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 |
|---|---|
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| fell | skin |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| lugubrious | mournful |