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 |
|---|---|
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |