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 |
|---|---|
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |