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 |
|---|---|
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| domicile | a dwelling place : place of residence : home |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |