GRE Word List
ELEGY
a poem in elegiac couplets
The meaning of the word elegy is a poem in elegiac couplets.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| enduring | lasting |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| verge | brink |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |