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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Frenzied; frantic His ________ activities convinced us that he had no organized plan of operation.






2. Extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance The glitter and ________ of the ballroom took Cinderella's breath away.






3. Mournful The dove has a ________ and melancholy call






4. Wordiness; spreading in all directions like a gas Your composition suffers from a ________ of ideas; try to be more compact.






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






6. Daring; bold Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their ________ - death-defying leap to freedom and escaped Darth Vader's troops.






7. Mass of material sticking together In such a ________ of miscellaneous statistics - it was impossible to find a single area of analysis.






8. Recede; lessen His fortunes began to ________ during the recession.






9. Ill-humored; irritable - Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff - he was a ________ patient.






10. Arsonist The fire spread in such an unusual manner that the fire department chiefs were certain that it had been set by an ________.






11. Undertaker The ________ prepared the corpse for burial.






12. Exit Barnum's sign "To the ________" fooled many people who thought they were going to see an animal and instead found themselves in the street.






13. Slang In the ________ of the underworld - she "was taken for a ride."






14. Perceive intuitively; foresee the future Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to ________ when he was not telling the truth.






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






16. Forewarning We ignored these ________s of disaster because they appeared to be based on childish fears.






17. Poet The ancient ________ Homer sang of the fall of Troy.






18. Tender to sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings. The quiet tone of ________ that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.






19. Participation; involvement You cannot keep your ________ in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.






20. Untidy Your ________ appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.






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






22. Blunt; abrupt She was offended by his ________ reply.






23. Reflection; thought She reached her decision only after much ________.






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






25. Scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a ________ rather than a scholar.






26. Operatic solo At her Metropolitan Opera audition - Marian Anderson sang an ________ from Norma.






27. Person or thing in excess of what is necessary; extra His first appearance on the stage was as a ________ in a Shakespearean tragedy.






28. Breeder or dealer of animals The dog ________ exhibited her prize collie at the annual Kennel Club show.






29. Having an evil influence; virulent This is a ________ disease; we must have to use drastic measures to stop its spread.






30. Delay; dawdle We can't ________ if we want to get to the airport on time.






31. Easy to approach; obtainable We asked our guide whether the ruins were ________ on foot.






32. 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.






33. Inconspicuous; not blatant The secret service agents in charge of protecting the President tried to be as ________ as possible.






34. Overjoyed; in high spirits Grinning from ear to ear - Bonnie Blair was clearly ________ by her Olympic victory.






35. Items of business at a meeting We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an ________ that there was very little time for the meeting.






36. Weaken; mitigate It is easier for us to ________ our own shortcomings than those of others.






37. Stinging - caustic His tendency to utter ________ remarks alienated his audience.






38. Irresistable; not to be escaped He felt that his fate was ________ and refused to make any attempt to improve his lot.






39. Tasty; pleasing - attractive - or agreeable Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create ________ delicacies for their guests.






40. Wandering Several ________ tribes of Indians would hunt in this area each year.






41. Occupy fully John was so ________ed in his studies that he did not hear his mother call.






42. Persuade; bring about After the quarrel - Tina said nothing could ________ her to talk to Tony again.






43. A light meal Tea sandwiches and cookies were offered at the ________.






44. Modest; shy Given Susan't ________ personality - no one expected her to take up public speaking; surprisingly enough - she became a star of the school debate team.






45. Questionable medicine No quack selling ________s is going to cheat me.






46. Marked by changes in fortune - During his ________ career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.






47. Fantastic; highly imaginative - Poe's ________ stories are sometimes too morbid for reading in bed.






48. Decide; settle; solve Homes resolved to travel to Bohemia to ________ the dispute between Irene Adler and the King.






49. Instruct; correct morally Although his purpose was to ________ and not to entertain his audience - many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.






50. Old age; feeble mindedness of old age Most of the decisions are being made by the junior members of the company because of the ________ of the president.







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