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 |
|---|---|
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
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