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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Invigorate; make forceful and active Rather than exhausting Maggie - dancing ________d her.






2. Deduce; conclude We must be particularly cautious when we ________ that a person is guilty on the basis of circumstantial evidence.






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






4. Slightly obscure In ________ weather - you cannot see the top of this mountain.






5. Bloody The battle of lwo Jina was unexpectedly ________ with many casualties.






6. Impertinent; forward I think your ________ and impudent remarks call for an apology.






7. Tilt; lean over That flagpole should be absolutely vertical; instead - it ________s to one side.






8. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic Helen valued people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively ________ waiter or a fawning salesclerk.






9. New or newly coined word or phrase As we invent new techniques and professions - we must also invent ________ such as "microcomputer" and "astronaut" to describe them.






10. Opposite There is an ________ ratio between the strength of light and its distance.






11. Supplying nourishment The ________ canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there.






12. Deception; trickery The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and ________ were often more effective than military might.






13. Supporter; follower In the wake of the scandal - the senator's one-time ________ quietly deserted him.






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






15. Pastoral song His program of folk songs included several ________s which he sang to the accompaniment of a lute.






16. Expressing praise The critics' ________ comments helped to make her a star.






17. Reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling After the glass is ________ed - it will be less subject to chipping and cracking.






18. Correction of errors; improvement Please initial all the ________s you have made in this contract.






19. Disprove The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to ________ the false testimony of the prosecution's only witness.






20. Trip - especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense Though she maintained she had gone abroad to collect firsthand data on the Common Market - the opposition claimed that her trip was merely a political ________.






21. Connoisseur of food and drink ________s frequent this restaurant because it features exotic wines and dishes.






22. Discipline; punish in order to correct - Whom God loves - God ________s.






23. Refer indirectly Try not to ________ to this matter in his presence because the topic annoys him.






24. Lavish expenditure; overabundant condition Seldom have I seen food and drink served in such ________ as at the wedding feast.






25. Make hostile; separate Her attempts to ________ the two friends failed because they had complete faith in each other.






26. Forerunner Though Gray and Burns share many traits with the Romantic poets who followed them - most critics consider them ________s of the Romantic Movement - not true Romantics.






27. Nearness The deer sensed the hunter's ________ and bounded away.






28. Union; coalition The opponents of the political party in power organized a ________ of disgruntled groups and became an important element in the election.






29. Stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending By living with a man to whom she was not married - George Eliot broke Victorian society's most ________ rule of respectable behavior.






30. Cancel; retract Repeat offenders who continue to drive under the influence of alcohol face having their driver's licensespermanently ________d.






31. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of ________s.






32. Abnormal or deviant - Given the ________ nature of the data - we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment.






33. Limited; restricted Unable to give the candidate full support - the mayor gave him only a ________ endorsement.






34. Frenzied; frantic His ________ activities convinced us that he had no organized plan of operation.






35. Sink The sailors decided to ________ their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.






36. Noise - The ________ of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.






37. One of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch The most common ________ in North America is the opposum.






38. Regret Although I ________ the vulgarity of your language - I defend your right to express yourself freely.






39. Basically different; unrelated It is difficult - if not impossible - to organize these ________ elements into a coherent whole.






40. Tear out In that fight - all the rules were forgotten; the adversaries bit - kicked - and tried to ________ each other's eyes out.






41. Spotted The sunlight filtering though the screens created a ________ effect on the wall.






42. Separate; part Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously ________ed.






43. Settle comfortably The parents thought that their children were ________d safely in the private school and decided to leave for Europe.






44. Container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave - business cycle - etc.) The hungry pigs struggled to get at the fresh swill in the ________. The surfer rode her board - coasting along in the trough between two waves.






45. Scold - Grandma began to ________ Steven for his lying.






46. Pardon When his first child was born - the king granted ________ to all in prison.






47. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language The politician could bever speak simply; she was always ________.






48. Disapproval; condemnation The conservative father viewed his daughter's radical boyfriend with ________.






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






50. Beat The severity with which he was ________ed was indicated by the bruises he displayed on his head and face.