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 |
|---|---|
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |