GRE Vocabulary: Actions

A second field diary corroborated the rainfall date, matching the first notebook with an independent entry from the same storm.

Dense jargon obfuscated the result, wrapping a simple count in phrases so cloudy that the seminar could not tell what had been measured.

In a letter to the journal, the historian repudiated the preface, refusing to accept it as a statement of her views.

All morning the editor vacillated between the two titles, leaning toward one and then the other without settling.

A revised rota ameliorated the overload, and the night shift became easier to bear than it had been in the first plan.

By a recorded vote, the council abrogated the old bylaw, formally ending a rule that had governed the archive for decades.

In the margin she adumbrated the lost argument, setting down a rough outline of its headings and none of the proof.

The two small seminars amalgamated into a single Friday meeting, and topics that had lived in separate rooms now shared one roster.

A patient mediator pacified the two labs, and by evening the teams that had argued over the centrifuge agreed on a shared calendar.

The new editor arrogated a veto over cover art, seizing a power the charter never gave that desk.

The chair's letter assuaged the fellows' alarm, and the fear that their stipends would vanish grew quieter even though the budget was unchanged.

By the time it reached the far bench, distance had attenuated the radio signal, and the tone was weaker than it had been at the transmitter.

Questioned about the gap in the folio, the archivist averred that every leaf was original, stating it as a fact she would defend.

The appendix belied the abstract, listing a hand-picked set where the abstract had called the sample random.

On the train she remonstrated against the funding cut, protesting it in a firm speech after the group had avoided the subject since the station.

Enrollment in the night seminar burgeoned, climbing from six students in September to thirty before the winter break.

Two control runs buttressed her conclusion, bracing the claim with results that pointed the same way as the main trial.

He caviled at a comma in the footnote while praising the argument itself, fussing over a tiny mark and nothing larger.

The grant circumscribed the survey, confining it to three counties and barring any site beyond that line.

Scattered comments from the seminar coalesced by dusk into one thesis that everyone in the room could sign.

The advisor condoned the late draft this once, treating the missed deadline as acceptable rather than as an offense.

The replication confuted the bold claim, because the effect that the paper had announced never appeared when the trial was repeated.

Shipping the samples overnight contravened the lab rule that required a second signature, and the log showed the violation plainly.

A year of private drafts culminated in a public reading, the high point the workshop had been building toward all term.

Lightning curtailed the field day, and the crew packed the tripods after only one hour instead of the planned six.

The discussant controverted the opening premise, arguing directly against it instead of building upon it.

At the open meeting, speakers decried the plan to close the reading room, condemning it aloud so the council would hear the protest.

Her memo delineated each stage of the proof, stating in exact words where one step ended and the next began.

Asked to approve the minutes, the delegate demurred, stating a specific objection to the last paragraph rather than nodding the page through.

She deprecated the shortcut in her remarks, voicing disapproval of a method she still described as serious rather than silly.

The footnote derogated the rival method, sneering at it as clumsy instead of comparing the measurements.

Overnight the drying cabinet desiccated the leaf sample, drawing off moisture until the tissue snapped when bent.

One look at the crowded shelves disabused the visitors of the idea that the vault was empty.

The unexpected question discomfited the speaker, who blushed and forgot the name of his own chart even though nobody challenged his data.

The society disseminated the abstract, sending it to every member instead of leaving the only copy in one folder.

In four sentences she distilled the hour-long talk, pulling out the essential claim and leaving the asides behind.

In the hallway she divulged the donor's name, telling a colleague a detail the gift letter had marked as private.

A single worked example elucidated the term, making plain a definition that the glossary had left murky.

A careless footnote embroiled the journal in a priority fight, pulling the editors into a conflict they had hoped to stay out of.

The editor emended the date in the margin, changing a mistaken 1680 to 1686 so the note matched the watermark.

The ambiguous rule engendered a stack of appeals, giving rise to disputes that the old, plainer wording had never produced.

The council enjoined every member to file receipts by Friday, and the clerk read that order aloud so the duty was unmistakable.

She enumerated the archives one by one, naming each repository instead of gesturing at them as a vague group.

Asked whether the trial had succeeded, she equivocated, calling the result both a success and a failure so that no one could tell which side she took.

She eschewed the quicker assay, deliberately avoiding a method she had already found unreliable on this pigment.

A vague rubric exacerbated the grading dispute, and confusion that might have stayed small grew sharper after the sheet was posted.

The review excoriated the exhibit, attacking the hanging and the labels in severe language from the first sentence to the last.

The door log exculpated the assistant, clearing her because the stamp showed she had left the building before the samples were moved.

A courier expedited the proofs, getting them to the printer before noon instead of on the usual evening run.

The archivist expunged the duplicate line, removing it so completely that the register no longer showed the entry at all.

She extenuated the missed citation by pointing to a confusing handbook, asking the board to see the fault as less serious than a deliberate omission.

From two measured points she extrapolated the missing height, extending the straight pattern past the data she actually had.

A rumor about canceled overtime fomented unrest in the workshop, stirring up anger that had been quiet at the morning bell.

