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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Rearing up on hind legs; unrestrained The ________ weeds in the garden killed all the flowers that had been planted in the spring.






2. Totally clear; definite; outspoken Don't just hint around that you're dissatisfied: be ________ about what's bugging you.






3. Agree Did you ________ with the decision of the court or did you find it unfair?






4. Ponder For a moment he ________d about the beauty of the scene - but his thought soon changed as he recalled his own personal problems.






5. Faithless lover; flirt Swearing he had never so much as looked at another woman - Jack assured Jill he was no ________.






6. Clever He came up with a use for Styrofoam packing balls that was so ________ that his business school professors declared it was marketable.






7. Verify; support I intend to ________ my statement by producing witnesses.






8. Small world In the ________ of our rural village - we find illustrations of all the evils that beset the universe.






9. Flowing together; crowd They built the city at the ________ of two rivers.






10. Disown; disavow He announced that he would ________ all debts incurred by his wife.






11. Confuse; puzzle No mystery could ________ Sherlock Holmes for long.






12. Boredom; weariness We hope this radio will help overcome the ________ of your stay in the hospital.






13. Record of descent; lineage He was proud of his genealogy and constantly referred to the achievements of his ancestors.






14. Punishment; severe criticism - Sensitive even to mild criticism - Woolf could not bear ________ that she found in certain reviews.






15. Dark; dusky Despite the stereotype - not all Italians are ________; many are fair and blond.






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






17. Express; utter He ________ed his wrath on his class.






18. Seize; commandeer The army ________d all available supplies of uranium.






19. Shrill - trumpetlike sound - We woke to the ________ to muffle its striking.






20. Like a corpse; pale - From his ________ appearance - we could see how the disease had ravaged him.






21. Slavery; compulsory labor Born a slave - Douglass resented his wife of ________ and plotted to escape to the North.






22. Severity Many settlers could not stand the ________s of the New England winters.






23. Slow up; loosen As they passed the finish line - the runners ________ed their pace.






24. Supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work He performed his daily ________ cheerfully and willingly.






25. Arraged by degree (of height - difficulty - etc.) Margaret loved her ________ set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.






26. Implied comparison "He soared like an eagle" is an example of a simile; "He is an eagle in flight -" is a ________.






27. Lawsuit Try to settle this amicably; I do not want to start ________.






28. Throw overboard In order to enable the ship to ride safely through the storm - the captain had to ________ much of his cargo.






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






30. Endowed with flesh; personified Your attitude is so fiendish that you must be a devil ________.






31. Interfering He felt his marriage was suffering because of his ________ mother-in-law.






32. Abolish He intended to ________ the decree issued by his predecessor.






33. Violent anguish The ________ of despair can be as devastating as the spasms accompanying physical pain.






34. Sentry; lookout Though camped in enemy territory - Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of posting ________s around the encampment.






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






36. Based on experience; useful He was a ________ man - opposed to theory






37. Furthest behind The coward could always be found in the ________ lines whenever a battle was being waged.






38. Ideas of a group of people That ________ is dangerous to this country because it embraces undemocratic philosophies.






39. Persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury) In the Godfather - the mobsters used bribery and threats to ________ the witnesses against Don Michael Corleone.






40. Wandering The return of the ________ birds to the northern sections of this country is a harbinger of spring.






41. Scatter (like seeds) The invention of the radio helped propagandists to ________ their favorite doctrines very easily.






42. Solidly uniform; unyielding Knowing the importance of appearing resolute - the patriots sought to present a ________ front.






43. Mixed up; jumbled; distorted A favorite party game involves passing a whispered message from one person to another; by the time it reaches the last player - the message has become totally ________.






44. Having only one color Most people who are color blind actually can distinguish several colors; some - however - have a truly ________ view of a world all in shades of gray.






45. Become popular with He tried to ________ himself into her parents' good graces.






46. Readily managed; willing to be led He was ________ to any suggestions that came from those he looked up to; he resented advice from his inferiors.






47. Teacher He could never be a stuffy ________; his classes were always lively and filled with humor.






48. Mocking The humor of cartoonists Gary Trudeau often is ________; though the comments of the Doonesbury characters - Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.






49. Susceptible to wounds Achilles was ________ only in his heel.






50. Study of mankind Sociology is one aspect of the science of ________.