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 |
|---|---|
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| flounder | flatfish |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |