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 |
|---|---|
| fulcrum | prop |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| grate | grating |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |