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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Arouse to action The demogogue ________d the mob to take action into its own hands.






2. Repay in kind If they attack us - we shall be compelled to ________ and bomb their territory.






3. Permanent The ________ bonds of marriage are all too often being dissolved.






4. Being everywhere; omnipresent That Christmas "The Little Drummer Boy" seemed ________: Justin heard the tune everywhere he went.






5. Revengeful She was very ________ and never forgave an injury.






6. Climb by crawling - She ________ed over the wall.






7. Curse; express abhorrence for The world ________s the memory of Hitler and hopes that genocide will never again be the policy of any nation.






8. One who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs Because he switched from one party to another - his former friends shunned him as an ________.






9. Untrue; made up To impress his friends - Tom invented ________ tales of his adventures in the big city.






10. Complain; fuss Students traditionally ________ about the abysmal quality of "mystery meat" and similar dornitory food.






11. Expurgate After the film editors had ________d the language in the script - the motion picture's rating was changed from "R" to "PG."






12. Cut to pieces with ax or sword The cavalry rushed into melee and ________ed the enemy with their swords.






13. Very large number ________s of mosquitoes from the swamps invaded our village every twilight.






14. Deceptive; not real Unfortunately - the costs of running the lemonade stand were so high that Tom's profits proved ________.






15. Servile flatterer The king enjoyed the servile compliments and attentions of the ________s in his retinue.






16. Lasting; surviving Keats believed in the ________ power of great art - which outlast its creator's brief lives.






17. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive - unspoiled This area has been preserved in all its ________ wildness.






18. Upset; distracted by anxiety The ________ parents frantically searched the ravine for their lost child.






19. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism The visible portion of the ________ includes red at one end and violet at the other.






20. Fond word or act Your gifts and ________s cannot make me forget your earlier insolence.






21. Think over ________ on this problem; the solution will come.






22. Long established - as a disease - The doctors were finally able to attribute his ________ headaches and nausea to traces of formaldehyde gas in his apartment.






23. Person with power to decide a matter in a dispute; judge As an ________ in labor disputes - she has won the confidence of the workers and the employers.






24. Large group The movie actor was surrounded by a ________ of startlets.






25. Able to live both on land and in water Frogs are classified as ________.






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






27. Washing His daily ________s were accompanied by loud noises that he humorously labeled "Opera in the Bath."






28. Artificiality; unnaturalness; act of employing sophistry in reasoning ________ is an acquired characteristic - found more frequently among city dwellers than among residents of rural areas.






29. Stuff oneself The gluttonous guest ________d himself with food as though he had not eaten for days.






30. Pretense; evasion As soon as we realized that you had won our support by a ________ we withdrew our endorsement of your candidacy.






31. Cut off part of body; prune When the doctors had to ________ Ted Kennedy's leg to prevent the spread of cancer - he did not let the loss of his leg keep him from participating in sports.






32. Disloyal Once the most loyal of Gorbachev's supporters - Shverdnaze found himself becoming increasingly ________.






33. Conspicuous; notable; protruding Have you ever noticed that Prince Charles's ________ ears make him resemble the big-eared character in Mad comics?






34. Dock; landing place Because of the captain's carelessness - the ship crashed into the ________.






35. Patience We must use ________ in dealing with him because he is still weak from his illness.






36. Opposite The inevitable ________ of peace is not war but annihilation.






37. Exhibiting rainbowlike colors She admired the ________ hues of the oil that floated on the surface of the water.






38. Narrow-minded; limited in scope As university chaplain - she sought to address universal religious issues and not limit herself to mere ________ concerns.






39. Summon a devil; proactive magic; imagine; invent He ________d up an image of a reformed city and had the voters completely under his spell.






40. Grisly People screamed when her ________ appearance was flashed on the screen.






41. Thicken; congeal; clot - Even after you remove the pudding from the burner - it will continue to ________ as it stands.






42. Exclude from public favor; ban As soon as the newspapers carried the story of his connection with the criminals - his friends began to ________ him.






43. Pertaining to tailors He was as famous for the ________ splendor of his attire as he was for his acting.






44. Place of refuge or shelter; protection The refugees sought ________ from religious persecution in a new land.






45. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few New Yorker short stories often include ________ allusions to obscure people and events: the implication is if you are in the in-crowd - you'll get the reference; if you come from Cleveland - you won't.






46. Universal; wide-ranging liberal - He was extremely ________ in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.






47. Firm dislike Their mutual ________ was so great that they refused to speak to one another.






48. Stubborn He was ________ in his refusal to listen to our complaints.






49. Root up The Salem witch trials were a misguided attempt to ________ superstition and heresy.






50. Make impossible; eliminate This contract does not ________ my being employed by others at the same time that I am working for you.