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 |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| portly | dignified |