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 |
|---|---|
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| enhance | heighten |