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 |
|---|---|
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |