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 |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| bulk | magnitude |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |