GRE Word List
ELLIPSIS
the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
The meaning of the word ellipsis is the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outmoded | not being in style |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |