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 |
|---|---|
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| 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 |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |