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 |
|---|---|
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |