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 |
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| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| denomination | an act of denominating |
| billowing | wave |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| exhume | disinter |