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 |
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fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
legerdemain | sleight of hand |
antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
cemetery | a burial ground |