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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Belief in one God Abraham was the first to proclaim his belief in ________.






2. Opposite There is an ________ ratio between the strength of light and its distance.






3. Worn out; exhausted; barren The literature of the age reflected the ________ condition of the writers; no new ideas were forthcoming.






4. Front of the building The ________ of the church had often been photographed by tourists because it was more interesting than the rear.






5. Commemorate Let us ________ his great contribution by dedicating this library in his honor.






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. Request earnestly; seek Knowing she needed to have a solid majority for the budget to pass - the mayor telephoned all the members of the city council to ________ their votes.






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






9. The West It will take ________ to understand the ways and customs of the orient.






10. Dock; landing place Because of the captain's carelessness - the ship crashed into the ________.






11. Restrain They ________ed his arms against his body but left his legs free so that he could move about.






12. Breathing; exhalation The doctor found that the patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of ________.






13. Trip; short journey He took a quick ________ to Atlantic City.






14. Unconquerable The founders of our country had ________ willpower.






15. Unreal reflection; optical illusion The lost prospector was fooled by a ________ in the desert.






16. Into parts; apart Their points of view are poles ________.






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






18. Grain-eating Some ________ animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.






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






20. Difference; condition of inequality The ________ in their ages made no difference at all.






21. Something new; newness The computer is no longer a ________ around the office.






22. Measure; distribute He tried to be impartial in his efforts to ________ out justice.






23. Aid; assistance; relief We shall be ever grateful for the ________ our country gave us when we were in need.






24. Fate ________ is the Arabic word for "fate."






25. Pleasantly tart-tasting; stimulating The ________sauce added to our enjoyment of the meal.






26. Unalterable Let us not brood over past mistakes since they are ________.






27. Menacing; threatening We must not treat the battle lightly for we are facing a ________ foe.






28. Prankish; gay The ________ puppy tried to lick the face of its master.






29. One who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs Because he switched from one party to another - his former friends shunned him as an ________.






30. Easily understood; clear; intelligible Her explanation was ________ enought for a child to grasp.






31. Destruction One of the major aims of the air force was the complete ________ of all means of transportation by the bombing of rail lines and the terminals.






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






33. Habitual return to crime Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of ________; the number of persons serving second and third terms indicates the failure of the prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.






34. Spcial usage in language I could not understand their ________s because literal translation made no sense.






35. Designed to create ill will or envy We disregarded her ________ remarks because we realized how jealous she was.






36. Yearly allowance The ________ he set up with the insurance company supplements his social security benefits so that he can live very comfortably without working.






37. Courtesy; civility A spirit of ________ should exist among nations.






38. Twisting force; force producing rotation With her wrench she applied sufficient ________ to the nut the loosen it.






39. Bear one's self; behave He ________ed himself with great dignity.






40. Lively; stirring "And now - let's have a rousing welcome for TV's own Roseanne Arnold - who'll lead us in a ________ rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'"






41. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged Sucked into the ________ of the tornado - Dorothy and Toto were carried from Kansas to Oz.






42. Cajole; coax; deceive by flattery. She knows she can ________ almost anything she wants from her father.






43. Pertaining to farewell I found the ________ address too long; leave-taking should be brief.






44. Rebuke; deserts After his earlier rudeness - we were delighted to see him get his ________.






45. Mysterious; secret; supernatural The ________ rites of the organization were revealed only to members.






46. Depravity A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral ________.






47. Fear A ruler who maintains his power by ________ is bound to develop clandestine resistance.






48. Start; beginning She was involved with the project from its ________.






49. Chatter idly The little girl ________d about her doll.






50. Period between two reigns Henry VIII desperately sought a male heir because he feared the civil strife that might occur if any prolonged ________ succeeded his death.