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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Surrender something; efect; vomit Unwilling to ________ the cash he had stolen from the pension fund - the embezzler tried to run away.






2. Trick; shift; sham blow The boxer was fooled by his opponent's ________ and dropped his guard.






3. Assume an affected pose; act artificially No matter how much Arnold boasted or ________d - I could not believe he was as important as he pretended to be.






4. Witty thought or saying - usually short Poor Richard's ________s made Benjamin Franklin famous.






5. Pay for services There is a nominal ________ for this position.






6. Crowd Just before Christmas the stores are filled with ________s of shoppers.






7. Mock As you ________ at their superstitious beliefs - do you realize that you - too - are guilty of similarly foolish thoughts?






8. Pertaining to an injury caused by violence In his nightmares - he kept on recalling the ________ experience of being wounded in battle.






9. Become engaged to marry The announcement that they had become ________ed surprised their friends who had not suspected any romance.






10. Short-lived; fleeting The mayfly is an ________ creature.






11. Excessively devoted to one's wife His friends laughed at him because he was so ________ and submissive to his wife's desires.






12. Deviate; turn aside sharply The car ________d wildly as the driver struggled to regain control of the wheel.






13. Expressing a low opinion I resent your ________ remarks.






14. Pertaining to passionate love The ________ passages in this novel should be removed as they are merely pornographic.






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






16. Speak equivocally about an issue. When asked directly about the governor's involvement in the savings and loan scandal - the press secretary ________d - talking all around the issue.






17. Easy; expert Because he was a ________ speaker - he never refused a request to address an organization.






18. Praise; glorify The astronauts were ________led as the pioneers of the Space Age.






19. Ill luck By ________ - he lost his week's salary.






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






21. Head off; forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself; supplant Hoping to ________ any attempts by the opposition to make educational reform a hot political issue - the candidate set out her own plan to revitalize the public schools.






22. Incapable of being pacified Madame Defarge was the ________ enemy of the Evremonde family.






23. Complete agreement We were surprised by the ________ with which our proposals were accepted by the different groups.






24. Warn; reprove He ________ed his listeners to change their wicked ways.






25. Attach or add on; fasten First the registrar had to affix his signature to the license; then he had to ________ his official seal.






26. Path taken by a projectile The police tried to locate the spot from which the assassin had fired the fatal shot by tracing the ________ of the bullet.






27. Loyal; unswerving Penelope was ________ in her affections - faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings.






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






29. In confusion; disorderly The excited students dashed ________ into the stadium to celebrate the victory.






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






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






32. Interdependent relationship (between groups - species) - often mutually beneficial Both the crocodile bird and the crocodile derive benefit from their ________; pecking away at food particles embedded in the crocodile's teeth - the bird derives nouri






33. Pertaining to language The modern tourist will encounter very little ________ difficulty as English has become an almost universal language.






34. Oddity; idiosyncrasy Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the ________ of genius.






35. Goodness; moral excellence; good quality A ________ carried to extremes can turn into something resembling vice; humility - for example - can degenerate into servility and spinelessness.






36. Make shiny by rubbing; polish - The maid ________ed the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.






37. Grating; harsh The sergeant's ________ voice grated on the recruits' ears.






38. Sorrowfrl He found the ________ lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.






39. Hint This came as a complete surprise to me as I did not have the slightest ________ of your plans.






40. Frenzied; frantic His ________ activities convinced us that he had no organized plan of operation.






41. Rob; plunder The tricksters ________d him of his inheritance.






42. Periodic; on and off Our picnic was marred by ________ rains.






43. Show clearly When he tried to answer the questions - he ________d his ignorance of the subject matter.






44. Ancestors Reverence for one's ________ (sometimes referred to as ancestor worship) plays an important part in many Oriental cultures.






45. Belief that events are determined by forces beyond one's control With ________ - he accepted the hardships that beset him.






46. Sharp projection form fishhook - etc.; pointed comment The ________ from the fishhook caught in his finger as he grabbed the fish.






47. Incipient; coming into being If we could identify these revolutionary movements in their ________ state - we would be able to eliminate serious trouble in later years.






48. Grieve; express sorrow Even advocates of the war ________ed the loss of so many lives in combat.






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






50. Coming from the side In order to get good plant growth - the gardener must pinch off all ________ shoots.







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