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 |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |