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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |