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 |
|---|---|
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| fete | festival |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |