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 |
|---|---|
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |