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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| fell | skin |
| haggard | not tamed |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |