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 |
|---|---|
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| concordat | compact |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |