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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Uncertain; risky I think this stock is a ________ investment and advise against its purchase.
ludicrous
precarious
exemplary
lavish
2. Conditional The continuation of this contract is ________ on the quality of your first output.
contingent
recumbent
discount
venerable
3. Pertaining to the stars He was the ________ attraction of the entire performance.
stellar
enrapture
placebo
intersperse
4. Intruder The merchant thought of his competitors as ________s who were stealing away his trade.
interloper
disperse
orifice
extradition
5. Narrow-mindedness; isolation The ________ of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anyuthing foreign.
conscript
impale
audit
insularity
6. Invulnerable Until the development of the airplane as a military weapon - the fort was considered ________.
avocation
impregnable
hackles
venial
7. Increase or intensify; raise in power - wealth - rank or honor The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may ________ his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.
gibe
aggrandize
aghast
punctilious
8. Obligated; indebted Since I do not wish to be ________ to anyone - I cannot accept this favor.
beholden
venerable
patriarch
untoward
9. Hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search - especially for food If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock - try ________ing for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.
seethe
scavenge
seismic
interim
10. Fasten together; unite Before you ________ two strips of tape together - be sure to line them up evenly.
splice
finite
asceptic
apotheosis
11. Bottomless His arrogance is exceeded only by his ________ ignorance.
abysmal
rebus
jingoism
bourgeois
12. 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.
offensive
ovoid
horticultural
quaint
13. Scandinavian myth; any legend This is a ________ of the sea and the men who risk their lives on it.
exposure
effluvium
impair
saga
14. Annoying; tedious He found working on the assembly line ________ because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform.
irksome
victuals
effete
supercilious
15. Deadly It is unwise to leave ________ weapons where children may find them.
languish
gibberish
patrician
lethal
16. Religious image; idol The ________s on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.
tremulous
infernal
icon
hew
17. Hesitant; faltering Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a ________ fashion as they grope for the right words.
halting
incisive
reprieve
simplistic
18. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him reading was purposeful - not ________.
expletive
desultory
armada
philanthropist
19. Suggestive; implying A lack of appetite may be ________ of a major mental or physical disorder.
paean
compilation
balk
indicative
20. Repay in kind (usually for bad treatment) Fear that we will ________ immediately deters our foe from attacking us.
retaliate
turncoat
calumny
discomfit
21. Refer to Since you ________ to this matter so frequently - you must regard it as important.
advert
pious
interrogate
contest
22. Dedicate; sanctify We shall ________ our lives to this noble purpose.
catalyst
anathema
dermatologist
consecrate
23. Sharp-cornered; stiff in manner His features - though ________ - were curiously attractive.
codify
amorphous
mendacious
angular
24. Capable of using either hand with equal ease A switch-hitter in baseball should be naturally ________.
ambidextrous
pathos
aquiline
reek
25. Monumental tomb His body was placed in the family ________.
mausoleum
awry
omnipotent
enfranchise
26. Give up temporarily; yield. I will ________ my rights in this matter in order to expedite our reaching a proper decision.
clemency
rubble
barrister
waive
27. Retort; comeback; reply When someone has been rude to me - I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick ________.
gourmet
rejoinder
peroration
prosperity
28. Imagined; unreal You are resenting ________ insults. No one has ever said such things about you.
subtlety
forgo
fancied
promulgate
29. Supplicatory prayer On this solemn day - the congregation responded to the prayers of the priest during the ________ with fervor and intensity.
litany
uninhibited
unprepossessing
transcend
30. Period of equal days and nights; the beginning of spring and autumn The vernal ________ is usually marked by heavy rainstorms.
glossary
ignoble
validate
equinox
31. Trip - especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense Though she maintained she had gone abroad to collect firsthand data on the Common Market - the opposition claimed that her trip was merely a political ________.
dissident
indict
junket
facile
32. Gay; joyous; careless Shelley called the skylark a "________ spirit" because of its happy song.
deterrent
reprobation
construe
blithe
33. Put under a spell; carry away with emotion Shafts of sunlight on a wall could ________ her and leave her spellbound.
delirium
entrance
deify
impenetrable
34. Dissolve; disperse The chess club ________ed after its disastrous initial season.
disband
nostrum
hackneyed
disparate
35. Indirect reference the ________s to mythological characters in Milton's poems bewilder the reader who has not studied Latin.
uxorious
elysian
disburse
allusion
36. Loss of speech due to injury or illness After the automobile accident - the victim had periods of ________ when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.
gibberish
dialectic
autopsy
aphasia
37. Extremely loud The town crier had ________ voice.
automaton
inanimate
stentorian
sleeper
38. Attractive The man I am seeking to fill this position must be ________ since he will be representing us before the public.
figment
personable
dolorous
hoodwink
39. Capable of being stretched Mountain climbers must know the ________ strength of their ropes.
tensile
killjoy
stem
ironic
40. Emit (odor) The room ________ed with stale tobacco smoke.
reek
intuition
cameo
contusion
41. Unruly The ________ horse unseated its rider.
ken
shyster
clamor
fractious
42. Summit Let us drop a perpendicular line from the ________ of the triangle to the base.
balk
schism
vertex
gambit
43. Overcome He had to ________ many obstacles in order to succeed.
anecdote
gamut
surmount
sheathe
44. Fearful; demonstrating fear His ________ manner betrayed the fear he felt at the moment.
timorous
momentum
laxative
aggregate
45. Turn into a god; idolize Admire the rock star all you want; just don't ________ him.
wallow
deify
opportunist
mandatory
46. Cause of ruin Lack of public transportation is the ________ of urban life.
nostalgia
succumb
entity
bane
47. High praise; eulogy Uneasy with the ________s expressed by his supporters - Tolkien felt unworthy of such high praise.
encomium
podium
grueling
levee
48. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic Helen valued people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively ________ waiter or a fawning salesclerk.
obsequious
tirade
homogeneous
scrutinize
49. Having a sawtoothed edge The beech tree is one of many plants that have ________ leaves.
askance
serrated
befuddle
malignant
50. Very generous The ________ gift was presented to the bride by her rich uncle.
spoonerism
punitive
deploy
munificent