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 |
|---|---|
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| blackball | to vote against |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| expatriate | banish |
| niggle | trifle |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |