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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Include; consist of If the District of Columbia were to be granted a statehood - the United States of America would ________ fifty-onestates - not just fifty.






2. Shrill - trumpetlike sound - We woke to the ________ to muffle its striking.






3. Separated; alienated The ________ wife sought a divorce.






4. Having the odor of stale fat A ________ odor filled the ship's galley and nauseated the crew.






5. Full of pores; like a sieve Dancers like to wear ________ clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.






6. Catch sight of In the distance - we could barely ________ the enemy vessels.






7. Outward demonstration; indication Mozart's early attraction to the harsichord was the first ________ of his pronounced musical bent.






8. Reduce; exhaust We must wait until we ________ our present inventory before we order replacements.






9. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal The church leaders decided not interfere in ________ matters.






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






12. Time past. He dreamed of the elegant homes of _________ - but gave no thought to their inelegant plumbing.






13. Pious The ________ man prayed daily.






14. To strip a priest or minister of church authority To disbar a lawyer - to ________ a priest - to suspend a doctor's license to practice--these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful consideration.






15. Wool coat of a sheep They shear sheep of their ________ - which they then comb into separate strands of wool.






16. Range of knowledge I cannot answer your question since this matter is beyond my ________.






17. Deceiving This is only a mirage; let us not be fooled by its ________ effect.






18. Break up ground after plowing; torture I don't want to ________ you at this time by asking you to recall the details of your unpleasant experience.






19. Crowd Just before Christmas the stores are filled with ________s of shoppers.






20. Unintelligible; muddled; illogical The bereaved father sobbed and stammered - his words becoming almost ________ in his grief.






21. Denial of traditional values; total skepticism ________ holds that existence has no meaning.






22. Confused; discomposed The novice square dancer became so ________ that he wandered into wrong set.






23. Express evil satisfaction; view malevolently As you ________ over your ill-gotten wealth - do you think of the many victims you have defrauded?






24. Teaching; art of education Though Maria Montessori gained fame for her innovations in ________ - it took years before her teaching techniques became common practice in American schools.






25. 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 ________.






26. Take apart When the show closed - they ________d the scenery before restoring it.






27. Shrink back; flinch. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her ________.






28. Division of a long poem - Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into ________s.






29. Loosely connected Though he tried to follow the plot of Gravity's Rainbow - John found the novel too ________.






30. Disown; disavow He announced that he would ________ all debts incurred by his wife.






31. Magnificent He proudly showed us through his ________ home.






32. Maker and seller of eyeglasses The patient took the prescription given him by his oculist to the ________.






33. Bending of a ray of light When you look at a stick inserted in water - it looks bent because of the ________ of the light by the water.






34. Excessively talkative - especially about unimportant subjects; loquacious; wordy Many club members avoided the company of the ________ junior executive because his contant chatter bored them to tears.






35. Loyal; unswerving Penelope was ________ in her affections - faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings.






36. Venomous spider We need an antitoxin to counteract the bite of the ________.






37. Spying In order to maintain its power - the government developed a system of ________ that penetrated every hosehold.






38. Neatly or smartly dresssed Priding himself on being a ________ dresser - the gangster Bugsy Siegel collected a wardrobe of imported suits and ties.






39. Smear (as with paint) From the way he ________ed his paint on the canvas - I could tell he knew nothing of oils.






40. Name; title He was amazed when the witches hailed him with his correct ________.






41. Fiendish The Spanish Inquisition devised many ________ means of torture.






42. Not penetrable; not permitting passage through You cannot change their habits for their minds are ________ to reasoning.






43. Unruly; rebellious The captain had to use force to quiet his ________ crew.






44. Any gain above stipulated salary The ________s attached to this job make it even more attractive than the salary indicates.






45. Rude; insensitive Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife - she ignored his ________ behavior - for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy.






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






47. Harmful; damaging Your acceptance of her support will ultimately prove ________ rather than helpful to your cause.






48. Truth; reality The four ________(ies) were revealed to Buddha during his long meditation.






49. Living at the same time as; contemporary ________ with the dinosaur - the pterodactyl flourished during the Mesozoic era.






50. Complete; consummate; make perfect The waiter recommended a glass of port to ________ the cheese.