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

WordMeaning
strutto become turgid : swell
wangleto resort to trickery or devious methods
coniferany of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit
reciteto repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
briman upper or outer margin : verge
ambushto attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay
warrena place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant)
cohesionthe act or state of sticking together tightly
hurlrush
impecunioushaving very little or no money usually habitually : penniless