Today's Word "complement"
Something that fills up or completes
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complement \KOM-pluh-muhnt\ (noun) - 1 : Something that fills up or completes. 2 : The quantity or number required to make up a whole or to make something complete. 3 : One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete each other; a counterpart.
(transitive verb) - To supply what is lacking; to serve as a complement to; to supplement.
"Marva was quick to point out that both points brought up at the meeting complemented each other and were not at all contradictory."
Complement is from Latin complementum, from complere, "to fill up," from com- (intensive prefix) + plere, "to fill."
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