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
nexusconnection
cogitateto ponder or meditate on usually intently
charismaa personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader)
libidinoushaving or marked by lustful desires : lascivious
importto bring from a foreign or external source: such as
atavismrecurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
myriadten thousand
effeteno longer fertile
disinterestednot having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged
psychea princess loved by Cupid