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 |
|---|---|
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| unkempt | not combed |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |