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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Mischievous child (usually a boy) Get out! This store is no place for grubby ________s!






2. Man owing small estate; middle-class farmer.It was not the aristocrat but the ________ who determined the nation's policies.






3. Sordid; unwholesome In the Godfather - Michael Corleone is unwilling to expose his wife and children to the ________ side of his life as the son of a Mafia don.






4. Pertaining to memory He used ________ tricks to master new words.






5. Sharpen To make shaving easier - he ________d his razor with great care.






6. Stubborn We tried to persuade him to give up smoking - but he was ________ and refused to change.






7. Something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable Unnoticed by the critics at its publication - the eventual Pulitzer Prize winner was a classic ________.






8. Full of pores; like a sieve Dancers like to wear ________ clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.






9. Damnation; complete ruin Praying for salvation - young Daedalus feared he was damned to eternal ________.






10. Confused; discomposed The novice square dancer became so ________ that he wandered into wrong set.






11. Agreeable; gracious; engaging. By her _________ manner - she made herself liked by everyone who met her.






12. Put forth for analysis In you discussion - you have ________ed several questions; let us consider each one separately.






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






14. Revive The lifeguard tried to ________ the drowned child by applying artificial respiration.






15. Disconcert; dismay No crisis could ________ the resourceful hotel manager.






16. Question severely In violation of the Miranda law - the police ________ed the suspect for several hours before reading him his rights.






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






18. Playful Such a ________ attitude is surprising in a person as serious as you usually are.






19. Having many languages Because they are bordered by so many countries - the Swiss people are ________.






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






21. Existence; means of support; livelihood In those days of inflated prices - my salary provided mere ________.






22. Shabby; wretched We finally thew out the ________ rug that the dog had destroyed.






23. Pour off gently Be sure to ________ this wine before serving it.






24. Strange; mysterious You have the ________ knack of reading my innermost thoughts.






25. Lazy person "You are a ________ - a drone - a parasite -" the angry father shouted at his lazy son.






26. Container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave - business cycle - etc.) The hungry pigs struggled to get at the fresh swill in the ________. The surfer rode her board - coasting along in the trough between two waves.






27. Mixture of writings on various subjects This is an interesting ________ of nineteenth-century prose and poetry.






28. Story-teller My father was a gifted ________ with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.






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






30. Crowd Just before Christmas the stores are filled with ________s of shoppers.






31. Secret code - Lacking his code book - the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in ________.






32. Pompous array of words After we had waded through all the ________ - we discovered that the writer had said very little.






33. Cautious; sparing or restrained about giving - A prudent - thrifty New Englander - DeWitt was as ________ of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.






34. Noise - The ________ of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.






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






36. Preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; early life; ancestors Before giving permission for Drummie to marry Estella - Miss Havisham had a few questions about the young man's birth and ________.






37. Essence she was asked to give the ________ of the essay in two sentence.






38. Flavored dessert ice I prefer raspberry ________ to ice cream since it is less fattening.






39. Uprightness; wholeness Lincoln - whose personal ________ has inspired millions - fought a civil war to maintain the integrity of the republic - that these United States might remain undivided for all time.






40. Pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend With the ________ of his friends - he plotted to embarrass the teacher.






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






42. Scold - Grandma began to ________ Steven for his lying.






43. Rejoice We ________ed when our team won the victory.






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






45. Seniority by birth By virtue of ________ - in some cultures the first-born child has many privileges denied his brothers and sisters.






46. Nonsense; babbling Did you hear that foolish boy spouting ________ about monsters from outer space?






47. Soak; saturate Be sure to ________ the fabric in the dye bath for the full time prescribed.






48. 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.






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






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