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 |
|---|---|
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| feint | something feigned |
| foppish | foolish |