GRE Word List
EPIC
a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero
The meaning of the word epic is a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |