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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WordMeaning
instigateto goad or urge forward : provoke
compilationthe act or process of compiling
potentialexisting in possibility : capable of development into actuality
quailany of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as
clapto strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
whima capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy
surgeto rise and fall actively : toss
slaughterthe act of killing
insolventunable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business
dribbleto issue sporadically and in small bits