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 |
|---|---|
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |