GRE Word List
COMPLEMENTARY
serving to fill out or complete
The meaning of the word complementary is serving to fill out or complete.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| flail | a 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 |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| 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 |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |