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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Echo; resound The entire valley ________d with the sound of the church bells.






2. Come about by addition You must pay the interest that has ________d on your debt as well as the principal sum.






3. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism. The pack rat secretes odds and ends in its nest; the pancreas ________s insulin in the islets of Langerhans.






4. Work laboriously; make slow painful progress You must ________ through 3500 words list in order to achieve a high score on GRE.






5. Accustomed; hardened She became ________ to the Alaskan cold.






6. Critical remark He resented the ________s of his critics - particularly because he realized they were true.






7. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.






8. Rubble A full year after the earthquake in Mexico City - workers were still carting away the________






9. Disentangle; solve With equal ease Miss Marple ________ed tangled balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.






10. Lustful Because they might arouse ________ impulses in their readers - the lewd books were banned by the clergy.






11. Unlikely occurrence; stroke of fortune When Douglass defeated Tyson for the heavyweight championship - some sportscasters dismissed his victory as a ________.






12. Harmony Watching Tweediedum and Tweedledee battle - Alice wondered why the two brothers could not manage to life in ________.






13. Joining; associating with His ________ with the political party was of short duration for he soon disagreed with his colleagues.






14. Unconquerable The founders of our country had ________ willpower.






15. Limited; restricted Unable to give the candidate full support - the mayor gave him only a ________ endorsement.






16. Filled to capacity; abundantly supplied The book is ________ with humorous situations.






17. Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly The political climate today is extremely ________: no one can predict what the electorate will do next.






18. Calm; not easily disturbed The nurse was a cheerful but ________ person - unexcited in the face of sudden emergencies.






19. Adjust to climate or environment One of the difficulties of our present air age is the need of travellers to ________ themselves to their new and often strange environments.






20. Great fire In the ________ that followed the 1906 earthquake - much of San Francisco was destroyed.






21. Sullen; stubborn The man was ________ abd taciturn.






22. Cautious; careful A miser hoards money not because he is ________ but because he is greedy.






23. Solidly uniform; unyielding Knowing the importance of appearing resolute - the patriots sought to present a ________ front.






24. Pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff Claire thought Lord Byron's boast that he would swim the Hellespont was just a ________ - she was astounded when he dove from the high bluff into the waters below.






25. Scorn; disdain Even if you feel superior to others - it is unwise to show your ________ for them.






26. Unlikely; unbelievable Though her alibi seened ________ - it in fact turned out to be true.






27. Minor crime The culprit pleaded guilty to a ________ rather than face trial for a felony.






28. Written statement made under oath The court refused to accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an ________.






29. Downward slope The children loved to ski down the ________.






30. Talkativeness The man who married a dumb wife asked the doctor to make him deaf because of his wife's ________ after her cure.






31. Laziness He outgrew his youthful ________ to become a model of industry and alertness on the job.






32. Noxious smell Air pollution has become a serious problem in our major cities; the ________ and the poisons in the air are hazards to life.






33. Suave; refined; elegant The courtier was ________ and sophisticated






34. Of lowly origin; unworthy This plan is inspired by ________ motives and I must - therefore - oppose it.






35. Excessively talkative - especially about unimportant subjects; loquacious; wordy Many club members avoided the company of the ________ junior executive because his contant chatter bored them to tears.






36. Offer; extend Although no formal changes had been made against him - in the wake of the recent scandal the mayor felt he should ________ his resignation.






37. Artificial; resulting from synthesis During the twentieth century - many ________ products have replaced the natural products.






38. Plunge into water; drench; extinguish They ________d each other with hoses and balloons.






39. Trying to please; obliging The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a ________ manner.






40. Forgetfulness Her work had fallen into a state of ________; no one bothered to read them.






41. Spotted The sunlight filtering though the screens created a ________ effect on the wall.






42. Essential quality His outstanding ________ was his kindness.






43. Artificial; pretended His ________ mannerisms irritated may of us who had known him before his promotion.






44. Decorate Parsley was used to ________ the boiled potato.






45. Tightly packed; firm; brief His short - ________ body was better suited to wrestling than to basketball.






46. Endowed with flesh; personified Your attitude is so fiendish that you must be a devil ________.






47. Severe disapproval The students showed their ________ of his act by refusing to talk with him.






48. Absence of governing body; state of disorder The assassination of the leaders led to a period of ________.






49. Law We have many ________s in our law books which should be repealed.






50. Gigantic The ________ corporations of the twentieth century are a mixed blessing






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