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 |
|---|---|
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| sentinel | sentry |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |