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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Period of time The glacial ________ lasted for thousands of years.






2. Petition humbly; pray to grant a favor We ________ Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.






3. Argumentative; fond of argument People avoided discussing contemporary problems with him because of his ________ manner.






4. Varied; greatly diversified A career woman and mother - she was constantly busy with the ________ activities of her daily life.






5. Unprejudiced The only ________ person in the room was the judge.






6. Monastery or convent - The nuns lived in the ________.






7. Forgivable; trivial We may regard a hugry man's stealing as a ________ crime.






8. Determined;stubborn Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long - ________ pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.






9. Truthfulness Trying to prove Hill a liar - Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her ________.






10. Arrest ( a criminal); dread; perceive The police will ________ the culprit and convict him before long.






11. Shine; gloss The soft ________ of the silk in the dim light was pleasing.






12. Extremely obvious; loudly offensive Caught in a ________ lie - the scoundrel had only one regret: he wished that he had lied more subtly.






13. School of the fine arts (especiallymusic or drama) A gifted violinist - Marya was selected to study at the ________.






14. Explosion The ________ of the bomb could be heard miles away.






15. Scatter; drive away; cause to vanish The bright sunlight eventually ________led the morning mist.






16. Broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing The manufacturers of this frying pan recommended the use of a rubber ________ to avoid scratching the specially treated surface.






17. Habitually silent; talking a little New Englanders are reputedly ________ people.






18. Declare openly I must ________ that I am innocent.






19. Silent; muffled; toned down In the funeral parlor - the mourners' voices had a ________ quality.






20. Obsolete; outdated Accustomed to editing his papers on word processors - Philip thought typewriters were too ________ for him to use.






21. Trinket; trifle The child was delighted with the ________ she had won in the grab bag.






22. Proverb; a truth pithily stated Aesop's fables illustrate moral ________s.






23. Trivial; unimportant; very small She had no major complaints to make about his work - only a few ________ quibbles that were almost too minor to state.






24. Renunciation; self-sacrifice Though Rudolph and Duchess Flavia loved one another - their love was doomed - for she had to wed the king; their act of ________ was necessary to preserve the kingdom.






25. Hairy He was a ________ individual with a heavy black beard.






26. Menacing; deadly Casting a ________ eye at his successful rival - the rejected suitor stole off - vowing to have his revenge.






27. In essence; for practical purposes She is a ________ financial wizard when it comes to money matters.






28. Temporary stay During the twenty-four-hour ________ - the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent.






29. Modest; shy Given Susan't ________ personality - no one expected her to take up public speaking; surprisingly enough - she became a star of the school debate team.






30. Maker of a will The attorney called in his secretary and his partner to witness the signature of the ________.






31. Lay eggs Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to ________ in their native streams.






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






33. 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.






34. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources His style of interior decoration was ________: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods - strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique color.






35. Tough; strong and firm The steak was too ________ to chew






36. Waste The prodigal son ________ed the family estate.






37. Correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship The student demonstrated the ________ of the two triangles by using the hypotenuse-arm theorem.






38. Rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat - Marching down the road - the troops sang out - following the ________ set by the sergeant.






39. Rolling - treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America Despite the cold - many geologists are trying to discover valuable mineral deposits in the ________.






40. Shrivel; decay. Cut flowers are beautiful for a day - but all too soon they _________.






41. Corpse - In some states - it is illegal to dissect ________s.






42. Blame; censure I want my work to be above ________ and without error






43. Capable of being shaped by pounding Gold is a ________ metal.






44. Act of driving back; distaste The ________ of the enemy forces was not accomplished bloodlessly; many of the defenders were wounded in driving the enemy back.






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






46. Damaged; disfigured She had to refinish the ________surface of the table.






47. Without feeling; not affected by pain The Native American has been incorrectly depicted as an ________ individual - undemonstrative and stoical.






48. Slanderous remark Do not cast ________s on her character.






49. Repay in kind (usually for bad treatment) Fear that we will ________ immediately deters our foe from attacking us.






50. Preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; early life; ancestors Before giving permission for Drummie to marry Estella - Miss Havisham had a few questions about the young man's birth and ________.