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 |
|---|---|
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| groom | bridegroom |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| vixen | a female fox |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |