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 |
|---|---|
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |