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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Flashy; showy Her ________ taste in clothes apalled us.






2. Disaster; misery - As news of the ________ spread - offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.






3. Those of gentle birth; refinement Her family was proud of its ________ and elegance.






4. Able to be touched; real; palpable Although Tom did not own a house - he had several ________ assets--a car - a television - a PC--that he could sell if he needed cash.






5. Windy The ________ weather made sailing precarious.






6. State of collagse caused by illness or old age I was unprepared for the state of ________ in which I had found my old friend; he seemed to have aged twenty years in six months.






7. Equal in extent Your reward will be ________ with your effort.






8. Particular variety of art or literature Both a short story writer and a poet - Langston Hughes proved himself equally skilled in either ________.






9. Weakness The doctor prescribed vitamin and mineral supplements for the sick old woman because of her ________.






10. Daydream; musing He was awakened from his ________ by the teacher's question.






11. Ornamental clasp She treasured the ________ because it was an heirloom.






12. Rushing stream; flood Day after day of heavy rain saturated the hillside until the water ran downhill in ________s.






13. Guarantee; assurance by seller. The purchaser of this automobile is protected by the manufacturer's ________ that he will replace any defective part for five years or 50 -000 miles.






14. Something new; newness The computer is no longer a ________ around the office.






15. Clever reply He was famous for his witty ________ and his sarcasm.






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






17. Branching into two parts The ________ of our legislative system provides us with many safeguards.






18. Living at the same time as; contemporary ________ with the dinosaur - the pterodactyl flourished during the Mesozoic era.






19. Dining hall In this huge ________ - we can feed the entire student body at one sitting.






20. Inharmonious The married couple argued incessantly and finally decided to separate because they were ________.






21. Collection; heap It took weeks to assort the ________ of miscellaneous items she had collected on her trip.






22. Treat as a celebrity She enjoyed being ________d and adored by the public.






23. Agreeable; lovable His ________ disposition pleased all who had dealings with him.






24. Physician specializing in delivery of babies Unlike midwives - who care for women giving birth at home - ________s generally work in a hospital setting.






25. Comical parody; treatment aimed at making something appear ridiculous The ridiculous decision the jury has arrived at is a ________ of justice.






26. Provide a refuge for; hide The church ________ed illegal aliens who were political refugees.






27. Grow tiresome The study of word lists can eventually ________ and put one to sleep.






28. Happening at the same time In America - the colonists were resisting the demands of the mother contry; at the ________ moment in France - the middle class was sowing the seeds of rebellion.






29. Examine closely and critically Searching for flaws - the sergeant ________d every detail of the private's uniform.






30. Temporary invasion The nightly ________s and hit-and-run raids of our neighbors across the border tried the patience of the country to the point where we decided to retaliate in force.






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






32. Wrongdoing The authorities did not discover the campaign manager's ________ until after he had spent most of the money he had embezzled.






33. To wind or turn in its course It is difficult to sail up this stream because of the way it ________s through the countryside.






34. Hermit The ________ lived in a hut in the forest.






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






36. Swindle; cheat The con man specialized in ________ing insurance companies.






37. Homeless child or animal. Although he already had eight cats - he could not resist adopting yet another feline ________.






38. Repay Let me know what you have spent and I will ________ you.






39. Favoring or exercising total control; non-democratic The people had no control over their destiny; they were forced to obey the dictates of the ________ regime.






40. Annoy; chafe Their taunts ________ed him.






41. Scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a ________ rather than a scholar.






42. Premonition of evil Caeser ridiculed his wife's ________ about the Ides of March.






43. Minor crime The culprit pleaded guilty to a ________ rather than face trial for a felony.






44. Put under a spell; carry away with emotion Shafts of sunlight on a wall could ________ her and leave her spellbound.






45. Arrogant; taking liberties It seems ________ for one so relatively new to the field to challenge the conclusions of its leading experts.






46. Careful about money; economical A ________ shopper compares prices before making major purchases.






47. Capricious; fanciful. He dismissed his generous gift to his college as a sentimental fancy - an old man's ________ gesture.






48. Give an indication beforehand; portend; prefigure In retrospect - political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup ________ed his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.






49. Teasing conversation Her friends at work greeted the news of her engagement with cheerful ________.






50. Act of dissecting living animals The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposed ________ and deplored the practice of using animals in scientific experiments.