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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work He performed his daily ________ cheerfully and willingly.






2. Marked with parallel bands; grooved The glacier left many ________ rocks.






3. Insurmountable; invincible In the face of ________ difficulties they maintained their courage and will to resist.






4. Artificial; sham Hollywood actresses often create ________ tears by using glycerine.






5. Impermanence Conscious that all things pass - the psalmist relates the ________ of happiness and fame.






6. Great waterfall; eye abnormality - She gazed with awe at the mighty ________ known as Niagara Falls.






7. Darken; make unclear At times he seemed purposely to ________ his meaning - preferring mystery to clarity.






8. Excess; overabundance She offered a ________ of excuses for her shortcomings.






9. Essentially; inherently; naturally Although my grandmother's china has ________ little value - I shall always cherish it for the memories it evokes.






10. Exceed Her SAT scores ________ed out expectations.






11. Obstruct The minority party agreed not to ________ the efforts of the leaders to secure a lasting peace.






12. Pertaining to the lungs In his researches on ________ diseases - he discovered many facts about the lungs of animals and human beings.






13. Corruption; turning from right to wrong Inasmuch as he had no motive for his crimes - we could not understand his ________.






14. Risk - particularly of being exposed to disease or to the elements; unmasking; act of laying something open ________ to sun and wind had dried out her hair and weathered her face.






15. Beginning; origin Tracing the ________ of a family is the theme of "Roots."






16. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources His style of interior decoration was ________: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods - strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique color.






17. Exclamation He could not repress an ________ of surprise when he heard the news.






18. Clowning John Candy's ________ in Uncle Buck was hilarious.






19. List; mention one by one Huck hung his head in shame as Miss Watson ________d his many flaws.






20. Person who verbally harasses others The ________ kept interrupting the speaker with rude remarks.






21. 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 ________.






22. Private; peculiar to an individual Such behavior is ________ - it is as easily identifiable as a signature.






23. Handle roughly The rock star was ________ed by his overexcited fans.






24. Pretend Lady Macbeth ________ed illness in the courtyard although she was actually healthy.






25. Fashionable She always discarded all garments that were no longer ________.






26. Defraud a person of something The lawyer was accused of trying to ________ the boy of his legacy.






27. Generosity Noted for his ________ - philanthropist Eugene Lang donated millions to charity.






28. Controversy; argument in support of point of view Her essays were - for the main part - ________s for the party's policy.






29. Analyze; evaluate When they ________ed the ore - they found that they had discovered a very rich vein.






30. Highly excited; intensely curious We were all ________ at the news that the celebrated movie star was giving up his career in order to enter a monastery.






31. Casual and offhand; arrogant - Sensitive about having her ideas taken lightly - Marcia felt insulted by Mark's ________ dismissal of her suggestion.






32. Room to move; margin When you set a deadline - allow a little ________.






33. Not compulsory; left to one's choice I was impressed by the range of ________ accessories for my microcomputer that were available.






34. Argue about prices I prefer to shop in a store that has a one-price policy because - whenever I ________ with a shopkeeper - I am never certain that I paid a fair price for the articles I purchased.






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






36. Excessively grasping; plundering Hawks and other ________ birds prey on variety of small animals.






37. Make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; shred The screams of the quarreling children ________d on her nerves.






38. The meat of a deer The hunters dined on ________.






39. Any gain above stipulated salary The ________s attached to this job make it even more attractive than the salary indicates.






40. Condescend He felt that he would debase himself if he ________ed to answer his critics.






41. Place where a river can be crossed on foot Rather than risk using the shaky rope bridge - David walked a half-mile downstream until he came to the neartest ________.






42. Praising; eulogistic Some critics believe that his ________ statements about Napoleon were inspired by his desire for material advancement rather than by an honest belief in the Emperor's genius.






43. Stale; spoiled by age The attic was dark and ________.






44. Determine or seek opinions - votes - etc. - After ________ing the sentiments of his constituents - the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district.






45. Compose on the spur of the moment She would sit at the piano and ________ for hours on themes from Bach and Handel.






46. Below the threshold We may not be aware of the ________ influences that affect our thinking.






47. Wild; sensational The ________ stories he told shocked his listeners.






48. Tear or rip; split The conflict over abortion threatens to split our nation - creating a ________ in the social fabric that will be difficult to mend.






49. Truthfulness Trying to prove Hill a liar - Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her ________.






50. Chance; luck In his poem ________ - Thomas Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives.