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 |
|---|---|
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |