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 |
|---|---|
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| nourishment | food |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |