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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Final; not susceptible to further analysis Scientists are searching for the ________ truths.






2. Occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal Your analysis is highly ________; you have permitted your emotions and your opinions to color your thinking.






3. Rushing stream; flood Day after day of heavy rain saturated the hillside until the water ran downhill in ________s.






4. State of being inert or indisposed to move Our ________ in this matter may prove disastrous; we must move to aid our allies immediately.






5. Accustom a baby not to nurse; give up a cherished activity. He decided he would ________ himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables.






6. Porous; allowing passage through Glass is ________ to light.






7. Lacking He was ________ of any personal desire for gain in his endeavor to secure improvement in the community.






8. Most reliable or complee Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln may be regarded as the ________ work on the life of the Emancipator.






9. Slander She is a liar and is always trying to ________ my reputation.






10. Rule over tyrannically Students prefer teachers who guide - not ones who ________.






11. Slave; bondage The captured soldier was held in ________ by the conquering army.






12. Burning; sarcastically biting - The critic's ________ remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.






13. Faultfinding - His criticisms were always ________ and frivolous - never offering constructive suggestions.






14. Discipline; punish in order to correct - Whom God loves - God ________s.






15. Equal Your ignoring their pathetic condition is ________ to the murder.






16. Free; disentangle He found that he could not ________ himself from the trap.






17. Reparation; indemnification He offered to make ________ for the window broken by his son.






18. Lie Some people believe that to ________ in a good cause is justifiable and regard the statement as a "white lie."






19. Adherence to established rules or procedures Signing this petition is a mere ________; it does not obligate you in any way.






20. Weaken She was slow to recover from her illness; even a short walk to the window ________d her.






21. State of being immovable Modern armies cannot afford the luxury of ________ - as they are vulnerable to attack while standing still.






22. Premonition of evil Caeser ridiculed his wife's ________ about the Ides of March.






23. Division; partition; separation The ________ of church and state is a basic principle of our government.






24. An act of yielding Before they could reach an agreement - both sides had to make certain ________s.






25. Peeping Jill called Jack a ________ when she caught him aiming his binoculars at a bedroom window of the house next door.






26. Great fire In the ________ that followed the 1906 earthquake - much of San Francisco was destroyed.






27. Book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer - He taught by engaging his pupils in a ________ until they gave him the correct answer.






28. Wrong name; incorrect designation His tyrannical conduct proved to all that his nickname - King Eric the Just - was a ________.






29. Unfavorable; hostile ________ circumstances compelled him to close his business.






30. Sharp; bitterly pungent The ________ odor of burnt gunpowder filled the room after the pistol had been fired.






31. Suppress; extinguish; inhibit Halfway through the boring lecture - Laura gave up trying to ________ her yawns.






32. Double-dealing; hypocrisy People were shocked and dismayed when they learned of his ________ in this affair - as he had always seemed honest and straightforward.






33. Move with a wavelike motion The flag ________d in the breeze.






34. Story set to music - to be sung by a chorus - The choral society sang the new ________ composed by its leader.






35. Heavy substance used to add stability or weight The ship was listing badly to one side; it was necessary to shift the ________ in the hold to get her back on an even keel.






36. Disgraceful The country smarted under the ________ defeat and dreamed of the day when it would be victorious.






37. Fatigued; surfeited He looked for exotic foods to stimulate his ________ appetite.






38. Lacking in spirit or energy We had expected him to be full of enthusiasm and were surprised by his ________ attitude.






39. Momentary; temporary; staying for a short time Lexy's joy at finding the perfect Christmas gift for Phil was ________; she still had to find presents for the cousins and Uncle Bob. Located near the airport - this hotel caters to the largely transient






40. Hardened; unfeeling - He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was ________ to the suffering in the wards.






41. Repect; value; judge I ________ Ezra Pound both for his exciting poetry and for his acute comments on literature.






42. Violent; rough; noisy The unruly crowd became even more ________ when he tried to quiet them.






43. Point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth The rocket which was designed to take photographs of the moon was launched as the moon approached its ________.






44. Flowing smoothly; smooth Italian is a ________ language.






45. Warn; reprove He ________ed his listeners to change their wicked ways.






46. Relating to the highest point - When he reached the ________ portions of the book - he could not stop reading.






47. Ardent Her ________ enthusiasm inspired all of us to undertake the dangerous mission.






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






49. Misleading Your reasoning must be ________ because it leads to a ridiculous answer.






50. Boxer The famous ________ Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammed Ali.