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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Composed; grave The parents were worried because they felt their son was too quiet and ________.






2. Liberal; wasteful The actor's ________ gifts pleased her.






3. Helpful; contributive Rest and proper diet are ________ to good health.






4. Distortion; burlesque - The caricatures he drew always emphasized personal weaknesses of the people he burlesqued.






5. Obstruct The minority party agreed not to ________ the efforts of the leaders to secure a lasting peace.






6. One who studies the skin and its diseases I advise you to consult a ________ about your acne.






7. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances Forget about ethics! He's such an ________ that he'll vote in favor of any deal that will give him a break.






8. Excessively fat It is advisable that ________ people try to lose weight.






9. Case for arrows Robin Hood reached back and plucked one last arrow from his ________.






10. Change of fortune Humbled by life's ________s - the last emperor of China worked as a lowly gardener in the palace over which he had once ruled.






11. Irritate; fester The memory of having been jilted ________d him for years.






12. Narrow valley with steep sides Steeper than a gully - less precipitous than a canyon - a ________ is - like them - the product of years of erosion.






13. Children; offspring He was proud of his ________ but regarded George as the most promising of all his children.






14. Fit or attack of pain - laughter - rage When he heared of his son's misdeeds - he was seized by a ________ of rage.






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






16. Pollute; profane The hoodlums ________d the church with their scurrilous writing.






17. Swamp gas; heavy - vaporous atmosphere - often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence The smog hung over Victorian London like a dark cloud; noisome - reeking of decay - it was a visible ________.






18. Chain; fetter The criminal's ankles were ________d to prevent his escape.






19. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect Let us not be misled by such ________ arguments.






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






21. Unbecoming; indecent Your levity is ________ at this time of mourning.






22. Fantastic; violently contrasting The plot of the novel was too ________ to be believed.






23. Active; efficient A ________ government is necessary to meet the demands of a changing society.






24. Prudent; cautious - Investigating before acting - she tried always to be ________.






25. Open widely The huge pit ________d before him; if he stumbled - he would fall in.






26. Psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution Suffering from ________ - he claimed everyone was out to get him; ironically - his claim was accurate; even paranoids have enemies.






27. Not identical on both sides of a dividing central line Because one eyebrow was set markedly higher than the other - William's face had a particularly ________ appearance.






28. Whim - She was an unpredictable creature - acting on ________ - never taking thought of the consequences.






29. False testimony while under oath When several witnesses appeared to challenge his story - he was indicted for ________.






30. Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen He was famous for his ________ remarks and was called upon to serve as master-of-ceremonies at many banquet.






31. Tickle I am here not to ________ my audience but to enlighten it.






32. Monastery or convent - The nuns lived in the ________.






33. 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.






34. Disobedient The ________ private was confined to the barracks.






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






36. Mass of material sticking together In such a ________ of miscellaneous statistics - it was impossible to find a single area of analysis.






37. Idle person; male bee Content to let his wife support him - the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a ________.






38. Emphasize Adressing the jogging class - Kim ________d the importance to runners of good nutrition.






39. Nourish; educate; foster The head Start program attempts to ________ prekindergarten children so that they will do well when they enter public school.






40. Pleasantly tart-tasting; stimulating The ________sauce added to our enjoyment of the meal.






41. Plain; obvious My answer to your proposal is an ________ and absolute "No."






42. Turn upside down or inside out When he ________ed his body in a hand stand - he felt the blood rush to his head.






43. Condemn; critcize The reform candidate ________d the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.






44. Malicious misrepresentation - He could endure his financial failure - but he could not bear the ________ that his foes heaped upon him.






45. Liable to err I know I am ________ - but I feel confident that I am right this time.






46. Insightful; aware; wise Although Maud was a generally ________ critic - she had her blind sports: she could never see flaws in the work of her friends.






47. Small boat (often ship's boat) In the film Lifeboat - an ill-assorted group of passengers from a sunken ocean liner are marooned at sea in a ________.






48. Renounce upon oath He ________d his allegiance to the king.






49. Ineffective; fruitless Why waste your time on ________ pursuits?






50. Pitiless The escaped convict was a dangerous and ________ murderer.