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 |
|---|---|
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| pore | to gaze intently |