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 |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |