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 |
|---|---|
| comestible | edible |
| dint | force |
| recast | to cast again |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |