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 |
|---|---|
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |