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 |
|---|---|
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| benison | blessing |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |