The emboldened words below are part of GRE vocabulary preparation. Do you know them? I have created sentences to give clues to their meaning.
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After sitting under countless hours of polemical lectures in so many of his seminary classes, he began to find so much of evangelical theology to be banal and myopic.
The bevy of teenagers in public hang out spots made such spots unattractive for older adults.
Large and successful firms bilk thousands of clients with expensive fees for minuscule paperwork.
The blithe temperament of the bachelor came to an end the moment he and his girlfriend began to discuss drastic measures necessary for mere financial survival over the next 10 years due to large amounts of school debt and preconditions for successful careers.
No amount of bombastic campaigning could secure the small town governor a place in higher politics. He grew weary of the disagreeable bombastic tirades that were a part of the weekly sermons.
You would be incredibly naïve to trust that bonhomie was the default attribute of human beings or even a common feature of mankind. The more intimate you become with others who seem this way, the more you realize how deleterious their ways can be.
To be a boor is not the same as being a bore. Dr. Gallup is such a boor; he doesn’t even try to find anything agreeable in the writings of his interlocutors; but Dr. McNabb is a bore; his monotone lectures repeat everything we already read for class in our textbook.
The burgeoning scholar was now being published at will and able to be selective about which publishers he worked with.
It is said that Al Capone used to burnish his guns in public areas in broad daylight without fear of being arrested.
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