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 |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| duration | continuance in time |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |