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 |
|---|---|
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| lewd | obscene |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |