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
raptlifted up and carried away
soarto fly aloft or about
addenduma thing added : addition
capacitylegal competency (see competence
consistencyagreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence
capitulateto surrender often after negotiation of terms
unexceptionablenot open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable
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