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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Picture made of smell - colorful inlaid tiles The mayor compared the ciry to a beautiful ________ made up of people of every race and religion on earth.






2. Humorous imitation; travesty We enjoyed the clever ________(ies) of popular songs that the chorus sang.






3. Additional object; useful but not essential thing She bought an attractive handbag as an ________ for her dress.






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






5. Equipment; odds and ends His desk was cluttered with paper - pen - ink - dictionary and other ________ of the writing craft.






6. Lack of caring; indifference A firm believer in democratic government - she could not understand the ________ of people who never bothered to vote.






7. Too particular; fussy The old lady was ________ about her food and ate very little.






8. Derived byreasoning If we accept your premise - your conclusions are easily ________.






9. Make use of - sometimes unjustly Caesar Chavez fought attempts to ________ migrant farmworkers in California.






10. Oily; bland; insincerely suave Uriah Heep disguised his nefarious actions by ________ protestations of his "'umility."






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






12. Conditional The continuation of this contract is ________ on the quality of your first output.






13. Complicated situation; perplexity; entanglement He was called in to settle the ________ but failed to bring harmony into the situation.






14. Pardon When his first child was born - the king granted ________ to all in prison.






15. Decay The moral ________ of the people was reflected in the lewd literature of the period.






16. Self-restraint; sexual chastity She vowed to lead a life of ________.






17. Person who makes or sells women's hats The ________ displayed fashionable hats in the street where many women passed by.






18. Peak; pinnacle; highest point Welles's success in Citizen Kane marked the ________ of his career as an actor; never again did he achieve such popular acclaim.






19. Command; order; forbid The owners of the company asked the court to ________ the union from picketing the plant.






20. Flimsy; unsubstantial This is a ________ fabric; it will not wear well.






21. Fringes; outer borders Living ________ of Boston - Sarah sometimes felt as if she were cut off from the cultural heart of the city.






22. Learned; scholarly His ________ writing was difficult to read because of the many allusions which were unfamiliar to most readers.






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






24. Twistings; distortions As the effects of the opiate wore away - the ________ of the patient became more violent and demonstrated how much pain she was enduring.






25. List; mention one by one Huck hung his head in shame as Miss Watson ________d his many flaws.






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






27. Excessively careful He was ________ in checking his accounts and never made mistakes.






28. Pertaining to earthquakes The Richter scale is a measurement of ________ disturbances.






29. Lack of consistency; difference The police noticed some ________(ies) in his description of the crime and did not believe him.






30. Offer; extend Although no formal changes had been made against him - in the wake of the recent scandal the mayor felt he should ________ his resignation.






31. Related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature The English word "mother" ________ to the Latin word "mater -" whose influence is visible in the words "maternal" and "maternity."






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






33. 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 ________.






34. Bitterness; hatred Let us forget out ________ and cooperate in this new endeavor.






35. Like a fox; crafty She disliked his sly ways - but granted him a certain ________ intelligence.






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






37. Dissenting; rebellious In the purge that followed the student demonstrations at Tianamen Square - the government hunted down the ________ students and their supporters.






38. Explanatory; serving to explain The mannual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of ________ prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.






39. Stipulation I am ready to accept your proposal with the two ________ that you meet your obligations within the next two weeks.






40. Outer boundary To find the ________ of any quadrilateral - we add the lengths of the four sides.






41. Very small In the twentieth century - physicists have made their greatest discoveries about the characteristics of ________ objects like the atom and its parts.






42. Fleshly - The public was more interested in ________ pleasures than in spiritual matters.






43. Charm She wore the ________ to ward off evil.






44. Savor; enjoy I ________ a good joke as much as anyone else.






45. Combative; bellicose Although at this time he was advocating a policy of neutrality - one could usually find him adopting a more ________ attitude.






46. Payments make to an ex-spouse after divorce Because Tony had supported Tina through medical school - on their divorce he asked the court to award him a month in ________.






47. Burning; sarcastically biting - The critic's ________ remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.






48. Rubble A full year after the earthquake in Mexico City - workers were still carting away the________






49. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances Forget about ethics! He's such an ________ that he'll vote in favor of any deal that will give him a break.






50. Rough-mannered Although he was blunt and ________ with most people - he was always gentle with children.