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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements Unless you can prove your allegations - your remarks constitute ________.






2. Unconquerable Superman is ________.






3. Journey Auntie Mame was a world traveler whose ________s took her from Tiajuana to Timbuctoo.






4. Strange; mysterious You have the ________ knack of reading my innermost thoughts.






5. Merry Santa Claus is always vivacious and ________.






6. Point at which the sun is farthest from the equator The winter ________ usually occurs on December 21.






7. Lead astray; wheedle She was ________d into joining the club after an initial reluctance.






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






9. Breaking up; downfall This ________ in the government can only result in anarchy.






10. Harass - annoy - torment; raid The guerrilla band ________(ied) the enemy nightly.






11. Idle person; male bee Content to let his wife support him - the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a ________.






12. Official publication He read the ________s regularly for announcement of his promotion.






13. Thought - Mathematics problems sometimes require much ________.






14. Pompous; self-important Convinced of his own importance - the actor strutted about the dressing room with a ________ air.






15. Slope; inclined plane The house was built with ________s instead of stairs in order to enable the man in the wheelchair to move easily from room to room and floor to floor.






16. Mournful The ________ howling of the dogs added to our sadness.






17. Dummy The mob showed its irritation by hanging the judge in ________.






18. Crowd ________s of shoppers jammed the aisles.






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






20. Retort; comeback; reply When someone has been rude to me - I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick ________.






21. Mental calmness Even the latest work crisis failed to shake her ________.






22. Turn away from Do not ________ from the truth; you must face the facts.






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






24. Revenging agent Captain Bligh vowed to be Christian's ________.






25. Sickening; insipid Your ________ sighs fill me with disgust.






26. Admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote) Although blacks were ________d shortly after the Civil War - women did not receive the right to vote until 1920.






27. Person celebrated for wisdom Hearing tales of a mysterious Master of All Knowledge who lived in the hills of Tibet - Sandy was possessed with a burning desire to consult the legendary ________.






28. Humoring; yielding; lenient ________ parents spoil their children by giving in to their every whim.






29. Claw of bird The falconer wore a leather gauntlet to avoid being clawed by the hawk's ________s.






30. Show by example; furnish an example Three-time winner of the Super Bowl - Joe Montana ________(ies) the ideal quarterback.






31. Praise; glorify The astronauts were ________led as the pioneers of the Space Age.






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






33. Violate; encroach I think your machine ________s on my patent and intend to sue.






34. Paint or draw with dots Seurat carefully ________d dabs of pure color on the canvas - juxtaposing dots of blue and yellow that the viewer's eye would interpret as green.






35. Extremely hungry The ________ dog upset several garbage pails in its search for food.






36. Raised platform for guests of honor When he approached the ________ - he was greeted by cheers from the people who had come to honor him.






37. Recent convert; beginner This monuntain slope contains slides that will challenge esperts as well as________s.






38. Faithless lover; flirt Swearing he had never so much as looked at another woman - Jack assured Jill he was no ________.






39. Prophetic; oracular Until their destruction by fire in 83 B.C. - the ________ books were often consulted by the Romans.






40. Murmur or grumble The child ________ed at the doll.






41. Renounce; give up - When Edward VII ________d the British throne - he surprised the entire world.






42. Division of a poem Do you know the last ________ of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?






43. Transparent; limpid; easy to understand After reading these stodgy philosophers - I find his ________ style very enjoyable.






44. Joining; associating with His ________ with the political party was of short duration for he soon disagreed with his colleagues.






45. Net for catching fish When the shad run during the spring - you may see fishermen with ________s along the banks of our coastal rivers.






46. Pertaining to money Jane held the family purse strings: she made all ________ decisions affecting the household.






47. Superfluous; more than needed or demanded We have more than enough witnesses to corroborate your statement; to present any more would be ________.






48. Funeral ceremony Hundreads paid their last respects at his ________(ies).






49. In a spirited manner; with courage Because he had fought ________ against a much superior boxer - the crowd gave him a standing ovation when he left the arena.






50. Narrow-mindedness; isolation The ________ of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anyuthing foreign.