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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Tasty; pleasing - attractive - or agreeable Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create ________ delicacies for their guests.






2. Disheveled; with uncared-for appearance The beggar was dirty and ________.






3. Exposure to death or danger Legally - one cannot be placed in double ________.






4. Harmful; damaging Your acceptance of her support will ultimately prove ________ rather than helpful to your cause.






5. One who harvests grain Death - the Grim ________ - cuts down men and women - just as a farmer cuts down the ripened grain.






6. 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.






7. Mutually agreed on; done together The girl scouts in the troop made a ________ effort to raise funds for their annual outing - and emitted a concerted sigh when their leader announced that they had reached their goal.






8. Terminology; system of names She struggled to master scientific ________.






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






10. Cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; frustrate or hinder His long hours in the blacking factory left young Dickens numb and incurious - as if the menial labor had ________ed his mind.






11. Specialist in classifying (animals - etc.) Dental patterns often enable the ________ to distinguish members of one rodent species from those of another.






12. Marked by commotion; extremely funny; very noisy The ________ comedy hit Home Alone featured Macaulay Culkin - whose mugging and comic antics provoked gales of uproarious laughter from audiences coast to coast.






13. Gay; joyous; careless Shelley called the skylark a "________ spirit" because of its happy song.






14. Unharmed They prayed he would come back from the war ________.






15. Weird In that ________ setting - it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.






16. Discourage His failure to pass the bar exam ________ed him.






17. Dig up When they ________ed the city - the archeologists found many relics of an ancient civilization.






18. Reserved or aloof; cold in manner His ________ greeting made me feel unwelcome from the start.






19. Protective; pertaining to a guardianship I am acting in my ________ capacity when I refuse to grant you permission to leave the campus.






20. Comic misuse of a word When Mrs. Malaprop criticizes Lydia for being "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile -" she confuses "allegory" and "allegator" in a typical ________.






21. Anger; fury. She turned to him - full of _________ - and said - "What makes you think I'll accept lower pay for this job than you get?"






22. Enthusiastic follower A ________ of the opera - he bought season tickets every year.






23. Casual; done without prior thought Expecting to be treated with due propriety by her costs - Great-Aunt Maud was offended by their ________ manner.






24. Whim - She was an unpredictable creature - acting on ________ - never taking thought of the consequences.






25. Roman army officer - Because he was in command of a company of one hundred soldiers - he was called a ________.






26. Yielding; timid Crushed by his authoritarian father - Will had no defiance left in him; he was totally ________ in the face of authority.






27. Publicize; praise excessively I lost confidence in my broker after he ________ed some junk bonds that turned out to be a bad investment.






28. Position giving an advantage They fired upon the enemy from behind trees - walls and any other point of ________ they could find.






29. Fragrant Medieval sailing vessels brought ________ herbs from China to Europe.






30. At the point of death The doctors called the family to the bedside of the ________ patient.






31. Steadfast She approached the guillotine with ________ steps.






32. Trace; remains We discovered ________s of early Indian life in the cave.






33. Sudden violent change of feeling; negative reaction Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a ________ when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.






34. Strong emotion Margo was a creature of extremes - at one moment in ________s of joy over a vivid sunset - at another moment in transports of grief over a dying bird.






35. Feeble - ineffective; unthinking - irresponsible Einstein was noted for his extraordinary inspirations; on the other hand - he was noted for being ________ in his daily chores.






36. Hasty; rash The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a ________ dash across the border to freedom.






37. Gap; pause Except for a brief two-year ________ - during which she enrolled in the Peace Corps - Ms. Clements has devoted herself to her medical career.






38. Recollection Her ________s of her experiences are so fascinating that she ought to write a book.






39. Long established - as a disease - The doctors were finally able to attribute his ________ headaches and nausea to traces of formaldehyde gas in his apartment.






40. Repeat He ________d the warning to make sure everyone understood it.






41. Hostile; opposed Despite his lawyers' best efforts to stop him - the angry prisoner continued to make ________ remarks to the judge.






42. Characteristic frame of mind; disposition; emotional excess Although the twins look alike - they differ markedly in ________: Tod is calm - but Rod is excitable.






43. Plan of a trip Before leaving for his first visit to France and England - he discussed his ________ with people who had been there and with his travel agent.






44. Destroy completely The tidal wave ________d several island villages.






45. Powerful person The oil ________s made great profits when the price of gasoline rose.






46. Nonentity; worthless person or thing - She claimed her ex-husband was a total ________ and wondered why she had ever married him.






47. Misleading vision It is easy to create an optical ________ in which lines of equal length appear different.






48. Talk at length At this time - please give us a brief resume of your work; we shall permit you to ________ later.






49. Doubts Hamlet described his ________ to Horatio but decided to fence with Laertes despite his foreboding of evil.






50. Enormously large or extensive The government seemed willing to spend ________ sums on weapons development.