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 |
|---|---|
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| pending | during |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| asunder | into parts |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |