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 |
|---|---|
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| wry | twist |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| homespun | spun or made at home |