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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WordMeaning
gauchelacking social experience or grace
galvanicof, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity
denominationan act of denominating
recurrentrunning or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course
disgruntleto make ill-humored or discontented
languorweakness or weariness of body or mind
comatoseof, resembling, or affected with coma
pragmaticrelating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic
proliferateto grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring
dregssediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate