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 |
|---|---|
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| crass | gross |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| delusive | likely to delude |