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 |
|---|---|
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| indemnify | to secure against hurt, loss, or damage |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| colloquy | conversation |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |