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 |
|---|---|
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |