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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Flexible; easily influenced Catherine's disposition was ________; she was like putty in her suitor's hands.






2. Happines; appropriateness (of a remark - choice - etc.) She wrote a note to the newlyweds wishing them great ________ in their wedded life.






3. Utensil with perforated bottom used for straining Before serving the spaghetti - place it in a ________ to drain it.






4. Senility In his ________ - the old man bored us with long tales of events in his childhood.






5. Rear; encourage According to the legend - Romulus and Remus were ________ed by a she-wolf that raised the abandoned infants as her own.






6. Those of gentle birth; refinement Her family was proud of its ________ and elegance.






7. Controlling influence President Marcos failed to maintain his ________ over Philippines.






8. Person who enjoys his own pain The ________ begs - "Hit me." The sadist smiles and says - "I won't."






9. Condemn; critcize The reform candidate ________d the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.






10. Edge - especially of a round surface He sensed that there was something just beyond the ________ of his vision.






11. Motion; gesture Operatic performers are trained to make exaggerated ________s because of the large auditoriums in whic they appear.






12. Having to do with predicting the future In interpreting Pharaoh's ________ dream - Joseph said that the seven fat cows eaten by the seven lean cows represented seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.






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






14. Take off A gentleman used to ________ his hat to a lady.






15. Hollow The back-packers found partial shelter from the storm by huddling against the ________ wall of the cliff.






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






17. Movable; not fixed The ________ blood bank operated by the Red Cross visited our neighborhood today.






18. Perfect example or embodiment Singing "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" in The Pirates of Penzance - Major-General Stanley proclaimed himself the ________ of an officer and a gentleman.






19. Distorted; crooked He held his head ________ - giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night.






20. Resonant His ________ voice resounded through the hall.






21. Calm; not easily disturbed The nurse was a cheerful but ________ person - unexcited in the face of sudden emergencies.






22. Intruder The merchant thought of his competitors as ________s who were stealing away his trade.






23. Comparable She called our attention to the things that had been done in an ________ situation and recommended that we do the same.






24. Pierce He was ________d by the spear hurled by his adversary.






25. Eat away The limestone was ________d by the dripping water






26. Pistol case Even when he was not in uniform - he carried a ________ and pistol under his arm.






27. Savor; enjoy I ________ a good joke as much as anyone else.






28. Trying to please; obliging The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a ________ manner.






29. Recollection Her ________s of her experiences are so fascinating that she ought to write a book.






30. Irregularity A bird that cannot fly is an ________.






31. Doubtful He has the ________ distinction of being the lowest man in his class.






32. Width; extent We were impressed by the ________ of her knowledge.






33. Discourage His failure to pass the bar exam ________ed him.






34. Upward The sailor climbed ________ into the rigging.






35. Chance; luck In his poem ________ - Thomas Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives.






36. Annoy; chafe Their taunts ________ed him.






37. Dictionary I cannot find this word in any ________in the library.






38. Turn aside His life was saved when his cigarette case ________ed the bullet.






39. Having a sawtoothed edge The beech tree is one of many plants that have ________ leaves.






40. Observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation We kept careful records of the ________ we noted in the course of these experiments.






41. Binding; required It is ________ that books borrowed from the library be returned within two weeks.






42. Dismay; shock We were ________led by the horrifying conditions in the city's jails.






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






44. Learned Hindu; any learned person; authority on a subject Even though he discourses on the matter like a ________ - he is actually rather ignorant about this topic.






45. Disintegration; looseness in morals The profligacy and ________ of life in Caligula's Rome appall some historians.






46. Ransack; thoroughly search When we ________d through the trunks in the attic - we found many souvenirs of our childhood days.






47. Warm by rubbing - The collar ________d his neck.






48. Make thin; weaken By withdrawing their forces - the generals hoped to ________ the enemy lines.






49. Praising; eulogistic Some critics believe that his ________ statements about Napoleon were inspired by his desire for material advancement rather than by an honest belief in the Emperor's genius.






50. Artificiality; unnaturalness; act of employing sophistry in reasoning ________ is an acquired characteristic - found more frequently among city dwellers than among residents of rural areas.