GRE Word List
EXPLETIVE
a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense
The meaning of the word expletive is a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| modish | fashionable |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| dingy | dirty |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |