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 |
|---|---|
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| giddy | dizzy |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| paltry | inferior |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |