GRE Word List
APOCALYPTIC
of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse
The meaning of the word apocalyptic is of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse.
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paramour | lover |
convivial | relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company |
tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
drama | a composition (see composition |
bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
subsistence | real being : existence |
simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |