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 |
|---|---|
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| thespian | actor |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| enhance | heighten |