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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Steal The boys ________d apples from the fruit stand.

2. Link as in a chain It is difficult to understand how these events could ________ as they did without outside assistance.

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

4. Put under a spell; carry away with emotion Shafts of sunlight on a wall could ________ her and leave her spellbound.

5. To make invalid Once the contract was ________(ied)- it no longer had any legal force.

6. Pride - haughtiness The ________ of the nobility was resented by the middle class.

7. Container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave - business cycle - etc.) The hungry pigs struggled to get at the fresh swill in the ________. The surfer rode her board - coasting along in the trough between two waves.

8. Favorable; kindly I think it is advisable that we wait for a more ________ occasion to announce our plans; this is not a good time.

9. Pertaining to passionate love The ________ passages in this novel should be removed as they are merely pornographic.

10. Repay; revenge The wretch ________d his benefactors by betraying them.

11. Highly excited; intensely curious We were all ________ at the news that the celebrated movie star was giving up his career in order to enter a monastery.

12. Throb We could see the blood vessels in his temple ________ as he became more angry.

13. Recoiling from progress; retrograde His program was ________ since it sought to abolish many of the social reforms instituted by the previous administration.

14. Deny; go back on He ________d on paying off his debt.

15. Cautious; sparing or restrained about giving - A prudent - thrifty New Englander - DeWitt was as ________ of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.

16. Subside or moderate - Rather than leaving immediately - they waited for the storm to ________.

17. Filled to capacity; abundantly supplied The book is ________ with humorous situations.

18. Miser The old ________ refused to give her a raise.

19. Wealthy leader John D. Rockefeller was a prominent ________.

20. 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.

21. Desertion The children - who had made him an idol - were hurt most by his ________ from our cause.

22. Futile; worthless This agreement is ________ for no court will enforce it.

23. Oppose with arguments; contradict To ________ your theory will require much time but it is essential that we disprove it.

24. Occupy fully John was so ________ed in his studies that he did not hear his mother call.

25. Open to view According to the United States Constitution - a person must commit an ________ act before he may be tried for treason.