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 |
|---|---|
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| chafe | irritate |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |