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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Large volume He spent much time in the libraries poring over ancient ________s.






2. Adorn My mother-in-law's stories about her journey from Russia made us laugh because she ________ed the bare facts of her travels with humourous acecdotes.






3. Instruct; correct morally Although his purpose was to ________ and not to entertain his audience - many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.






4. Operatic solo At her Metropolitan Opera audition - Marian Anderson sang an ________ from Norma.






5. Disposition ot be lenient; mildness - as of the weather - The lawyer was pleased when the case was sent to Judge Smith's chambers because Smith was noted for her ________ toward first offenders.






6. Dullness; impassivenss The earthquake shattered his usual ________; trembling - he crouched on the no longer stable ground.






7. Advance; improve Your chances for promotion in this department will be ________d if you take some more courses in evening school.






8. Kindly; doing good The overgenerous philanthropist had to curb his ________ impulses before he gave away all his money and left himself with nothing.






9. Very destructive - harmful He argued that these books had a ________ effect on young and susceptible minds.






10. Slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal Note how well the somewhat greenish coat of the ________ enables it to blend in with its arboreal surroundings.






11. Pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses He was stimulated by the sights - sounds and smells about him; he was enjoying his ________ experience.






12. Custom; habitual procedure. As was his _________ - he jogged two miles every morning before going to work.






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






14. Evil We must defeat the ________ forces that seek our downfall.






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






16. Precision; minute distinction I cannot distinguish between such ________(ies) of reasoning.






17. Pertaining to cultivation of gardens When he bought his house - he beganto look for flowers and decorative shrubs - and began to read books dealing with ________ matters.






18. Stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys; criterion What ________ can be used to measure the character of a person?






19. Wandering The return of the ________ birds to the northern sections of this country is a harbinger of spring.






20. Stubborn He was ________ in his refusal to listen to our complaints.






21. Furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer As ________ of rare wines and viands - he traveled through France and Italy every year in search of new products to sell.






22. Comparable She called our attention to the things that had been done in an ________ situation and recommended that we do the same.






23. Careless We dislike restaurants where the service is ________ and inattentive.






24. Satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything Every Thanksgiving we are ________ed with an overabundance of holiday treats.






25. Threatening Those clouds are ________; they suggest that a severe storm is on the way.






26. Shallow body of water near a sea; lake They enjoyed their swim in the calm ________.






27. Inner excitement; exuberance Nothing depressed her for long; her natural ________ soon reasserted itself.






28. Explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally The debate coach warned her student not to bore the audience by ________ing his point.






29. Position giving an advantage They fired upon the enemy from behind trees - walls and any other point of ________ they could find.






30. Trembling; wavering She was ________ more from excitement than from fear.






31. Repay Let me know what you have spent and I will ________ you.






32. Nearness The deer sensed the hunter's ________ and bounded away.






33. Fitness; correct conduct I want you to behave at this dinner with ________; don't embarass me.






34. Suitable; to the point The lawyer wanted to know all the ________ details.






35. Law We have many ________s in our law books which should be repealed.






36. Uprightness; wholeness Lincoln - whose personal ________ has inspired millions - fought a civil war to maintain the integrity of the republic - that these United States might remain undivided for all time.






37. Device for stamping or impressing; mold In coining pennies - workers at the old mint squeezed sheets of softened copper between two ________s.






38. 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.






39. Headland They erected a lighthouse on the ________ to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.






40. Substance that propels or drives forward The development of our missile program has forced our scientists to seek more powerful ________s.






41. Unalterable Let us not brood over past mistakes since they are ________.






42. Element; ingredient I wish all the ________s of my stereo system were working at the same time.






43. Plundering After the ________s of the invaders - the people were penniless.






44. Respectful; obedient The ________ child grew up to be a conscientious adult aware of his civic obligations.






45. Prolong Seeking to delay the union members' vote - the management team tried to ________ the negotiations endlessly - but the union representatives saw through their strategy.






46. Model; example; pattern Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a ________ of the conditioned- response experiment in behavioal psychology.






47. Change of form The ________ of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in animal life.






48. Call upon; ask for She ________d her advisor's aid in filling out her financial aid forms.






49. Explain; interpret; clarify Harry Levin ________d James Joyce's novels with such clarity that even Finnegan's Wake seemed comprehensible to his students.






50. Honor; tribute In her speech she tried to pay ________ to a great man.