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 |
|---|---|
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| warranted | sanction |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |