GRE Word List
COMPLEMENT
something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect
The meaning of the word complement is something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| giddy | dizzy |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |