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.

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WordMeaning
regaleto entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies
levitateto rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
compulsorymandatory
flippantlacking proper respect or seriousness
epicureanof or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism
vortexsomething that resembles a whirlpool
dripto let fall in drops
gregarioustending to associate with others of one's kind : social
monotonytedious sameness