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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Beak; pen point The ________s of fountain pens often become clotted and corroded.






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






3. Deceptive; raising vain hopes Do not raise your hopes on the basis of his ________ promises.






4. Subdue; crush; squash The authorities acted quickly to ________ the student rebellion - sending in tanks to cow the demonstrators.






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






6. Throb; flutter As he became excited - his heart began to ________ more and more erratically.






7. Act as judge She was called upon to ________ the dispute between the union and the management.






8. Terse; concise; aphoristic After reading so many redundant speeches - I find his ________ style particulary pleasing.






9. Vex Johnny often ________ his mother with his pranks.






10. Highly gifted child; marvel Menuhin was a ________ - performing wonders on his violin when he was barely eight years old.






11. Pertaining to marriage Their dreams of ________ bliss were shattered as soon as their temperaments clashed.






12. Pretend He ________med sickness to get out of going to school.






13. To strip a priest or minister of church authority To disbar a lawyer - to ________ a priest - to suspend a doctor's license to practice--these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful consideration.






14. Weightless I can evaluate the data gathered in this study; the ________ items are not so easily analyzed.






15. Fits of depression or gloom We could not discover the cause of her recurrent ________.






16. Matchless; not able to be imitated We admire Auden for his ________ use of language; he is one of a kind.






17. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few New Yorker short stories often include ________ allusions to obscure people and events: the implication is if you are in the in-crowd - you'll get the reference; if you come from Cleveland - you won't.






18. Check flow of blood It is imperative that we ________ the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries.






19. Abundant He had ________ opportunity to dispose of his loot before his police caught up with him.






20. Subside or moderate - Rather than leaving immediately - they waited for the storm to ________.






21. Subordinate possessions He bought the estate and all its ________.






22. Rankle - produce irritation or resentment Joe's insult ________ed in Anne's mind for days - and made her too angry to speak to him.






23. Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work The audience was so disappointed in the play that many did not remain to hear the ________.






24. Subordinate The captain treated his ________s as though they were children rather than commissioned officers.






25. Emit (odor) The room ________ed with stale tobacco smoke.






26. Ease pain; make less severe or offensive If we cannot cure this disease at present - we can - at least try to ________ the symptoms.






27. Commotion; riot; noise She could not make herself heard over the ________ of the mob.






28. Raise in rank or dignity; praise The actor Alec Guinness was ________ed to the rank of knighthood by the Queen; he now is known as Sir Alec Guinness.






29. Without an equal; single in kind You have the ________ distinction of being the first student whom I have had to fail in this course.






30. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal The church leaders decided not interfere in ________ matters.






31. Lying; false He was pathological liar - and his friends learned to discount his ________ stories.






32. Raid The company staged a midnight ________ against the enemy outpost.






33. Insult to one's character or reputation; slander Polls revealed that the front-runner's standing had been damaged by the ________s and innuendoes circulated by his opponent's staff.






34. Abolish He intended to ________ the decree issued by his predecessor.






35. Vague; hazy; cloudy She had only a ________ memory of her grandmother's face.






36. Descendants; future generations We hope to leave a better world to ________.






37. Soothing or softening remedy He applied an ________ to the inflamed area.






38. Similary timed; simultaneous with We have many examples of scientists in different parts of the world who have made ________ discoveries.






39. Surrender something; efect; vomit Unwilling to ________ the cash he had stolen from the pension fund - the embezzler tried to run away.






40. Narrow-minded person - uncultured and exculsively interested in material gain We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we have too many ________s among us.






41. Efficient If we are to succeed - we must seek ________ means of securing our goals.






42. Drunken Emperor Nero attended the ________ orgy.






43. Not frank; eluding Your ________ answers convinced the judge that you were witholding important evidence.






44. Name; title He was amazed when the witches hailed him with his correct ________.






45. Study of prehistoric life The professor of ________ had a superb collection of fossils.






46. Combination (of two business corporations) When the firm's president married the director of financial planning - the office joke was that it wasn't a marriage - it was a ________.






47. Free; disentangle He found that he could not ________ himself from the trap.






48. Plowed but sowed; uncultivated Farmers have learned that it is advisable to permit land to let ________ every few years.






49. Well-bred; elegant We are looking for a man with a ________ apperance who can inspire confidence by his cultivated manner.






50. Flexible; pliant The angler found a s________ limb and used it as a fishing rod.