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 |
|---|---|
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |