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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Yearly allowance The ________ he set up with the insurance company supplements his social security benefits so that he can live very comfortably without working.

2. Corrupt; make intemperate A vicious newspaper can ________ public ideals.

3. Engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiritual. You must leave your _________ goods behind you when you go to meet your Maker.

4. Injury to the body The riot was marked not only by ________ - with its attendant loss of life and limb - but also by arson and pillage.

5. Omission of words from a text Sometimes an ________ can lead to a dangling modifier - as in the sentence "Once dressed - you should refrigerate the potato salad.

6. Wordy This article is too ________; we must edit it.

7. Inclined to; prostrate She was ________ to sudden fits of anger.

8. Specialist in classifying (animals - etc.) Dental patterns often enable the ________ to distinguish members of one rodent species from those of another.

9. Blunt; abrupt She was offended by his ________ reply.

10. Likely to change; unstable Because the hormonal changes they undergo affect their spirits - adolescents may become emotionally ________ and experience sudden shifts of mood.

11. Resistance to authority; insubordination His words - though not treasonous in themselves - were calculated to arouse thoughts of ________.

12. Inflict. I am afraid he will _________ his vengeance on the innocent as well as the guilty.

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

14. Blessing Let us pray that the ________ of peace once more shall prevail among the nations of the world.

15. Brief and to the point Many of the characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood are ________ types: strong men of few words.

16. Origin or source of something I am not interested in its ________; I am more concerned with its usefulness than with its source.

17. Suitable for drinking The recent drought in the Middle Atlantic States has emphasized the need for extensive research in ways of making sea water ________.

18. Cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven As bread dough is ________ed - it puffs up - expanding in volume.

19. 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.

20. Motherly Many animals display ________ instincts only while their offspring are young and helpless.

21. Refer indirectly Try not to ________ to this matter in his presence because the topic annoys him.

22. Neigh like a horse. When he laughed through his nose - it sounded as if he ________(ied).

23. Having the title of an office without the obligations Although he was the ________ head of the company - the real decisions were made by his general manager.

24. Hollow The back-packers found partial shelter from the storm by huddling against the ________ wall of the cliff.

25. Notoriously bad Jesse James was an ________ outlaw.

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