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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Slow down Seeing the emergency blinkers in the road ahead - he ________d quickly.






2. Study of insects I found ________ the least interesting part of my course in biology; studying insects bored me.






3. That which is hinted at or suggested If I understand the ________ of your remark - you do not trust our captain.






4. Domestic; made at home homespun wit - like homespun cloth - was often coarse and plain.






5. Bully; scoundrel The ________s threw stones at the police.






6. Person who rebels against the established order Only the total overthrow of all governmental regulations would satisfy the ________.






7. Harmful Smoking cigarettes can be ________ to your health.






8. Work laboriously; make slow painful progress You must ________ through 3500 words list in order to achieve a high score on GRE.






9. Non-moral The ________ individual lacks a code of ethics; he should not be classified as immoral.






10. Refutation; response with contrary evidence The defense lawyer confidently listened to the prosecutor sum up his case - sure that she could answer his arguments in her ________.






11. Journey Auntie Mame was a world traveler whose ________s took her from Tiajuana to Timbuctoo.






12. Open up He did not even try to ________ the subject of poetry.






13. Nimbleness The ________ of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the audience.






14. Act of finding oneself in soiety Freshman ________ provides the incoming students with an opportunity to learn about their new environment and their place in it.






15. Strongly held belief Nothing could shake his ________ that she was innocent.






16. Slope; inclined plane The house was built with ________s instead of stairs in order to enable the man in the wheelchair to move easily from room to room and floor to floor.






17. Very small In the twentieth century - physicists have made their greatest discoveries about the characteristics of ________ objects like the atom and its parts.






18. Unduly curious; prying; seeking knowledge We need more ________ students in this school; lectures are dull.






19. Operatic solo At her Metropolitan Opera audition - Marian Anderson sang an ________ from Norma.






20. Projection; conjecture Based on their ________ from the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday - the networks predicted that George Bush would be the Republican candidate for the presidency.






21. Slander She is a liar and is always trying to ________ my reputation.






22. Unlikely occurrence; stroke of fortune When Douglass defeated Tyson for the heavyweight championship - some sportscasters dismissed his victory as a ________.






23. Person who supports or proposes (an idea) After the bill had been amended and re-amended in committee - even its original ________s didn't want to vote in its favor.






24. False belief; hallucination This scheme is a snare and a ________.






25. The art of versification This book on ________ contains a rhyming dictionary as well as samples of the various verse forms.






26. Uneasiness; distress She felt a sudden vague ________ when she heard sounds at the door.






27. Weaken; destroy The relatives who received little or nothing sought to ________ the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he signed the document.






28. Excessively or elaborately decorated Furniture of the Baroque period can be recognized by its ________ carvings.






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






30. Learned Hindu; any learned person; authority on a subject Even though he discourses on the matter like a ________ - he is actually rather ignorant about this topic.






31. Fit of petulance; caprice ACtors are known for their ________s.






32. Make unnecessary; get rid of I hope this contribution will ________ any need for further collections of funds.






33. Punish - I must ________ you for this offense.






34. Defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements Unless you can prove your allegations - your remarks constitute ________.






35. Likely to change; unstable Because the hormonal changes they undergo affect their spirits - adolescents may become emotionally ________ and experience sudden shifts of mood.






36. Pertaining to the art of delineating; vividly described I was particularly impressed by the ________ presentation of the storm.






37. Narrow in outlook; provincial; related to parishes Although Jane Austen writes novels set in small rural communities - her concerns are universal - not ________.






38. 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.






39. Cunning; artful. She is as ________ as a fox in avoiding trouble.






40. Of lowly origin; unworthy This plan is inspired by ________ motives and I must - therefore - oppose it.






41. Efficient If we are to succeed - we must seek ________ means of securing our goals.






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






43. Secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place We set the post in concrete to ________ it in place.






44. Producing tears His voice has a ________ quality that is more appropriate at a funeral than a class reunion.






45. Pertaining to farewell I found the ________ address too long; leave-taking should be brief.






46. Meanly stingy; parsimonious The ________ pittance the widow receives from the government cannot keep her from poverty.






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






48. 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.






49. Oversimplified Though Jack's solution dealt adequately with one aspect of the problem - it was ________ in failing to consider various complicating factors that might arise.






50. Shining; issuing light The sun is a ________ body.