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 |
|---|---|
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| microcosm | a little world |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| collate | to compare critically |