She forestalled the quarrel by sending the spreadsheet the night before, so the objection she had expected never arose.

The reviewer gainsaid the abstract, flatly contradicting its claim that the sample had been chosen at random.

The leaked memo galvanized the committee, stirring members into a vote that same afternoon after weeks of delay.

From faded marginal notes she gleaned three catalog numbers, gathering them bit by bit rather than finding them in any index.

Extra crates encumbered the aisle of the map room, weighing the passage down so a cart could not get through.

Counsel impugned the witness's memory of the date, attacking it as unreliable instead of accepting the story as told.

The report imputed the delay to a late shipment, naming that shipment as the cause rather than the clerks who had waited at the dock.

Years of night shifts had inured the technician to the cold room, so the chill that bothered newcomers no longer troubled her.

The slide juxtaposed the 1920 street map and the new survey, setting them side by side so every shifted block was easy to see.

The student paper lampooned the new dress code, ridiculing it in a comic sketch rather than in a straight editorial.

The workshop lionized the visiting printer, treating her as a celebrated guest and saving her the best seat at the bench.

A sincere apology mollified the critic, and the anger that had sharpened her voice was gone before the panel resumed.

A clear diagram obviated the long footnote, because the figure already made that extra explanation unnecessary.

For an hour the gauge oscillated between 2 and 9, swinging from one reading to the other and never settling.

After the quarrel, the circle ostracized him, shutting him out of the noon table and every shared errand.

The apology palliated the insult, easing the sting for the afternoon without taking the remark back or repairing the harm.

She parried the hostile question, turning it aside by asking the speaker to define the term before she would answer.

On Friday the council promulgated the citation rule, officially announcing it to the whole faculty rather than leaving it in a draft folder.

One sharp question precipitated the resignations, causing three members to quit in the same hour after months of mere grumbling.

A signed waiver precluded any later claim of surprise, making such a claim impossible once the signature was on the page.

Dark clouds presaged the downpour that soaked the field site an hour later, giving a visible sign of weather that then arrived.

Asked for the exact count, he prevaricated, offering a vague range instead of the figure written in the ledger.

After the grant, side experiments proliferated, multiplying until nearly every bench carried a project that had not existed in the spring.

The revised credit line placated the offended photographer, restoring the goodwill that the missing name had cost the committee.

The studio handbook proscribed that solvent, officially forbidding its use and naming a milder substitute.

The editor quashed the rumor of a canceled issue, suppressing it with a short notice before the story could reach the evening list.

After the new cores were dated, she recanted the earlier theory, publicly withdrawing a claim she had defended for years.

Before questions, he recapitulated the argument in four sentences, briefly restating the path the seminar had just walked.

The editor relegated the long table to an appendix, shifting it to a lower, less prominent place in the book.

By afternoon he reneged on the equipment swap, going back on a promise he had made to the other lab that morning.

The dean rescinded the parking order the same afternoon, officially canceling a directive that had gone out at dawn.

A missing key stymied the inventory, blocking any progress until someone could open the cabinet.

She substantiated the purchase date with a dated receipt and a colleague's note, supplying evidence for a claim that had been only a memory.

The new chapter subsumed three earlier notes, bringing those separate remarks under a single larger argument.

The searchable index supplanted the old card file, taking its place at the reference desk where the drawers had stood.

Pressed for a yes or no, the envoy temporized, asking for another week so he would not have to decide that day.

One leaked answer vitiated the quiz, spoiling it so the scores no longer showed what the questions had been written to measure.

At the guild ceremony he abjured the old oath, solemnly renouncing it before witnesses rather than quietly forgetting it.

After a long pause she acceded to the request for the spare bench, agreeing to lend it for the semester.

He adduced the 1912 ledger as proof of the sale, citing that book as evidence rather than merely mentioning the year.

The preface aggrandized the author's part in the dig, making his contribution sound larger than the field notes recorded.

The rare-book room sequestered the atlas, setting it apart from volumes that patrons were allowed to borrow.

The board annulled the club election, declaring the result legally void after the tellers found the ballots had been miscounted.

The foundation antedated the roof by two centuries, and the stone course was already old when the new roof was added.

The chair apportioned the instrument hours, dividing the week among the three labs according to a written share.

The dean arbitrated the room dispute, hearing both labs and then settling the quarrel by assigning hours to each.

The new notation was assimilated into the lab manual, absorbed so thoroughly that it read as part of the older style.

The school edition bowdlerized the comedy, cutting speeches the editors thought too coarse and leaving the plot otherwise intact.

The pamphlet calumniated the curator, spreading the false claim that she had never trained in conservation.

After the third recount, the minority capitulated, giving up the contest and accepting the tally it had fought all week.

The chair castigated the sloppy citations, scolding the author severely in front of the whole seminar.

The department ceded the corner office, giving it up so the visiting archive could use the room for the year.

The failed trial chastened the team, humbling a confidence that had been breezy and making the next plan more cautious.

She collated the three manuscript copies, comparing them line by line and recording each variant in a separate column.