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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Not penetrable; not permitting passage through You cannot change their habits for their minds are ________ to reasoning.






2. Agree If I ________ to this demand for blackmail - I am afraid that I will be the victim of future demands.






3. Hothead; troublemaker The police triedto keep track of all the local ________s when the President came to town.






4. Cheap and gaudy He won a few ________ trinkets in Coney Island.






5. 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.






6. Huge Radio City Music Hall has a ________ stage.






7. Obligated; indebted Since I do not wish to be ________ to anyone - I cannot accept this favor.






8. Surrender something; efect; vomit Unwilling to ________ the cash he had stolen from the pension fund - the embezzler tried to run away.






9. Fill up again Before she could take another backpacking trip - Carla had to ________ her stock of freeze-dried foods.






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






11. Habitual return to crime Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of ________; the number of persons serving second and third terms indicates the failure of the prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.






12. Trifling gaiety Your ________ at this serious moment is offensive.






13. Mildness; permissiveness Considering the gravity of the offense - we were surprised by the ________ of the sentence.






14. Deputize; pass to others It ________d upon us - the survivors - to arrange peace terms with the enemy.






15. Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth The audience saw through his attempts to ________ on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.






16. Oddity; idiosyncrasy Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the ________ of genius.






17. Dominance - especially of one nation over others As one Eastern European nation after another declared its independence - commentators marveled at the sudden breakdown of the once monolithic Soviet ________.






18. Open to view According to the United States Constitution - a person must commit an ________ act before he may be tried for treason.






19. Anger ar an injustice He felt ________ at the ill-treatment of the helpless animals.






20. Protest; remonstrance Despite the teacher's scoldings and________s - the class remained unruly.






21. Sing; babble. Every morning the birds ________d outside her window.






22. Treacherous; stealthy; sly The fifth column is ________ because it works secretly within our territory for our defeat.






23. Talkative She is very ________ and can speak on the telephone for hours.






24. Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness You do not have to be so ________ to prove that you are devout.






25. Person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a ________.






26. Infection Fearing ________ - they took drastic steps to prevent the spread of the disease.






27. Advance; improve Your chances for promotion in this department will be ________d if you take some more courses in evening school.






28. Pedestal; raised platform The audience applauded as the conductor made his way to the ________.






29. Flabby His sedentary life had left him with ________ muscles.






30. Complete; necessary for completeness Physical education is an ________ part of our curriculum; a sound mind and a sound body are complementary.






31. Pretending to be virtuous; deceiving I resent his ________ posing as a friend for I know he is interested only in his own advancement.






32. Merriment; laughter Sober Malvolio found Sir Toby's ________ improper.






33. Assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical I find no similarity between your ________ illustration and the problem we are facing.






34. Private; peculiar to an individual Such behavior is ________ - it is as easily identifiable as a signature.






35. Royal Prince Albert had a ________ manner.






36. Limit; independent variable We need to define the ________s of the problem.






37. Into parts; apart Their points of view are poles ________.






38. 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.






39. Taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax) Because the new pension law was ________ to the first of the year - even though Martha had retired in February she was eligible for the pension.






40. Reprove severely I am afraid that my parents will ________ me when I show them my report card.






41. Be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers ________ on the littel rascals - too.






42. Spacious and After sleeping in a small roadside cabins - they found their hotel suite ________.






43. Hostile; opposed Despite his lawyers' best efforts to stop him - the angry prisoner continued to make ________ remarks to the judge.






44. Substance formed by decaying vegetable matter In order to improve his garden - he spread ________ over his lawn and flower beds.






45. Predicament from which there is no escape In this ________ - all turned to prayer as their last hope.






46. Unreal; grotesque; whimsical Your fears are ________ because no such animal as you have described exists.






47. One who commits sabotage; destroyer of property Members of the Resistance acted as ________s - blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.






48. Movable; not fixed The ________ blood bank operated by the Red Cross visited our neighborhood today.






49. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words A coven of witches beside a tree is a possible ________ for the town Coventry.






50. Rebound; reverberation; reaction I am afraid that this event will have serious ________s.