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

WordMeaning
intersticea space that intervenes between things
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
knavea tricky deceitful fellow
supernumeraryexceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number
zealeagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor
smotherto kill by depriving of air
traverseto go or travel across or over
consolidationthe act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated
dilateto become enlarged or widened
canterone who uses cant: such as