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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WordMeaning
stiltedpompous
sentimentalmarked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
derisionthe use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
cuethe letter q
ultimatuma final proposition, condition, or demand
exonerateto relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
spatulaa flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting
rhetoricthe art of speaking or writing effectively: such as
cataracta clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light
centurionan officer commanding a Roman century