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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Pertaining to fishing He spent many happy hours at the lake in his ________ activities.






2. Fearless For his ________ conduct in battle - he was promoted.






3. Unchangeable Scientists are constantly seeking to discover the ________ laws of nature.






4. Clear beef soup The cup of ________ served by the stewards was welcomed by those who had been chilled by the cold ocean breezes.






5. Collarbone - Even though he wore shoulder pads - the football player broke his ________ during a practice scrimmage.






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






7. State of being nameless; anonymousness The donor of the gift asked the college not to mention him by name; the dean readily agreed to respect his ________.






8. Fixed idea; continued brooding This ________ with the supernatural has made him unpopular with his neighbors.






9. Impartial; fair Do men and women receive ________ treatment from their teachers - or - as recent studies suggest - do teachers pay more attention to male students than to females?






10. Retired or disqualified because of age The ________ man was indignant because he felt that he could still perform a good day's work.






11. Serving to warn You should have visited a doctor as soon as you felt these ________ chest pains.






12. Resistance to authority; insubordination His words - though not treasonous in themselves - were calculated to arouse thoughts of ________.






13. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste. Pointing to the stack of bills - Sheldon criticized Sarah for her wanton expenditures. In response - Sara accused Sheldon of making an unfounded - wanton attack.






14. Clear of charges I hope to ________ my client and return him to society as a free man.






15. Confuse; mix up His thoughts were ________d and chaotic.






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






17. Like a corpse; pale - From his ________ appearance - we could see how the disease had ravaged him.






18. Impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance - as to a disease He was a very ________ young man - and so his parents worried that he might fall into bad company.






19. Fertile; abundant; ornate Farming was easy in this ________ soil.






20. Scoff at The people ________d his grandiose schemes.






21. Cause of ruin Lack of public transportation is the ________ of urban life.






22. Absorb; cause to become homogenous The manner in which the United States was able to ________ the hordes of immigrants during the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries will always be a source of pride.






23. Dose (of liquid) Tristan and Lsolde drink a love ________ in the first act of the opera.






24. Clean; remove offensive parts of a book The editors felt that certain passages in the book had to be ________d before it could be used in the classroom.






25. Something attached to but holding an inferior position I will entertain this concept as an ________ to the main proposal.






26. Superfluous; more than needed or demanded We have more than enough witnesses to corroborate your statement; to present any more would be ________.






27. Powerful; persuasive; greatly influential The jury was swayed by the highly ________ testimony of the crime's sole eyewitness.






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






29. Practical person No ________ enjoys becoming involved in a game that he can never win






30. Unsupportable I find your theory ________ and must reject it.






31. Very generous The ________ gift was presented to the bride by her rich uncle.






32. One who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously) In a matter of such importance - I do not wish to deal with ________s; I must meet with the chief.






33. Bold A group of ________ women were the first to scale Mt.Annapurna.






34. Firm grasp or footing The mountaineer struggled to get a proper ________ on the slippery rock.






35. Balance; balancing force; equilibrium The high-wire acrobat used his pole as an ________ to overcome the swaying caused by the wind.






36. Blessed; consecrated She was laid to rest in ________ ground.






37. Begin; originate; receive into a group The college is about to ________ a program for reducing math anxiety among students.






38. Praise All the ________(ies) of his friends could not remove the sting of the calumny heaped upon him by his enemies.






39. Small ring; band - This tiny ________ is very costly because it is set with precious stones.






40. Estimation; appraisal I would like to have your ________ of the situation in South Africa.






41. Boisterous; noisy The crowd became ________ and shouted their disapproval of the proposals made by the speaker.






42. Shrink; reduce They spent so much money that their funds ________d to nothing.






43. Deliver; provide; represent He ________ed aid to the needy and indigent.






44. Daily A farmer cannot neglect his ________ tasks at any time; cows - for example - must be milked regularly.






45. Insert improperly; palm off I will not permit you to ________ such ridiculous ideas upon the membership of this group.






46. Blindly devoted patriot - A ________ cannot recognize any faults in his country - no matter how flagrant they may be.






47. Pious The ________ man prayed daily.






48. Suffering from indigestion All the talk about rich food made him feel ________.






49. Heterogeneous mixture; medley He offered a ________ of folk songs from many lands.






50. Deliverance from a charge His ________ by the jury surprised those who had thought him guilty.