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 |
|---|---|
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| inequity | injustice |
| encompass | include |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |