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 |
|---|---|
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |