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 |
|---|---|
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| gnarl | snarl |