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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Small plane surface (of a gem); a side The stonecutter decided to improve the rough diamond by providing it with several ________s.

2. Violate; encroach I think your machine ________s on my patent and intend to sue.

3. Isolation of a person - place - or ship to prevent spread of infection We will have to place this house under ________ until we determine the nature of the disease.

4. Prank; flighty conduct The headmaster could not regard this latest ________ as a boyish joke and expelled the young man.

5. Highest point When the moon in its orbit is furthest away from the earth - it is at its ________.

6. Period of time The glacial ________ lasted for thousands of years.

7. Beginner Even a ________ can do good work if he follows these simple directions.

8. Lordliness; domineering manner; arrogance His ________ indicated that he had long been accustomed to assuming command.

9. Mischance; ill luck The young explorer met death by ________.

10. Picture; short literary sketch The New Yorker published her latest ________.

11. Having only one color Most people who are color blind actually can distinguish several colors; some - however - have a truly ________ view of a world all in shades of gray.

12. Substitute For a fatherless child - a male teacher may become a father ________.

13. Balance; balancing force; equilibrium The high-wire acrobat used his pole as an ________ to overcome the swaying caused by the wind.

14. Reduce; exhaust We must wait until we ________ our present inventory before we order replacements.

15. Treacherous; stealthy; sly The fifth column is ________ because it works secretly within our territory for our defeat.

16. Scarcity The ________ of skilled labor compelled the employers to open trade schools.

17. Silly; senseless Such comments are ________ because they do not help us solve our program.

18. Write; compose Cyrano ________d many letters for Christian.

19. Suitable for sevants; low I cannot understand why a person of your ability and talent should engage in such ________ activities.

20. Place into a case As soon as he recognized the approaching men - he ________d his dagger and hailed them as friends.

21. Imaginary Although this book purports to be a biography of George Washington - many of the incidents are ________.

22. Common; pertaining to the common people His speeches were aimed at the ________ minds and emotions; they disgusted the more refined.

23. Moved by sexual love; loving Don Juan was known for his ________ adventures.

24. Law We have many ________s in our law books which should be repealed.

25. Experience; support; nourish He sustained such a severe injury that the doctors feared he would be unable to work to ________ his growing family.