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 |
|---|---|
| spare | not being used |
| forte | one's strong point |
| hardy | bold |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |