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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |