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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Long period of time; an age It has taken ________s for our civilization to develop.






2. Ungrateful person That ________ Bob sneered at the tie I gave him.






3. Study of word parts A knowledge of ________ can help you on many English tests.






4. Surrender - The enemy was warned to ________ or face annihilation.






5. Refer; attribute; assign I can ________ no motive for her acts.






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






7. Grow forth; send out buds - In the spring - the plants that ________ are a promise of the beauty that is to come.






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






9. Droop; grow feeble When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first period - the home team's spirits ________ged.






10. Prevailing style She was not used to their lavish ________ of living.






11. Not applicable; unrelated This statement is ________ and should be disregarded by the jury.






12. Brief and compact When you define a new word - be ________; the shorter the definition - the easier it is to remember.






13. Traitor who aids invaders In his conquest of Europe - Hitler was aided by the ________s who betrayed their own people and served in the puppet governments established by the Nazis.






14. Spying In order to maintain its power - the government developed a system of ________ that penetrated every hosehold.






15. Adopt; support She was always ready to ________ a worthy cause.






16. Disgustingly excessive His ________ praise of the dictator annoyed his listeners.






17. Picture; short literary sketch The New Yorker published her latest ________.






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






19. Abolish He intended to ________ the decree issued by his predecessor.






20. Trifling gaiety Your ________ at this serious moment is offensive.






21. Addition of details; intricacy Tell what happened simply - without any ________.






22. Occurring irregularly Although there are still ________ outbursts of shooting in the streets - the rebellion is essentially over.






23. Patience We must use ________ in dealing with him because he is still weak from his illness.






24. The smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance In chemistry - we study how atoms and ________s react to form new substances.






25. Gruesome; grisly The city morgue is a ________ spot for the uninitiated.






26. Supplying nourishment The ________ canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there.






27. Burden; mental care; nightmare The ________ of financial worry helped bring on her nervous breakdown.






28. Give in; surrender. The wounded knight refused to _________ to his foe.






29. Sticky - gluey Melted tar is a ________ substance.






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






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






32. Impartial; fair Do men and women receive ________ treatment from their teachers - or - as recent studies suggest - do teachers pay more attention to male students than to females?






33. Pertaining to land or its cultivation As a result of its recent industrialization - the country is gradually losing its ________ traditions.






34. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one The expression "he passed away" is a ________for "he died."






35. Recoiling from progress; retrograde His program was ________ since it sought to abolish many of the social reforms instituted by the previous administration.






36. Check the flow The paramedic used a tourniquet to ________ the bleeding from the slashed artery.






37. Stubbornly wrongheaded; wicked and unacceptable When Hannibal Lecter was in a ________ mood - he ate the flesh of his victims.






38. Mutual; exchangeable; interacting The two nations signed a ________ trade agreement.






39. Bully; intimidate Billy resisted Ted's attempts to ________ him into handing over his lunch money.






40. Combine; unite in one body The unions will attempt to ________ their groups into one national body.






41. Hesitate When told to dive off the high board - she did not ________ - but proceeded at once.






42. Pertinent; referring to the case in hand Teri was impressed by how ________ Virginia Woolf's remarks were to her as a woman writer; it was as if Woolf had been writing with Teri's situation in mind.






43. Curving outward He polished the ________ lens of his telescope.






44. Listing of statistical information in tabular or book form The ________ of available scholarships serves a very valuable purpose.






45. Rickety; falling apart The boys propped up the ________ clubhouse with a couple of boards.






46. Introductory The chairman made a few ________ remarks before he called on the first speaker.






47. Settle comfortably The parents thought that their children were ________d safely in the private school and decided to leave for Europe.






48. Excess; overabundance She offered a ________ of excuses for her shortcomings.






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






50. Attribute; ascribe If I wished to ________ blame to the officers in charge of this program - I would state my feelings definitely and immediately.