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 |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |