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 |
|---|---|
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |