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 |
|---|---|
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| paradigm | example |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| fluke | flatfish |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |