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 |
|---|---|
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |