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 |
|---|---|
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |