth.






16. Counterfeit; not authentic The police quickly found the distributors of the ________ twenty-dollar bills.






17. Ability; capacity - A man of such ________ should not be assigned such menial tasks.






18. Journey Auntie Mame was a world traveler whose ________s took her from Tiajuana to Timbuctoo.






19. Portray He is weakest when he attempts to ________ character.






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






21. Babble The children ________ endlessly about their new toys.






22. Concise; meaty I enjoy reading his essays because they are always compact and ________.






23. Fashionable She always discarded all garments that were no longer ________.






24. Positive; arbitrary Do not be so ________ about that statement; it can be easily refuted.






25. Female warrior Ever since the days of Greek mythology we refer to strong and aggressive women as ________s.






26. Wrap around; bandage When I visited him in the hospital - I found him ________d in bandages.






27. Marked by changes in fortune - During his ________ career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.






28. Not repentant We could see by his brazen attitude that he was ________.






29. Abusive; scolding He became more ________ as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish.






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






31. Wooden; impassive We wanted to see how long he could maintain his ________ expression.






32. Feverish In his ________ condition - he was subject to nightmares and hallucinations.






33. Unconquerable The founders of our country had ________ willpower.






34. Stopping - The workers threatened a ________ of all activities if their demands were not met.






35. Local or provincial dialect His years of study of the language at the university did not enable him to understand the ________ of the natives.






36. Novel; unparalleled Margaret Mitchell's book Gone with the Wind was an ________ success.






37. Food I am very happy to be able to provide you with these ________; I know you are hungry.






38. Murder of a king or queen The beheading of Mary Queen of Scots was an act of ________.






39. Unchangeable Scientists are constantly seeking to discover the ________ laws of nature.






40. Rebuke; deserts After his earlier rudeness - we were delighted to see him get his ________.






41. Condemn; critcize The reform candidate ________d the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.






42. Fickle; changing He was of a ________ temperament and therefore unpredictable.






43. Move faster In our science class - we learn how falling bodies ________.






44. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of ________s.






45. Writings preceding and following the passage quoted Because these lines are taken out of ________ - they do not convey the message the author intended.






46. Officeholder The newly elected public official received valuable advice from the present ________.






47. Uncorrectable Though Widow Douglass hoped to reform Huck - Miss Watson pronounced him ________le and said he would come to no good end.






48. Affected; not natural Attempting to copy the style of his wealthy neighbors - Gatsby adopted a ________ - artificial way of speech.






49. Outer boundary To find the ________ of any quadrilateral - we add the lengths of the four sides.






50. Winding; full of curves Because this road is so ________ - it is unwise to go faster than twenty miles an hour on it.