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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Speaking several languages New York City is a ________ community because of the thousands of immigrants who settle there.






2. Shameless boldness She had the ________ to insult the guest.






3. Peeping Jill called Jack a ________ when she caught him aiming his binoculars at a bedroom window of the house next door.






4. Yielding He was ________ and ready to go along with his friends' desires.






5. Curse; express abhorrence for The world ________s the memory of Hitler and hopes that genocide will never again be the policy of any nation.






6. Brief - comprehensive summary This text can serve as a ________ of the tremendous amount of new material being developed in this field.






7. Wild; sensational The ________ stories he told shocked his listeners.






8. Waterspout carved in groteque figures on a building The ________s adorning the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris are amusing in their grotesqueness.






9. Ambush; lie in wait. They agreed to ________ their victim as he passed through the dark alley going home.






10. Unrepressed The congregation was shocked by her ________ laughter during the sermon.






11. Kinship She felt an ________ with all who suffered; their pains were her pains.






12. Theoretical; not concrete; non-representational To him - hunger was an ________ concept; he had never missed a meal.






13. Deserving blame Your vicious conduct in this situation is ________.






14. Counselor-at-law Galsworthy started as a ________ - but when he found the practice of law boring - turned to writing.






15. Pertaining to speculative philosophy The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the ________ poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.






16. Provide with some quality; endow He was ________d with a lion's courage.






17. Obstruct The minority party agreed not to ________ the efforts of the leaders to secure a lasting peace.






18. Petition humbly; pray to grant a favor We ________ Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.






19. Place where different varieties of trees and shrubs are studied and exhibited Walking along the treelined paths of the ________ - Rita noted poplars - firs - and some particularly fine sycamores.






20. Like wood Petrified wood may be ________ in appearance - but it is stonelike in composition.






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






22. Theft Because of the prisoner's record - the district attorney refused to reduce the charge from grand ________ to petit larceny.






23. Act of assuming a human body and human nature The ________ of Jesus Christ is a basic tenet of Christian theology.






24. Delusion I think you were frightened by a ________ that you created in you own mind.






25. Slyness; sneakiness; secretiveness Fearing detection by the sentries on duty - the scout inched his way toward the enemy camp with great ________.






26. Having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental precesses Though Jack was emotionally immature - his ________ development was admirable; he was very advanced intellectually.






27. Stupid person I thought I was talking to a mature audience; instead - I find myself addressing a pack of ________s.






28. Having only one color Most people who are color blind actually can distinguish several colors; some - however - have a truly ________ view of a world all in shades of gray.






29. Enclosure for birds The ________ at the zoo held nearly 300 birds.






30. Point directly overhead in the sky; summit.When the sun was at its _________ - the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.






31. Flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river His dissertation discussed the effect of intermittent flooding on the fertility of the Nile ________.






32. Soaked; dull - as if from drink He set his ________ overcoat near the radiator to dry.






33. Enormously large or extensive The government seemed willing to spend ________ sums on weapons development.






34. Grain-eating Some ________ animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.






35. Small metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation The thousands of ________s on her dress sparkled in the glare of the stage lights.






36. Foolish; inane He is far too intelligent to utter such ________ remarks.






37. Temporary stay During the twenty-four-hour ________ - the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent.






38. Very destructive - harmful He argued that these books had a ________ effect on young and susceptible minds.






39. Smirk; smile affectedly Complimented on her appearance - Stella self-consciously ________ed.






40. Fear or hatred of foreigners.When the refugee arrived in America - he was unprepared for the _________ he found there.






41. Foretell; presage The king did not know what these omens might ________ and asked his soothsayers to interpret them.






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






43. Longing; urge. She had a _________ to get away and live on her own for a while.






44. Decorate Parsley was used to ________ the boiled potato.






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






46. Dangerous Your occupation is too ________ for insurance companies to consider your application.






47. Pertaining to the stars He was the ________ attraction of the entire performance.






48. Surfeit; satisfy fully The guests - having eaten until they were ________d - now listened inattentively to the speakers.






49. Characterizing or affecting all; present everywhere At first - no one shared Christopher's opinions; his theory that the world was round was met with universal disdain.






50. Problem; choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives In this ________ - he knew no one to whom he could turn for advice.