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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Lavish expenditure; overabundant condition Seldom have I seen food and drink served in such ________ as at the wedding feast.






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






3. Someone easily fooled While the gullible Watson often was made a ________ by unscrupulous parties - Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.






4. Offer as a sacrifice The tribal kind offered to ________ his daughter to quiet the angry gods.






5. Relating to paradise; blissful An afternoon sail on the bay was for her an ________ journey.






6. Open up He did not even try to ________ the subject of poetry.






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






8. Flexible; easily influenced Catherine's disposition was ________; she was like putty in her suitor's hands.






9. Familiar with The lawyer is ________ with all the evidence.






10. Ability to be molded When clay dries out - it loses its ________ and becomes less malleable.






11. Picture; short literary sketch The New Yorker published her latest ________.






12. Draw out by discussion The detectives tried to ________ where he had hidden his loot.






13. Schemes I can see through your wily ________.






14. Blacken All attempts to ________ the character of our late President have failed; the people still love him and cherish his memory.






15. Clumsy; boorish Such remarks are ________ and out of place; you should apologize for making them.






16. The act of anointing with oil The anointing with oil of a person near death is called extreme ________.






17. Unduly curious; prying; seeking knowledge We need more ________ students in this school; lectures are dull.






18. Binding; causing contraction; harsh or severe The ________ quality of unsweetened lemon juice made swallowing difficult.






19. Trivial; unimportant; very small She had no major complaints to make about his work - only a few ________ quibbles that were almost too minor to state.






20. Pertaining to induction or preceeding from the specific to the general The discovery of the planet Pluto is an excellent example of the results that can be obtained from ________ reasoning.






21. Vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact ________ from the sinners.






22. Swift; momentarily brilliant We all wondered at his ________ rise to fame.






23. Ability; capacity - A man of such ________ should not be assigned such menial tasks.






24. Guardianship; training Under the ________ of such masters of the instrument - she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.






25. Difference; condition of inequality The ________ in their ages made no difference at all.






26. Fasten together; unite Before you ________ two strips of tape together - be sure to line them up evenly.






27. Report; record (in chronological order) - The gossip columnist was paid to ________ the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.






28. Boorish; rude - Dismayed by his ________ manners at the party - the girls vowed never to invite him again.






29. Correct spelling Many of us find English ________ difficult to master because so many of our words are written phonetically.






30. Delay; object To ________ at this time will only worsen the already serious situation; now is the time for action.






31. Acquit; exculpate I am sure this letter naming the actual culprit will ________ you.






32. Mournful The ________ howling of the dogs added to our sadness.






33. Commence; go on board a boat; begin a journey In devoting herself to the study of gorillas - Dian Fossey ________ed on a course of action that was to cost her her life.






34. Begin; originate; receive into a group The college is about to ________ a program for reducing math anxiety among students.






35. Having an aim; biased; designed to further a cause The editorials in this periodical are ________ rather than truth-seeking.






36. Person who makes or sells women's hats The ________ displayed fashionable hats in the street where many women passed by.






37. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him reading was purposeful - not ________.






38. Without feeling She lay there as ________ as a log.






39. Cast off Each spring - the snake ________s off its skin.






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






41. Relentless; unyielding; implacable After listening to the pleas for clemency - the judge was ________ and gave the convicted man the maximum punishment allowed by law.






42. Renovate; make bright by polishing The flood left a deposit of mud on everything; it was necessary to ________ our belongings.






43. Lose animation; lose strength In stories - lovelorn damsels used to ________ and pine away.






44. Occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal Your analysis is highly ________; you have permitted your emotions and your opinions to color your thinking.






45. Theoretical; not concrete; non-representational To him - hunger was an ________ concept; he had never missed a meal.






46. Relating to the highest point - When he reached the ________ portions of the book - he could not stop reading.






47. Fluent; glib She was a ________ speaker - always ready to talk.






48. 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 ________.






49. Cause to be set aside; replace This regulation will ________ all previous rules.






50. Beginner Even a ________ can do good work if he follows these simple directions.