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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Framework and working parts of an automobile - Examining the car after the accident - the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the ________ was unharmed.

2. Person interested mostly in external objects and actions A good salesperson in usually an ________ - who likes to mingle with people.

3. Compiler of a dictionary The new dictionary is the work of many ________s who spent years compiling and editing the work.

4. Work Although many critics hailed his Fifth Symphony - he did not regard it as his major ________.

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

6. Limit; independent variable We need to define the ________s of the problem.

7. Repay in kind If they attack us - we shall be compelled to ________ and bomb their territory.

8. Emit (odor) The room ________ed with stale tobacco smoke.

9. Clamorous; noisy The crowd grew vociferous in its anger and threatened to take the law into its own hands.

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

11. Trick; stratagem You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ________.

12. Toning down; changing from one key to another When we she spoke - it was with quiet ________ of voice.

13. Blessing; benefit The recent rains that filled our empty reservoirs were a ________ to the whole community.

14. Most favorable If you wait for the ________ moment to act - you may never begin your project .

15. Decorate Parsley was used to ________ the boiled potato.

16. Worsen; embitter This latest arrest will ________ the already existing discontent of the people and enrage them.

17. Extremely dry; very thirsty The ________ desert landscape seemed hostile to life.

18. Doubtful He has the ________ distinction of being the lowest man in his class.

19. Ill-humored; irritable - Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff - he was a ________ patient.

20. Machine that separates substances by whirling them - At the dairy - we employ a ________ to separate cream from milk.

21. Indirect or roundabout expression - He was afraid to call spade a spade and resorted to ________s to avoid direct reference to his subject.

22. Steal The boys ________d apples from the fruit stand.

23. Throb; flutter As he became excited - his heart began to ________ more and more erratically.

24. Violent; hasty; rash We tried to curb his ________ behavior because we felt that in his haste he might offend some people.

25. Gross lewdness; lustfulness In his youth he led a life of ________ and debauchery; he did not mend his ways until middle age.