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
elaborationplanned or carried out with great care
stinta period of time spent at a particular activity
impermeablenot permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance
begrudgeto give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure
contendto strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle
felicitousvery well suited or expressed : apt
spatefreshet
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
crassgross
apprehendarrest