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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Fern leaf; palm or banana leaf After the storm the beach was littered with the ________s of palm trees.






2. Melted The city of Pompeii was destroyed by volcanic ash rather than by ________ lava flowing from Mount Vesuvius.






3. Calming drug or influence It is dangerous to drive after taking the ________; it brings drowsiness.






4. Mass of floating ice The ship made slow progress as it battered its way through the ice ________s.






5. Unfortunate; annoying ________ circumstances prevent me from being with you on this festive occasion.






6. Facilitating evacuation of the bowels The effect of the constipation medicine is ________; it empties the bowels.






7. Prophetic; oracular Until their destruction by fire in 83 B.C. - the ________ books were often consulted by the Romans.






8. Mocking The humor of cartoonists Gary Trudeau often is ________; though the comments of the Doonesbury characters - Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.






9. Final; not susceptible to further analysis Scientists are searching for the ________ truths.






10. Embarrass - He was not at all ________ed by her open admiration.






11. Infallibility Jane refused to believe in the pope's ________ - reasoning: "All human beings are capable of error. The pope is a human being. Therefore - he pope is capable of error.






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






13. A manually skilled worker Artists and ________s alike are necessary to the development of a culture.






14. Occurring at the same time Some people find the ________ events in Hardy's novels annoyingly improbable.






15. Changing its habitat; wandering These ________ birds return every spring.






16. Right granted by authority The city issued a ________ to the company to operate surface transit lines on the streets for ninety-nine years.






17. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite That interest rates shall rise appears certain; when they will do so - however - remains ________.






18. Purify; refine; concentrate A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey; an epigrammatist ________ thoughts into quips.






19. Universal; wide-ranging liberal - He was extremely ________ in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.






20. Speed The train went by at considerable ________.






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






22. Cure-all; remedy for all diseases There is no easy ________ that will solve our complicated international situation.






23. Correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship The student demonstrated the ________ of the two triangles by using the hypotenuse-arm theorem.






24. Selected passage (written or musical) The cinematic equivalent of an ________ from a novel is a clip from a film.






25. Capable of grasping or holding Monkeys use not only their arms and legs but also their ________e tails in traveling through the trees.






26. Breaking up; downfall This ________ in the government can only result in anarchy.






27. Make discontented The passengers were ________d by the numerous delays.






28. Not lasting forever; limited by time; secular At one time in our history - ________ rulers assumed that they had been given their thrones by divine right.






29. Person hardened in sin - devoid of a sense of decency I cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the ________ you say he is.






30. Having human form or characteristics Primitive religions often have deities with ________ characteristics.






31. Mixed up; jumbled; distorted A favorite party game involves passing a whispered message from one person to another; by the time it reaches the last player - the message has become totally ________.






32. Government by a few The feudal ________ was supplanted by an autocracy.






33. Temporary stay During the twenty-four-hour ________ - the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent.






34. Salty The slightly ________ taste of this mineral water is pleasant.






35. Shining Her large and ________ eyes gave a touch of beauty to an otherwise drab face.






36. Occupy fully John was so ________ed in his studies that he did not hear his mother call.






37. Grain-eating Some ________ animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.






38. Dark; vague; unclear Even after I read the poem a fourth time - its meaning was still ________.






39. Drowsy; dull The stuffy room made her ________; she felt as if she was about to nod off.






40. Carelessly; unintentionally; by oversight She ________ omitted two questions on the examination and mismarked her answer sheet.






41. Shrink back; flinch. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her ________.






42. Restrained; self-controlled Noted for his ________ appetite - he seldom gained weight.






43. Wild tumult When the ships collided in the harbor - ________ broke out among the passengers.






44. Agreeable; lovable His ________ disposition pleased all who had dealings with him.






45. Fortress - The ________ overlooked the city like a protecting angel.






46. Counselor; teacher During this very trying period - she could not have had a better ________ - for the teacher was sympathetic and understanding.






47. Gentle breeze; west wind. When these _________s blow - it is good to be in an open boat under a full sail.






48. Omen; prophecy He interpreted the departures of the birds as an ________ of evil.






49. Spacious and After sleeping in a small roadside cabins - they found their hotel suite ________.






50. Someone who eats too much When Mother saw that Bobby had eaten all the cookies - she called him a little ________.