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 |
|---|---|
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |