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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Let down; restrain Until it was time to open the presents - the children had to ________ their curiosity.






2. Having a common center The target was made of ________ circles.






3. Easily burned After the recent outbreak of fires in private homes - the fire commissioner ordered that all ________ materials be kept in safe containers.






4. Free The company offered to give one package ________ to every purchaser of one of their products.






5. Tough; strong and firm The steak was too ________ to chew






6. State strongly or positively; insist on or demand recognition of (rights - claims - etc). When Jill ________ed that nobody else in the junior class had such an early curfew - her parents Asserted themselves - telling her that if she didn't get home b






7. Expedient; prudent; well devised Even though he was disappointed - he did not think it ________ to refuse the offer.






8. Trace; remains We discovered ________s of early Indian life in the cave.






9. Unoriginal; obtained from another source Although her early poetry was clearly ________ in nature - the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.






10. 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 ________.






11. Glass water bottle - With each dinner - the patron receives a ________ of red or white wine.






12. Unorthodox; unconventional To those who upheld the belief that the earth did not move - Galileo's theory that the earth circled the sun was disturbingly ________.






13. Yielding to another; ceding - The ________ of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.






14. Food There was a variety of ________s at the feast.






15. Curative Now better known for its racetrack - Saratoga Springs first gained attention for the ________ qualities of its famous "healing waters."






16. Agree; accept It gives me great pleasure to ________ to your request.






17. Slow up; loosen As they passed the finish line - the runners ________ed their pace.






18. Become popular with He tried to ________ himself into her parents' good graces.






19. Harshness; plainness The newspapers disapproved of the ________ of the sentence.






20. Church dignitary The archbishop of Moscow and other high-ranking ________s visited the Russian Orthodox seminary.






21. Incomplete In this issue we have published only a ________ list of contributors because we lack space to acknowledge everyone.






22. Capricious; fanciful. He dismissed his generous gift to his college as a sentimental fancy - an old man's ________ gesture.






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






24. Border; edge Madame Curie knew she was on the ________ of discovering the secrets of radioactive elements.






25. Blessing Let us pray that the ________ of peace once more shall prevail among the nations of the world.






26. Beg He ________d her to give him a second chance.






27. Prohibit; restrain The child was not ________ed in her responses.






28. Generous; showing bounty She distributed gifts in a ________ and gracious manner.






29. Heat; passion; zeal Katya's ________ was contagious; soon all her fellow demonstrators were busily making posters and handing out flyers - inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.






30. Block; obstacle Stalled cars along the highway are a ________ to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay.






31. Pamper; indulge excessively Don't ________ the boy - Maud! You'll spoil him.






32. Prevailinig among a specific group of people or in a specific are or country This disease is ________ in this part of the world; more than 80 percent of the population are at one time or another affected by it.






33. Art of effective communication; insincere or grandiloquent language All writers - by necessity - must be skilled in ________.






34. Hatred of marriage He remained a bachelor not because of ________ but because of ill fate: his fiancee died before the wedding.






35. Support on which a lever rests If we use this stone as a ________ and the crowbar as a lever - we may be able to move this boulder.






36. Criminal We must try to bring these ________s to justice.






37. Song of praise or joy ________s celebrating the victory filled the air.






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






39. Slightly obscure In ________ weather - you cannot see the top of this mountain.






40. Suggestive; implying A lack of appetite may be ________ of a major mental or physical disorder.






41. The meat of a deer The hunters dined on ________.






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






43. Slow; lazy; lethargic After two nights without sleep - she felt ________ and incapable of exertion.






44. Contemptible Your ________ remarks call for no reply.






45. Book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer - He taught by engaging his pupils in a ________ until they gave him the correct answer.






46. Devout The ________ parents gave their children a religious upbringing.






47. Untimely; poorly chosen A rock concert is an ________ setting for a quiet conversation.






48. Person who has a compulsive desire to steal They discovered that the wealthy customer was a ________ when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.






49. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect Let us not be misled by such ________ arguments.






50. Living at the same time as; contemporary ________ with the dinosaur - the pterodactyl flourished during the Mesozoic era.