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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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GRE Wordlist: Meanings - Complete Sentences
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1. Hindrance; stumbling-block She had a speech ________ that prevented her from speaking clearly.

2. Apparent; professed; pretended Although the ________ purpose of this expedition is to discover new lands - we are really interested in finding new markets for our products.

3. Questionable medicine No quack selling ________s is going to cheat me.

4. Desert; abandon; renounce No one expected Foster to ________ his wife and children and run off with another woman.

5. Shine erratically; twinkle In the darkness of the cavern - the glowworms hanging from the cavern roof ________ed like distant stars.

6. Commonplace; trite The English teacher criticized her story because of its ________ and unoriginal plot.

7. Secret - After avoiding their chaperon - the lovers had a ________ meeting.

8. Resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult She took ________ at his remarks and stormed away in a huff.

9. Excessively frugal person; misernJill called Jack a ________ because he never picked up the check.

10. Cut away; trim With the help of her editor - she was able to ________ her manuscript into publishable form.

11. Title or heading (in red print); directions for religious ceremony; protocol In ordaining the new priests - the bishop carefully observed all the ________s for the ordination service.

12. At the point of death The doctors called the family to the bedside of the ________ patient.

13. Producing tears His voice has a ________ quality that is more appropriate at a funeral than a class reunion.

14. Hesitate; shrink He did not ________ in the face of danger but fought back bravely.

15. Courtesy; civility A spirit of ________ should exist among nations.

16. Curving outward He polished the ________ lens of his telescope.

17. Mischievous child (usually a boy) Get out! This store is no place for grubby ________s!

18. Smirk; smile affectedly Complimented on her appearance - Stella self-consciously ________ed.

19. Awkward He is an ________ young man; he trips over everything.

20. Funeral ceremony Hundreads paid their last respects at his ________(ies).

21. To be annonyed or vexed To ________ over your poor grades is foolish; instead - decide to work harder in the future.

22. Going from one state of action to another During the period of ________ from oil heat to gas heat - the furnace will have to be shut off.

23. Similary timed; simultaneous with We have many examples of scientists in different parts of the world who have made ________ discoveries.

24. Tease; torture with disappointment Tom loved to ________ his younger brother with candy; he knew the boy was forbidden to have it.

25. Impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance - as to a disease He was a very ________ young man - and so his parents worried that he might fall into bad company.

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