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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Funeral ceremony Hundreads paid their last respects at his ________(ies).






2. Shell covering the back (of a turtle - crab - etc) - At the children's zoo - Richard perched on top of the giant turtle's hard ________ as it slowly made its way around the enclosure.






3. Explain; interpret; clarify Harry Levin ________d James Joyce's novels with such clarity that even Finnegan's Wake seemed comprehensible to his students.






4. Outward demonstration; indication Mozart's early attraction to the harsichord was the first ________ of his pronounced musical bent.






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






6. Impressiveness; stateliness; majesty No matter how often he hiked through the mountains - David never failed to be struck by the ________ of the Sierra Nevada range.






7. Mixture as of metals ________ of gold are used more frequently than the pure metal.






8. Unreal reflection; optical illusion The lost prospector was fooled by a ________ in the desert.






9. Urging; demanding He tried to hide from his ________ creditors until his allowance arrived.






10. Excessively modest or proper person The X-rated film was definitely not for ________s.






11. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal The church leaders decided not interfere in ________ matters.






12. Purgative - Some drugs act as laxatives when taken in small doses but act as ________s when taken in much larger doses.






13. Perfectionist; person who insists things be exactly right The Internal Revenue Service agent was a ________ for accuracy; no approximations or rough estimates would satisfy him.






14. Struggle; compete; assert earnestly In Revolt of the Black Athlete - sociologist Harry Edwards ________ that young black athletes have been exploited by some college recruiters.






15. Person who collects coins The ________ had a splendid collection of antique coins.






16. Be oppressed by heat I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to ________ through another hot and humid summer.






17. Lover of mankind; doer of good As he grew older - he became famous as a ________ and benefactor of the needy.






18. Animal-biting fly; an irritating person Like a ________ - he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty eight hours - everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.






19. Heavy substance used to add stability or weight The ship was listing badly to one side; it was necessary to shift the ________ in the hold to get her back on an even keel.






20. Cancel Because of public resentment - the king had to ________ his order.






21. Interpret incorrectly; misjudge She took the passage seriously rather than humourously because she ________d the author's ironic tone.






22. 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 ________.






23. Neigh like a horse. When he laughed through his nose - it sounded as if he ________(ied).






24. Spcial usage in language I could not understand their ________s because literal translation made no sense.






25. Bestow courtesies with a superior air The king ________ed to grant an audience to the friends of the condemned man.






26. Tender to sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings. The quiet tone of ________ that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.






27. Resistance to authority; insubordination His words - though not treasonous in themselves - were calculated to arouse thoughts of ________.






28. Darken; make unclear At times he seemed purposely to ________ his meaning - preferring mystery to clarity.






29. Go backwards; degenerate Instead of advancing - our civilization seems to have ________d in ethics and culture.






30. Plunder; despoil The marauding army ________d the countryside.






31. 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.






32. Crown The king's ________ was on display at the museum.






33. Infamy; vilification He refused to defend himself against the slander and ________ hurled against him by the newspapers; he preferred to rely on his record.






34. Pertaining to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated As ________ governor - Sir Henry administered the Queen's law in his remote corner of Canada.






35. Mar; disfigure If you ________ a library book - you will have to pay a hefty fine.






36. Dwarf; underground spirit In medieval mythology - ________s were the special guardians and inhabitants of subterranean mines.






37. Powerful person The oil ________s made great profits when the price of gasoline rose.






38. Watchfulness Eternal ________ is the price of liberty.






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






40. Talkative boaster After all Sol's talk about his big show business connections led nowhere - Sally decided he was just another ________.






41. Deception; trickery The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and ________ were often more effective than military might.






42. Flair; flamboyance Many performers imitate Noel Coward - but few have his ________ and sense of style.






43. Poorverse Although we find occasional snatches of genuine poetry in her work - most of her writing is mere ________.






44. Bugbear; object of baseless terror If we become frightened by such ________s - we are no wiser than the birds who fear scarecrows.






45. Prepare by combining; make up in concert How did the inventive chef ever ________ such strange dish?






46. Combining parts into a whole Now that we have succeeded in isolating this drug - our next problem is to plan its ________ in the laboratory.






47. Annoying; tedious He found working on the assembly line ________ because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform.






48. Neat; skillful The ________ waiter uncorked the champagne without spilling a drop.






49. Denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) On the ________ thermometer - the freezing point of water is zero degrees.






50. Harass; tease The soldiers ________ed the prisoners - terrorizing them.