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 |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| demise | death |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |