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 |
|---|---|
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |