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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Warm and damp August in New York City is often ________.






2. Annoy by repeated attacks When he could not pay his bills as quickly as he had promised - he was ________ed by his creditors.






3. Gigantic statue The legendary ________ of Rhodes - bronze statue of the sun god that dominated the harbor of the Greek seaport - was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.






4. False belief; hallucination This scheme is a snare and a ________.






5. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one The expression "he passed away" is a ________for "he died."






6. Soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body He was advised to apply a flaxseed ________ to the inflammation.






7. Painful labor How long do you think a man can endure such ________ and degradation without rebelling?






8. Rotting flesh of a dead body - Buzzards are nature's scavengers; they eat the ________ left behind by other predators.






9. Scorn I ________ your attempts at a reconciliation at this time and refuse to meet you.






10. Conscientious; extremely thorough I can recommend him for a position of responsibility for I have found him a very ________ young man.






11. Preceding in time - rank - etc. Our discussions - ________ to this event - certainly did not give you any reason to believe that we would adopt your proposal.






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






13. Spread throughout Despite airing them for several hours - she could not rid her clothes of the ________ odor of mothbals that clung to them.






14. Loyal; unswerving Penelope was ________ in her affections - faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings.






15. Change; convert to something different He was unable to ________ his dreams into actualities.






16. Rascality We cannot condone such ________ in public officials.






17. Deck opening; lid covering a deck opening The latch on the ________ failed to catch - so the hatch remained unlatched.






18. Unsupportable I find your theory ________ and must reject it.






19. Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly He is preparing a ________ on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.






20. Exhausting The marathon is a ________ race.






21. Ring of leaves around stem; ring. Identification by fingerprints is based on the difference in shape and number of ________s on the fingers.






22. Mythical figure - half man and half horse - I was particularly impressed by the statue of the ________ in the Roman Hall of the museum.






23. Decorate Wall paintings and carved statues ________ed the temple.






24. One opposed to force; antimilitarist The ________s urged that we reduce our military budget and recall our troops stationed overseas.






25. Please intensely The audience was ________d by the freshness of the voices and the excellent orchestration.






26. Break up ground after plowing; torture I don't want to ________ you at this time by asking you to recall the details of your unpleasant experience.






27. Dullness; impassivenss The earthquake shattered his usual ________; trembling - he crouched on the no longer stable ground.






28. Fret about; hesitate - for ethical reasons Fearing that her husband had become involved in an affair - she did not ________ to read his diary.






29. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged Sucked into the ________ of the tornado - Dorothy and Toto were carried from Kansas to Oz.






30. Mechanism that imitates actions of humans Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots - writers were creating stories of ________ who could outperform humans.






31. Divided into classes; arranged into strata As the economic gap between the rich and the poor increased - Roman society grew increasingly ________.






32. Forgivable; trivial We may regard a hugry man's stealing as a ________ crime.






33. Tolerate; endure The dean would ________ no interference with his disciplinary actions.






34. Destroy The enemy in its revenge tried to ________ the entire population.






35. Stir up a fire; feed plentifully As a Scout - Marisa learned how to light a fire - how to ________ it if it started to die down - and how to extinguish it completely.






36. Distortion; burlesque - The caricatures he drew always emphasized personal weaknesses of the people he burlesqued.






37. 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 ________.






38. Scornful remarks - stinging rebuke His feelings were hurt by the ________ of his supposed friends.






39. Obtaining The personnel department handles the ________ of new employees.






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






41. Narrate or tell; count over again About to ________ the latest adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Watson lost track of exactly how many cases Holmes had solved and refused to begin his tale until he'd recounted them one by one.






42. Little - round hill Robert Louis Stevenson's grave is on a ________ in Samoa; to reach the grave site - you must climb uphill and walk a short distance along a marked path.






43. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind The professor of ________ headed an expedition to the Gobi Desert in search of ancient ruins.






44. Dissipated; wasteful; licentious In this ________ company - she lost all sense of decency.






45. Daydream; musing He was awakened from his ________ by the teacher's question.






46. Stout; corpulent The salesclerk tactfully referred to the overweight customer as ________ rather than fat.






47. Inclination; natural tendency The cross old lady has a ________ to grumble.






48. Hypnotize The incessant drone seemed to ________ him and place him in a trance.






49. Quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion Watching the tearful reunion of the long-separated mother and child - the social worker was touched by the ________ of the scene.






50. Husky; muscular - The ________ mover lifted the packing crate with ease.