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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Dark; dusky Despite the stereotype - not all Italians are ________; many are fair and blond.






2. Flowery; ruddy His complexion was even more ________ than usual because of his anger.






3. Odd; unpredictable Investors become anxious when the stock market appears ________.






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






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






6. One who has more than one spouse at a time He was arrested as a ________ when his two wives filed complaints about him.






7. Animal or plant living on another; toady; sycophant The tapeworm is an example of the kind of ________ that may infest the human body.






8. Drifting wreckage Beachcombers eke out a living by salvaging the ________ and jetsam of the sea.






9. Incompatible; not able to be resolved Because the separated couple were ________ - the marriage counselor recommended a divorce.






10. Unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold - He gave her a diamond that weighed three ________s and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.






11. Work against Your record of lateness and absence will ________ against your chances of promotion.






12. Deep; not superficial; complete Freud's remarkable insights into human behavior caused his fellow scientists to honor him as a ________ thinker.






13. Act of dissecting living animals The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposed ________ and deplored the practice of using animals in scientific experiments.






14. Like an uncle ________ pride did not prevent him from noticing his nephew's shortcomings.






15. Facilitating evacuation of the bowels The effect of the constipation medicine is ________; it empties the bowels.






16. Ravenous The wolf is a ________ animal - its hunger never satisfied.






17. Work of art put together from fragments Scraps of cloth - paper doilies - and old photographs all went into her ________.






18. One who commits sabotage; destroyer of property Members of the Resistance acted as ________s - blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.






19. One of the hereditary classes in Hindu society - social stratification; prestige - The differences created by ________ in India must be wiped out if true democracy is to prevail in that country.






20. Winding; full of curves Because this road is so ________ - it is unwise to go faster than twenty miles an hour on it.






21. Pouring forth; gushing Her ________ manner of greeting her friends finally began to irritate them.






22. Narrate or tell; count over again About to ________ the latest adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Watson lost track of exactly how many cases Holmes had solved and refused to begin his tale until he'd recounted them one by one.






23. Talent She has an uncanny ________ for discovering new artists before the public has become aware of their existence.






24. That which is hinted at or suggested If I understand the ________ of your remark - you do not trust our captain.






25. Home Althoughhis legal ________ was in New York City - his work kept him away from his residence for many years.






26. Slovenly; untidy She tried to change her ________ image by buying a fashionable new wardrobe.






27. Evasive; baffling; hard to grasp His ________ dreams of wealth were costly to those of his friends who supported him financially.






28. Analyze; evaluate When they ________ed the ore - they found that they had discovered a very rich vein.






29. Command; order; forbid The owners of the company asked the court to ________ the union from picketing the plant.






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






31. Greedy; eager for He was ________ for learning and read everything he could get.






32. Confer He wished to ________ great honors upon the hero.






33. Rule over tyrannically Students prefer teachers who guide - not ones who ________.






34. Daily; commonplace; customary To Philip - each new day of his internship was filled with excitement; he could not dismiss his rounds as merely ________ routine.






35. Formal essay In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities - a candidate is frequently required to prepare a ________ on some scholarly subject.






36. Depressed; gloomy To the dismay of his parents - he became more and more ________ every day.






37. Suggested or implied meaning of an expression Foreigners frequently are unaware of the ________s of the words they use.






38. Something or someone misplaced in time; Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an ________; no clocks existed in Caesar's time.






39. Conceit; vanity She thought so much of herself that we found her ________ unwarranted and irritating.






40. Capable of being shaped by pounding Gold is a ________ metal.






41. Arrogance; excessive self-conceit Filled with ________ - Lear refused to heed his friends' warnings.






42. Distorted; crooked He held his head ________ - giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night.






43. Speed of music I find the conductor's ________ too slow for such a brilliant piece of music.






44. Reckon; calculate He failed to ________ the interest - so his bank balance was not accurate.






45. Unbeliever The Saracens made war against tne ________s.






46. Not effective; weak Because the candidate failed to get across his message to the public - his campaign was ________.






47. Nook; recess Though their apartment lacked a full-scale dining room - an ________ adjacent to the living room made an adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.






48. Grow well; prosper; make sweeping gestures The orange trees ________ed in the sun.






49. Horrible The murdered man was a ________ sight.






50. Quench; sate When we reached the oasis - we were able to ________ our thirst.







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