GRE Word List

EPIGRAM

a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought

The meaning of the word epigram is a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought.

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inestimableincapable of being estimated or computed
savanta person of learning
importuneto press or urge with troublesome persistence
fractioustending to be troublesome : unruly
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intelligentsiaintellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite
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