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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. One who studies reptiles As a boy - Indiana Jones had a traumatic experience involving snakes; sensibly enough - he studies to be archaeologist - not a ________.






2. Seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning Instead of advancing valid arguments - he tried to overwhelm his audience with a flood of ________(ies).






3. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse Unlike Widow Douglass - who ________d Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.






4. Echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound The deep - ________ voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particulary effective when he appears on stage.






5. Doubt; challenge; gainsay I cannot ________ your honesty without evidence.






6. Obtaining The personnel department handles the ________ of new employees.






7. Annoy by repeated attacks When he could not pay his bills as quickly as he had promised - he was ________ed by his creditors.






8. A great quantity Refusing Dave's offer to lend him a shirt - Phil replied - "No - thanks: I've got ________s of clothes."






9. Meanly stingy; parsimonious The ________ pittance the widow receives from the government cannot keep her from poverty.






10. Irregularity A bird that cannot fly is an ________.






11. Lacking caution; injudicious It is ________ to exercise vigorously and become overheated when you are unwell.






12. Arouse to action The demogogue ________d the mob to take action into its own hands.






13. Marked by formality - Ordinary dress would be in appropriate at so ________ an affair.






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






15. Region near heaven or hell where certain souls are kept Among the divisions of Hell are Purgatory and ________.






16. Praise All the ________(ies) of his friends could not remove the sting of the calumny heaped upon him by his enemies.






17. Nonentity; worthless person or thing - She claimed her ex-husband was a total ________ and wondered why she had ever married him.






18. Carelessness ________ can prove costly near complicated machinery.






19. Yound woman making formal entrance into society As a ________ - she was often mentioned in the society columns of the newspapers.






20. Heap of combustible material - esp. for burning a corpse. The mortician put ________ on the corpse before burning a corpse.






21. Offensive I find your behavior ________; please mend your ways.






22. Trembling; slight quiver She had a nervous ________ in her right hand.






23. Descendants; future generations We hope to leave a better world to ________.






24. Soothe; make calm or quiet; subdue Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to ________ them.






25. Descent; ancestry He traced his ________ back to Mayflower days.






26. Order; charge In his inaugural address - the President stated that he had a ________ from the people to seek an end to social evils such as poverty and poor housing.






27. Having to do with citizens or the state; courteous and polite - Although internal Revenue Service agents are ________ servants - they are not always civil to suspected tax evaders.






28. Combine; unite in one body The unions will attempt to ________ their groups into one national body.






29. Speak distinctly How will people understand you if you do not ________?






30. Deceptive; raising vain hopes Do not raise your hopes on the basis of his ________ promises.






31. Opposite There is an ________ ratio between the strength of light and its distance.






32. Dizziness We test potential plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of ________.






33. Reject; scorn The heroine ________ed the villain's advances.






34. Capable of grasping or holding Monkeys use not only their arms and legs but also their ________e tails in traveling through the trees.






35. Fitness; correct conduct I want you to behave at this dinner with ________; don't embarass me.






36. Adhesive; gluey The trunk of the maple tree was ________ with sap.






37. Vertical Before hanging wallpaper it is advisable to drop a ________ line from the ceiling as a guide.






38. Drink (alcoholic beverages) frequently He found that his most enjoyable evenings occurred when he ________d with his friends at the local pub.






39. Noxious smell Air pollution has become a serious problem in our major cities; the ________ and the poisons in the air are hazards to life.






40. Devoutness; reverence for God Living her life in prayer and good works - Mother Teresa exemplifies the true sprit of ________.






41. Eye defect that prevents proper focus As soon as his parents discovered that the boy suffered from ________ - they took him to the optometrist for corrective glasses.






42. Dry up A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to ________ food in order to preserve it.






43. Extremely small The twins resembled one another closely; only ________ differences set them apart.






44. Science of law He was more a student of ________ than a practitioner of the law.






45. Concerning trade I am more interested in the opportunites available in the ________ field than I am in those in the legal profession.






46. Deliver officially; entrust; set apart The court ________d the child to her paternal grandmother's care.






47. Stick out His fingers ________d from the holes in his gloves.






48. In a state of rage The police had to be called in to restrain him after he ran ________ in the department store.






49. Little - round hill Robert Louis Stevenson's grave is on a ________ in Samoa; to reach the grave site - you must climb uphill and walk a short distance along a marked path.






50. Curse; express abhorrence for The world ________s the memory of Hitler and hopes that genocide will never again be the policy of any nation.