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 |
|---|---|
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |