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 |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |