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 |
|---|---|
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| motley | variegated in color |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |