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 |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| etymology | the 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 |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| monotony | tedious sameness |