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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Be disturbed; boil The nation was ________ing with discontent as the nobleman continued their arrogant ways.






2. Coax; wheedle - I will not be ________d into granting your wish.






3. Make frivolous objections - I respect your sensible criticisms - but I dislike the way you ________ about unimportant details.






4. Rankle - produce irritation or resentment Joe's insult ________ed in Anne's mind for days - and made her too angry to speak to him.






5. Praise All the ________(ies) of his friends could not remove the sting of the calumny heaped upon him by his enemies.






6. Mixed up; jumbled; distorted A favorite party game involves passing a whispered message from one person to another; by the time it reaches the last player - the message has become totally ________.






7. Body of customers - The rock club attracted a young - stylish ________.






8. Abandon; disown; repudiate Even though she knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch - Joan of Arc refused to ________ her belief that her voices came from God.






9. Strong point or special talent I am not eager to play this rather seious role - for my ________ is comedy.






10. Change in voting district lines in order to favor a political party The illogical pattern of the map of this congressional district is proof that the state legislature ________ed this area in order to favor the majority party.






11. Come about by addition You must pay the interest that has ________d on your debt as well as the principal sum.






12. Baffle; frustrate He felt that everyone was tying to ________ his plans and prevent his success.






13. Opinion contrary to popular belief or to accepted religion He was threatened with excommunication because his remarks were considered to be pure ________.






14. Attractive; agreeable I would rather have a poor and ________ wife than a rich and homely one.






15. Person with power to decide a matter in a dispute; judge As an ________ in labor disputes - she has won the confidence of the workers and the employers.






16. Formal praise The modest hero blushed to hear the speakers delivering ________s about his valorous act.






17. Watching; guarding The FBI kept the house under constant ________ in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time.






18. Serving to warn You should have visited a doctor as soon as you felt these ________ chest pains.






19. Gigantic ________ waves beat aginst the shore during the hurricane.






20. Random; by chance His ________ reading left him unaquainted with the authors of the books.






21. Without deceit He is naive - simple - and ________; he cannot be guilty of fraud.






22. Pull away; take by violence. With only ten seconds left to play - our team _________ed victory from their grasp.






23. Causing sadness - compassion - pity; touching Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time he finished his ________ tale about the orphaned boy.






24. Young wolf - dog - tiger - etc. This collie ________ won't do for breeding - but he'd make a fine pet.






25. Fond word or act Your gifts and ________s cannot make me forget your earlier insolence.






26. Accident With a little care you could have avoided this ________.






27. Diminish; undermine The element kryptonite had an unhealthy effect on Superman: it ________ped his strength.






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






29. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried - Though the late Havelock Ellis wrote extensively about sexual customs and was considered an expert in such matters - recent studies maintain he was ________ throughout his life.






30. Kinship The lawsuit developed into a test of the ________ of the claimant to the estate.






31. Position giving an advantage They fired upon the enemy from behind trees - walls and any other point of ________ they could find.






32. Disconnected His remarks were so ________ that we could not follow his reasoning.






33. Deliverance from a charge His ________ by the jury surprised those who had thought him guilty.






34. Reject; scorn The heroine ________ed the villain's advances.






35. Very high They used to tease him about his ________ ambitions.






36. Put into words I know you don't like to talk about these things - but please try to ________ your feelings.






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






38. Holding; having a good memory The pupil did not need to spend much time in study as he had a ________ mind.






39. Pretend Lady Macbeth ________ed illness in the courtyard although she was actually healthy.






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






41. Being in debt He was in ________ with his payments on the car.






42. Wandering away from the subject Nobody minded when Professor Renoir's lectures wandered away from their offical theme; his ________s were always more fascinating than the topic of the day.






43. Religious image; idol The ________s on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.






44. Not to be taken away; nontransferable The Declaration of Independence mentions the ________ rights that all of us possess.






45. Casual; done without prior thought Expecting to be treated with due propriety by her costs - Great-Aunt Maud was offended by their ________ manner.






46. Undertaker The ________ prepared the corpse for burial.






47. Having womanly traits His voice was high-pitched and ________.






48. Make less difficult He tried to ________ repayment of the loan by getting a part-time job.






49. Ash-colored; deadly pale Her face was ________ with fear.






50. Pertaining to country people; uncouth The backwoodsman looked out place in his ________ attire.