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 |
|---|---|
| spatial | relating to, occupying, or having the character of space |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| overweening | arrogant |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |