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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain The doctor called her patient a ________ because he had borne the pain of the examination without whimpering.






2. Wasteful; reckless with money The ________ son squandered his inheritance.






3. Pious phraseology; jargon of criminals - Angry that the president had slashed the education budget - we dismissed his speech on the importance of education as mere ________.






4. Distress; suffering After all the trials and ________s we have gone through - we need this rest.






5. Belief that events are determined by forces beyond one's control With ________ - he accepted the hardships that beset him.






6. Pollute The sewage system of the city so ________d the water that swimming was forbidden.






7. Comprehend; investigate I find his motives impossible to ________.






8. Think over ________ on this problem; the solution will come.






9. Infringe; touch; collide with How could they be married without ________ing on one another's freedom?






10. Give an indication beforehand; portend; prefigure In retrospect - political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup ________ed his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.






11. Impression produced by achievements or reputation The wealthy man sought to obtain social ________ by contributing to popular charities.






12. Bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together The lawyer picked up a ________ of papers as he rose to question the witness.






13. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances Forget about ethics! He's such an ________ that he'll vote in favor of any deal that will give him a break.






14. Foolish; inane He is far too intelligent to utter such ________ remarks.






15. Wrap around; bandage When I visited him in the hospital - I found him ________d in bandages.






16. Tunnels in which rabbits live; crowded conditions in which people live. The tenement was a veritable ________ - packed with people too poor to live elsewhere.






17. Very cautious. The spies grew ________ as they approached the sentry.






18. Noble; aristocratic We greatly admired her well-bred - ________ elegance






19. Act of dissecting living animals The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposed ________ and deplored the practice of using animals in scientific experiments.






20. Blood feud The rival mobs engaged in a bitter ________.






21. Seize; commandeer The army ________d all available supplies of uranium.






22. Curved - hooked He can be recognized by his ________ nose - curved like the beak of the eagle.






23. Very poor person Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income - she was by no means a ________.






24. Raid The company staged a midnight ________ against the enemy outpost.






25. Support; prop up - Just as architects buttress the walls of cathedrals with flying buttresses - debates ________ their arguments with facts.






26. Desertion The children - who had made him an idol - were hurt most by his ________ from our cause.






27. Cliff; dangerous position Suddenly Indiana Jones found himself dangling from the edge of a ________.






28. Excessively grasping; plundering Hawks and other ________ birds prey on variety of small animals.






29. Point directly overhead in the sky; summit.When the sun was at its _________ - the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.






30. Peak We could see the morning sunlight illuminate the ________ while the rest of the mountain lay in shadow.






31. Expressiveness; persuasive speech The crowds were stirred by Martin Luther King's ________.






32. Home of a hermit Even in his remote ________ he could not escape completely from the world.






33. Excuse He looked for a good ________ to get out of paying a visit to his aunt.






34. Requiring sitting Because he had a ________ occupation - he decided to visit a gymnasium weekly.






35. Person hardened in sin - devoid of a sense of decency I cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the ________ you say he is.






36. Intentional; headstrong. Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly - her death was a case of deliberate - ________ murder - not a crime of passion committed by a hasty - willful youth unable to foresee the consequences of his deeds.






37. Swift; momentarily brilliant We all wondered at his ________ rise to fame.






38. Repay in kind If they attack us - we shall be compelled to ________ and bomb their territory.






39. Exclamation He could not repress an ________ of surprise when he heard the news.






40. Disheveled; with uncared-for appearance The beggar was dirty and ________.






41. Profligate. He was denounced as a ________ who had dissipated his inheritance.






42. Support on which a lever rests If we use this stone as a ________ and the crowbar as a lever - we may be able to move this boulder.






43. Binding; causing contraction; harsh or severe The ________ quality of unsweetened lemon juice made swallowing difficult.






44. Open for the public to read; obvious It was ________ to everyone that the witness spoke the truth.






45. At rest; dormant After this geyser erupts - it will remain ________ for twenty-four hours.






46. Additional object; useful but not essential thing She bought an attractive handbag as an ________ for her dress.






47. Person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment The ________ was concerned that the new dam would upset the natural balance of the creatures living in Glen Canyon.






48. Despicable; contemptible Peter Pan sneered at Captain Hook and his ________ crew.






49. Very bad The anecdote was in ________ taste and shocked the audience.






50. Infamy; vilification He refused to defend himself against the slander and ________ hurled against him by the newspapers; he preferred to rely on his record.