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 |
|---|---|
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |