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 |
|---|---|
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| pugilist | fighter |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |