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 |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| bitter | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| domicile | a dwelling place : place of residence : home |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |