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 |
|---|---|
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |