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 |
|---|---|
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |