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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Pretend; conceal by feigning She tried to ________ her grief by her exuberant attitude.






2. Intentional; headstrong. Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly - her death was a case of deliberate - ________ murder - not a crime of passion committed by a hasty - willful youth unable to foresee the consequences of his deeds.






3. Filthy; base; vile The social worker was angered by the ________ housing provided for the homeless.






4. Person wearing tattered clothes He felt sorry for the ________ who was begging for food and gave him money to buy a meal.






5. Thin; slight; barely discernible. Worried about preserving his few _________ tufts of hair - Walter carefully massaged his scalp and applied hair restorer every night.






6. Prove genuine An expert was needed to ________ the original Van Gogh painting - distinguishing it from its imitation.






7. Government of a community by religious leaders Some Pilgrims favored the establishment of a ________ in New England.






8. Meanly stingy; parsimonious The ________ pittance the widow receives from the government cannot keep her from poverty.






9. Turn aside His life was saved when his cigarette case ________ed the bullet.






10. Loyalty A dog's ________ to its owner is one of the reasons why that animal is a favorite household pet.






11. Brawl The three musketeers were in the thick of ________.






12. Pertaining to soil deposits left by running water The farmers found the ________ deposits at the mouth of the river very fertile.






13. Encouraging; exhortive The crowd listened to his ________ statements with ever-growing excitement; finally they rushed from the hall to carry to his suggestions.






14. Affecting the sense of taste The Thai restaurant offered an unusual ________ experience for those used in a bland cuisine.






15. 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.






16. Honor; glory; praise The singer complacently received ________ on his performance from his entourage.






17. Reluctant He was ________ to revealing the sources of his information.






18. Disobedient; resisting authority The ________ mob shouted defiantly at the police.






19. Light-hearted; dizzy He felt his ________ youth was past.






20. Corruption; wickedness The ________ of the tyrant's behavior shocked us all.






21. Drive our evil spirits By incantation and prayer - the medicine man sought to ________ the evil spirits that had taken possession of the young warrior.






22. Hateful I find the task of punishing you most ________.






23. Disentangle; solve With equal ease Miss Marple ________ed tangled balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.






24. 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 ________.






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






26. Engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiritual. You must leave your _________ goods behind you when you go to meet your Maker.






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






28. Angry When John's mother found out that he had overthrown his checking account for the third month in a row - she was so ________ that she could scarcely speak to him.






29. 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.






30. Pushing forward I found her a very ________ person - constantly seeking the center of the stage.






31. Scatter (like seeds) The invention of the radio helped propagandists to ________ their favorite doctrines very easily.






32. Longing; urge. She had a _________ to get away and live on her own for a while.






33. Contend; compete Politicians ________ with one another - competing for donations and votes.






34. Repetition of beginning sound in poetry "The furrow followed free" is an example of ________.






35. Conceited person A ________ is his own best friend.






36. Seasonings; spices Spanish food is full of ________.






37. Explanation - especially of biblical passages I can follow your ________ of this passage to a limited degree; some of your reasoning eludes me.






38. 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.






39. Small planet ________s have become commonplace to the readers of interstellar travel stories in science fiction magazines.






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






41. Lead-coloredl; black and blue; ashen; enraged His face was so ________ with rage that we were afraid that he might have an attack of apoplexy.






42. Ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant The ancient Egyptians were among the first to write on ________.






43. Shack; small - wretched house He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a ________.






44. Target of a hunt; victim In Stalking the Wild Asparagus - Euell Gibbons has as his ________ not wild beasts but wild plants.






45. Drive or hunt out of hiding She was ________ed out their secret.






46. Dining hall In this huge ________ - we can feed the entire student body at one sitting.






47. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite That interest rates shall rise appears certain; when they will do so - however - remains ________.






48. Attacking cherished traditions George Bernard Shaw's ________ plays often startled more conventional people.






49. Story in which characters are used as symbols; fable Pilgrim's Progress is an ________ of the temptations and victories of the human soul.






50. Insult; offend Accustomed to being treated with respect - Miss Challoner was ________ed by Vidal's offensive behavior.







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