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 |
|---|---|
| paramour | lover |
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| duration | continuance in time |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |