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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Devout The ________ parents gave their children a religious upbringing.






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






3. Vex Johnny often ________ his mother with his pranks.






4. In utter disorder - He tried to bring order into the ________ state of affairs.






5. Assemble Because much is needed legislation had to be enacted - the governor ordered the legislature to ________ in special session by January 15.






6. Balance; balancing force; equilibrium The high-wire acrobat used his pole as an ________ to overcome the swaying caused by the wind.






7. Lack of caring; indifference A firm believer in democratic government - she could not understand the ________ of people who never bothered to vote.






8. Counterfeit; not authentic The police quickly found the distributors of the ________ twenty-dollar bills.






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






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






11. School for training future ministers; secondary school - especially for young women Sure of his priestly vocation - Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman Catholic ________.






12. Powerful; persuasive; greatly influential The jury was swayed by the highly ________ testimony of the crime's sole eyewitness.






13. Chance; luck In his poem ________ - Thomas Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives.






14. Preventing infection; having a cleansing effect Hospitals succeeded in lowering the mortality rate as soon as they introduced ________ conditions.






15. Word for word He repeated the message ________.






16. Overpowering; irresistible in effect The prosecutor presented a well-reasoned case - but the defense attorney's ________ arguments for leniency won over the jury.






17. Flashy; showy Her ________ taste in clothes apalled us.






18. Presumptuous; arrogant His ________ pride in his accomplishments was not justified.






19. Turn aside; divert; sidetrack If the switchman failed to ________ the Silver Streak onto a side track - the train would plow right into Union Station.






20. Soil - defile The scandalous remarks in the newspaper ________ the reputations of every member of the society.






21. Expressing possibility; latent The juvenile delinquent is a ________ murderer.






22. To draft for military purposes; to take for public use The policeman ________ed the first car that approached and ordered the driver to go to the nearest hospital.






23. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party On certain issues of conscience - she refused to take a ________ stand.






24. Cause of ruin Lack of public transportation is the ________ of urban life.






25. Make less concentrated; reduce in strength She preferred her coffee ________d with milk.






26. Dose (of liquid) Tristan and Lsolde drink a love ________ in the first act of the opera.






27. Abundantly fruitful She was a ________ writer who produced as many as three books a year.






28. Wanton; profane He sang a ________ song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.






29. Set off John is touchy today; say one word wrong and you'll ________ an explosion.






30. Seriousness; gravity The minister was concerned that nothing should disturb the ________ of the marriage service.






31. Related to dogs; doglike - Some days the canine population of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population.






32. Lack of self-confidence or courage If you are to succeed as a salesperson - you must first lose your ________ and fear of failure.






33. Provisional; experimental Your ________ plans sound plausible; let me know when the final details are worked out.






34. Not earthly; weird There is an ________ atmosphere in her work that amazes the casual observer.






35. Witty saying; facetious remark. What you regard as _________s are often offensive to sensitive people.






36. Restore to good condition; renew They claim that they can ________ worn shoes so that they look like new ones.






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






38. Goal; aim A degree in medicine was her ultimate ________.






39. Obstruct The minority party agreed not to ________ the efforts of the leaders to secure a lasting peace.






40. Fantastic; highly imaginative - Poe's ________ stories are sometimes too morbid for reading in bed.






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






42. Fit or attack of pain - laughter - rage When he heared of his son's misdeeds - he was seized by a ________ of rage.






43. Highest point When the moon in its orbit is furthest away from the earth - it is at its ________.






44. Ineffective; fruitless Why waste your time on ________ pursuits?






45. Talk dully; buzz or murmur like a bee On a gorgeous day - who wants to be stuck in a classroom listening to the teacher ________?






46. Dominance - especially of one nation over others As one Eastern European nation after another declared its independence - commentators marveled at the sudden breakdown of the once monolithic Soviet ________.






47. Insult to one's character or reputation; slander Polls revealed that the front-runner's standing had been damaged by the ________s and innuendoes circulated by his opponent's staff.






48. Trivial; shallow Since your report gave only a ________ analysis of the problem - I cannot give you more than a passing grade.






49. Letter The ambassador received a ________ from the Secretary of State.






50. File of documents on a subject Ordered by J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the senator - the FBI compiled a complete ________