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 |
|---|---|
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| engender | beget |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| amend | to put right |