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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Pour off gently Be sure to ________ this wine before serving it.






2. Thicken; congeal; clot - Even after you remove the pudding from the burner - it will continue to ________ as it stands.






3. Frustrate; perplex The new code ________d the enemy agents.






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






5. Person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain The doctor called her patient a ________ because he had borne the pain of the examination without whimpering.






6. Plead; ask earnestly She ________ed her father to let her stay out till midnight.






7. Suitable to debate or courts of law In her best ________ manner - the lawyer addressed the jury.






8. Drunken Emperor Nero attended the ________ orgy.






9. Run-down; decrepit; disreputable I would rather stay in dormitory lodgings in a decent youth hostel than have a room of my own in a ________ downtown hotel.






10. Interdependent relationship (between groups - species) - often mutually beneficial Both the crocodile bird and the crocodile derive benefit from their ________; pecking away at food particles embedded in the crocodile's teeth - the bird derives nouri






11. Thick-skinned animal The elephant is probably the best-known ________






12. Study of word parts A knowledge of ________ can help you on many English tests.






13. Secret code - Lacking his code book - the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in ________.






14. Religious image; idol The ________s on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.






15. Tie with a Before we went to sleep - we ________ed the horses to prevent their wandering off during the night.






16. Work Although many critics hailed his Fifth Symphony - he did not regard it as his major ________.






17. Direct financial aid by government - etc. Without this ________ - American ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets.






18. Furthest behind The coward could always be found in the ________ lines whenever a battle was being waged.






19. Lacking luxury and comfort; sternly disciplined Looking over the bare - unheated room with its hard cot - he wondered what he was doing in such ________ quarters. Only his ________ sense of duty kept him at his post.






20. Face; appearance The stern ________ of the judge indicated that she had decided to impose a severe penalty.






21. Relentless; unyielding; implacable After listening to the pleas for clemency - the judge was ________ and gave the convicted man the maximum punishment allowed by law.






22. Narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land In a magnificent feat of engineering - Goethals and his men cut through the ________ of Panama in constructing the Panama Canal.






23. Crafty; double-dealing I do not think he will be a good embassador because he is not accustomed to the ________ maneuverings of foreign diplomats.






24. Sing; babble. Every morning the birds ________d outside her window.






25. Outward appearance; guise Although this book has a ________ of wisdom and scholarship - a careful examination will reveal many errors and omissions.






26. Shell or jewel carved in relief - Tourists are advised not to purchase ________s from the street peddlers of Rome who sell poor specimens of the carver's art.






27. Self-important behavior; acting like a stuffed shirt Although the commencement speaker had some good things to say - we had to laugh at his ________ and general air of parading his own dignity.






28. Reclining; lying down completely or in part The command "AT EASE" does not permit you to take a ________ position.






29. Related to monks Wanting to live a religious life - he took his ________ vows.






30. Contradict; give a false impression His coarse - hard-bitten exterior be________d his innate sensitivity.






31. Deprive of a civil right The imposition if the poll tax effectively ________d poor Southern blacks - who lost their right to vote.






32. Impartial; fair Do men and women receive ________ treatment from their teachers - or - as recent studies suggest - do teachers pay more attention to male students than to females?






33. Susceptible to wounds Achilles was ________ only in his heel.






34. Delay in punishment; interval of relief; rest The judge granted the condemned man a ________ to enable his attorneys to file an appeal.






35. Renounce; abandon The captured knight could escape death only if he agreed to ________ Christianity and embrace Islam as the one true faith.






36. Occurring in an unexpected and contrary manner It is ________ that his success came when he least wanted it.






37. Person of no importance; nonexistence Don't dismiss John as a ________; in his quiet way - he's very important to the firm.






38. Discuss lightly; exchange blows or words The president refused to ________ words with reporters at the press conference.






39. Pretense; evasion As soon as we realized that you had won our support by a ________ we withdrew our endorsement of your candidacy.






40. Throw into confusion He became ________ed in the heated discussion when he tried to arbitrate the dispute.






41. Vexation; disappointment - Her refusal to go with us filled us with ________.






42. Kill - usually one out of ten We do more to ________ our population in automobile accidents than we do in war.






43. Dig out of the ground; remove from a grave Because of the rumor that he had been poisoned - his body was ________d in order that an autopsy might be performed.






44. Abundant He had ________ opportunity to dispose of his loot before his police caught up with him.






45. Brilliant; lustrous The toreador wore a ________ costume called a suit of lights.






46. Deification; glorification The Roman empress Livia envied the late emperor his ________; she hoped that on her death she - too - would be exalted to the rank of a god.






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






48. Move furtively and secretly He ________ed through the less fashionable sections of the city in order to avoid meeting any of his former friends.






49. Scandinavian myth; any legend This is a ________ of the sea and the men who risk their lives on it.






50. Blessing The appearance of the sun after the many rainy days was like a ________.