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 |
|---|---|
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| cadaver | a dead body |