GRE Word List
ELEGY
a poem in elegiac couplets
The meaning of the word elegy is a poem in elegiac couplets.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| devious | wandering |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |