GRE Word List
ANTECEDENTS
a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him")
The meaning of the word antecedents is a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him").
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| amity | friendship |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |