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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Habitually silent; talking a little New Englanders are reputedly ________ people.






2. Scatter The police fired tear gas into crowd to ________ the protesters.






3. Talking to oneself The ________ is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions.






4. Rapture - joy; any overpowering emotion The announcement that the war had ended brought on an ________ that resulted in many uncontrolled celebrations.






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






6. Superfluous; excessively wordy; repetitious Your composition is ________; you can easily reduce its length.






7. Block; obstacle Stalled cars along the highway are a ________ to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay.






8. Superfluous; more than needed or demanded We have more than enough witnesses to corroborate your statement; to present any more would be ________.






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






10. Small speck The tiniest ________ in the eye is very painful.






11. Target of a hunt; victim In Stalking the Wild Asparagus - Euell Gibbons has as his ________ not wild beasts but wild plants.






12. Insignificant; unimportant Brushing off Ali's apologies for having broken the wine glass - Tamara said - "Don't worry about it; it's ________."






13. Praising To everyone's surprise - the speech was ________ rather than critical in tone.






14. Prolong Seeking to delay the union members' vote - the management team tried to ________ the negotiations endlessly - but the union representatives saw through their strategy.






15. Indifferent He felt ________ about the conditions he had observed and did not care to fight against them.






16. Wretch; villain His kindness to the ________ amazed all of us who had expected to hear severe punishment pronounced.






17. Strength; staying power I doubt that she has the ________ to run the full distance of the marathon race.






18. Storehouse for grain We have reason to be thankful - for our crops were good and our ________(ies) are full.






19. Distress; suffering After all the trials and ________s we have gone through - we need this rest.






20. Hugeness (in a bad sense) He did not realize the ________ of his crime until he saw what suffering he had caused.






21. Treat gently; pamper Don't ________ the children to much; they need a taste of discipline.






22. Devoted to the pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptous I cannot understand what caused him to drop his ________ way of life and become so ascetic.






23. Fragment - generally of pottery The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware vessels from the ________s he had brought back from the expedition.






24. Place of spiritual expiation In this ________ - he could expect no help from his comrades.






25. Abstruse; profound; secret He read many ________ books in order to obtain the material for the scholarly thesis.






26. Truth; reality The four ________(ies) were revealed to Buddha during his long meditation.






27. Slander; vilify He was avoided by all who feared that he would ________ and abuse them if they displeased him.






28. Book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer - He taught by engaging his pupils in a ________ until they gave him the correct answer.






29. Manlike The gorilla is the strongest of the ________ animals.






30. Twisting force; force producing rotation With her wrench she applied sufficient ________ to the nut the loosen it.






31. Winemaker; seller of wine The poet wondered what the ________s could buy that would be half as precious as the wine they sold.






32. Beyond a doubt Because her argument was ________ valid - the judge accepted it.






33. Prudence; ability to adjust actions to circumstances Use your ________ in this matter and do not discuss it with anyone.






34. Tip; summit; climax He was at the ________ of his career.






35. Injury to the body The riot was marked not only by ________ - with its attendant loss of life and limb - but also by arson and pillage.






36. Make void The parents of the eloped couple tried to ________ the marriage.






37. Club; heavy-headed weapon His walking stick served him as a ________ on many occasions.






38. Cliff; dangerous position Suddenly Indiana Jones found himself dangling from the edge of a ________.






39. Father; produce; give rise to One good turn may deserve another; it does not necessarily ________ another.






40. Inclination; bias As a judge - not only must I be unbiased - but I must also avoid any evidence of ________ when I award the prize.






41. Light-hearted; dizzy He felt his ________ youth was past.






42. Long - evenful journey The refugee's journey from Cambodia was a terrifying ________.






43. Tall column tapering and ending in a pyramid Cleopatra's Needle is an ________ in New York City's Central Park.






44. Treacherous; stealthy; sly The fifth column is ________ because it works secretly within our territory for our defeat.






45. Live in a monotonous way I do not understand how you can ________ in this quiet village after the adventurous life you have led.






46. Lowered in rank; debased The ________ wretch spoke only of his past glories and honors.






47. Keep away from Cherishing his solitude - the recluse ________ned the company of other human beings.






48. Unchanging; lacking development Nothing had changed at home; things were ________ there






49. Wretched; lacking pride On the streets of New York the homeless live in ________ poverty - huddling in doorways to find shelter from the wind.






50. Fertility; fruitfulness The ________ of his mind is illustrated by the many vivid images in his poems.