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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Not penetrable; not permitting passage through You cannot change their habits for their minds are ________ to reasoning.
bilious
unilateral
impervious
poseur
2. Agree If I ________ to this demand for blackmail - I am afraid that I will be the victim of future demands.
amiable
accede
delude
mete
3. Hothead; troublemaker The police triedto keep track of all the local ________s when the President came to town.
sham
ascetic
sequester
firebrand
4. Cheap and gaudy He won a few ________ trinkets in Coney Island.
vintner
inconsequential
tundra
tawdry
5. Change of fortune Humbled by life's ________s - the last emperor of China worked as a lowly gardener in the palace over which he had once ruled.
vicissitude
divulge
weather
reimburse
6. Huge Radio City Music Hall has a ________ stage.
colossal
berserk
unravel
centaur
7. Obligated; indebted Since I do not wish to be ________ to anyone - I cannot accept this favor.
beholden
communal
purport
embryonic
8. Surrender something; efect; vomit Unwilling to ________ the cash he had stolen from the pension fund - the embezzler tried to run away.
equipoise
agitate
precedent
disgorge
9. Fill up again Before she could take another backpacking trip - Carla had to ________ her stock of freeze-dried foods.
default
gazette
replenish
succumb
10. Susceptible to wounds Achilles was ________ only in his heel.
buffoonery
vulnerable
stringent
inception
11. Habitual return to crime Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of ________; the number of persons serving second and third terms indicates the failure of the prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.
obsequious
contest
tether
recidivism
12. Trifling gaiety Your ________ at this serious moment is offensive.
terminate
carcinogenic
flippancy
compact
13. Mildness; permissiveness Considering the gravity of the offense - we were surprised by the ________ of the sentence.
variegated
leniency
philistine
canker
14. Deputize; pass to others It ________d upon us - the survivors - to arrange peace terms with the enemy.
devolve
bereavement
lassitude
attribute
15. Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth The audience saw through his attempts to ________ on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.
conventional
equivocate
embezzlement
intractable
16. Oddity; idiosyncrasy Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the ________ of genius.
quirk
introvert
eccentricity
rankle
17. Dominance - especially of one nation over others As one Eastern European nation after another declared its independence - commentators marveled at the sudden breakdown of the once monolithic Soviet ________.
hegemony
humdrum
skeptic
oculist
18. Open to view According to the United States Constitution - a person must commit an ________ act before he may be tried for treason.
overt
anarchy
quay
mode
19. Anger ar an injustice He felt ________ at the ill-treatment of the helpless animals.
winnow
din
indignation
unruly
20. Protest; remonstrance Despite the teacher's scoldings and________s - the class remained unruly.
drab
vegetate
expostulation
virtuoso
21. Sing; babble. Every morning the birds ________d outside her window.
betroth
peroration
supine
warble
22. Treacherous; stealthy; sly The fifth column is ________ because it works secretly within our territory for our defeat.
insidious
transport
vernacular
desiccate
23. Talkative She is very ________ and can speak on the telephone for hours.
loquacious
pellmell
metropolis
desecrate
24. Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness You do not have to be so ________ to prove that you are devout.
suavity
attest
subjective
sanctimonious
25. Person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a ________.
affront
etymology
magisterial
hypochondriac
26. Infection Fearing ________ - they took drastic steps to prevent the spread of the disease.
hedonism
madrigal
tendentious
contagion
27. Advance; improve Your chances for promotion in this department will be ________d if you take some more courses in evening school.
eccentricity
sensuous
enhance
inequity
28. Pedestal; raised platform The audience applauded as the conductor made his way to the ________.
artless
metallurgical
podium
viand
29. Flabby His sedentary life had left him with ________ muscles.
monotony
circumlocution
flaccid
incantation
30. Complete; necessary for completeness Physical education is an ________ part of our curriculum; a sound mind and a sound body are complementary.
misdemeanor
augment
integral
renown
31. Pretending to be virtuous; deceiving I resent his ________ posing as a friend for I know he is interested only in his own advancement.
replicate
hypocritical
abrogate
desecrate
32. Merriment; laughter Sober Malvolio found Sir Toby's ________ improper.
mirth
adjutant
dismember
expertise
33. Assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical I find no similarity between your ________ illustration and the problem we are facing.
chivalrous
pinion
supposititious
staccato
34. Private; peculiar to an individual Such behavior is ________ - it is as easily identifiable as a signature.
grouse
idiosyncratic
novelty
apprehensive
35. Royal Prince Albert had a ________ manner.
regal
mortician
treatise
disparage
36. Limit; independent variable We need to define the ________s of the problem.
somnambulist
repellent
heterodox
parameter
37. Into parts; apart Their points of view are poles ________.
asunder
dubious
commandeer
schism
38. Arraged by degree (of height - difficulty - etc.) Margaret loved her ________ set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.
plumb
graduated
dank
despise
39. Taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax) Because the new pension law was ________ to the first of the year - even though Martha had retired in February she was eligible for the pension.
halting
retroactive
haughtiness
cherubic
40. Reprove severely I am afraid that my parents will ________ me when I show them my report card.
reprimand
finite
invincible
optician
41. Be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers ________ on the littel rascals - too.
ingrained
modish
roster
dote
42. Spacious and After sleeping in a small roadside cabins - they found their hotel suite ________.
belittle
introvert
baleful
commodious
43. Hostile; opposed Despite his lawyers' best efforts to stop him - the angry prisoner continued to make ________ remarks to the judge.
sublimate
antagonistic
apposite
ciliated
44. Substance formed by decaying vegetable matter In order to improve his garden - he spread ________ over his lawn and flower beds.
equivocal
paraphrase
humus
timorous
45. Predicament from which there is no escape In this ________ - all turned to prayer as their last hope.
exude
misogamy
filch
impasse
46. Unreal; grotesque; whimsical Your fears are ________ because no such animal as you have described exists.
fantastic
stymie
ameliorate
furtive
47. 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.
saboteur
empathy
lachrymose
tilter
48. Movable; not fixed The ________ blood bank operated by the Red Cross visited our neighborhood today.
hallowed
aberrant
talon
mobile
49. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words A coven of witches beside a tree is a possible ________ for the town Coventry.
scintillate
polyglot
rebus
usurp
50. Rebound; reverberation; reaction I am afraid that this event will have serious ________s.
rife
caprice
repercussion
effectual