GRE Word List
EPITHET
a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing
The meaning of the word epithet is a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| natal | native |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |