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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lotan object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with
pacifistan adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes
acquittala setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process
momentuma property (see property
singularof or relating to a separate person or thing : individual
sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
intrinsicbelonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing
phlegmaticresembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm
flutterto flap the wings rapidly
compliancethe act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion