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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Retired or disqualified because of age The ________ man was indignant because he felt that he could still perform a good day's work.






2. Necessary requirement Many colleges state that a student must offer three years of a language as a ________ for admission.






3. Shove; bump In the subway he was ________d by the crowds.






4. Strip; deprive He was ________ed of his power to act and could no longer govern.






5. Assumption; postulate Because Jack had based his argument upon a faulty ________ - his opponent cheerfully pointed out the holes in his logic.






6. Extremely loud The town crier had ________ voice.






7. Cheap and gaudy He won a few ________ trinkets in Coney Island.






8. Injury to the body The riot was marked not only by ________ - with its attendant loss of life and limb - but also by arson and pillage.






9. Sameness leading to boredom He took a clerical job - but soon grew to hate the ________ of his daily routine.






10. Treacherous; disloyal When Caesar realized that Brutus had betrayed him - he reproached his ________ friend.






11. Layer of earth's surface; layer of society Unless we alleviate conditions in the lowest ________ of our society - we may expect grumbling and revolt.






12. Very poor person Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income - she was by no means a ________.






13. Doubts Hamlet described his ________ to Horatio but decided to fence with Laertes despite his foreboding of evil.






14. Range of knowledge I cannot answer your question since this matter is beyond my ________.






15. Perfect example or embodiment Singing "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" in The Pirates of Penzance - Major-General Stanley proclaimed himself the ________ of an officer and a gentleman.






16. Cure-all; remedy for all diseases There is no easy ________ that will solve our complicated international situation.






17. Tolerate; endure The dean would ________ no interference with his disciplinary actions.






18. Generate pus When her finger began to ________ - the doctor lanced it and removed the splinter that had caused the pus to form.






19. Father and ruler of a family or tribe In many primitive tribes - the leader and lawmaker was the ________.






20. Arrange (laws - rules) as a code; classify We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and ________ them into a national health code.






21. Boaster Modest by nature - she was no ________ - preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.






22. Praising To everyone's surprise - the speech was ________ rather than critical in tone.






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






24. Biased; having a liking for something I am extremely ________ to chocolate eclairs.






25. Dark; not transparent The ________ window kept the sunlight out of the room.






26. Strip off skin; plunder The criminal was condemned to be ________ed alive.






27. Misgivings His ________ of conscience had become so great that he decided to abandon his plans.






28. Rash Don't be ________. Get the advice of experienced people before undertaking this venture.






29. Recollection Her ________s of her experiences are so fascinating that she ought to write a book.






30. Artificial; sham Hollywood actresses often create ________ tears by using glycerine.






31. Ability to identify with another's feelings - ideas - etc What made Ann such a fine counselor was her ________ - her ability to put herself in her client's place and feel his emotions as if they were her own.






32. Pertaining to the woods; rustic His paintings of nymphs in ________ backgrounds were criticized as oversentimental.






33. Speak evil of; defame Because of her hatred of the family - she ________s all who are friendly to them.






34. Summon a devil; proactive magic; imagine; invent He ________d up an image of a reformed city and had the voters completely under his spell.






35. Excessively careful He was ________ in checking his accounts and never made mistakes.






36. Curse Roused from the bed at what he considered an ungodly hour - Roy muttered ________s under his breath.






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






38. Tool for holding work in place Before filling its edges - the keysmith took the blank key and fixed it firmly between the jaws of a ________.






39. High; lofty After his appointment to this ________ position - he seldom had time for his former friends.






40. Flavored dessert ice I prefer raspberry ________ to ice cream since it is less fattening.






41. Thousand-year period; period of happiness and prosperity I do not expect the ________ to come during my lifetime.






42. Weakness; slight fault We can overlook the ________s of our friends; no one is perfect.






43. Isolation; solitude One moment she loved crowds; the next - she sought ________.






44. Fall apart into tangles; unravel or untwist; entangle A sigle thread pulled loose - and the entire scarf started to ________.






45. Officeholder The newly elected public official received valuable advice from the present ________.






46. Amends; compensation At the peace conference - the defeated country promised to pay ________s to the victors.






47. Outsmart; trick By disguising himself as an old woman - Holmes was able to ________ his pursuers and escape capture.






48. Huge; enormous The ________ wrestler was terrified of mice.






49. Limited; restricted Unable to give the candidate full support - the mayor gave him only a ________ endorsement.






50. Clear A ________ stream ran through his property.