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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Pertaining to a germ; creative Such an idea is ________; I am certain that it will influence thinkers and philosophers for many generations.






2. Connoisseur of food and drink The ________ stated that this was the best onion soup she had ever tasted.






3. Stronghold; something seen as a source of protection The villagers fortified the town hall - hoping this improvised ________ could protect them from the guerrila raids.






4. Unsatisfied; not soothed Her anger is ________ by your apology.






5. Proper; appropriate Lady Bracknell did not think it was ________ for Ernest to lack a proper family; no baby abandoned on a doorstep could grow up to marry her daughter.






6. Without feeling; not affected by pain The Native American has been incorrectly depicted as an ________ individual - undemonstrative and stoical.






7. Soothe; make calm or quiet; subdue Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to ________ them.






8. Untidy; slipshod Such ________ work habits will never produce good products.






9. Strengthen the base of Whereas relativity theory ________d the Newtonian mechanics - cosmology was undergirded by it.






10. State of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness How are lawyers different from agricultural inspectors? Where lawyers check ________(ie) in witnesses' statements - agricultural inspectors check inconsistencies in Grade A eggs.






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






12. Endowed with flesh; personified Your attitude is so fiendish that you must be a devil ________.






13. Unjust; wicked I cannot approve of the ________ methods you used to gain your present position.






14. Excessively or elaborately decorated Furniture of the Baroque period can be recognized by its ________ carvings.






15. Abundant; current In the face of the many rumors of scandal - which are ________ at the moment - it is best to remain silent.






16. Laziness He outgrew his youthful ________ to become a model of industry and alertness on the job.






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






18. Fall sharply Stock prices ________ed as Wall Street reacted to the rise in interest rates.






19. Not applicable; unrelated This statement is ________ and should be disregarded by the jury.






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






21. Serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary In an ________ capacity Doctor Watson was helpful; however - Holmes could not trust the good doctor to solve a perplexing case on his own.






22. Biting; sarcastic; stinging Actors feared the critic's ________ pen.






23. Depart secretly and hide The teller ________ed with the bonds and was not found.






24. Into parts; apart Their points of view are poles ________.






25. Branching into two parts The ________ of our legislative system provides us with many safeguards.






26. Green; lush in vegetation Monet's paintings of the ________ meadows were symphonies in green.






27. Pertaining to the stars He was the ________ attraction of the entire performance.






28. Oppression; cruel government Frederick Douglass fought against the ________ of slavery throughout his entire life.






29. Wasted away; gaunt After his long illness - he was pale and ________.






30. Heap of combustible material - esp. for burning a corpse. The mortician put ________ on the corpse before burning a corpse.






31. Stir up anger; cause retaliation In order to prevent a sudden outbreak of hostilities - we must not ________ our foe.






32. Long life When he reached ninety - the old man was proud of his ________.






33. Devilish This scheme is so ________ that I must reject it.






34. Fickle; incalculable - The storm was ________ and changed course constantly.






35. Characterizing or affecting all; present everywhere At first - no one shared Christopher's opinions; his theory that the world was round was met with universal disdain.






36. Ability to foretell the future Given the current wave of Japan-bashing - it does not take ________ for me to foresee problems in our future trade relations with Japan.






37. Portray In this book - the author ________s the slave owners as kind and benevolent masters.






38. Foretell; presage The king did not know what these omens might ________ and asked his soothsayers to interpret them.






39. Pretend; conceal by feigning She tried to ________ her grief by her exuberant attitude.






40. Droop; grow feeble When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first period - the home team's spirits ________ged.






41. Protrusion; bulge A ganglionic cyst is a fluid-filled tumor (generally benign) that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath - and that bulges beneath the skin - forming a ________.






42. Extend; draw out; lengthen In their determination to discover ways to ________ human life - doctors fail to take into account that longer lives are not always happier ones.






43. Gratifying the senses The nobility during the Renaissance led ________ lives.






44. Baffle; frustrate He felt that everyone was tying to ________ his plans and prevent his success.






45. Publicize; praise excessively I lost confidence in my broker after he ________ed some junk bonds that turned out to be a bad investment.






46. Basic; primary; essential The committee discussed all sorts of side issues without ever getting down to addressing the ________ problem.






47. Thriftless He was constantly being warned to mend his ________ ways and begin to "save for a rainy day."






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






49. Fallen fruit; unexpected lucky event. This huge tax refund is quite a ________.






50. Related to population balance In conducting a survey - one should take into account ________ trends in the region.