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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Social outcast I am not a ________ to be shunned and ostracized.






2. Ill luck By ________ - he lost his week's salary.






3. Set free At first - the attempts of the Abolitioninst to ________ the slaves were unpopular in New England as well as in the South.






4. Act as judge She was called upon to ________ the dispute between the union and the management.






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






6. Solemn urging Her ________ to tell the truth did not change the witnesses' testimony.






7. Unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold - He gave her a diamond that weighed three ________s and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.






8. Earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.






9. Unruly The ________ horse unseated its rider.






10. Make discontented The passengers were ________d by the numerous delays.






11. Youthful; immature - In that youthful movement - the leaders were only a little less ________ than their immature followers.






12. Loud and harsh She scolded him in a ________ voice






13. Implied comparison "He soared like an eagle" is an example of a simile; "He is an eagle in flight -" is a ________.






14. Delay in punishment; interval of relief; rest The judge granted the condemned man a ________ to enable his attorneys to file an appeal.






15. Infallibly My teacher ________ pounced on the one typographical error in my essay.






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






17. Waterspout carved in groteque figures on a building The ________s adorning the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris are amusing in their grotesqueness.






18. Word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing So many kings of France were named Charles that modern students need epithets to tell them apart: Charles the Wise - for example - was someone far different from Charles the Fat.






19. Natural inclination Convinced of his own talent - Sol has an unfortunate ________ to belittle the talents of others.






20. Letdown in thought or emotion After the fine performance in the first act - the rest of the play was an ________.






21. Penitent Her ________ tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence.






22. Be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers ________ on the littel rascals - too.






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






24. Hatch; scheme Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off - we shall have to rely on the hens to ________ these eggs.






25. Writ summoning a witness to appear The prosecutor's office was ready to serve a ________ on the reluctant witness.






26. Pertaining to the moon ________ craters can be plainly seen with the aid of a small telescope.






27. Charmingly carefree; simple Far from the city - she led an ________ existence in her rural retreat.






28. Periodic; on and off Our picnic was marred by ________ rains.






29. Explain; interpret; clarify Harry Levin ________d James Joyce's novels with such clarity that even Finnegan's Wake seemed comprehensible to his students.






30. Ornament a metal surface by indenting - With his hammer - he carefully ________d an intricate design onto the surface of the chalice.






31. Crown The king's ________ was on display at the museum.






32. Make impossible; eliminate This contract does not ________ my being employed by others at the same time that I am working for you.






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






34. Ambush; lie in wait. They agreed to ________ their victim as he passed through the dark alley going home.






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






36. Very wicked He was universally feared because of his many ________ deeds.






37. State of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness How are lawyers different from agricultural inspectors? Where lawyers check ________(ie) in witnesses' statements - agricultural inspectors check inconsistencies in Grade A eggs.






38. Mixed indiscriminately; haphazard; irregular - particularly sexually In the opera La Boheme - we get a picture of the ________ life led by the young artists of Paris.






39. Good-naturedly ridiculing They resented his ________ remarks because they misinterpreted his teasing as sarcasm.






40. Trunk of statue with head and limbs missing; human trunk This ________ - found in the ruins of Pompeii - is now on exhibition in the museum in Naples.






41. Express strong disapproval of ; disparage The founder of the Children's Defense Fund - Marian Wright Edelman - strongly ________(ies) the lack of financial and moral support for children in America today.






42. Lordliness; domineering manner; arrogance His ________ indicated that he had long been accustomed to assuming command.






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






44. Depressed; gloomy To the dismay of his parents - he became more and more ________ every day.






45. Sameness; consistency; monotony After a while - the ________ of TV situation comedies becomes boring.






46. Trick; stratagem You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ________.






47. Imprison The warden will ________ the felon after conviction.






48. Decay Despite the body's advanced state of ________ - the police were able to identify the murdered man.






49. Vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact ________ from the sinners.






50. Naive; young and unsophisticated Although she was over forty - the movie star still insisted that she be cast as an ________ sweet young thing.