GRE Word List

COMPLEMENTARY

serving to fill out or complete

The meaning of the word complementary is serving to fill out or complete.

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WordMeaning
rhetoricthe art of speaking or writing effectively: such as
alimonyan allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce
flaila hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
counterpartone of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate
herpetologista branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians
paradoxone (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
spectruma 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
maritimeof, relating to, or bordering on the sea
episodicmade up of separate especially loosely connected episodes