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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| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
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| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| gnarl | snarl |
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| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
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