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 |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| schism | division |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |