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 |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |