GMAT Vocabulary: Ideas and Community

The election gave the new clinic directors a warrant to reopen the evening hours.

Faced with two routes, the facilities committee was pragmatic and chose the one that fit the budget.

In the methods seminar, that sampling rule is treated as orthodox, and anyone who departs from it must explain why.

The journal asked each laboratory group for an abstract of about 150 words before the full report.

Councilors asked for a concrete plan, with dates and costs, rather than a vague hope.

This seminar follows the school that treats a founding agreement as the record of a bargain.

The faculty voted by a show of hands, and every teacher in the room backed the new program in public affairs.

The style guide defines the term roll call so that every campus club counts attendance in the same way.

Article four of the agreement says who is allowed to call a special meeting.

The student senate spent the evening debating the bill that would raise the activity fee by twelve dollars.

After the senate approved the fee change and the dean signed it, the change became an act.

Lina offered a motion to adjourn, and another person supported it before a new topic could be added.

The presiding officer gave Mei the floor, and everyone else waited until she finished speaking.

When time ran out, the neighborhood council voted to table the parking plan until May.

The editor chose a cabinet of four section editors and meets that group each Monday for advice.

Three professors sat as the bench and listened to both sides of the grading dispute.

Only those admitted to the bar may argue a case in the courtroom clinic.

Each side filed a brief of six pages stating the rule it wanted the clinic judges to apply.

The dean's counsel was to wait for the audit before anyone changed the refund rule.

Each party to the housing agreement has to sign before any keys are handed out.

People who live in the building have an interest in the laundry rule, since it changes what they pay each week.

The regional council keeps its capital in the harbor city, where its clerks and records are located.

The presiding officer asked each person to state the proposal in a single sentence so the record would stay clear.

Anyone in the club has a right to inspect the budget before voting on it.

The rules committee used a broad reading of the notice rule and allowed posters in every hallway.

The treasurer kept a conservative tally of advance sales so the budget would not assume a sold-out night.

The proposal was radical, since it would replace the entire conduct code rather than change one line.

Dean Shah will preside over the discussion and limit each person to a short turn.

The group published its platform, promising longer library hours, a night bus, and public budget meetings.

Among those promises, the night bus was the plank that new students asked about most.

The alumni association holds a primary in March so that only two names remain for the April election.

The campus newspaper ran a poll, and most residents said they wanted the quiet hours kept as they are.

Volunteers will canvass the residence halls, knocking at each door to ask for votes.

The posted return showed 410 votes for the night bus and 266 against it.

Graduate students gained a seat on the library committee and can vote on opening hours.

This house contains forty people, and twenty-one of them must be in the room before a vote can count.

The speaker called on the night-student representative and then had the clerk read the proposal.

Serving as whip, Omar phoned every representative before the vote and recorded who remained undecided.

Nurses who work at night plan to lobby the hospital directors for a lighted walk from the garage to the ward.

The rules limit patronage, allowing the presiding officer to appoint two aides while every other post is filled by election.

Because a rider on the fee proposal would also change the refund date, people asked to decide that addition separately.

The amendment changes the attendance rule by replacing may with must.

The founding constitution explains the food shop's purpose and how its officers are chosen.

The two halls signed a covenant agreeing to share the kitchen on alternating weekends.

Representatives crowded the ballroom for the annual congress and voted on one shared academic calendar.

It is the custom that the oldest person in the room reads the meeting record at the start.

By long practice, the secretary reads every name aloud before people vote.

A note printed under the chart explains the steps used when a vote is tied.

The secretary circulated a manuscript of the meeting record and asked for corrections before Friday.

The proceedings from the April session name the person who proposed an end to debate.

Nobody would second the proposal, so it ended without a vote being taken.

The presiding officer called the gathering to order, and the clerk began reading the list of topics.

She required a division, and people walked to opposite sides of the room so they could be counted.

They passed a resolution urging the city library to open again on Sundays.

The measure would make every committee publish its meeting record within two days.

A single provision allows an appeal of a fine if the request is filed within ten days.

The cooperative holds title to the building, so a resident does not own the room used for sleeping.

That scholarship trust uses donated money to pay tuition for students who are the first in a family to enroll.

Each spring the foundation gives three research awards to students.

The institute on Water Street runs evening classes in city planning for people who work during the day.

The chair votes only when the two sides are tied.

The board gathers on the first Tuesday of each month and has to approve any new charge.

A panel of five former students will read and score the scholarship essays in March.

The student body chooses one representative from each residence hall.

A member who misses three gatherings cannot vote on the spending plan.

Every neighborhood cell in the volunteer network has a leader plus eight people who telephone neighbors.

This weekly paper is the organ of the student senate, and it prints each formal decision the senate adopts.

At the Thursday forum, any resident may talk for a short time about the night bus.

New students take their meals in the commons, where the weekly menu hangs beside the entrance.

The college of deans has to agree before any department can add a course that everyone must take.

Twice a year the academy gathers to choose new fellows and to hear a single research talk.

The fellowship provides a living stipend for a year of study focused on municipal budgets.

Recipients may use the grant for laboratory supplies, and conference travel is outside its purpose.

Once a professor has tenure, dismissal is possible only for a reason named in the handbook.

Professor Nguyen used her sabbatical to finish a book about housing cooperatives.

Statistics stands as its own discipline, and the history department does not teach its methods.

Her subject is the way small towns fund their public libraries.

Public finance is her field, and she seldom teaches anything outside it.

She made urban affairs her major, while continuing to take two courses in history.

He took a minor in statistics so he could follow the figures in the municipal budget.

Students receive credit for the seminar, and it counts toward the certificate in urban affairs.

She was awarded her degree after the committee completed an oral examination of her budget project.

The program gives an honor to a thesis that both readers judge to be unusually strong.

Readers awarded that thesis a distinction because its explanation of bus fares was unusually clear.

In its review of the book, the journal asked whether the sample of towns was large enough to support the claim.

Her commentary explains what each section of the founding text was intended to settle.

In the margin, a gloss explains that the attendance minimum is the smallest number of people required before a vote.

The twelve essays named for the course form the canon, and reading beyond them is optional.

The debating society treats its slogan as a creed and refuses to consider evidence against it.

The admissions staff published its policy on transfer courses so every applicant can read the same rule.

One drafting principle in the style guide is that a defined word must be spelled the same way each time it appears.

In allowing the refund, the committee relied on a ruling from 2014, when a similar refund had been approved.

She accepted the office of treasurer and will keep the accounts for the next two years.

The town council adopted an ordinance requiring the farmers' market to display its prices in public.

Under the council's protocol, the oldest person speaks first and the clerk speaks last.

The presiding officer read the agenda aloud: the night bus, the fee, and the library hours.

Voters received a roster naming a candidate for treasurer and a candidate for clerk.

Everyone marked a choice on a paper ballot and folded it before dropping it in the box.

The reform ticket offers one name for treasurer, one for clerk, and one for secretary.

Under the rules, a resident of one full year gains the franchise in elections for the shop's officers.

The new rules extend suffrage to people who are traveling and cannot attend the election in person.

After the meeting she reported to her constituency, the night students who had elected her.

The incumbent has served as treasurer for two years and may seek the post again.

Each residence hall chooses one envoy to speak for it at the food council.

Omar came as Nia's proxy and cast the vote she was entitled to cast.

The firm named a liaison whose job is to carry questions from the night crew to the scheduling group.

The suggestion box is the official conduit for complaints about the dining hall.