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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Rude; cross Because of his ________ attitude - many people avoided his company.






2. Irreverence; wickedness We must regard your blasphemy as an act of ________.






3. Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth The audience saw through his attempts to ________ on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.






4. Protective; pertaining to a guardianship I am acting in my ________ capacity when I refuse to grant you permission to leave the campus.






5. Ungrateful person That ________ Bob sneered at the tie I gave him.






6. Disloyal Once the most loyal of Gorbachev's supporters - Shverdnaze found himself becoming increasingly ________.






7. Loiter; waste time Inasmuch as we must meet a deadline - do not ________ over this work.






8. Social or moral custom; established practice Flying in the face of ________ - George Sand (Amandine Dudevant) shocked her contemporaries by taking lovers and wearing men's clothes.






9. Branching out; subdivision We must examine all the ________s of this pro em.






10. Poet The ancient ________ Homer sang of the fall of Troy.






11. Husband or wife The search for a ________ for the young Queen Victoria ended happily.






12. Situated beyond; unstated and often questionable You must have an ________ motive for your behavior - since there is no obvious reason for it.






13. Wavering Meteorologists watch the ________s of the barometer in order to predict the weather.






14. Children; offspring He was proud of his ________ but regarded George as the most promising of all his children.






15. Hothead; troublemaker The police triedto keep track of all the local ________s when the President came to town.






16. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources His style of interior decoration was ________: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods - strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique color.






17. Felt in one's inner organs She disliked the ________ sensations she had whenever she rode the roller coaster.






18. Ornamental band on a wall The ________ of the church was adorned with sculpture.






19. Inlaid; mosaic I recall seeing a table with a ________ top of bits of stone and glass in a very interesting pattern.






20. Aqueduct; passageway for fluids Water was brought to the army in the desert by an improvised ________ from the adjoining mountain.






21. Lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion Because of the great ________ between the number of men and women invited - the dance was unsuccessful.






22. Widespread; generally accepted A radical committed to social change - Reed had no patience with the conservative views ________ in the America of his day.






23. Point at which the sun is farthest from the equator The winter ________ usually occurs on December 21.






24. Logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable You're going to have to come up with a better argument if you want to convince me that your reasoning is ________.






25. Expose to slander His opponents tried to ________ the candidate's reputation by spreading rumors about his past.






26. Versatile; able to take on many forms A remarkably ________ actor - Alec Guinness could take on any role.






27. Opening; break The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a ________ in the clouds.






28. Anger ar an injustice He felt ________ at the ill-treatment of the helpless animals.






29. Make discontented The passengers were ________d by the numerous delays.






30. Examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order They ________d the newly found manuscripts to determine their age.






31. Yearly allowance The ________ he set up with the insurance company supplements his social security benefits so that he can live very comfortably without working.






32. Excessive The people grumbled at his ________ prices but paid them because he had a monopoly.






33. Impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious Experienced poker players try to keep their expressions ________ - hiding their reactions to the cards behind a so-called poker face.






34. Sleep producer; deadener of pain By such ________s - she made the people forget their difficulties and accept their unpleasant circumstances.






35. Practical This is an entirely ________ proposal. I suggest we adopt it.






36. Phrase culled in meaning by repetition - High school compositions are often marred by such ________s as "strong as an ox."






37. Twisting out of shape It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of this event because of the ________s and exaggerations of the reporters.






38. Collection; heap It took weeks to assort the ________ of miscellaneous items she had collected on her trip.






39. Introductory The chairman made a few ________ remarks before he called on the first speaker.






40. Propriety; seemliness Shocked by the unruly behavior - the teacher criticized the class for its lack of ________.






41. Female fox; ill-tempered woman Aware that she was right once again - he lost his temper and called her a shrew and a ________.






42. Marked by changes in fortune - During his ________ career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.






43. Wretched; lacking pride On the streets of New York the homeless live in ________ poverty - huddling in doorways to find shelter from the wind.






44. Used to prevent disease Despite all ________ measures introduced by the authorities - the epidemic raged until cool weather set in.






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






46. Burden; responsibility The emperor was spared the ________ of signing the surrender papers; instead - he relegated the assignment to his generals.






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






48. Method or system of government When a Frenchman mentions the Old ________ - he refers to the government existing before the revolution.






49. Trip; short journey He took a quick ________ to Atlantic City.






50. Something new; newness The computer is no longer a ________ around the office.