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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Scorn I ________ your attempts at a reconciliation at this time and refuse to meet you.






2. Open for the public to read; obvious It was ________ to everyone that the witness spoke the truth.






3. Deliverance from a charge His ________ by the jury surprised those who had thought him guilty.






4. Wasteful; reckless with money The ________ son squandered his inheritance.






5. Blame; censure I want my work to be above ________ and without error






6. Pledge of good faith especially in betrothal He gave her his ________ and vowed to cherish her always.






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






8. Salty The slightly ________ taste of this mineral water is pleasant.






9. Room to move; margin When you set a deadline - allow a little ________.






10. Flood; rush When we advertised the position - we received a ________ of applications.






11. Lying on back The defeated pugilist lay ________ on the canvas.






12. Sudden flood I am worried about the possibility of a ________ if the rains do not diminish soon.






13. Extremely high (of prices etc.) The super computer's price was ________.






14. Make hostile; separate Her attempts to ________ the two friends failed because they had complete faith in each other.






15. Brawl; melee The military police stopped the ________ in the bar and arrested the belligerents.






16. Coax; wheedle - I will not be ________d into granting your wish.






17. Person who turns animal hides into leather Using a solution of tanbark - the ________ treated the cowhide - transforming it into supple leather.






18. Brighten; clear up or make understandable; enlighten Just as a lamp can ________ a dark room - a perceptive comment can illuminate a knotty problem.






19. Revoke; annul What would the effect on our society be if we decriminalized drug use by ________ing the laws against the possession and sale of narcotics?






20. Scientific student of birds Auduborn's drawings of American bird life have been of interest not only to the ________s but also to the general public.






21. Strangle The criminal tried to ________ the old man with his bare hands.






22. Pertaining to the organs or sense of touch His callused hands had lost their ________ sensitivity.






23. Baffle; frustrate He felt that everyone was tying to ________ his plans and prevent his success.






24. Invigorating medicine The ________ water invigorated her - contrary to the enervating effect of the alcohol.






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






26. Distance around something; circunference It took an extra-large cummerbund to fit around Andrew Carnegie's considerable ________.






27. Rude; insensitive Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife - she ignored his ________ behavior - for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy.






28. Very cautious. The spies grew ________ as they approached the sentry.






29. Controlling influence President Marcos failed to maintain his ________ over Philippines.






30. Moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness Neither drunkards nor comics are noted for ________.






31. Verbose; drawn out Her ________ arguments irritated and bored the jury.






32. Food There was a variety of ________s at the feast.






33. Disease communicator The doctors are looking for a specific medicine to control this ________.






34. Environment; means of expression His ________ is watercolors - although he has produced excellent oil paintings and lithographs.






35. Marginal; outer We lived - not in central London - but in one of those ________ suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of the great city.






36. Defeat; frustrate In the end - Skywalker is able to ________ Vader's diabolical schemes.






37. Not influenced by emotions; fair Even though he was her son - she tried to be ________ about his behavior.






38. Distorted; crooked He held his head ________ - giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night.






39. Germinal; influencing future developments; related to seed or semen Although Freud has generally been regarded as a ________ thinker who shaped the course of psychology - his psychoanalytic methods have come under attack recently.






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






41. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition The piece concluded with a distinctive ________ that strikingly brought together various motifs.






42. Chew We must ________ our food carefully and slowly in order to avoid digestive disorders.






43. Remove water from; dry out Vigorous dancing quickly ________s the body; between dances - be sure to drink more water than normal.






44. Unselfishly generous; concerned for others In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships to hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths - Eugene Lang performed a truly ________ deed.






45. State of violent agitation We were frightened by the ________ of the ocean during the storm.






46. Accidental transposition of sounds in sucessive words When the radio announcer introduced the President as Hoobert Herver - he was guilty of ________.






47. Check flow of blood It is imperative that we ________ the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries.






48. Question closely; cross-examine Knowing that the Nazis would ________ him about his background - the secret agent invented a cover story that would help him meet their quesions.






49. Resent I ________ every minute I have to spend attending meetings.






50. Muddle; drive crazy This idiotic plan is confusing enough to ________ anyone.