900+ Essential GRE Words

Hitler’s derived personality profile also suggested that he probably had schizophrenic tendencies, including excessive grandiosity and aberrant thinking.Scientific American (Dec 19, 2011)

“Usually, at the conclusion of the proceedings, final disposition was held in abeyance, and the alien would remain on bond,” Ms. Galvin wrote.New York Times (Feb 18, 2012)

Police have said they are seeking help in locating a prisoner who absconded from a healthcare facility in Belfast.

Garnishes were simple, abstemious yet effective players on the plate: squash risotto, puréed fennel, bacon-onion jam.New York Times (Nov 20, 2010)

Other artists produce maddeningly abstruse drawings that relate to their better-known performances.New York Times (Mar 24, 2011)

American officials initially tried to resist President Karzai’s moves but eventually acquiesced.New York Times (Mar 9, 2012)

The main man at SOM was David Childs, now aged 70, prominent for decades in American architecture but never adulated like its more glamorous stars.

He vaguely adumbrated what it was out of which she came.Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Beyond facial and vocal signs of disapproval, there are sometimes bizarre, exaggerated movements, like abrupt stops or aggrandized sidesteps.New York Times (Nov 7, 2011)

Thus far, although perhaps somewhat lacking in alacrity of persecution, no serious charges could be laid against him.Lea, Henry Charles

Opponents say Ma’s moves will make it easier for Beijing leaders to eventually annex Taiwan, which they view as province of China.Forbes (Jan 13, 2012)

“Perhaps,” he said, “painting him was one way of trying to elicit more love and approbation.”New York Times (Apr 13, 2012)

The fact that an aqueous solution of these ashes affects the coloured parts of many plants was also noticed in early times.Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

"Standin' an' looking at the blessed thing won't clear away this raffle," said the Old Man with asperity.Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Regulators can begin to atone for their past laxity by helping the working group now.New York Times (Mar 1, 2012)

Five years later, the corporate law world is again abuzz over the firm, Dewey & LeBoeuf, but for less auspicious reasons.New York Times (Mar 15, 2012)

Nor is it his material, which sticks to deft takes on relatively banal subjects like chain stores or hipster attitudes.New York Times (Mar 21, 2012)

So-called boiler-rooms, where corrupt brokers bilked investors by manipulating stocks, were giving way to insider-trading.

But he lost his nerve as a coproducer, going for stadium bombast instead of the unadorned grit these stories of hard times demand.

At length, when they were fully out of earshot, Manners himself stopped, thinking that he had humoured his companion's caprices far enough.James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Many, perhaps chary of the misspelling bell, backed away slowly after their word.New York Times (Mar 21, 2012)

“He was terribly hyper, ambitious,” Mr. Evtushenkov said — and thus, he implied, forgot the rule about operating commensurate with political influence.New York Times (May 4, 2012)

There are concerns that the conflict could cause a regional conflagration that sucks in neighboring countries.Time (Mar 27, 2012)

Unlike his emollient predecessor, Sir Rod Eddington, Walsh has an uncompromising style and has proved willing to confront unions head-on, with decidedly mixed results.

In the West investing in fine wine instead of equities, bonds or commodities has become something of a faddish way to diversify one’s portfolio.

It was not that long ago he appeared gauche and unco-ordinated, every bit a former second-row camping out on the wing.

“It was no problem,” said Ms. Campbell, who lives in Lake Oswego, Ore., and uses her iPad daily to write limericks and reread classic novels.New York Times (Sep 1, 2010)

Stanford failed tests designed to expose malingerers, a psychologist testified yesterday in Houston.

The behaviorist John B. Watson argued that mollycoddled toddlers grew into weak and whiny adults.Slate (Dec 7, 2010)

The challenging crabs had recently molted, so perhaps it wanted a good position to regain its bacterial covering.Scientific American (Dec 5, 2011)

Then more blows, a general rising up of that part of the congregation, and a pouring out of profane objurgations that was surprising.McBride, R. E.

It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality.Ontario. Ministry of Education

Mr. Hurd’s supposed peccadilloes were a smoke screen for the real reason they got rid of an executive they didn’t trust and employees didn’t like.New York Times (Aug 13, 2010)

Often described as a polymath, Sunstein is fluent in political science and churns out books.Slate (Apr 12, 2010)

The greater bulk of the latter is situated immediately beneath the skin, and occasions that beautiful rotundity so much admired in children.Blacklock, Ambrose

Just as often, though, it was in search of an anchor, approaching torpor.New York Times (May 6, 2011)

He shoved his horse past me and up to Miss Bennett, his red moustache bristling, truculence in every outline of his heavy shoulders.Ross, Martin

Tennessee Williams’s later work would be lucky to be deemed problematic, so vituperative have commentators been in their appraisals over time.New York Times (May 17, 2011)

Dessert is an afterthought at Topaz Thai: her daughter, Aliyah, concocts some whimsical confections, like fried Oreos and brownies served with ice cream.New York Times (Mar 9, 2012)

By doing so, we are withholding from our neediest students any reason to read at all.New York Times (Apr 23, 2012)

Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.Ingersoll, Robert Green

Performance increased at a slower pace after age 20, reaching a zenith of 83 percent correct responses for study volunteers between ages 30 and 34.

Thy zephyrs soft, thy falling showers, No more have charms for me; Maternal Summer, too, adieu!—Ballou, Maturin Murray