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 |
|---|---|
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| residual | remainder |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |