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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Specialized knowledge; expert skill Although she was knowledgeable in a number of fields - she was hired for her particular ________ in computer programming.






2. Uprightness; incorruptibility Everyone took his ________ for granted; his defalcations - therefore - shocked us all.






3. Cut off part of body; prune When the doctors had to ________ Ted Kennedy's leg to prevent the spread of cancer - he did not let the loss of his leg keep him from participating in sports.






4. Unaccustomed He hesitated to assume the ________ role of master of ceremonies at the dinner.






5. Unspontaneous; deliberate; thoughtful Given Jill's previous slights - Jack felt that the omission of his name from the guest list was a ________ insult.






6. Hanging down from something Her ________ earrings glistened in the light.






7. Morbid fear Her fear of flying was more than mere nervousness; it was a real ________.






8. Serving to warn You should have visited a doctor as soon as you felt these ________ chest pains.






9. Mournful The dove has a ________ and melancholy call






10. Pollute The sewage system of the city so ________d the water that swimming was forbidden.






11. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence Hughes preferred ________ employees to loquacious ones - noting that the formers' dislike of idle chatter might ensure their discretion about his affairs.






12. Satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything Every Thanksgiving we are ________ed with an overabundance of holiday treats.






13. Dictated by hatred or spite The ________ neighbor spread the gossip.






14. Having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental precesses Though Jack was emotionally immature - his ________ development was admirable; he was very advanced intellectually.






15. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of ________s.






16. Tendency of a system to maintain relative stability A breakdown of the body's immune system severely undermines the body's ability to maintain ________.






17. Peculiarity; eccentricity One of his personal ________(ies) was his habit of rinsing all cutlery given him in a restaurant.






18. Unique; extraordinary; odd Though the young man tried to understand Father William's ________ behavior - he still found it odd that the old man incessantly stood on his head.






19. Stuff oneself The gluttonous guest ________d himself with food as though he had not eaten for days.






20. Residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter The blast furnace had a special opening at the bottom to allow the workers to remove the worthless ________.






21. Mixed indiscriminately; haphazard; irregular - particularly sexually In the opera La Boheme - we get a picture of the ________ life led by the young artists of Paris.






22. Flexible Hours of ballet classes kept him ________.






23. One who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs Because he switched from one party to another - his former friends shunned him as an ________.






24. Lustful They objected to his ________ behavior.






25. Strange; mysterious You have the ________ knack of reading my innermost thoughts.






26. Interjection; profane oath The sergeant's remarks were filled with ________s that offended the new recruits.






27. Make whole; combine; make into one unit She tried to ________ all their activities into one program.






28. Beg persistently Democratic and Republican phone solicitors ________d her for contributions so frequently that she decided to give nothing to either party.






29. Needlessly repetitious In the sentence "It was visible to the eye -" the phrase "to the eye" is ________.






30. Odd; unpredictable Investors become anxious when the stock market appears ________.






31. Destruction by fire Citizens of San Francisco remember that the destruction of the city was caused not by the earthquake but by the ________ that followed.






32. Adherence to established rules or procedures Signing this petition is a mere ________; it does not obligate you in any way.






33. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse Unlike Widow Douglass - who ________d Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.






34. Hairs on back and neck - especially of a dog The dog's ________ rose and he began to growl as the sound of footsteps grew louder.






35. Mistaken; wrong I thought my answer was correct - but it was ________.






36. Weaken; mitigate It is easier for us to ________ our own shortcomings than those of others.






37. Model of perfection The class disliked him because the teacher was always pointing him out as a ________ of virtue.






38. Small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests - The ________ was defeated when its scheme was discovered.






39. Dull We were disappointed by the ________ performance.






40. Holding of an office; time during which such an office is held He was permanent ________ in this position and cannot be fired.






41. Person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs He was one of the few ________s in the Congress; he constantly voiced his objections to the Presidential program.






42. Defamatory; injurious to the good name of a person He sued the newspaper because of its ________ story.






43. Wandering Many a charming tale has been written about the knights-________ who helped the weak and punished the guilty during the Age of Chivalry.






44. Prototype; primitive pattern The Brooklyn Bridge was the ________ of the many spans that now connect Manhattan with Long Island and New Jersey.






45. Roundness; sonorousness of speech Washington Irving emphasized the ________ of the governor by describing his height and circumference.






46. One who feigns illness to escape duty The captain ordered the sergeant to punish all ________s and force them to work.






47. Right or claim to possession; mark of rank; name (of a book - film - etc.) Though the penniless Duke of Ragwort no longer held title to the family estate - he still retained his ________ as head of one of England's oldest families.






48. Sentry; lookout Though camped in enemy territory - Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of posting ________s around the encampment.






49. Brief explanation of words used in the text I have found the ________ in this book very useful; it has eliminated many trips to the dictionary.






50. Without exceptions; unqualified; absolute - Though the captain claimed he was never - never sick at sea - he finally qualified his ________ denial; he was hardly ever sick at sea.