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 |
|---|---|
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| drivel | nonsense |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |