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 |
|---|---|
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
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| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| calorific | caloric |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| wont | accustomed |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |