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 |
|---|---|
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| drivel | nonsense |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |