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 |
|---|---|
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |